Posted by bleauberry on October 10, 2008, at 19:47:55
In reply to Strange reactions to drugs/medicines/supplements, posted by Extreme on October 8, 2008, at 16:20:40
I had some longlasting clusters of dormant boils on my buttocks. Antibiotics, hydrocortisone, and stuff, all useless. Nothing worked.
At one time I tried 5htp for my depression. In the end it didn't help much except make me kind of numb like ssris do, and totally killed sex even worse than ssris do. But, and it was kind of amazing, within 24 hours of the first dose those boils had shrunk about 50% in size. By the end of 2 weeks they were practically gone. No powerful drug could touch them, but a little 5htp dust worked incredible.
My explanation? Gosh. All I know is that the immune system, the hormone system, and our neurotransmitters are all tied together. We often tend to compartmentalize these different systems, as if they were completely separate from each other. But they aren't. They are all tied together. We cannot impact one area without indirectly impacting all others. I mean, what dermatologist in the world would have guessed that serotonin could kill those staph germs when the best antibiotics couldn't?
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