“It’s just ridiculous. I get them every month. Sometimes once, this time several times.”

She continued:

‘PMT, mood shifts, not normally teary but this month have been. Unusual for me. I just crave peace. General fatigue. This month I had sore breasts. Used to get it as a teenager. Since I had kids, periods are less painful. Mood changes. Grumpier. Go quiet and withdrawn, into myself. Things may be more irritating, I don't like to engage in conversations.

‘I feel trapped. I want to see a bit of the world, explore, and have more fun.

I don't like how the world works. Homelessness upsets me. Suffering. It’s unjust, wrong. Does not seem right.

Do you feel other people’s pain?

Not feel it in a physical sense. Just know. things pop in my head if someone is talking to me, see through them.

I want to go to my other world and hide. Meadow or beach with water. Serene, flowers, birds, solitude’

What’s the opposite of that?

Noise, crowds, busy. lots of things to do, think about, trying to remember it all. I have to do it well, I'm a bit of a perfectionist. But I have to drop my expectations or I’d explode. Pressure builds up. Like a pressure cooker. Want to to run away and escape, need time to rebalance. I can almost push my husband away. If he does not give me time. I feel rejected.

So here we are, a 40 year old woman with a loving husband and kids she adores. Hormonal change impacts her physical and mental health considerably. She wants to isolate to find a balance.

then she goes on to tell me about her childhood:

‘Happy. Close to my mum, dad and brother. Loving family. It’s only now I begin to unpick. My mum, she was very strict in her own way./ Strong willed. Had to do things her way. No negotiations. Even as a teenager it was mum's way. No voice. Lovely, supportive. but not affectionate.

As a child I was very scared of the dark. I’d bury myself in covers, lots of teddies.

She starts to shake. I support her to work with the presenting somatic experience and do the shaking in situ.

'‘…. we moved a lot. I did not think it affected me a lot at the time. I’d bumble along. But I suppressed a lot.  I had to adapt. cut off my feelings. Shut down if I missed friends. It was just decided for me.

then my dad lost his job. We went from riches to rags. I could not tell anyone how I was feeling. I withdrew. I was depressed. I had to grow up fast, on my own.

I had a boyfriend. He was insecure, he did not trust me. Possessive. He accused me of all sorts of things. Not a good energy. That’s when cold sores really flared up.

Prescription

We could be thinking of hormonal remedies such as  Nat mur, Sepia, even Calc, Ars even with the loss of financial security in the family.

I chose to go with how this was experienced by the client. She suppressed it. She suppressed her desires to let her mum ‘reign’, she suppressed her emotions when her boyfriend was being a dick, yet her body expressed this in cold sores, so I chose to give her Carcinosin. 200c split dose. One pill repeated for two days and that was that.

Follow up appointment 5 weeks later

Slight cold sore before the period but only a bump. No blisters. Normally I’d have lots. Then just gone. One month I have not had one. I have felt calmer. I am better at communicating my needs.

We continue to work on other issues, but the cold sores never returned.

This is a lovely example of how homoepathy helped address the ripple effects of traumatic experiences in this person’s life, way past the ‘danger’ was over.

Disclaimer.

You will find information about great many remedies ‘for cold sores/herpes simples’ on the internet. When these matched to your case they may provide some relief during the acute stage, but you will get them again. The same applies to the remedy that I mention above. To address any chronic health issue a homeopath would consider the whole of your case and choose a remedy that resonates with your state. I therefore whole heartedly recommend you to consider working with a professional homeopath if you wish long lasting effects.