Since Dannielle wanted to hear the story too, I'll put it here.
Staying ot and all ya know.
Ok,I'm finally getting back to this. I've tried to sort out my thoughts about it all but I'll just cut to the chase.
I have a brain cyst. Now don't freak out. LOL. I've known about it since I was 18 years old. It's called an arachnoid cyst and it's just a cyst that is full of brain fluid. Some schools of thought think it adversely affects you (with strange symptoms) through the course of your life and now that I'm 37 years old and "on the mend" I couldn't agree more. Still other schools think most of the population has one and has never suffered a single side effect.
I don't like dr's. Not at all, so for me to actually go in for something means that I was really low or hurting or whatever....then I'd get dismissed with a shrug or an offer for zoloft or valium.
A long time ago, while still working, I was diagonosed with carpal tunnel, which modern medicine wanted to operate on....right away. So I did a short round of homeopathic medicine on a friend's rec and it cleared it up enough to function. I went on about my life bumbling along.
I've always had feelings of frustration. Being misunderstood and generally perturbed. Not angry. Not depressed. Just....irritated by life in general. I wrote it off that I'd been a police dispatcher for too many years and was doomed to thick skin and a black and bitter heart....just like my coffee.
I've also always been sort of tired and sore. I don't know that I'd ever had a good night's rest because I always woke up feeling SO tired and every muscle hurt. My dentist and family confirmed I grind my teeth while I sleep. Ok.
Four years ago I went in because I couldn't stop crying and figured I must be depressed. I was given a script for zoloft and seriously, the side effects coming off of that stuff was worse than what lead me to the dr in the 1st place. I ultimately ended up pregnant and during that time, I realized that my pms had been out of control. I'd been trying to fight it for so many years that it was starting to blur into every facet of my life. Physical heat on the back of my neck. Genuine pissed off feelings and easily set off. It was the relief of pregnancy that made me realize how bad it had been.
Last summer I went in afraid I'd been exposed to lyme disease. Tick bite, pain in my joints, fatigue, this strange feeling of a full ear complete with hearing loss....I got sent away with nothing. Told I hadn't fully prepared myself for my husband's partial retirement and work from home status. Ok.
I want to note that that ear fullness continued from July of last year until I started homeopathic remedy this past april. Nine months and my ear felt like I just got out of the pool. Now that there's some clarity in my life, I think it was cystic pressure. Brain fluid pressure.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
So March comes and I'm feeling kind of icky for a couple days. I take a shower and when I reach for a towel, I went down like a ton of bricks. Full room tilt and it was bouncing in the corners. I couldn't be upright unassisted. No matter what I did, open eyes, closed eyes, the room tilted.
My dh took me to the hospital and by 1/2 way there, chest pain set it, I was vomitting uncontrollably and I was cutting deals with God. I was also telling my husband how to be a good single parent to our children. I get to the hospital and apparently I had good vitals so they set me in a wheelchair in the hallway to wretch. It was bad. I pleaded with anyone that would walk by to check my heart. Having never died before, I was sure this was it. Oh, did I mention this was the Mayo Clinic Hospital. yeah.
They said my potassium was low and that's why I was vomitting and had chest pain and why I had vertigo. Um, 10 hours later with 2 fresh bags of saline in my blood stream and a barf cup under my arm I was sent home with a suggestion for an antihistimine for that plugged ear.
The vertigo didn't really subside. It wasn't the full pitching, but my feet were definately not underneath me anymore. So I hung up my car keys and made an appt with my family dr. He refered me to ears nose and throat. They couldn't find anything and she offered valium.
I went searching the internet and found my Classical Homeopath. Who also happens to be a licensed medical Dr. This was good for me because I didn't fully understand homeopathic treatment and had been mainstreamed trained to go modern medicine.
Well, my Homeopath is the one that suggested an mri that revealed that brain cyst again. Not the Mayo clinic, not my general practicioner, not the ent specialist. They all missed it and didn't even change their position when I TOLD them I knew I had one from a previous mri 20 years ago. They just dismissed that it was or could be causing problems.
I've been under Dr. Mirman's care for about 7 weeks now and here's what I have to report:
*The vertigo is gone
*The ear pressure is gone
*The hearing has been restored in said ear.
*The PMS is gone. I can't believe this one, I really didn't expect it and when I went to the bathroom one day and Aunt Flo was there, well I just started laughing. Dh confirms the pms is gone too. He said it's remarkable really, the change. This one fact alone, has changed his position from "Homeopaths are all quacks" to "modern medicine is a load of sh*t and I can't believe we haven't had a homeopath in the family before" lol.
*I'm not sore anymore and I feel genuinely rested when I wake up. (I'll have to ask dh and see if I still grind my teeth)
*The iritability is also gone.
Life is good.
I think the vertigo, while a physical symptom was actually a big huge red flag waving metaphor that my life was out of balance.
SO, if you read this far...wow. I think that was actually the condensed version. LOL.
My Dr also has an English Colleague that is treating my 5 year old (dane) for some lung and skin issues, compounded with an add or adhd lean. So there's ANOTHER success story fo another day.
Check both of them out when you get some quiet time:
My Homeopath (Dr. Mirman)
www.demystify.com
Dane's Homeopath (Sally Tamplin)
http://alternative-horizons.home.comcast.net/index.html
She just emailed me a few days ago to let me know that she'll be in England for 2 weeks.
((hugs)) from across the ocean.
Katie
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