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Please, help me - Keratosis Pilaris
Hi. My name is Daniel Henrique, I'm 17 years old and I live in Brazil. I've been suffering of KP (Keratosis Pilaris) since I can remember, and I've been trying everthing my dermatologist recomends me, but nothing seems to work. Can someone help me? Thank you so much.danhenrique on 2009-08-15
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1. Describe your main sufferings and other related or unrelated sufferings with exact sensations, locations, modalities and probable causes.
2. Write an essay on yourself, your personality, nature, likes and dislikes, thermal preferences, cravings and aversions, fears and dreams, your ambition in life, your inner-most desires, your place in society etc.
3. What is your profession? Do you enjoy yourself at work? Is it a profession you have willingly chosen? If not, what would it be as per your choice?
4. What would you like to change in your personality, if at all?
5. Please pick out the adjectives which best describe your personality;
Nervous, Anxious, Shy, Worrying, Paranoid, Proud, Asocial, Guilty, Depressed, Hypochondriac, Untidy, Weepy, Emotional, Impractical, Confused, Suspicious, Jealous, Timid, Aggressive, Headstrong, Forgetful, Follower, Insecure, Immature, Impulsive, Rigid, Restless, Feminine.
6. Did you have any bereavement in life? If yes, how has it affected you?
7. Do you often suffer from depression? If so, do you prefer company or solitude during those times?
8. Do you get angry often? If not, do you feel the anger inside at least? What are the things / issues on which you get angry the most?
9. Do you have any issues regarding your parenting by your guardians? How were their nature / behavior towards you during your childhood and adolescents? How has it affected your personality and thoughts?
10. Would you say your sex drive is high, low or average? Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires?
2. Write an essay on yourself, your personality, nature, likes and dislikes, thermal preferences, cravings and aversions, fears and dreams, your ambition in life, your inner-most desires, your place in society etc.
3. What is your profession? Do you enjoy yourself at work? Is it a profession you have willingly chosen? If not, what would it be as per your choice?
4. What would you like to change in your personality, if at all?
5. Please pick out the adjectives which best describe your personality;
Nervous, Anxious, Shy, Worrying, Paranoid, Proud, Asocial, Guilty, Depressed, Hypochondriac, Untidy, Weepy, Emotional, Impractical, Confused, Suspicious, Jealous, Timid, Aggressive, Headstrong, Forgetful, Follower, Insecure, Immature, Impulsive, Rigid, Restless, Feminine.
6. Did you have any bereavement in life? If yes, how has it affected you?
7. Do you often suffer from depression? If so, do you prefer company or solitude during those times?
8. Do you get angry often? If not, do you feel the anger inside at least? What are the things / issues on which you get angry the most?
9. Do you have any issues regarding your parenting by your guardians? How were their nature / behavior towards you during your childhood and adolescents? How has it affected your personality and thoughts?
10. Would you say your sex drive is high, low or average? Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires?
♡ rishimba last decade
1 I suffer of KP and being fat all my life. These things have been destroying me recently, since I started to learn what life really is (after childhood). I dont have idea about what has caused me KP, but I have tried lots of things like creams, pills, vitamins (A and D3). Im fat not because I eat too much now, but when I was a child, I used to eat eggnog almost every day (my mom says thats why I dont have serious problems today!), papaya with sugar and avocado with sugar. Yeah, everything with sugar! Thats the reason why Im fat today, and I have extreme difficulty to lose weight. I dont hang hangout with friends and dont have many relationships because of these two things. As I said, theyre killing me.
2 Even having these problems in my life, I usually dont give up on things. I know how to make friends easily (maybe because I have a good sense of humor) and that helps me a bit with relationships (I dont mean dating). I live in city, but I hate human acts for have been destroying the nature, cause I love animals, I love the nature as a whole. I dont have any kind of bias (I dont know how to say it in English but I think its that), I mean, Im not against homosexual, Im not racist and I dont use to see the outside of the person, but the inside, thats more important. I dont use to judge people for the appearance, because Im have all these problems, but I have friends who like me for what I am inside, thats why I always look people at what they are inside. I love cold weather, have hot, hate summer (LOL), love winter. I love my mother and Im afraid something bad happens to her. Maybe this is the worst fear I have. I also fear that I cant realize my dream, that is making a family, marrying having two daughters (yes, thats my exactly dream). But at the moment, my dream is to go to an university near here that is too hard to get into, but as I said, I dont use to give up on things, and this thing wont be different. Im not popular in my city, not the guy who people ask hey, lets go party, simply because I almost dont party! But I like to get together with my friends to talk about like, playing volleyball, etc.
