Posted by bleauberry on January 9, 2014, at 17:18:14
In reply to Re: will seroquel kick in again after viruses have bee, posted by Jeroen on January 8, 2014, at 6:51:55
Hey Jereon, sorry bro! Had a doc appointment today. Looks like I'm gonna get a trial of ultra low dose cortef. Cool. I have instinctively and academically been convinced that is the missing link in my case, so I'm looking forward to that experiment which will hopefully turn out helpful.
Anyway, this is fairly new stuff for you Jereon, and actually anyone else here who has not had exposure to my points of views. So I just wanted to talk about the actual bugs for a second.
They have had thousands of years to develop cunning and sometimes absolutely ingenius ways of evading the immune system, tricking the immune system, hiding in cysts made of our own flesh so our immune can't see them, dwelling in places where antibiotics cannot reach. It is quite fascinating actually how these things without many genes are so clever. It takes time, months, to kill enough of them to make a difference in how you feel.
Much of the time your antibiotic isn't even doing anything. That's because the bugs can go into dormancy when they are under attack. Or, commonly a life cycle might involve 3 weeks of inactivity/hiding followed by 1 week of breeding. They have to come out sooner or later, and when they do, that's why you need to constantly be on the antibiotic. That's when you will get them. Or a pulsing strategy is cool....allow 36 hours to go by without any meds, they will sense safety and come out of hiding, and then take your dose. Wham. The survivors will quickly go back to defense, but you got a bunch of them. It's like that. It's a war.
If you are thinking you are going to get well with a short course of mino, I don't want to be the one to deliver you the bad news, but, I think you know what I mean.
In psychiatry we think in terms of weeks, days, hours. But to truly authentically eradicate a disease to make the symptoms go away, or find ways to support the body strongly enough that it can fight off whatever the problem is, we are talking months at a minimum, likely a couple years.
The flip side is psych drugs forever and you already know where that road goes.
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