Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Sensitivity to Light, Nausea and Stomach Pain treated with Homeopathy

Disclaimer: You should always seek advice from your Doctor first for any medical condition. All clients in case studies have agreed to have their case details published, however their names have been changed for privacy purposes.

Case Study 5

Presenting complaints

Bianca, a 41 year old part time admin worker came to the clinic presenting with quiet intense anxiety with panic attacks, sensitivity to light, constipation and digestive issues with nausea and stomach pain, and quiet severe headaches all day, every day.  She also woke up in a sweat at 3-4am at times. Bianca’s first panic attack had been 2.5 years prior, although she had likely been anxious for much longer.

Bianca had been to her GP who had given her anti-depressants (Lexapro 20mg per day) and was seeing a psychiatrist who prescribed dexamphetamine. Bianca mentioned that she felt like the Lexapro wasn’t working, and after taking the amphetamines Bianca had ended up in hospital with seizures, thereafter she had stopped taking it. Her mother had had great results with homeopathy and suggested she try.

Although it took some time for her body to heal, Bianca now feels good and most of her symptoms are gone or very minor. For a full list of Bianca’s symptoms and their severity as she rated them at the last treatment compared with the first treatment, you can scroll down to the bold list near the end of this blog post.

Read the details of the case below:
Below are Bianca’s symptoms at her initial appointment along with how severe she feels they are out of 10 (10/10 unbearable and 0/10 No problem)

20/5/22 -
Anxiety - 6-7/10 recently every day
Panic Attack - 1x every 2-3 weeks lately 10/10
Wake up in sweat at 3-4am - 3 or 4 nights in a row then ok for 3 weeks
Vision sensitive to light - Always 5/10
Earache feels like is coming then goes away 1-2x a month
Some sort of sore in mouth - 3/10 at moment, can get to 5/10
Cough after big meals, chesty cough every day after lunch and dinner.
Constipation - Every 2-3 weeks get constipated 2 days, take meds, 2 days later, 3-4 days total pass stool.
Gassy - 8/10 Every day
Nausea - 6/10 every 2nd day in afternoon or dinner time, won't want to eat big dinner
Stomach pain - before use bowels 50% of time up to 7-8/10
Haemorrhoids come when constipated - Often 2/10 can be 8/10
Headaches - every day. Wake up with headache but worse by the end of the day. Since dry needling with another therapist, now just heavy head in morning was 5/10, but 5-6/10 generally every evening.
 
After assessing Bianca’s face, and taking her symptoms into account, I selected Carb-v 30C as the homeopathic remedy to be taken once a day and told Bianca to follow up with me in a month’s time.


... 5 months later
Bianca said she did have some improvement with the remedy that ran out after one month, but had not returned to the clinic. When she returned 5 months later, her symptoms were similar to when she first arrived 5 months earlier. Details of her symptoms along with previous ratings are listed below.


21/10/22 -
Anxiety - 7/10 this week, 4-5 last week
Panic Attack - 1x month 7/10
Wake up in sweat at 3-4am -been fine but came back this week 3x out of past 4 nights
Vision sensitive to light - Only with headache
Earache feels like is coming then goes away - SAME
Some sort of sore in mouth - 1 at the moment 4/10
Cough after big meals, chesty cough every day after lunch and dinner. SAME
Constipation - SAME
Gassy - 7/10
Nausea - 7-8/10 get with headaches
Stomach pain - SAME
Haemorrhoids come when constipated - 0/10 now
Headaches/heavy head - SAME
 
Bianca also mentioned that after discussing with her doctor that the Lexapro had not been working, the doctor suggested that she cut her dose in half (now 10mg per day).
Since Bianca has mentioned that she had some improvement with the Carb-v 30C, we repeated the same remedy 1x per day as done previously and I told Bianca to follow up with me in a month’s time.


Results 1 month later
 
18/11/22
Anxiety - 5/10
Panic Attack - 1x 7/10
Wake up in sweat at 3-4am - last 2 nights this week
Vision sensitive to light - Had 1x with migraine
Earache feels like is coming then goes away - Haven't noticed
Some sort of sore in mouth - SAME
Cough after big meals, chesty cough every day after lunch and dinner. SAME
Constipation - 20% improved
Gassy - 4/10
Nausea - 7-8/10 get with headaches
Stomach pain - 20% less frequent and 4/10
Haemorrhoids come when constipated - 0/10 now
Headaches/heavy head - 2 days/week still 6-8/10 every day

With some improvement showing after one month I told Bianca to now take the homeopathic medicine 2x per day for the next month.


Results 1 month later
At the next follow-up Bianca had slipped back slightly with her anxiety but her stomach and digestion had improved, along with her headaches. Bianca had been also coming in for Bowen Therapy treatments to help with the headaches and neck pain. Below are the details of how serious she rated her ailments now.

19/12/22 -
Anxiety - 8/10 at worst in the last week, otherwise 5/10
Panic Attack - 1x 8/10
Wake up in sweat NONE
Vision sensitive to light - NONE
Earache feels like is coming then goes away NONE
Some sort of sore in mouth - Only this week
Cough after big meals, chesty cough every day after lunch and dinner. SAME
Constipation NONE
Gassy - 2/10
Nausea - Haven't had headaches but nausea on it's own 8/10 this week
Stomach pain - 60% less frequent, just this week 2/10
Haemorrhoids come when constipated - 0/10 now
Headaches/heavy head - NO HEADACHES, just wake up slightly heavy head

We now increased the frequency of taking the homeopathic remedy to 3x per day.


Results 1 month later
At the next follow-up Bianca’s anxiety had been much better, although it had been increasing more- so over the last week. Bianca told me that they had just bought a house and that they would be moving soon, which is typically a stressful time in anybody’s life.
 