3 Actually, I dont have a profession; Im still a student trying to get into university. But Im starting with internet marketing, what I really enjoy, and I have chosen it willingly, even because it is a good way to make money while Im in university.
4 - In my personality I dont know if Id change something. Actually, Im a bit stressed, I get stressed with simple noises, and if I could change it, I would.
5 - Nervous, Anxious, Shy, Worrying, Depressed (a bit), Emotional, Timid, Headstrong, Forgetful, Impulsive.
6 No, I didnt have any bereavement.
7 Yes, I usually suffer from depression. I prefer solitude, I have never recurred to friend or family when Im sad, whatever the reason.
8 Yes, I get angry often. As I suffer from stress, sometimes noises get me angry. I have a neighbor; she has two children, and try to imagine what is a person who has stress having to listen these neighbors yelling all the day! Yes, that woman is outrageous, and she does that with her kids every day. Sometimes I want to kill her (no, Im not kidding), because shes getting me mad. Even my mother hates her. Actually, everybody who lives near her hates her, not only me. But maybe Im the only one who sometimes wanna kill her (LOL). Another thing who irritates me is whistle (I also dont know if thats the right way to sat it, but its a noise that people make with the mouth ). My father whistle all the day! When somebody starts to whistle, I put the headphone and get the volume as higher as its possible. Thats the things I most get angry with.
9 No, I dont have any issues with that. My personality is completely different from my parents and my brother. I dont take to life all they have taught me. For example, when my mother sees two men kissing each other, she thinks its the end of the world. But me, I dont care, I think its natural now a days. Differently of these parents who influence their kids, I was not influenced by my mothers discrimination. Lots of things I think differently from my parents, think I have learned alone, I got my own opinions, I dont just follow others opinions.
10 I think my sex drive is average. I dont think Im able to satisfy my sexual desires because of these problems I have. I know I wouldnt feel comfortable with a girl.
P.S.: I know that maybe my case is more like talking to a psychologist, but as I have heard about homeopathy, I thought I would give it a try. If you think its really the case, I think Ill look for one psychologist, but I hope I dont need it! :)
2 Even having these problems in my life, I usually dont give up on things. I know how to make friends easily (maybe because I have a good sense of humor) and that helps me a bit with relationships (I dont mean dating). I live in city, but I hate human acts for have been destroying the nature, cause I love animals, I love the nature as a whole. I dont have any kind of bias (I dont know how to say it in English but I think its that), I mean, Im not against homosexual, Im not racist and I dont use to see the outside of the person, but the inside, thats more important. I dont use to judge people for the appearance, because Im have all these problems, but I have friends who like me for what I am inside, thats why I always look people at what they are inside. I love cold weather, have hot, hate summer (LOL), love winter. I love my mother and Im afraid something bad happens to her. Maybe this is the worst fear I have. I also fear that I cant realize my dream, that is making a family, marrying having two daughters (yes, thats my exactly dream). But at the moment, my dream is to go to an university near here that is too hard to get into, but as I said, I dont use to give up on things, and this thing wont be different. Im not popular in my city, not the guy who people ask hey, lets go party, simply because I almost dont party! But I like to get together with my friends to talk about like, playing volleyball, etc.
3 Actually, I dont have a profession; Im still a student trying to get into university. But Im starting with internet marketing, what I really enjoy, and I have chosen it willingly, even because it is a good way to make money while Im in university.
4 - In my personality I dont know if Id change something. Actually, Im a bit stressed, I get stressed with simple noises, and if I could change it, I would.
5 - Nervous, Anxious, Shy, Worrying, Depressed (a bit), Emotional, Timid, Headstrong, Forgetful, Impulsive.
6 No, I didnt have any bereavement.
7 Yes, I usually suffer from depression. I prefer solitude, I have never recurred to friend or family when Im sad, whatever the reason.
