Hi Milly,
Just having a plan and some positive steps to take can make a huge difference in how you feel.
I second taking the Vitamin D3. I really like the liquid kind, and prefer it over taking pills. (I like Carlson's Ddrops, in the 2,000 IU size)
Don't forget that if the flu or some other illness is going around, by taking extra for a few days (6,000 IU), you can usually avoid catching it.
Since you had such a significant blood loss, I think you could really benefit from one of the homeopathic remedies we have that are good for after loss of body fluids. These can be helpful even years after the loss occurred, especially if you've never been quite the same since then. I won't post those here, as there are quite a few that could be useful, depending on all of your particular symptoms, as well they need to be used with proper indications and cautions. If you can, I'd suggest consulting a homeopath who could recommend the right one for you. You'd be surprised what a difference it can make. Then, you can use the following two cell salts to help rebuild your blood.
CELL SALTS USEFUL FOR ITP
Some simple guidelines for when I might include cell salts in the protocol for a client:
--Use a cell salt that is complementary to a constitutional remedy, either in conjunction or in alternation with the remedy doses
--Use a cell salt to provide palliative relief to past complaints brought forward in constitutional work
--Use a cell salt associated with a specific pathology based on affinity, symptoms/condition, and appearance
--Consider a cell salt when allopathic medications are possibly disrupting nutritional uptake or metabolism
--Add a cell salt to therapeutic protocol during high metabolic demand: teething, growth spurts, intense activity, to assist in platelet production
--Use cell salts therapeutically during an acute illness or injury to support repair and re-establish homeostasis
--Consider when there is an epidemic disease influence in order to provide prophylaxis
--Add a cell salt to therapeutic protocol during physiological stressors: puberty, pregnancy, menopause, andropause
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Guidelines for Dosage/Posology (Always use the 6x potency):
* Ideally taken when no other food or drink can interfere with their action.
* In reality, a dose that is taken with a meal or a drink will do more good than the dose forgotten because the client did not want to take it too close to a meal or drink!
Tablets:
Adults: 3-4 dissolved under the tongue, 3 - 4 times daily.
Children: 2 dissolved under the tongue.
Note: Pour tablets from bottle into cap, and from cap into mouth, not into the hand.
For some patients, remembering to take them is an issue. This is one way that is easier to remember for many folks:
Tablets in water: put the total number of tablets to be taken throughout the day into a water bottle, and drink the water through the day. (Okay to combine more than one cell salt in the bottle.) Alternatively, put 10 tablets of each cell salt in the water.
With this method it is clear at the end of the day whether or not it was all taken.
Liquid cell salt dilutions: Take 6--12 drops directly in the mouth and hold there for the duration of a few relaxed breaths. Repeat 3-4 times daily.
Rx For Anemia or Blood Loss, to Build Up the Blood Again:
Ferrum Phos 6X Cell Salt
Calcium Phos 6X Cell Salt
Dose: 3 pellets to be dissolved in the mouth, alternately, 3 times daily for two months.
CALCAREA PHOSPHORICUM #2 (Phosphate of Lime)
The sphere of the Phosphate of Lime (Calc-phos.) includes all bone diseases, whether due to some inherited dyscrasia or to defective nutrition in osseous and other structures dependent upon a proper distribution of lime molecules in the body.
blood dyscrasia
Etymology: AS, blod + Gk, dys, bad, krasis, mingling
a pathologic condition in which any of the constituents of the blood are abnormal in structure, function, or quality, as in leukemia or hemophilia. (or ITP!)
It is the bone cell-salt. Without this element, no bone can be formed and hence it is a valuable remedy in childhood when the bones are in the condition of being formed.
It increases bone-marrow activity to produce more red blood cells (RBC), white blood cells (WBC) and platelets.
Calc. phos. is also found in the gastric juice and so plays an important part in the process of digestion and assimilation, aiding growth.
It is of importance in anaemia and in chlorosis, which often result from heavy or continual bleeding symptoms, particularly excess menstrual bleeding, occurring in the ITP patient.
Chlorosis (aka "green sickness") is a form of anemia named for the greenish tinge of the skin of a patient. Its symptoms include lack of energy, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, dyspepsia, headaches, a capricious or scanty appetite and amenorrhoea (menses are stopped). Today, it’s diagnosed as ‘hypochromic anemia’, thought to be brought on by menstrual blood loss and an inadequate diet, so it is most often seen in adolescent girls.
