Posted by yxibow on October 29, 2008, at 0:34:47
In reply to Re: Low white blood cell counts due to meds? » yxibow, posted by Phillipa on October 29, 2008, at 0:14:24
> Jay high white count bacteria low virus like autoimmune or Hiv. Fibromyalgia is now recognized. Must have 4 trigger points just passed my CEUS in fibromyalgia. A guess on my part as I think there is a total of ll trigger points. Didn't know it flaired. Must read the abstract again. Love Phillipa
Not just autoimmune or HIV, there are like 60 corona or rhinoviruses out there.
I didn't say it isn't recognized as a disorder, I said it still isn't understood. I think you missed my point -- cancer, autism, even all the mental illnesses that people have on this board are probably recognized, but that doesn't mean there are "cures" or even the best palleatives for them.
Treatments vary a lot and sometimes there aren't the best ones. Despite being in the 21st century, on some conditions we are still in the middle ages of psychiatry and medicine.
Why do I still have a high D2 and all sorts of visual and auditory and bodily complaints?
There's no "cure" for my disorder and its frustrating since I've never met someone with so many things that I feel basically all alone.
I hate to say it because it sounds nasty but "simple" dysthymia has many more palleatives than what I'm experiencing. I'd give anything to have some of the "simple" disorders I had in the past. But that's also rosy lenses.
And one has to look at the fact that for a lot of things there are palleatives, not cures.
Maybe that Augmentin that you took for a serious upper respiratory infection or skin infection "cured" the bacteria that was affecting you (assuming that it wasn't a virus in the first place, usually not bothered to be tested but recognized by a variety of presenting symptoms)
...but basically these single or multi-drug regimens for mental illness take the edge off of things and allow people to go on with their lives, for a period of time that can't be predicted. Because almost all the time they're biological illnesses.
Now some people may have PTSD or have depressive reactions to a secondary disorder or a calamitous event, or cancer e.g. and are carefully placed on medication to help with that and not mess up their chemotherapy -- those are different.
But in general, if you remove the medicine for something that doesn't have a "cure" yet, just like (an extreme example), if you remove drug cocktails for HIV, you have a real problem again. (Yes, there are theories about drug holidays and prolonging retrovirals, but that's aside the point).-- tidings
Jay
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