8 Yes, I get angry often. As I suffer from stress, sometimes noises get me angry. I have a neighbor; she has two children, and try to imagine what is a person who has stress having to listen these neighbors yelling all the day! Yes, that woman is outrageous, and she does that with her kids every day. Sometimes I want to kill her (no, Im not kidding), because shes getting me mad. Even my mother hates her. Actually, everybody who lives near her hates her, not only me. But maybe Im the only one who sometimes wanna kill her (LOL). Another thing who irritates me is whistle (I also dont know if thats the right way to sat it, but its a noise that people make with the mouth ). My father whistle all the day! When somebody starts to whistle, I put the headphone and get the volume as higher as its possible. Thats the things I most get angry with.
9 No, I dont have any issues with that. My personality is completely different from my parents and my brother. I dont take to life all they have taught me. For example, when my mother sees two men kissing each other, she thinks its the end of the world. But me, I dont care, I think its natural now a days. Differently of these parents who influence their kids, I was not influenced by my mothers discrimination. Lots of things I think differently from my parents, think I have learned alone, I got my own opinions, I dont just follow others opinions.
10 I think my sex drive is average. I dont think Im able to satisfy my sexual desires because of these problems I have. I know I wouldnt feel comfortable with a girl.
P.S.: I know that maybe my case is more like talking to a psychologist, but as I have heard about homeopathy, I thought I would give it a try. If you think its really the case, I think Ill look for one psychologist, but I hope I dont need it! :)
danhenrique last decade
please take NAT MUR 12C three times a day for some 2 weeks and report the changes in your skin condition.
take the doses in empty stomach and clean mouth. dont take any food or water one hour before or after the doses.
one dose would consist of 4 drops of remedy in 10 ml of water slowly sipped up.
take the doses in empty stomach and clean mouth. dont take any food or water one hour before or after the doses.
one dose would consist of 4 drops of remedy in 10 ml of water slowly sipped up.
♡ rishimba last decade
started taking it today. are u sure i can't even drink water one hour before and later taking the doses?
danhenrique last decade
Considering that the dose is in water - I do not think that drinking water will cause any problem :)
Some homoeopaths believe that strongly aromatic substances will affect the action of the remedy. Water is not one of those, nor is it a drug-like substance as is tea or coffee.
I have given remedies with success in juice, in food, while patients are drinking coffee, allowing them to clean their teeth or drink herbal teas or spice their food. None of these things have interfered in any way with a well chosen remedy. Considering the action of a homoeopathic medicine is non-physical, interacting as it does only with the Vital Force or life energy, physical substances will not usually create an obstacle UNLESS the patient is sensitive to that specific substance.
Having said all that, if you take the advice of a practitioner and they insist on certain changes to your habits (to be fair, as Hahnemann himself did) then you should try to adhere to it. But water is in no way considered to be one of the many substances that interfere or antidote homoeopathic medicines.
Some homoeopaths believe that strongly aromatic substances will affect the action of the remedy. Water is not one of those, nor is it a drug-like substance as is tea or coffee.
I have given remedies with success in juice, in food, while patients are drinking coffee, allowing them to clean their teeth or drink herbal teas or spice their food. None of these things have interfered in any way with a well chosen remedy. Considering the action of a homoeopathic medicine is non-physical, interacting as it does only with the Vital Force or life energy, physical substances will not usually create an obstacle UNLESS the patient is sensitive to that specific substance.
Having said all that, if you take the advice of a practitioner and they insist on certain changes to your habits (to be fair, as Hahnemann himself did) then you should try to adhere to it. But water is in no way considered to be one of the many substances that interfere or antidote homoeopathic medicines.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
thank you, brisbanehomeopath... I also think like that. But I'll try not to drink water in this time, just for safety. :)
danhenrique last decade
As you wish, if you are comfortable with it there is no problem. But it will not affect things either way.
Good luck :)
Good luck :)
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
One week has passed, no changes at all. I really hope I'm doing this correctly. 4 drops in 10ml of water, 3 times a day, no food or water 1 hour before and after taking the dose. I'll take it for one more week and post back again. Thanks all for the support.
danhenrique last decade
if you dont notice any change in one week, please stop it and wait for some days.
we will retake the case and suggest again.
come back after a week and tell us if you notice any change in your skin condition.
we will retake the case and suggest again.
come back after a week and tell us if you notice any change in your skin condition.
♡ rishimba last decade
danhenrique last decade
its ok if its a bit worse, probably the remedy worked.
please wait and watch for some 10 days and update.
please wait and watch for some 10 days and update.
