A few random thoughts from the visit with the homoeopath last Friday:
- It was unbelievably thorough. I had a suspicion it might be (seeing as how I was warned it was going to be an hour and a half long), but didn’t really appreciate how much detail she would go through. Pretty much every condition and illness in my life was gone through in meticulous detail (from the mysterious coughing up dried blood incident as a baby, childhood asthma and attacks, allergies, headaches, throat infections, migraine, pregnancy complications) all with exact symptoms and a load of other incidents I didn’t expect to bring up (what my childhood was like, the death of my father and how I dealt with the aftermath, my relationship with my mother, character traits, how I deal with change, the move three years ago). I felt physically and mentally DRAINED and exposed at the end of it all.
- At the same time, she was very good at putting me at my ease. She freely gave information about her own life which in turn helped me open up more. I feel like I had an hour and a half of therapy thrown in free.
- A few things gave me pause for thought. In particular, she’s not keen on the Mirena (“women are meant to be cyclical beings”) and feels that it could well be a major factor in my declining health since having it inserted just over two years ago. I’m reluctant to have it removed quite yet (for one, we’ll need to re-evaluate our contraceptive options – another child really ISN’T in our plans).
- She didn’t just dole out a treatment at the end, which I found quite impressive. She wants to give it a few days deliberation before prescribing. She noted that I like to be in control and in a position of knowledge, so she has already advised that any remedy will be given in liquid form to more easily control the dose as per the effects.
- Next appointment due in 6 weeks.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Cath // 13th Sep 2006 at 9:17 am
What a promising start… sounds like she was really interested in getting to the root cause of the problem rather than just treating the symptoms.
It does sound rather emotionally draining though. Did you find it cathartic or just upsetting?
WRT contraception… is the Mirena the only option you have? I have deliberately avoided hormonal contraception since dd was born, we use barrier methods. Would this not work for you too?
2 Pewari // 13th Sep 2006 at 1:20 pm
Cathartic AND upsetting I think. I came out feeling positive though, so yes… a very promising start.
Contraception … hmm, basically we want to guarantee no more children plus always found barrier methods a complete faff. Akra is on the waiting list for the snip, but we’ve been waiting over a year now… don’t you just love the NHS?
3 Cath // 13th Sep 2006 at 2:00 pm
Oh yes, the NHS is great for stuff like that. If you lived 10 mins down the road in a different health authority you’d probably get one within a month, that’s the annoying thing.
The barrier does tend to be the floor/ceiling – I go to bed and dh falls asleep in front of the telly ;o)
4 Miss L // 13th Sep 2006 at 4:12 pm
That sounds like an incredible experience – can you imagine a doctor spending that amount of time with each new patient? I heard a man commenting on the radio just an hour ago, that he thought doctors knew their patients well – well! I have seen mine once in 8 years, the appointemnt lasted abnout 8 minutes and he kept looking at his watch!!
I hope she provides you with something effective. Good luck with it.
5 Gert // 18th Sep 2006 at 4:58 pm
I’m glad you had that experience of counselling and being made to think about how life and stuff contributes to physical health/ill-health.
It reinforces my view that conventional medicine fears homeopathy because it isn’t dependent on treating symptoms with panaceas, but demands causes.
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