Posted by yxibow on June 15, 2009, at 2:10:27
In reply to Re: Anxiety or Depression can be Lyme Disease ?, posted by floatingbridge on June 14, 2009, at 15:06:06
I don't know what to say about this other than what I've exhaustively said in the past without trying to hurt other people's feelings.
Viruses have caused mental illness in some less common cases, such as triggers of OCD, which may be triggering genetic OCD, or possibly OCD by itself... that is tricky to say.
Yes, meningitis is real and has obvious psychiatric effects -- its actually more hopeful to have viral. Bacterial while possibly heroically treated is much worse.
I believe the Lyme herxing theories are -very- alternative medicine and belongs in this category on the board.Lyme is somewhat RARE. Annual cases are rather RARE outside of New England and the Mexican/California border and a few other spots.
Other tick diseases are not so rare, like West Nile, which for most everyone nobody even knows they have it.Still, if you want to go walkabout in areas known to harbor West Nile, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and rarely Lyme, put on some 20% picaridin repellent or up to 100% DEET. In the hot sun, wear loose but long sleeve shirts and pants. And of course sunscreen, but that's not relevant to this discussion.
Biaxin for me at least, is terrible psychiatrically and this is a known effect.
I can't imagine taking it for 2 years -- its supposed to be taken for 10 days give or take.
The really long term use of antibiotics is rather questionable, it puts someone at risk for resistive infections.
This is a medical fact, and its like making yourself a farm animal (pardon the slur), because they're often fed with feed filled with over prescribed antibiotics passed on to people, and the resistance too, which in turn requires yet more research into antibiotics, which can't keep up fast enough with the over prescribing globally to all species.
Well that's my 2c-- Jay
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