Posted by bleauberry on September 24, 2008, at 20:14:20
In reply to Re: Best SSRI for post-steroid HPA((Bleauberry)), posted by nuala on September 24, 2008, at 17:30:09
It is interesting to see the different cultures at different forums. At Yahoo forums specializing in things like thyroid, adrenal, and metal toxicity, it is almost unheard of to take prescription meds. All the focus is on the correct supplements. Medications are a last resort and almost taboo. Here at pbabble it is the opposite. Here all the focus is on meds with hardly any real attention paid to supplementing the body with what it needs.
It is almost as if people think it is either one or the other, where I think it should be equal amounts of both. I know a lady in town for example that has found good stability with a combo of 50mg amitriptyline (a decent replacement for seroquel, by the way), low dose Isocort, siberian ginseng, and astragalus.
Might want to take a good look at licorice, siberian ginseng, and astragalus, in addition to your chosen medication. Maybe a tiny wee bit of armour thyroid too. Support the adrenals and thyroid and less meds would probably be needed. With the severe reactions you've had though, might be wise to keep all doses of meds and supplements on the extremely low side to start and gently increase over an extended period of time. From what I understand at other forums where people know a ton about this stuff, adrenals and thyroid treatments need to stay at a particular dose for a long time, like a month, before making any changes, and all changes including the starting dose should be in very small increments. People seem to suffer huge when they don't follow those guidelines, and people seem to do a lot better when they do.
Sure wish you felt better. I hope that scary adrenaline stuff is behind you. I've had that happen a lot too and it is worse than hell. Still happens sometimes. I hate it. Comes with the territory whenever mercury and lead are involved.
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