Posted by bleauberry on March 19, 2011, at 6:14:40
In reply to Adderall, posted by healingmysoul on March 18, 2011, at 19:07:05
Well, I have taken criticism for saying this multiple times in the past years, but it needs to be said.
When there is numbness and/or pain involved, and especially when you've got other bizarre stuff with it such as balance control, this is a clear clue we are not talking about a medication side effect or a psychiatric disorder. What is the first thing that pops to mind when I see those symptoms, especially when the patient has a history of psychiatric care? ...... Lyme....or Lyme-like infections. Unfortunately this is a poorly recognized disease, and in my opinion epidemic. Whatever the annual diagnostic numbers are, my hunch is they are actually about 10 times higher. Most cases are: 1)not suspected, 2)not diagnosed, 3)given a different name (MS, depression, arthritis, etc, since it can mimic all of the mystery diseases), 4)falsely diagnosed negative based on a lab test (high error rates). Many longterm patients never recall being bitten by a tick.
I could be wrong but I do not see Adderall as the culprit here. I would suggest spending a day surfing the web on the topic Lyme because there is a ton to learn. And buy the book Healing Lyme by Stephan buhner. Let's assume you don't have Lyme....all the research and that book will open your eyes wide to things your doctor has not thought of or mentioned...and things you can do to treat and reverse the numbness.
There are at least a dozen different infections very similar to Lyme. It's impossible to test them accurately. We can only make a confident diagnosis by treating as if we did have it, and then seeing what the reaction is. Does a Herxheimer reaction happen? Does nothing happen? Does improvement happen? The answers to these questions tell us what is really going on.
I believe the medical community has it backwards sometimes....make the diagnosis first and then treat it second. Well, with a lot of mystery symptoms, it almost has to be the other way around....treat it first on hunches and clinical evidence, and then make the diagnosis based on what worked. For example if the numbness improved on antibiotics and/or herbs, then you would know for sure your diagnosis was a chronic infection. You may never know exactly what infection, and it doesn't matter, only that whatever it was it was in the nervous system, probably in the brain, damaging cranial nerves, and that you got better.
MS patients have been cured by treating them as if they had Lyme disease, including the disappearance of the brain lesions on MRIs. Stuff like that kind of has to make you stand back and ponder what little we really know about disease.
With symptoms like yours, the top drug that you have to study and try is LDN.
Neuromuscular damage doesn't just happen for no reason....there is some kind of insult going on. Adderall is not that insult. The insult is something else. If I had to make a blind bet right now and pluck down a $100 in the kitty, my bet is....chronic infection responding to the same herbal and medicinal treatments used in Lyme and/or malaria.
Heavy metals deserve mention. Do you have, or ever had, silver fillings in your teeth? If not, disregard this question. If yes, then you need to read the book Amalgam Illness by Phd Andrew Cutler and begin slow low dose chelation after having those fillings removed. The symptoms you described are consistent with both Lyme-like infections as well as heavy metal accumulation. Not consistent with Adderall.
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