Better living through homeopathy
Nov. 14th, 2010 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trixtahNo, really.
For over two years, I've been suffering with something that appeared to be gastric reflux, manifesting itself as horrible nausea if I tried to lie down to sleep, and more recently, when I was just walking around as well. I was checked out for anything mechanically wrong and for helicobacter/ulcers a couple of years ago. Nothing. So I started taking antacid-type things to help me sleep at night, which worked, but was incredibly irksome (I hate taking drugs, except limited amounts of the recreational kind).
Then at the beginning of this year, I got a resurgence of a problem I suffered from for several months while living in England, when the nausea occurred almost constantly, and especially when I was walking around. Enough was enough, and so I took this homeopathic remedy.
And, it's GONE.
All the nausea and grossness I've been putting up with for over two years have entirely gone. I was hoping that the remedy would possibly deal with the walking-around problem and certainly was not anticipating any better result than that, but I have not had to take an antacid in order to sleep for several months either.
Can't rationalise it, but there you have it. I've tried a couple of other homeopathics for this (especially when it first started), but they did nothing at all. If it's placebo effect, then why would 2 remedies fail, and then another one just work? From the homeopathic perspective, of course, I finally took the right one.
Whatever, yay for having my guts back the way I like them.
For over two years, I've been suffering with something that appeared to be gastric reflux, manifesting itself as horrible nausea if I tried to lie down to sleep, and more recently, when I was just walking around as well. I was checked out for anything mechanically wrong and for helicobacter/ulcers a couple of years ago. Nothing. So I started taking antacid-type things to help me sleep at night, which worked, but was incredibly irksome (I hate taking drugs, except limited amounts of the recreational kind).
Then at the beginning of this year, I got a resurgence of a problem I suffered from for several months while living in England, when the nausea occurred almost constantly, and especially when I was walking around. Enough was enough, and so I took this homeopathic remedy.
And, it's GONE.
All the nausea and grossness I've been putting up with for over two years have entirely gone. I was hoping that the remedy would possibly deal with the walking-around problem and certainly was not anticipating any better result than that, but I have not had to take an antacid in order to sleep for several months either.
Can't rationalise it, but there you have it. I've tried a couple of other homeopathics for this (especially when it first started), but they did nothing at all. If it's placebo effect, then why would 2 remedies fail, and then another one just work? From the homeopathic perspective, of course, I finally took the right one.
Whatever, yay for having my guts back the way I like them.
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Date: 2010-11-25 10:44 am (UTC)I totally get this. When someone is in pain or scared because they have this "serious" disease, it's easy to fall back on the supposed experts and hand over control of their life in the hopes of making this horrid thing that they can't control just go away. I understand the impulse. I went down that route when I was diagnosed, too, despite decades of taking control of my own health and using non-toxic remedies. In the end, I returned to my senses and attempted to discuss options with my doctor after reading the research (not just the drug companies' pamphlets that she handed me). However, she just wanted me to shut up and do what she told me to do despite there being no cure, and that was what ended our relationship. I am a smart woman who actually does understand the research results, not just the spin that the drug companies put on them, and I wasn't going to just go along with something when the research actually said that there was no benefit to doing what she wanted me to do. *heavy sigh*