Let me respond step by step what happened in my opinion (disagree with me if you want):
Originally posted by Barbrae
I want you to understand something. I didn't come tohomeopatyhy believing it would work, it was out of desperation after trying conventional medicine for a long time with no results.
You may have been hoping. Perhaps you were grasping at straws, desperate to see results, who knows?
When I started using homeopathy I would sometimes get an effect, other times not.
Which seems consistent with the usual erratic pattern with which deseases heal all by themselves. One would expect that if something can cure, it can cure every time, not intermittently.
It was quite awhile where I was saying that it was certainly possible that the times I got results were coincidence or placebo efffect ( though it would have been nice to have the placebo effect act when I was one one of the bazillion different meds I was on before).
A bazillion different meds all acting together might also have been a cause why things didn't seem to improve. Stopping (or reducing) the meds might, in itself, already have been part of the reason you felt better. Or perhaps the placebo effect worked in the opposite direction at times (what's it called again), and you expected to feel worse when not taking your regular meds, and you did. Perhaps you had some withdrawal symptoms too, which might explain why you would feel better intermittently, but worse again later on.
This was the way it was for me for a long time. I didn't just one day take a remedy and started seeing stars and hearing angels proclaim it's effectiveness.
Which is what one would expect if it really was the body healing itself the natural way. If you had used a miracle cure, you
would have had immediate results ...
But after awhile the coincidences seem to many to just be occuring randomly.
Or you only remembered the coincidences, and forgot or dismissed the occasions when nothing happened. Also, considering the time-span homeopathic effects are suggested to sometimes need to effect a cure, cause and effect might be mistakenly assumed between treatment and improvement
The placebo effect is possible but when I would treat my bbaby and she almost immediately get better and this occured often enough you begin to doubt that too.
Placebo effect is known to work best on third parties, especially pets and non communicating children, since
YOU are the one interpreting their condition, and using your own bias to see improvement where there might be none, or miss deterioration of the illness. Basically, the cat or the baby can't tell you they're feeling worse, even if they don't look it.
I just want you to understand that my strongly held "faith" in homeopathy didn't happen overnight, even after I was seeing results. It took awhile.
Granted, and nobody suggested you did change your mind overnight, but we're still interested to find out just how blind your faith really is (or isn't), and if you will insist that what happened could have been nothing else but homeopathy.
Just like it becomes apparent with all the scientific trials, that the miracle cures disappear when the remedies are tested more objectively, so I believe they will also disappear when people examine what they consider to be miracle cures more closely.
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