Urinary Tract Infection

Thanks for this. My homeopath prescribed me Phosphorous 1lm six weeks ago which seems to be working. Could you please also provide advice for scant menses as the flow is getting lighter each month. My hormone levels have been tested and they are all normal.

1. Describe your main suffering?
Urinary tract infection affecting the renal area. Constant urging to go to the toilet and large quantities of urine passed. Uncomfortable sensation in urethra but not stinging or painful. High temperature, pain in kidney region.

2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body?
Physical exhaustion, lower back ache, congestion and pain in stomach. Tight chest. Dizziness.

3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings?
Mental fatigue and feeling of disorientation. Head feels as if drunk. Feeling tearful but not able to cry. Breathing restricted. Headaches.

4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst?
Anxious and fearful. Don't want to be left alone. Feel like I'm going to faint.

5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?
I developed a dry prickly throat (felt hoarse but not sore) and feeling that I was coming down with virus, persistent headache. I had been overdoing it for a while.

6. Which time of the day you are worst?
Mornings

7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same?
Better: warmth, rest, sunshine, cold liquids, quiet
Worse: overload from too much sensory stimulation - aggravation by bright lights and noise, cold, stress

8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)?
Menses makes condition worse

9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?
Feel much better in hot dry weather when sun is shining.

10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc.
Agreeable, sympathetic, sensitive (especially to reprimand)

- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm?
Feel apprehensive, get build up of pressure in head
- Do you like being consoled during your tough times?
Yes
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc?
Yes very sensitive - if too much sensory overload I feel overwhelmed

- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
weeping, talking to one self etc?
Nail biting

- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?
They are very important to me.

11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly? Fear of abandonment and rejection, of death, fear for loved ones health, fear (sometimes) of being alone

12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions?
Crave cheese, fish, bread, vinegar

13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive?
Excessive

14. How if your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?
Normal

15. Is there any kind of food which your body can’t stand?
Bananas

16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs?
Sweat normal - head and trunks

17. How is your bowel movement and stool type?
Regular every morning, loose stools

18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?
I suffer from insomnia and wake up a couple of times each night. I sleep on both sides in a foetal position

19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?
Yes

20. How do you think you are different from others, if at all?
Perhaps more sensitive physically and emotionally than some others


21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?
I have been prescribed anti-biotics - Trimavastrine

22. What major diseases are running in your family?
High blood pressure, stroke, heart attack

23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance
I'm petite (5ft 2inches) and medium build. Pale skin that flushes with colour a lot. Hazel eyes, button nose, large lips, high cheekbones, pear shaped figure.

24. (ONLY FOR FEMALES)

If you are not having normal menstrual cycles, please answer the following questions:

- Are the periods early, regular or late in general? How long do they last? My periods are regular but now only last 3 days. They used to be up to 7 days long but since I have become older they are become more and more scant.
- Do you suffer from any kind of physical or mental discomfort before, during or after the periods? Stomach cramps, bloating, back pain and headaches before and during menses
- Is the flow scanty, normal or excessive? - Flow is scant
- Is the blood thick bright red or pale watery? Bright red on first two days
- Do you notice any clots in the flow? No

Thanks very much for your reply, I will the remedy you suggest.