Re: beyondhom cat scratch "issue"

OK - seems that you have quite a few symptoms there, albeit localised:

Blisters (makes me think of cellulitis); tingling; aching; irritation; burning; lividity; sensations < light touch; extending outwards? upwards?

Have you tried repertorising these local symptoms? And then because of the similarity with cellulitis (which can go into septicaemia ), have you considered Apis? Rhus Tox? Anthracinum? Lach? Crot-C? Sec?

If Spilanthes is helping, what about trying Spilanthes in potency rather than as a tincture.

Also, there is a specific disease called 'Cat scratch fever' - maybe this is a possibility, in which case you might try the nosode of this disease.

Liz




From: Shannon Nelson 
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 8:19 PM
To: [email protected] 
Subject: 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