To be looking so differently now at Drs, schools etc etc

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Has anyone else had a change of opinion about things that they’ve not really questioned and always just accepted before, in the last few years?
It could be since a became a mum, but I’m wondering if it’s more.
My Dd has been very ill recently and I’ve gained much better help, advise from less traditional Drs-think medical Drs who focus on naturopathy too, homeopathy and so on, I never knew anything about homeopathy before my Dd got ill. The results I’ve seen are incredible and much more positive that traditional things like antibiotics, painkillers and so on.
I used to be a teacher and loved it, but I’ve found myself really questioning if this is the right system and the right way of doing things and am increasingly doubting traditional schooling. Even the way the majority of us work, the 9-5, the commutes, snatched weekends with loved ones, the yearly holiday.
Maybe I’m just becoming an old hippie! 😂
Does anyone else feel like this?

@RedToothBrush NOPE!

I truly hope that you’re never in a similar situation as us at present, but if so I recommend certain homeopathy pills over Ibuprofen for inflammation for example.

Not all of Mumsnet at all.

Then I'd suggest asking for referals, being pushy, and everything else we as parents need to do when their child is unwell in some way. Relying on a placebo will only blanket the problem.

But, your child, as you say.

Sorry to derail the thread a little, but my Dad suffers from Parkinsons and needs round the clock care. He has Lewy Dementia and very limited mobility (sometimes he can walk/feed himself, sometimes not). How has AI cured PD? It's so painful watching him deteriorate every day, so any info would be wonderful!

It hasn't. @ImthatBoleyngirl is talking out of his/her backside.

@GiddyRobin You don’t need to *Suggest anything to me, I’ve done nothing else for the past month, endless researching, private Drs & hospital. I’m a parent and a damn good one at that. My Dd is almost better, just some inflammation left, which has almost gone due to the homeopathy, but thanks for the patronising advice.

A month? Oh well, there you go.

Good luck, anyway, OP. Hope your daughter's health stays well, and that's sincere.

Its difficult to say anything if we don't know what your DDs problem was. It might be something that comes and goes and coincidentally it has been better while using the homeopathy alongside traditional treatment. It may be the traditional treatment has taken a while to kick in and in the meantime you started homeopathy so it looks like that was the cure. It may be something that eventually gets better by itself.

I believe in acupuncture, homeopathy I find very difficult to believe in because the 'medicine' has virtually no active ingredient, and the less the better apparently so plain water should be best of all.

It's literally water. How do you think it's doing anything for inflammation?

Yes, I think it was arnica.

@GiddyRobin What’s wrong with saying a month then?

Is this alternative to ibuprofen genuinely homoeopathic in which case it is harmless or is it naturopathic/herbal?

There is far too much conflation of these quite different things on this thread.

As a warfarin patient I have to be hugely careful of taking/eating/drinking anything which will affect how warfarin operates. Get it wrong and the results could be catastrophic.

@GnomeDePlume Homeopathic.

A month of doctors not giving you answers, and you've been sold by the idea of homeopathic treatment. I might understand if this was after years of being tossed back and forth between doctors, never getting answers, and coming to a complete loss.

But a month doesn't even leave room for referals. Speaking to different clinics, researching different doctors, going on waiting lists. Even if you go private, things take time.

As another poster pointed out - perhaps the symptoms faded naturally in that time and may well flare up again. Continuing to pursue answers from a doctor in the meantime would be useful.

You've not told us what your daughter's illness was, nor the treatments you've tried both medical and non medical.

It's alright getting defensive, but you must know a lot of people are extremely cynical about these practices - and with good reason. You've not provided any proof of these medications working other than your daughter seemingly getting better during this time frame; which could be because of other medication she had previously been given or time. I'm assuming she's not being monitored by a proper doctor?

Taking a patient off of a bp drug having no effect isn't complicated.

Homeopathy in itself is pretty harmless as long as people don't forgo other treatments.

Non-traditional medicine on the other hand can be effective, but also has more chance of going wrong.

But I think the medical community has only itself to blame if people distrust them because the continuously seem to be supporting unscientific bollocks. I don't just mean poor practice by individuals, I mean actual bollocks spouted by medical institutions.

OP said up thread it's PANS/PANDAS. A diagnosis Wikipedia describes as a controversial hypothetical diagnosis.

So an illness that possibly doesn't exist getting better from a treatment which has no active ingredients does kind of make sense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PANDAS

Works best if it’s blue. True story.

Ah! I completely missed that.

Well, that makes a lot of sense then! I'd not come across this before. I suppose a placebo for something that might not be real to begin with might just do the trick.

Being right does though. And the person shouting ‘placebo effect’ is right.

Non-traditional medicine on the other hand can be effective, but also has more chance of going wrong.

Not sure that’s true - medical error is the third highest cause of death in the US.

Ok. All of the actual scientific community.

Homeopathy is doing nothing in itself to make you or your daughter feel better.

read Ben Goldacre’s view on this. It’s enlightening.

the reason homeopathy seems to be positively received by its ‘patients’ is because the average consultation is 1 hour- as opposed to 10 minutes at the GP.

it’s reckoned it’s a mix of placebo effect and just having someone listen to you sympathetically about your problems. These are interesting as it shows human connection can have a positive impact on health, but you may as well visit a kind grandmother for a chat.

@nothingcomestonothing @GiddyRobin
Really unkind. You have no ideas of the struggles, I said nothing wrong in my opening post or ones after, I thought it was just an interesting discussion about something I’d found out through a situation I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.
I seriously hope you’re never in this situation, I’m out, this was the last thing needed.

It's not unkind to discuss something that's medically controversial with a layer of cynicism.

No one is saying you've not been through the mill with it. But if you're going to talk about this sort of thing online, you're going to get people who are sceptical. It's not "unkind" to point these things out when even the medical world isn't accepting of it.