Posted by bleauberry on September 28, 2009, at 17:05:02
In reply to SSRI's and body weakness, posted by viper1431 on September 27, 2009, at 23:40:44
In the USA we have what are called Integrative MDs. They are full fledged medical doctors who have also been studied and licensed in natural treatments of diseases, as well as schooled on a wide variety of lab tests unknown to mainstream doctors. I am wondering, do you have Integrative MDs in your country? I'm pretty sure you do. It would be worth looking. They can find and identify things that would baffle your regular doctor forever.
Another thought crossed my mind that you may not be able to do psychiatric meds for whatever unknown reason. It is possible. It happens. They are very limited meds in what they do and they may not be doing much for your problem but may be doing a lot to worsen some other unseen problem.
Do you have ticks in Australia? I think you do? Your symptoms and your unusual intolerances of low doses raise a yellow flag. I catch a ton of heat for this topic here, but I know a ton about it. Some quirky symptoms that look baffling just jump off the page when you know what to look for.
Most antidepressants shut down norepinephrine firing, at least temporarily and sometimes permanently. If your biochemistry is unable for some reason to adapt to that, fatigue would be an obvious outcome. Low adrenal function is a likely first stop in hunt.
I mentioned the Integrative MDs because you would want to be tested for cortisol (4 saliva samples in a day in order to see the entire curve over a 24 hour period). Any other cortisol tests are worthless, as they only tell you if your adrenals are dead or alive. Would you want a heart test that only says your heart is dead or alive at the moment you take a single test? This would identify adrenal hypofunction commonly called adrenal fatigue. The primary symptoms are weakness, fatigue, and depression, worsened by a wide variety of meds and supplements.
If the adrenals are weak, thyroid is too, regardless of what your blood tests say. Those numbers are a very broad scale...people who are actually hypothyroid may appear normal on a test and yet have their symptoms resolve completely with thyroid treatment.
If you have ever had any exposure to ticks, that opens a whole new chapter that is a possible explanation of your entire journey since day 1.
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