Posted by bleauberry on March 1, 2014, at 12:16:02
In reply to Sudden sensitivity to SSRIs/side effects?, posted by Dispossessed on February 27, 2014, at 15:38:13
Lyme disease should be considered. To keep a long story short, your post has some clues in it, but the most striking clue is right in the title. imo Hey, I see what I see. Been there done that. The story you wrote, sounded like mine.
You won't find blood testing helpful, so please do not rely too much on those. They help round out the big picture, but that is all. For example, a negative lyme test does not mean one does not have lyme. A thyroid test in the normal range does not mean that thyroid is operating properly for that person. This is all clinical stuff, not lab stuff. Detective stuff, not academic stuff. Gray stuff, not black and white. Your symptoms are solid gray, nothing black and white in there at all.
If your docs think they ruled out physical causes, I would like to respectfully disagree. The tests needed to accomplish that would be financially prohibitive. Instead we have to narrow them down to what makes sense for the symptoms. For example, you have plenty of symptoms in your post to warrant a Western Blot from Igenex Labs for a Lyme panel with Bartonella and Babesia added on. In my experience, it is Bartonella that causes more psychiatric stuff than the other bugs do. My sensitivities and depression and akathisia and all that crap pretty much melted away on antibiotics.
Anyway, I just wanted to share a perspective maybe you hadn't been exposed to. It is worth thinking about. Only 1 in 10 infected people is diagnosed. 9 go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed.
My Lyme doc last week said he sees a lot of psychiatric patients in his practice and that for the most part that all pretty much resolves with antibiotics. He and another MD I used to see are of the opinion that most psychiatric patients are actually infected.
I think you would do well to start putting together a list of Integrative MDs, or Lyme MDs, or any MDs with a good reputation for creative thinking and customized treatments, so you can get evaluated. Whatever your psychiatric diagnosis is, represents only a piece of the bigger picture. Without even asking, I would guess you have other symptoms that you didn't mention, since they seem unrelated and non psychiatric. Well, they are related.
Sensitivity is an immune system thing. Something screwed it up. What do you think might do that? Infection? Toxins? Metals? All of the above? Any or all.
My 20 years of depression was actually Lyme disease the whole time. It was finally correctly diagnosed at about the time the meds were failing me as you so accurately described in your post. They don't just fail....they fail in a certain way, a certain pattern, not random, it has a look to it. And you described it very well.
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