Funny reaction
Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 9:19 pm
This is a reaction my epileptic friend/patient recently had to a dose
of Staph--which had helped her greatly, not too long before. Later she
mentioned that she gets this "all the time" when she is under stress,
whether for e.g. environmental, or from head injury, or blood sugar, or
other:
"Losing muscle control in my arms--my hands wouldn't do what I wanted
them to." Had been getting feelings of weakness in limbs, then
tickling feeling, "like if I tried to put my hand around something, it
wouldn't quite do it, or my hand would twist intead." Tickling in my
limbs when I tried to use them. Legs felt weak, arms weak and tickly.
Like if you first wake up in the morning it tickles, you can't do
anything quickly--like that all over."
[[I don't ever remember waking up in the morning feeling like that...
Anyone have thoughts?]]
At the same time she had: "pretty profound mental confusion, like
being on acid, except without visual hallucinations. {My daughter]
would say something, and I'd be trying to figureout what she meant,
like th words didn't make sense, or I couldn't quite string them
together, like they had some other meaning I couldnt' quite grasp. I
kept getting stumped by ordinary things. She'd ask me something, and
I'd have no idea how to answer. It's a somewhat familiar state, like
some of the head i njury stuff. ... It was the most crazy, nightmarish
feeling."
And: "explosive outbursts of anger, outraged, would go off on [my
daughter] over relatively small things. Extreme rage, and then it's
gone. ... When I thought she was not being helpful. ... Feeling like,
well obviously I *need* help, so how can you be ... "
****
It was (oddity #1) a very intense and violent reaction to an LM dose
of a type that has generally worked very well for her, to a remedy that
had previously worked well.
She ameliorated the reaction with a dose of Nat-m LM-2, which had
worked extremely well for her, infrequent doses over the past year,
with huge progress--but (oddity #2) this dose and the one just prior,
altho they did what was needed, also left behind some extremely
uncomfortable (proving?) symptoms--heat and tingling in head; pretty
bad heart weirdness; feelings of pressure and anxiety.
She eliminated *those* with (not-oddity, but useful point) a single,
deep sniff of tea tree oil. Which put her back where she had been
pre-staph, and I am scratching my head... And poring thru past notes.
As I pull more thoughts together I may try putting up more on this, but
would love any thoughts on these chunks of it!
Thanks,
Shannon
of Staph--which had helped her greatly, not too long before. Later she
mentioned that she gets this "all the time" when she is under stress,
whether for e.g. environmental, or from head injury, or blood sugar, or
other:
"Losing muscle control in my arms--my hands wouldn't do what I wanted
them to." Had been getting feelings of weakness in limbs, then
tickling feeling, "like if I tried to put my hand around something, it
wouldn't quite do it, or my hand would twist intead." Tickling in my
limbs when I tried to use them. Legs felt weak, arms weak and tickly.
Like if you first wake up in the morning it tickles, you can't do
anything quickly--like that all over."
[[I don't ever remember waking up in the morning feeling like that...
Anyone have thoughts?]]
At the same time she had: "pretty profound mental confusion, like
being on acid, except without visual hallucinations. {My daughter]
would say something, and I'd be trying to figureout what she meant,
like th words didn't make sense, or I couldn't quite string them
together, like they had some other meaning I couldnt' quite grasp. I
kept getting stumped by ordinary things. She'd ask me something, and
I'd have no idea how to answer. It's a somewhat familiar state, like
some of the head i njury stuff. ... It was the most crazy, nightmarish
feeling."
And: "explosive outbursts of anger, outraged, would go off on [my
daughter] over relatively small things. Extreme rage, and then it's
gone. ... When I thought she was not being helpful. ... Feeling like,
well obviously I *need* help, so how can you be ... "
****
It was (oddity #1) a very intense and violent reaction to an LM dose
of a type that has generally worked very well for her, to a remedy that
had previously worked well.
She ameliorated the reaction with a dose of Nat-m LM-2, which had
worked extremely well for her, infrequent doses over the past year,
with huge progress--but (oddity #2) this dose and the one just prior,
altho they did what was needed, also left behind some extremely
uncomfortable (proving?) symptoms--heat and tingling in head; pretty
bad heart weirdness; feelings of pressure and anxiety.
She eliminated *those* with (not-oddity, but useful point) a single,
deep sniff of tea tree oil. Which put her back where she had been
pre-staph, and I am scratching my head... And poring thru past notes.
As I pull more thoughts together I may try putting up more on this, but
would love any thoughts on these chunks of it!
Thanks,
Shannon