Posted by bleauberry on July 1, 2010, at 16:21:08
In reply to Need AD recommendation, posted by sregan on July 1, 2010, at 10:04:32
Forgot to mention. It is common for people taking ldn to experience a boost in mood along with the increased energy and lessened brain fog. I did. Except for the first 4 hours of the day, my depression was much improved, sociability greatly improved, and anxiety gone. For those that don't, something that has worked is either a tiny dose of an antidepressant...much smaller than the ones you took...or the supplement DLPA,,,25mg to 100mg. Internet doses and suggested doses on the bottle are much higher...ignore those. You'll have to buy some empty gelcaps and make your own doses. If that is a new thing to you, it is a good art to learn. Not hard. Not exact, but doesn't matter. Close enough is fine.
What if someone told you hard to treat depression patients were made well on 1 drop of lexapro. That is preposterous. 1 drop is 1/10th of a milligram. Ridiculous. Well, fact is, it happens in my doctor's office. He usually has to increase to 10 drops or more taken multiple times throughout the day, but the total dose is far below any normal dose. That said, those same patients were taking antibiotics to get to the suspected disease. I say suspected because there is no proof. Do not expect proof. Do not expect any lab test to tell you what is wrong. It won't. You have to go on symptom profile. CFS fits, even more so with depression and difficulty handling antidepressants.
DLPA makes sense based on what happened with wellbutrin and TCA. Not his fault, but your doctor just doesn't know what he is dealing with, and thus the error in dosing too high.
I guess in summary I'm trying to say that while you continue efforts to minimize your actual symptoms, the primary focus should be on the assumption there is an identifiable cause of the whole mess. It takes various blind trials to present clues. Practically everyone who overcame their mystery disease did exactly that, after being failed by multiple specialists and a trunk full of prescriptions.
My Lyme specialist doctor actually stumbled onto being a Lyme expert when he, as a CFS doctor, discovered that a great number of his patients were getting better when they took antibiotics for other unrelated conditions. Two and two started to add up and make sense.
I could be totally off base here. But the realworld evidence of everything I have said is strong enough to take a serious look. There is nothing to lose in any of it, and everything to gain. No potential downside. All the unseen potential is on the upside.
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