Below is how Bianca rated her ailments at this follow-up

20/1/23 -
Anxiety - 8/10 today, 4 days of 6/10, rest of the time 2/10 average 5/10
Panic Attack - 3 x 10/10
Wake up in sweat Still NONE
Vision sensitive to light - Still NONE
Earache feels like is coming then goes away Still NONE
Some sort of sore in mouth –
Cough after big meals, chesty cough every day after lunch and dinner. SAME
Constipation 2x this month
Gassy - 4/10
Nausea - 10/10 Last 2 weeks
Stomach pain - 75% less frequent 2/10
Haemorrhoids come when constipated - Still 0/10
Headaches/heavy head - 5 days in last 2 weeks 6/10

Since the remedy had been working well up until now, I felt the added stress of buying a house and moving was contributing to Bianca slipping back a bit, So we increased the strength of the medicine to Carb-v 200C twice a day.

Bianca came for a Bowen Therapy treatment 2 weeks later and she told me that she had been super anxious with the move and had hardly eaten anything for 6 days. Obviously the homeopathic drops and doctor prescribed medicine weren’t giving her relief now, so I gave Bianca a new remedy to try – Bry 30c 1x per day and told her to follow up with me in 2 weeks.

Although Bianca was experiencing some full blown anxiety symptoms, and her body was showing some signs of the physical symptoms of anxiety with the extra stress she was experiencing, she was still in a much better place physically than when we first started treatment.  This was a good sign that her body had been healing.


2 Weeks later
At this followup, there had been a big improvement. Bianca’s house move was over and with her reduced stress levels along with the new remedy, she was recovering very quickly.

17/2/23 – Bianca’s ratings for the full month
Anxiety - 3/10 in last week, 2 weeks ago was 10, was moving house
Panic Attack - 2x per week 3-4/10 much less intense
Wake up in sweat Just had when very stressed with the house
Vision sensitive to light - NONE
Earache feels like is coming then goes away Still NONE
Some sort of sore in mouth - Not really
Cough after big meals, chesty cough every day after lunch and dinner. SAME.
Constipation - Got this month with stress
Gassy - 4/10 SAME
Nausea - 2-3/10
Stomach pain - GOOD NOW
Haemorrhoids come when constipated - Still 0/10
Headaches/heavy head - GOOD sometimes feel like getting headache but goes away


It seemed that the Carbo-v remedy had done all it could and changing to this new Bry remedy had facilitated further healing. Because it was only 2 weeks since Bianca had started this new remedy, I told her to continue with the Bry 30C 1x per day


1 month later....
Things were really looking up for Bianca now,  she had really come a long way with this new remedy.
Below are the details of how Bianca rated her symptoms now.

17/3/23 -
Anxiety - 1-2/10 except one time 7/10 few times 4/10
Panic Attack - None
Wake up in sweat - mild sweat but could be other factors
Vision sensitive to light - STILL NONE
Earache feels like is coming then goes away Still NONE
Some sort of sore in mouth - 2/10
Cough after big meals, chesty cough every day after lunch and dinner. SAME
Constipation Got this month with stress 5/10 (
Gassy – 4/10
Nausea - 2-3/10 overall
Stomach pain - GOOD STILL
Haemorrhoids come when constipated - Still 0/10
Headaches/heavy head - GOOD maybe slightly from a cold


Bianca mentioned that the remedy was working really well in the mornings when she took it, but by the afternoon it had worn off and that was when the anxiety started creeping back. We increased the Bry 30C to 2x per day.


1 month later…
Bianca was feeling really good now, most of her symptoms had disappeared or were very minor.

Below are the severity of Bianca’s symptoms as she rated them along with what she rated things at our first consult.
 
14/4/23 -
 
Anxiety - 1-2 Good (was 6-7/10 recently every day)
Panic Attack - STILL NONE (was 1x every 2-3 weeks lately 10/10)
Wake up in sweat - mild sweat but probably other factors  (was 3 or 4 nights in a row then ok for 3 weeks)
Vision sensitive to light - GONE  (was Always 5/10)
Earache feels like is coming then goes away – still has this the same (was 1-2x a month)
Some sort of sore in mouth - 2/10 (was 3/10 at moment, can get to 5/10)
Cough after big meals – no change (Was chesty cough every day after lunch and dinner. )
Constipation – No change  (was Every 2-3 weeks get constipated 2 days, take meds, 2 days later, 3-4 days total pass stool)
Gassy – 4/10 (was 8/10 Every day)
Nausea – Generally really good (WAS 6/10 every 2nd day in afternoon or dinner time, won't want to eat big dinner)
Stomach pain - Gone  (was before use bowels 50% of time up to 7-8/10)
Hemorrhoids come when constipated - Gone (was Often 2/10 can be 8/10)
Headaches/heavy head - Gone (was Every day. Wake up with headache but worse by the end of the day. 6/10, but 6-8/10 generally every evening. No days without a headache for months)
 

The remaining constipation was the last thing for us to try to correct. Since this remedy was working well, I told Bianca to increase the frequency of her doses of Bry 30c when she was constipated to see if this helped. We will see how this works at her next appointment. Since Bianca’s body was working well on this dose of homeopathic medicine, I gave her 2 months supply of the medicine and just told her to contact me if she starts slipping back before a 2 month follow-up.


Using natural homeopathic medicine we were able to help support Bianca’s body to calm her anxiety and panic attacks, greatly reduce stomach pain, nausea, gas and haemorrhoids. Her headaches/neck pain was gone along with her sensitivity to light.  


The remedies are cheap, costing only $10 for a month’s supply, and being completely safe with no chemical side effects or interactions with western medicine in over 200 years of use, Homeopathy is a terrific choice for chronic health complaints.


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