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Re: Back after hospitalization » bleauberry

Posted by greywolf on March 20, 2009, at 9:13:01

In reply to Re: Back after hospitalization, posted by bleauberry on March 19, 2009, at 17:03:15

Yes, I live in a wooded area with ticks. Never thought of getting tested for Lyme disease. Will check that out with my primary. Thanks for the idea.

Greywolf


> I'm so sorry to hear things are not well at the moment.
>
> I failed 12 sessions of bilateral ECT, so you are not alone.
>
> At one of the websites where patients rate their medicines, one person commented how they had failed every combination known to man including ECT, but when they tried Milnacipran it worked. I also experienced the same thing, beginning before the first week was over, but noticably kicking in by the end of the second week. Pretty darn good for a single med after failing ECT and all kinds of exotic combinations.
>
> If you've done well on Parnate before, maybe this time it just needs the magic missing ingredient. Whether that is Abilify or Ritalin or Klonopin or a TCA or whatever, I don't know.
>
> Have you ever been exposed to an environment where ticks live? You would not by a long shot be the first person with totally disabling untreatable depression that was actually fully engulfed in Lyme disease. This might sound weird, but if there is even the slightest possibility you might have been exposed to ticks at some time in your life, you might want to ask the doc for a blind trial of 500mg Tetracycline once a day or once every other day. That is a very low dose, but a good diagnostic dose. If you feel either a lot better almost right away, followed by worse a couple days later, or if you feel a lot worse right away, then you know without a doubt something is up that has been missed.
>
> Docs have no problem dishing out dozens of powerful brain drugs one after the other, without any tests or confirmation or anything. Pure guesswork. And yet, they want a clearcut diagnosis of Lyme before treating it. Totally absurd. They have zero proof you have low serotonin or any other kind of chemical imbalance. Yet they will blindly try you on something to see if it balances something. It is a clinical diagnosis. Today's lab tests are frequently in error. The best single confirmatory test is a blind trial of an antibiotic, Tetracycline being a good starting point.
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> I only mention this because it is overlooked probably 90% of the time, and never even considered usually. If one of your doctors somewhere along the line did consider Lyme and tested you for it and your test was negative, that was completely totally meaningless. Better take a closer look.
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> My doctor says some of his seriously ill Lyme patients had only depression or only anxiety as their only symptom. Symptoms usually involve pain and fatigue as well. But sometimes just depression. My doc was very bold in stating to me, "I have never had a patient's depression I could not fix." The weird thing is, he does it mostly with antibiotics and not psych drugs. That is how grossly overlooked this stuff is.
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> Maybe a wildshot. Maybe barking up the wrong tree. Dunno. For now, Milnacipran or something along with Parnate. Keep in mind though, that kind of depression that is so unresponsive to powerful stuff, it has a powerful cause. It is not just some fluke or some genetic flaw. There is something much more going on. That's when I think of Lyme or Lyme-like infections. Something with the power of a nuclear bomb. Not many things like that. Hidden microbes can certainly display that kind of power and be totally undetectable the whole while.
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> Hey, when you've failed ECT, it is time for a reality check...re-examine the diagnosis.
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> As a sidenote, the absolute best antidepressants I ever had, better than any psych drug and a world better than ECT, were:
> DMSA...a heavy metal chelator.
> Doxycyline...an antibiotic.
>
> What does that tell you? Come on. Anyone should be able to read between the lines there.


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