Posted by greywolf on March 28, 2010, at 7:01:14
In reply to Re: When is it time to give up on all the meds?, posted by bleauberry on March 27, 2010, at 18:57:12
Thanks, bleuberry.
We have gone the toxins/fungus route a couple times over the last 20 years. No such luck.
Because of the concern regarding the varieyt/number of meds I'm on at any given time, I regularly have full blood testing done. Right now it's to make sure there isnt' an artificial sugar elevation, and to keep watch on thyroid and liver functions. But we've looked for infections, toxins, etc., and have found nothing.
Considering that I present classic symptoms of a strong variety in the BP area and OCD, alternative causes are unlikely in any event. I'm out of the norm when it comes to self-injury, but that is an anxiety reaction to the terrible blasphemous thoughts and thoughts of death to family and friends that occur over a 100 times each day, causing time-consuming an anxiety-creating ritual response behaviors.
Toxins and the like will not explain such circumstances.
But I'm glad they found an alternative explanation for you that has made your life better.
Greywolf.
> Opinion...
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> There's something else going on. Staying within the psychiatric toolbox at this point does not make logical sense. There are enough glaring clues to show there is more going on here than a neurotransmitter deficiency or receptor dysfunction or anything like that. We're talking inflammation (where from?0, infection (yeast or lyme or other), and a few other possibilities.
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> From my own experience, I have had a couple things that created the worst depression, or OCD, or paranoia, or anxiety, that no drug could touch. They looked for all the world like classic textbook psychiatric conditions. But they weren't. One was the toxins of candida overwhelming me. The other was the toxins of lyme overwhelming me. The other was the death toxins of killing them. It feels and looks exactly like all the textbook disorders we try to treat, but it isn't them. And thus, no amount of the wrong drug (psychiatric) or electricity (ECT) or any other brain manipulation will do a thing against the presence of those toxins.
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> Just a thought. I speak from personal experience on this and for hundreds of others with the same.
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> No way to prove it, and could be wrong, but my strong hunch is, there is something else going on that you do not suspect.
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> I wish I had some psych suggestions for you. In the midst of the infections that were creating a scenario that looked exactly like the stuff psychiatrists treat, the only three meds I found helpful rather than hurtful were:
> Savella (Milnacipran)
> Parnate
> Amisulpride
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