Dr. Rajesh Shah's advice on Rheumatoid Arthritis Scope of Homeopathy: Pain, swelling, progress of rheumatoid disease can be managed using homeopathy. Deformities cannot be reverted.  Very Strongly recommended.

Case Studies of Rheumatoid Arthritis

This is the case of a 46 years old lady Mrs. S.J.V. (Patient reference no. L6956) who reported to us with complaints of pain in both the knee joints. She was a known case of Rheumatoid Arthritis since the past 2 to 3 years. Her pains used to extend anteriorly to the ankle joints and were aggravated by sitting down and bending her legs. Her pains occurred twice or thrice a week and lasted for one to two days.

Along with this she also complained of excessive bloated feeling in the abdomen almost daily since the last 3 to 4 years. She said that she felt very hungry at small intervals and had to eat something very frequently and yet had no satiety. Another thing that had started bothering her since the past one year was her hot flushes. This was due to her menopausal age that she would be so irritable at times. She was a known case of cervical spondylosis since the past 2 years along with uterine fibroids almost since 6 years.

She had an excess appetite with strong craving for sweets, milk and fruits. She perspired profusely especially on the face and was thermally a hot patient. Her menstrual cycles were irregular as she was reaching her menopause. She complained of disturbed sleep and used to get up frequently at night.

She was quite confident to talk with. She said that she had no major tensions or stress in life. But it was only on further enquiring it was found that she had a very disturbed family life. She had separated from her husband a few years after their marriage and had a teenaged son who stayed away from her with his father in the U.S. Her son was reluctant to keep any contacts with her and this was the most distressing part of her life. She was totally disappointed with her life and therefore had become very irritable and easily angered. She desired to be alone and wept while narrating her complaints.

Amongst her family, her father suffered from diabetes and her mother too suffered from arthritis. She had stooped all her previous allopathic medications for arthritis as they were no longer helping her to control her pains.

Taking into consideration her entire complaints along with her mental state, a constitutional homeopathic remedy Natrum Mur 200 (medicine vary from patient to patient, depending on the case) was selected to be taken twice a day for 3 weeks. Next when she reported to us her knee joint pains were better up to 50%. Her excess hunger had slightly decreased but the abdominal bloating remained the same.  She was continued the same remedy and potency for another four weeks. In the second follow up i.e. after another 4 weeks her knee joint pains were better up to 90% and her hunger and bloating showed improvement up to 50%. The frequency of her hot flushes had also reduced this time. Also, she specially mentioned to us that mentally she was feeling much relaxed than ever before for which she was really thankful to us and obviously to homoeopathy. She was asked to continue the medications for another few months until complete recovery.

Remark: The remedy prescribed in these cases is patient-specific i.e. it has been prescribed based on the symptoms specific to the patient at that point of time. It is advisable that the patient does not indulge in any self-medication.

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