Calc-phos is needed during dentition when the teeth are slow in making their appearance and decay too rapidly; also in other teething disorders. (It’s one of the common remedies in most brands of homeopathic teething tablets.)
In convalescence after acute and chronic wasting diseases, it acts as a tonic by building up new red blood corpuscles and by restoring the lost vitality. Valuable for restoring the milk supply and vitality to weak and exhausted nursing mothers.
When there is deficient development or growth of children and young people, emaciation without apparent cause, premature babies (add Silica 6X to Calc-phos 6X to help any preemie), all will respond magnificently to the influence of Calc-phos.
Aids the union of fractured bones that are slow to heal.
Chronic enlargements of the tonsils and goiter.
Rheumatism of the joints
Scoliosis, spinal weakness and curvature
Suppuration of bones
PREVENTING OR REVERSING BONE LOSS
To prevent and sometimes even reverse osteoporosis and lessen damage to bones from prolonged steroid use, I’ve found the cell salts to be very effective. This protocol is recommended by Dr. Luc De Schepper, MD, PhD, DI Hom., CHom., Lic.Ac:
“The one I find the most useful is Calcarea phosphorica 6X because it is great in all cases of osteoporosis and can be taken effectively in such cases or in cases where there is a weakness of the bones, like in osteogenesis imperfecta, with easy fracturing of the bones. So once you approach menopause and Osteoporosis is a possibility, Calc phos 6X is better than any medication!”
To prevent osteoporosis. Take 2 pellets of Calc-phos 6X, daily, under tongue.
(As with all remedies, do not touch the pellet, simply tap out into the cap, then tip under your tongue).
Alternatively, you can take it in a wet dose by putting two pellets in a 4 oz cup and taking one tsp from cup. Discard the rest of the solution-do not save it for later use. Make a fresh batch daily.
I have found either way seems to work, so it’s really personal preference.
At this low potency, it is very close to the crude substance, and so acts more like a supplement. If you are taking a constitutional remedy daily, I would recommend taking them apart from each other.
Do this daily for one month, than skip a month, then resume, etc.
This protocol always works very well.
FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM (Ferrum phos), Cell Salt #4
Ferrum metallicum (iron) + Phosphorus (phosphoric acid)
This salt has an affinity or attraction for oxygen, carrying it to every part of the body. Thus, it’s important in all diseases in which the blood and corpuscles are involved. We should think of Ferrum phos first, whenever we see abnormal conditions of the corpuscles of the blood themselves, or where there is a relaxed condition of the muscular tissue. It gives strength to the circular wall of the blood vessels. A constituent of hemoglobin, it supplies the color to the blood corpuscles.
Our First Aid Cell Salt. It is the ‘rescue remedy’ of the cell salts.
1st stage of all acute diseases, such as inflammations, congestions and fevers
(Manifested by a flushed face, fever with full pulse, hot, dry skin, thirst, and pain and redness of the inflamed or congested part.)
End stage of disease, the convalescent period
The symptoms calling for this remedy are always made worse by motion, and
are always made better by cold.
Ferrum phos is the Cell Salt for the Blood:
Biggest remedy in homeopathy for ANEMIA, including aplastic anemia, chlorosis
Anemia from loss of blood
Anemia after radiation, surgery, or drug overdose
NBWS (Never Been Well Since) blood loss
Non-specific hemorrhage
#2 nose bleeding remedy (Phosphorus is #1)
Bleeding from fibroids
Bleeding hemorrhoids
Uterine hemorrhage with bright red blood, and a heavy “flooding” period.
Good for low hemoglobin in pregnancy.
Blood in the urine with no symptoms
Capillary fragility
Bruise very easily
Helps people recover from infectious disease, travel, fatigue or blood loss.
They’re told, “Everything’s fine”, yet they’re still tired, with a loss of vitality, then think of Ferrum Phos.
“Bone marrow transplants”
People coming out of the hospital
Low blood pressure
Poor circulation.
The “Blush” remedy—They often appear healthy and robust, with circumscribed, red rosy cheeks, yet in fact they are weak and anemic. (You’ll frequently see this in rosy-cheeked children-it may look as if someone has painted a circular red patch on their cheeks. Their skin will be hot and dry.)
Ferrum phos is a good remedy for runners and marathon runners, as it increases oxygenation of the blood.
A comment from a race horse owner during one of Homeopath / Naturopath, Robin Murphy’s lectures:
“Ferrum Phos is one of the best lung remedies and oxygen builders – every race horse that used it improved in performance and reduced damage to the lungs”.
