Patient Experience
After making an appointment you will receive an extensive health history form to complete and bring with you to your initial appointment. The initial evaluation may take up to two hours, during which you will find yourself describing your symptoms and difficulties in greater depth and detail than you have ever done before. Most people find this in itself therapeutic; it is common for patients to say they have never felt as well listened to or as understood.
At the conclusion of the evaluation I may know immediately which remedy is indicated, or I may take some additional time to analyze the case. Usually I can provide the indicated remedy at my office; occasionally it will need to be ordered from a homeopathic pharmacy either elsewhere in the United States or from overseas.
Typically a first follow-up is scheduled four to six weeks after the initial evaluation. The purpose of subsequent visits is to assess the response to the remedy and make adjustments, as needed. Ideally the first remedy will have initiated a healing process, and the first visit provides an opportunity for the patient to have questions answered and progress verified. Occasionally, however, progress is not as rapid as had been anticipated, in which case I will need to consider alternative remedies, potencies, or a tincture of time! Subsequent visits are scheduled as needed, and typically last approximately 50 minutes.
While many patients experience the deep relief and satisfaction of a cure with the first or second remedy, there are also many patients who are more complex, and who require months of treatment and various remedies to experience deep healing. A patience with the process, and a willingness to faithfully observe and report one's symptoms and inner state, are important requirements for success in the homeopathic endeavor.
Even if the "exactly right remedy" isn't prescribed after the first visit, the typical patient experiences a heightened sense of vitality, an improvement in their overall health, and an amelioration of symptoms from a carefully-considered homeopathic prescription. After one or two years of homeopathic treatment the vast majority will no longer experience the recurring colds and flues, the fatigue, the blues, the aches and pains, the anxieties and self-doubts, that they had assumed were inescapable facts of life before homeopathic treatment began.
At the conclusion of the evaluation I may know immediately which remedy is indicated, or I may take some additional time to analyze the case. Usually I can provide the indicated remedy at my office; occasionally it will need to be ordered from a homeopathic pharmacy either elsewhere in the United States or from overseas.
Typically a first follow-up is scheduled four to six weeks after the initial evaluation. The purpose of subsequent visits is to assess the response to the remedy and make adjustments, as needed. Ideally the first remedy will have initiated a healing process, and the first visit provides an opportunity for the patient to have questions answered and progress verified. Occasionally, however, progress is not as rapid as had been anticipated, in which case I will need to consider alternative remedies, potencies, or a tincture of time! Subsequent visits are scheduled as needed, and typically last approximately 50 minutes.
While many patients experience the deep relief and satisfaction of a cure with the first or second remedy, there are also many patients who are more complex, and who require months of treatment and various remedies to experience deep healing. A patience with the process, and a willingness to faithfully observe and report one's symptoms and inner state, are important requirements for success in the homeopathic endeavor.
Even if the "exactly right remedy" isn't prescribed after the first visit, the typical patient experiences a heightened sense of vitality, an improvement in their overall health, and an amelioration of symptoms from a carefully-considered homeopathic prescription. After one or two years of homeopathic treatment the vast majority will no longer experience the recurring colds and flues, the fatigue, the blues, the aches and pains, the anxieties and self-doubts, that they had assumed were inescapable facts of life before homeopathic treatment began.
Doug Brown, Homeopathic Healing, 833 S.W. 11th Avenue, Suite 216, Portland, Oregon 97205
© Douglas Brown, Homeopathic Healing • 503-253-6334 • [email protected]
© Douglas Brown, Homeopathic Healing • 503-253-6334 • [email protected]