Re: beyondhom cat scratch "issue"

Well, that speaks to why I don't feel my immune system recognizes it  
at all.   Okay, re-thinking, make that "not much"...

At the first scratch (4 years ago?), it was so light that I could not  
even see it at the time (I looked), but it woke me in the night -- say  
maybe 10 hours later? -- burning, and livid.  From there, a dark red  
area spread very slowly; not bloody or swollen, only the change in  
color.  The initial burning sensation must have stopped after a while,  
tho I think there was an irritated sensation.

There hasn't really been pain, just at times a slight ache, and the  
tingling.

On the latest one, several days after the scratch, instead of healing  
it had become increasingly irritated, and making sort of a bubble of  
thickish, watery-looking something, and an irritated sensation.   
Shortly after that, I began to have odd sensations in the nerve, a  
slight tingling down the foot when the skin was lightly brushed.   
Shortly after that, I got my castor oil going and the external  
irritation healed and the sensations also went away -- until I stopped  
spilanthes, after which they came back.

When it gets worse (if too long between spilanthes doses), the foot  
becomes more sensitive (tingling), can sometimes ache, and the  
sensations can involve other areas.

Hypericum seemed to help only briefly and only a little -- but I did  
not persist with it much, since I just don't feel convinced by it.

So I "could try" various things, but am reluctant to just toss things  
at it, and just don't feel very moved by any of my ideas so far.

At a local h'th's suggestion I took Ignatia for what she (I think  
incorrectly) saw as 'the rest of the case", and it seemed to make the  
sensations dramatically worse for a short time -- and I did not feel  
improved when it dropped back to normal, only nervous to not do that  
again!  So that makes me all the more reluctant to "play with it" as I  
have sometimes tended to in the past.

I've been thinking along the lines of creepy-crawlies that like to  
inhabit nervous systems, and which tend to "fly low" under the body's  
radar, with a creeping, insidious, destructive nature.  I've been  
muscle testing some ideas with my chiro, with so far nothing checking  
out...  Lyssin came closest, interestingly, and I have some temptation  
to maybe just try it.  Syph, stram, hypericum got no response, and I  
can't now remember what else I have tried...



On Jun 29, 2012, at 1:40 PM, Liz Brynin wrote:

>
> Hi Shannon
>
> If it seems infectious (hot? red? etc. if you leave it) have you  
> tried the good old stand-bys: Belladonna; Gunpowder; Pyrogen? Also  
> even Hep. Sulph. if it gets very painful.
>
> And I'm also thinking of Hypericum if the pain is on a nerve, and  
> moving upwards.
>
> Probably all too familiar! But I don't know what you've tried.
>
> Liz
>
> From: Shannon Nelson
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 7:13 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: beyondhom cat scratch "issue"
>
>
> I wonder if anyone has input about this?
>
> A couple of months ago I got a scratch to my foot by one of my cats.
> This particular cat gets into particularly icky things, and several
> times in the past several years I have had small scratches from him
> that became slowly worse and worse, until bandaged with castor oil.
> (None of my usual anti-infectives, external or internal, made even the
> slightest difference.)
>
> This last time, before I got hold of castor oil it had gone beyond
> what that could clear, and the "something icky" has evidently made its
> way into a nerve in my foot, where it is very happy.
>
> Spilanthes tincture stops it from spreading or worsening (thank you
> Dale for bringing spilanthes to my attention!), BUT seems unable to
> clear it from the nerve. Each time I go too long without my dose (6-8
> hours), it begins to spread and worsen. And when I get back to the
> regular dosing, I regain most of the ground that was lost, but not  
> all.
>
> It feels to me as tho my immune system takes NO notice of this
> whatever-it-is at all, and I'm kind of stumped about where to go from
> here. From standpoint of homeopathic treatment, there's very little
> acute symptomatology to work with because of the spilanthes.
>
> Anyone have thoughts, or heard of anything like this?
>
> Thanks,
> Shannon
>
>
>