In today’s world, the general public is exposed to heaps of information about all the diseases, their treatment, prognosis etc. Many patients resort to self-diagnosis and self-medication before consulting a doctor. Though it’s good to remain informed about various aspects of own sickness but the importance of proper consultation with a doctor or qualified medical practitioner can’t be undermined.
At Homeopathy Point, we get a lot of patients who just want to “consult” or discuss his/her problem before thinking about starting the treatment. They are in a dilemma that whether should they wait for some more time or start the treatment right away. This article aims to emphasize the importance of consulting a doctor/qualified medical practitioner. If a patient is in dilemma about consulting a doctor, he/she should try to answer the following questions to get a better perspective into this complex issue.
- Do you actually have the said disease? : What makes you think that you have a certain disease? – It’s possible that you have some symptoms and you have googled it or some family member suggested it to you.
It is very common that you may have completely different disease than you imagined. In the absence of any diagnostic tests or physical examination, nothing can be said for sure. Many patients ignore the symptoms for long before landing into more complications eg:
- ignoring gastric symptoms for long and eventually being diagnosed with abdominal cancer
- ignoring weakness and unintended weight loss for long and eventually diagnosed with diabetes mellitus or some form of cancer
Any symptom, irrespective of your perception, can be an important sign of impending disease or its major complications. Hence, it’s important to know the correct diagnosis
- Are you taking the right treatment?: Many patients, nowadays, come to clinic saying we took xyz medicine after watching informative videos on internet and took it for 2 months without any relief!
Treatment plan, even in people suffering from same disease, may differ. Some group of medicines are to be given in acute phase of a disease only and other group may be used in chronic phase of disease. Eg in cases of asthma : few patients suffer from acute symptoms, few patients suffer from only mild symptoms, while few other patients may have only seasonal symptoms etc. Each such patient, though suffering from same disease, may require different treatment plan according to the frequency of acute phase, intensity and duration of the disease.
In such scenario, if you are self-medicating, there is little hope of getting relief.
- Are you taking right management steps for your disease?: With the knowledge of correct diagnosis, you and your family are better equipped to deal with your disease. The patient is more open to accept lifestyle changes like turning vegetarian in gout, leaving junk food in heart diseases, leaving sugar in diabetes, and having a more disciplined daily regimen.
Suppose a person feels week, and faints, its common practice to give loads of sugar to such patient especially if “he was feeling weak since few weeks and even had remarkable weight loss”. Both high blood sugar and low blood sugar have similar symptoms of weakness. In cases of very high blood sugar, such complication ignored for even short time can land the patient in emergency room.
- What are your chances of recovery and what is eventual outcome of the disease? (Prognosis) : till the disease is diagnosed and progress of the disease is arrived, it is difficult to know the chances of recovery.
Symptoms of some of the common diseases and cancers of the same area present similarly. e,g Benign hypertrophy of prostate (BHP) and prostate cancer present similarly. More than 60% of men above the age of 50 are said to be suffering from it. Prostate cancer is much less common but both mostly present as insufficient frequent urination. Constantly ignoring the common symptoms may lead to delay in starting the treatment, consequently increase in complications and worsening the recovery chances.
So, recovery chance can only be predicted after correct diagnosis and stage of the disease.
Why is it important to seek Qualified Homeopathic Consultation for your disease?
Apart from the above points enumerated, while seeking homeopathic treatment, the patient should understand that the homeopathic way of prescription is tailor made for him/her. Understanding of symptoms for homeopath, before starting and while treatment, is necessary for permanent cure of the disease. At Homeopathy Point, we study the patient and help patient understand the various aspects of his disease. The homeopath helps patient in different stages of consultation in the following way.
- Understanding you (the patient): Homeopathic consultation involves more precise understanding of the patient (his personality, life conditions, food habits etc.), his disease and how a particular disease is affecting the given patient. It’s a known fact that same disease will affect different patients differently i.e. like a diabetic patient will have just few symptoms from all the known symptoms of diabetes, let’s say group A. Another diabetic patient may have totally different set of symptoms from all the known symptoms of diabetes, let’s say B. Now, patient having symptoms of group A or group B both are diabetic but the disease is affecting both the patients differently depending upon their genetic pre disposition , familial tendency, food habits, life style condition etc. Homeopath aims to study this difference, why the disease is affecting you in particular way and plans treatment plan accordingly. It’s tailor made for the need of the given patient in a given disease. Self-medication can at the most will give you only partial relief.
- How to take medicine: There are many ways of taking a given medicine. The homeopath will tell you how to take the given medicine, how much to take and when to stop taking the medicine.
- Plan of treatment: During the course of treatment, your homeopath may change your medicine, according to your changing symptoms. Also, many a time another medicine is given to complete/consolidate the cure at the end of the treatment. This is not possible without the advice of a qualified homeopath.
Every health article, disease article and videos are for the purpose of creating general awareness and understanding of the disease, they do not intend to replace the role of a doctor or qualified medical practitioner. Every patient should seek consultation for early diagnosis and correct treatment of his disease, to avoid future complications.
At Homeopathy point, we strive to study you and your disease in detail and provide the best treatment plan suited to you. We are committed to provide earliest and long lasting relief after detail study of your lifestyle and disease.
Dr Renu Pande, MD
Founding Member – HomeopathyPoint
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