Posted by bleauberry on November 30, 2009, at 18:15:58
In reply to Pristiq + Gastritis, posted by SheilaC on November 30, 2009, at 9:57:08
Though it sounds strange to us Americans who view medicine in such a scientific way, most of the rest of the world recognizes that all health and all illness begins in the digestive system. What goes wrong there directly impacts everything else.
With that in mind, I am just famboozled by how ignorant doctors are of basic fundamental digestive care...especially when we are subjecting our digestive tissues to powerful foreign chemicals.
I am fairly confident you would be able to stay on Pritiq without digestive problems. It would involve:
1. High potency high quality (refrigerated type) probiotic several times a day.
2. Yogurt, preferably natural and nonsweetened, everyday.
3. Very low consumption of sugar of any kind.
4. A diet that emphasizes primarily veggies raw or slightly cooked, and fruits, with modest amounts of proteins and carbs (non-starchy preferred).
5. No junk. If the ingredient label has words you can't pronounce or don't know what it is, don't buy it, and certainly don't eat it.
6. Natural as much as possible...no antibiotic or hormone meats and no pesticide veggies/fruits.
7. Extremely important...lots of water...purified.No matter what Pristiq is doing to cause the problems...killing good bacteria, giving yeast a fertile opportunistic breeding ground, causing stomach leaching, whatever...the above routines will go a long way to giving your system the power to stay healthy under adverse circumstances.
You really should get to know herbals too. There are specific herbs that can prevent the problems of stomach bleeding, herbs to line the digestive tissues with protective coatings, and herbs to sooth a troubled environment. Three or four stand out as quite respectable with literally hundreds of clinical studies backing them up.
So maybe you can't take Pristiq and live the way you've always lived. I find it strange that we all are guilty of thinking we can continue to live however we have in the past and have some chemical pill change everything for the better without changing anything else. I don't care what anyone else says, our intestines were not designed to handle the kinds of abuse we throw at them.
Healing of anything starts in the gut. I do believe the trauma Pristiq is doing down there can be countered.
Don't count on a psychiatrist or a doctor to help you with these things though. All they know is what the pharm reps tell them or what they read in their monthly journals, which is but a sliver of the wide spectrum of issues involved in whole-body health.
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