AFTER YEARS OF EYE INFECTIONS I’VE GOT MY HEALTH BACK

LUCY WERNER, 35, who works in public relations, has been using homeopathy to treat anxiety as well as recurrent eye infections. She lives with her partner Hadrien, 33, a creative director, and their son, Rafael, one. She says: EVEN if homeopathy is just the placebo effect, I don’t care. In my early 20s I saw a homeopath about recurrent eye infections because I was getting four or five a year — and each time one developed, I had to go to hospital in London for antibiotic treatment. I’d also need a week off work because my eye was so red, sore and sensitive to daylight, and it would be another week after that before it had fully healed.

I’d first tried homeopathy a few years earlier. My housemate was training to be a homeopath and needed case studies.

Since university, I had suffered from anxiety and a racing heart and took betablockers, prescribed by my GP, but the symptoms never really improved.

So I thought I’d try something different. During the one-hour session, I talked

through my stresses and the homeopath gave me remedies not specifically for anxiety but rather to get my energy levels in balance.

The second time around, as well as an energy-rebalancing remedy in the form of a pill, the homeopath encouraged me not to take any medicines for the eye infections to allow my body to get rid of it naturally.

It was a big leap of faith and the first two days were horrible, but by day three the infection had passed. Normally it would take almost two weeks to clear.

These days I see a homeopath privately, at a cost of around €50 an hour, two or three times a year and get a tailored course of treatment each time.

Now, I get an eye infection every few years instead of months. What’s more, the inflammation is never as bad and the infection cures itself more quickly.