♡ rishimba last decade
danhenrique last decade
Case Taking Sheet Part 1
GENERAL SYMPTOMS (Related to you in person)
Age: Sex: Built: Occupation:
1. Do you have any strange, rare, peculiar, unusual or personal symptom, feeling or a recurring thought?
2. Write down all your marked mental symptoms taking the guidelines as suggested below:
- Deliriums, Hallucinations, Fancies or Illusions.
- Dominant emotions in your temperament ( depressed, angry, shame, jealous, absent mindedness, fickle mindedness, hurry, agreeable, arguing, moody, suspicion, others.. etc )
- Your fears and recurring dreams.
- Loss in memory if at all (names, words, streets etc.)
- Propensities ( tendency to do/think about a certain act)
3. Your response to changes in environment
- Feel worse in the morning / afternoon / evening / night.
- Feel worse in cold or hot weather / climates.
- Feel worse in stormy or calm weather.
- Feel worse in dry or damp weather.
- Feel worse in motion / touch / jar / any particular position.
- Feel worse in bright light / loud sound / sharp smell etc.
4. What are your cravings and aversions in food?
- Cravings:
- Aversions:
5. Describe your menstrual affections ( if any )
- symptoms before / during / after
- early / late
- scanty / excessive
6. Write down the diseases running in your family.
7. Write down if you notice any abnormality with your sleep, hunger, thirst and bowel movements.
8. What are the various diseases which you have suffered from in your life and do you think your present illness is having a relation to the disease or after effects of the drugs taken during the time.
Case Taking Sheet Part - 2
PARTICULAR SYMPTOMS (Related to the parts affected in your body)
9. Do you have any strange, rare, peculiar, unusual or personal symptom, feeling or a recurring pain in the affected parts?
10. Describe your physical sufferings in the specific locations.
11. How does the suffering / pain get aggravated or ameliorated with the changing environment as suggested below:
- Time ( morning, afternoon, evening, night)
- Hot, cold, dry and wet environments.
- Touch, pressure, motion, jar, position, rubbing etc.
12. Do you think there is a specific pattern of occurance of the suffering with regard to time, period or any internal biological changes in the body?
GENERAL SYMPTOMS (Related to you in person)
Age: Sex: Built: Occupation:
1. Do you have any strange, rare, peculiar, unusual or personal symptom, feeling or a recurring thought?
2. Write down all your marked mental symptoms taking the guidelines as suggested below:
- Deliriums, Hallucinations, Fancies or Illusions.
- Dominant emotions in your temperament ( depressed, angry, shame, jealous, absent mindedness, fickle mindedness, hurry, agreeable, arguing, moody, suspicion, others.. etc )
- Your fears and recurring dreams.
- Loss in memory if at all (names, words, streets etc.)
- Propensities ( tendency to do/think about a certain act)
3. Your response to changes in environment
- Feel worse in the morning / afternoon / evening / night.
- Feel worse in cold or hot weather / climates.
- Feel worse in stormy or calm weather.
- Feel worse in dry or damp weather.
- Feel worse in motion / touch / jar / any particular position.
- Feel worse in bright light / loud sound / sharp smell etc.
4. What are your cravings and aversions in food?
- Cravings:
- Aversions:
5. Describe your menstrual affections ( if any )
- symptoms before / during / after
- early / late
- scanty / excessive
6. Write down the diseases running in your family.
7. Write down if you notice any abnormality with your sleep, hunger, thirst and bowel movements.
8. What are the various diseases which you have suffered from in your life and do you think your present illness is having a relation to the disease or after effects of the drugs taken during the time.
Case Taking Sheet Part - 2
PARTICULAR SYMPTOMS (Related to the parts affected in your body)
9. Do you have any strange, rare, peculiar, unusual or personal symptom, feeling or a recurring pain in the affected parts?
10. Describe your physical sufferings in the specific locations.
11. How does the suffering / pain get aggravated or ameliorated with the changing environment as suggested below:
- Time ( morning, afternoon, evening, night)
- Hot, cold, dry and wet environments.
- Touch, pressure, motion, jar, position, rubbing etc.
12. Do you think there is a specific pattern of occurance of the suffering with regard to time, period or any internal biological changes in the body?
♡ rishimba last decade
Age: Sex: Built: Occupation:
- 17 years old (turning 18 in December)
- Male
- Im not sure about what this means, but if its body built, its Fat/obese
- Student
1. Do you have any strange, rare, peculiar, unusual or personal symptom, feeling or a recurring thought?
- Not that I know
2. Write down all your marked mental symptoms taking the guidelines as suggested below:
- Fancies
- Depressed, angry, shame, hurry, agreeable, arguing
Fears:
- Lose my mother. I think it's the only think I fear in this world.
