It’s week two of my homeopathic adventure and I’m finding it tough now, but no tougher than a normal week when I’ve had bad reactions to food. I have felt at times like I’m having a kind of mild to moderate reation (probably because I am) to the treatment and I have felt a little itchy. My face has been redder and more sore than normal, but if this treatment can ultimately help to reduce my problems in the long run then I’m going to try to persevere.
My skin has felt tingley, like it’s alive, but not ever so itchy. I’ve been able to leave it alone, to moisturise and on the whole carry on working and going about my daily routine of tennis, walking, bell ringing, working as a freelance marketer etc. I have been having some trouble sleeping and on occasions woken in the night feeling hot, flushed and very itchy. This is often how my reactions happen anyway; I eat the suspicious offending item, then over night the reaction takes place and I wake with swollen skin on my face, eyes, and sometimes all over my body that looks like sunburn.
Returning symptoms
I’ve also had a couple of very interesting reactions, which my homeopath explained as ‘returning symptoms’. The backs of my legs, in the crease behind, and also my arms, have suddenly become dry, itchy and sore – I haven’t had eczema here since I was a small child. My eyelids have been sore, swollen and tight – this too is an old sypmtom which I used to get about ten years ago to certain foods. My lips have also been really itchy and I’ve started to wrinkle up my mouth in a habit I used to have as a child and grew out of. I used to get teased for making this face, and only found out later that it’s a common thing for children with allergies and is done to try to alleviate and ignore the itching a, trying hard not to scratch.
I have been feeling a little more apathetic than normal, possibly due to a slight lack of sleep, but also it could be that my immune system is busily working away trying to rid itself of the contant stream of allergens the remedy is throwing at it. I’ve been going to bed very early some nights, just exhausted.
I am noticing that the redness is growing, moving up my face, but I can see bits of pretty good skin showing through. I don’t want to get too excited but it could be a mini breakthrough. So at the end of week two I’m feeling fairly positive. I’d love to hear from anyone else who has had a homoepathic remedy for eczema or allergies. What was it like? Did it work? I have a friend who claims her hayfever disappeared after she took a homoepathic remedy and has only now just returned after seven years. What’s your story?
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Which remdies are you’re taking?
Anyway, if I can reassure you by saying that, most homeopathic remedies contain absolutly 0% active ingredient, so any symptoms you may have is unrelated.
Hi Fred. Have you ever taken an homeopathic remedy before? I can assure you that since stopping taking the remedy my skin is slowly getting back to normal. Whatever is in the remedy definitely had a massive effect on me. I wonder what is in it? Trying to find out. Homeopath did warn me that symptoms could worsen before seeing an improvement in my allergies – but how bad to they have to get and for how long?