Ongoing Support
How well you do from your homeopathic treatment will depend partly on the accuracy of the remedy selected for you and partly on getting the right sort of on going support from me – the support that will help you and your individual situation (which may be different to the help that someone else needs).
Accuracy of the remedy
The remedy is selected from all the information you are able to give me. I always do my best to match this information as closely as possible to the remedy but sometimes some fine-tuning is needed until the most accurate (and therefore curative) remedy is found.
Keeping the progress going
A key part of this will be regular contact via follow up appointments. Initially I would like to see you fairly soon after you begin your treatment and we will probably have made a follow up appointment for about a month later, at your first consultation. Once we are sure that you are progressing on the remedy selected, and while you continue to progress, the follow up consultations can be spread further apart to two-monthly, and so on, only becoming more frequent if something comes up that means I need to change the remedy.
The main purpose of the follow-up is to hear how you are and observe any changes.
For some people distance is a problem and so appointments can be arranged by Zoom if you prefer.
Even when the current symptoms have disappeared many patients like to maintain regular contact by coming to see me every six months so that any problems can be addressed quickly before they have time to become entrenched.
Self Help
In most cases there are some ‘maintaining causes’. This is the term we give to circumstances in the patient’s lifestyle that are contributing to their condition. An example of this would be someone smoking 20 cigarettes a day while suffering from a chronic chest complaint. Other maintaining causes may be less obvious and so part of our work together will be to work out what these may be and how to address them.
At first some maintaining causes may feel impossible to change for one reason or another. If this is the case we just have to see what we can do by keeping the homeopathic treatment going steadily in the background to raise the vitality and make you as healthy as possible despite the ongoing cause. In time you may be surprised how seemingly stuck situations begin to change as you become more healthy.
If I have made some suggestions regarding things you can do yourself please give these a go and do what you can to help yourself get better. The people who take an active part in their own treatment (whatever the therapy) are the ones who generally make the best and most lasting improvement. I will ask you how you are doing regarding these when we next meet!
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