Dreams:
- Get into university;
- Be financially independent;
- Get married and have two girls
Loss in memory:
- I just use to forget things if I have too much things to do. Like, if I go to market and don't take any list, surely I'll forget something.
Propensities:
- When a relative of mine is traveling, for example, I tend to think bad things happening, like accidents (I think I need a psychologist, not a homeopathic. haha).
3. Response to changes in environment:
- Feel worse in hot weather
- Feel worse in bright light
4. Cravings and aversions in food:
Cravings: candy. I just can't refuse any kind of candy.
Aversions: I try to eat healthy food but I don't like legume too much.
5. Menstrual affections:
- I'm a man!!! LOL
6. Diseases running in my family:
- Diabetes (father)
- Hypertension (both parents)
- Obesity
7. Abnormality with your sleep, hunger, thirst and bowel movements.
- I don't think that there is
any abnormality with those things.
8. Diseases which I have suffered from in my life :
- Obesity
No, I don't think it has any relation.
9. No pain. It's only redness and red dots all over my body and rough bumps in my upper arms, but no pain at all (Thank God!)
10. I think it's answered in question 9.
11. How does the suffering / pain get aggravated or ameliorated with the changing environment:
- At afternoon it gets worse, gets redder.
- Hot weather it gets worse
- When I my skin, it gets white (happens with everybody that have redness caused by Keratosis Pilaris)
- At rubbing it also gets worse.
12. I'm not sure if there is some pattern. But sometimes I have a light impression that, as years passes, it gets worse. But I'm not sure if this really happens.
- 17 years old (turning 18 in December)
- Male
- Im not sure about what this means, but if its body built, its Fat/obese
- Student
1. Do you have any strange, rare, peculiar, unusual or personal symptom, feeling or a recurring thought?
- Not that I know
2. Write down all your marked mental symptoms taking the guidelines as suggested below:
- Fancies
- Depressed, angry, shame, hurry, agreeable, arguing
Fears:
- Lose my mother. I think it's the only think I fear in this world.
Dreams:
- Get into university;
- Be financially independent;
- Get married and have two girls
Loss in memory:
- I just use to forget things if I have too much things to do. Like, if I go to market and don't take any list, surely I'll forget something.
Propensities:
- When a relative of mine is traveling, for example, I tend to think bad things happening, like accidents (I think I need a psychologist, not a homeopathic. haha).
3. Response to changes in environment:
- Feel worse in hot weather
- Feel worse in bright light
4. Cravings and aversions in food:
Cravings: candy. I just can't refuse any kind of candy.
Aversions: I try to eat healthy food but I don't like legume too much.
5. Menstrual affections:
- I'm a man!!! LOL
6. Diseases running in my family:
- Diabetes (father)
- Hypertension (both parents)
- Obesity
7. Abnormality with your sleep, hunger, thirst and bowel movements.
- I don't think that there is
any abnormality with those things.
8. Diseases which I have suffered from in my life :
- Obesity
No, I don't think it has any relation.
9. No pain. It's only redness and red dots all over my body and rough bumps in my upper arms, but no pain at all (Thank God!)
10. I think it's answered in question 9.
11. How does the suffering / pain get aggravated or ameliorated with the changing environment:
- At afternoon it gets worse, gets redder.
- Hot weather it gets worse
- When I my skin, it gets white (happens with everybody that have redness caused by Keratosis Pilaris)
- At rubbing it also gets worse.
12. I'm not sure if there is some pattern. But sometimes I have a light impression that, as years passes, it gets worse. But I'm not sure if this really happens.
danhenrique last decade
please take weekly doses of THUJA 1M for three weeks and the stop the remedy to watch progress for the next 2 months.
all homeopathic restrictions apply as before.
all homeopathic restrictions apply as before.
♡ rishimba last decade
So, can I take it, let's say, at Mondays, after lunch? One hour before and after, no food or drink, right?
danhenrique last decade
take it first thing in the morning. get up early on sunday, take the dose and sleep again for another hour at least.
sure you dont have to go for work on sundays!!
sure you dont have to go for work on sundays!!
♡ rishimba last decade
danhenrique last decade
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