Trying Alternatives
WARNING: This is another one of my depressing health-related posts. Don’t read it if you’re sick of hearing me whine.
I am now going to do something completely against my nature and try a homeopathic treatment that my therapist has recommended. Basically it’s distilled water with “frequencies” injected in that work against the bad stuff your body’s aura shows are out of balance. But the stuff that my aura gave off without her even knowing about it is very telling and interesting and I suppose it’s worth a shot. At least it’s something that won’t take time (whereas accupuncture appointments or other things would). And it’s not too expensive.
The rational side of me says this is completely nutso. But I’ve read up on this and a lot of people seem to think that this “healing” comes to the healers through God so the faithful part of me wants to believe that if this therapist has been put in my life to suggest this to me, perhaps I should be open to trying it. Have any of you ever tried this? I really do want to have more children sometime in the future and I really want to get off these yucky meds. The past 9 months of pain from the micronutrient-deficiency-related neuropathy has really gotten to me. The pain is just not going away, even with the latest increase in Topamax dosage a few weeks back, and I’ve been trying all weekend to get my brain to concentrate on this appellate brief I’m trying to finish and I just can’t wrap my head around it. 
This has to stop, so I’m desperate. Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome, from the WLS community or others.
April 6th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Hey, you know . . . why the hell not? It’s not any weirder than any of the conventional medicine, right?
April 6th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Good point. When a girl has to take anti-depressants, anti-anxiety meds and use a second form of birth control just to handle the side effects of one medication, I suppose the homeopaths would look at “conventional” medicine consumers and think *we* are the quacks.
April 8th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
I am completely intrigued. Share more when you have time. I want to try stuff like this because I want to stay as far away from western drugs as possible for as long as possible.
How did you find whoever you found??
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:50 pm
I learned in my genetics class this semester that 40% of prescription drugs have either no or a negative effect on people. (I’m not sure if 40% of drugs don’t work or 40% of people don’t respond to drugs or if 40% of the people who take any given drug on average don’t respond.) But yeah, I think that our reliance on pharmaceuticals is more cultural than anything else.
Drugs, home remedies, yoga, acupuncture - it’s all effective to a degree. And I think the most important thing is mind over matter - actually thinking the remedy will make you better tends to work at least some of the time.