The Case When Harpreet Kaur came to MindHeal Homoepathy, she wasn’t her usual self. Her face was awfully swollen; her left eyelid was so badly swollen, it could barely open; and she suffered crushing migraines. This 48-year-old school teacher said her face began to swell two years ago, when she underwent menopause. Her other symptoms, which included hypertension and sleeplessness, also intensified at the time. Assessment Harpreet had undergone several diagnostic tests over the years but they had all come back negative. There seemed no apparent reason for the swelling on her face. Yet she harboured a deep-seated fear of developing cancer, despite no family history of the disease and no signs or symptoms in herself. She said it was because her facial swelling had persisted for so long. Despite her fears — she only revealed her dread of cancer — Harpreet said she had no real worries. She connected her symptoms to menopause and had consulted with many allopathic doctors, who were baffled by her case. As a last resort, one of these allopathic specialists had recommended steroid-based medication. These drugs had apparently helped initially but later proved ineffective. She was a calm and cool person and nothing really ruffled her. Oddly enough, this was the key to her facial oedema — regardless of what they were, she habitually suppressed her feelings. Why, by her own admission, even her mother’s death had not consciously impacted her even though she was very close to her …
