Posted by bleauberry on August 22, 2017, at 8:33:23
In reply to Chronic Resistant Major Depression Is Curable, posted by bleauberry on August 22, 2017, at 8:21:39
Vitamin D is often very low in stealth unsuspected infections impacting mood. This in turn weakens the immune system and brings on bone and muscle problems. A lab test for Vitamin D is cheap, easy, and a decent clue.
In my case outdoors in the sun a lot. So I should have had ample vitamin D. I also took a multivitamin that had 100% RDA of vitamin D in it. And yet my vitamin D was only 25% of normal. ???
This is a common clue something is really wrong, something you hadn't thought about.
Another one is CD57. This is cheap and easy to test. It is an immune system marker. It is often low or out of range in stealth unsuspected infections. If this is not within normal range, something you hadn't considered is going on.
And there are at least a dozen other similar tests not known by most psychiatrists.
To show your doctor what these tests are and how they apply to your depression, get the book WHY CANT I GET BETTER. This is a very in-depth scientific medical book written to help people get better who aren't getting better. The approaches are basically what I wrote about in the post above, but the testing strategies are really helpful to make sense of what is actually happening. The other common tests such as thyroid, routine blood, serotonin levels, whatever, these are all fairly useless. Say for example your thyroid comes back out of range. Well, ok. What sent it out range? That's the important question if you really want to get better. And how can we test things to gather clues? That's what this book does.
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