Posted by bleauberry on February 18, 2012, at 14:42:58
In reply to Re: Best Antidepressant/Antianxiety of 2012 » bleauberry, posted by Conundrum on February 17, 2012, at 13:53:44
Excellent question. There are risks with all drugs including doxy. There is also a fairly significant risk with taking regular tylenol. Lots of risk with all our psych meds. I mean, like everything, it is a trade off....perceived risk versus perceived benefit.
To me the risk is acceptable because the simple fact of the matter is....well said by a doctor.....the risk of not taking it is higher than the risk of taking it. In other words, allowing a problem to go overlooked destroys the person's life more than a drug does. That doesn't mean indiscriminate use of antibiotics. It means when the patient has demonstrated a favorable response to a short trial of one, that is maybe the strongest factor in a clinical diagnosis, for example in lyme disease or similar lyme spectrum diseases. There is no way anyone would know if they had something wrong or if ABX would be good for them without a trial. Many doctors have a hard time with that because it is in the gray area, not the cozy black and white world they prefer. And that keeps people like you and me sick. Just what I've seen anyway.
I happen to be in the camp that is convinced these types of occult infections are far more than we know. They have similar symptoms....depression and other psychiatric issues; fibromyalgia-like presentation; chronic fatigue type presentation; other bizarre unexplained stuff presentation. My lyme doctor said some infected patients of unknown pathogen present with just depression. They often got better on ABX. And in most cases never knew what the pathogen was.
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