Posted by bleauberry on June 5, 2009, at 19:43:05
In reply to Re: stimulant recommendation, posted by g_g_g_unit on June 5, 2009, at 7:02:07
If you want to know how to diagnose a yeast problem, a Lyme problem, a bacterial problem, a parasite problem, a heavy metal problem, or a viral problem, it is actually fairly easy and cheap and you do not need a lab or a doctor or a naturupath to do it. A positive diagnosis is stunningly obvious. Too much info for this short post, but if you are interested in learning more, let me know.
My mention of provigil was simply based on the experience of others over the years here, at askapatient.com, revolutionhealth.com, and various forums that deal with Lyme, yeast, and mercury chelation, where brain fog and every psychiatric label you can name happen to be a universal problem in all of them. Any stimulant could help, but for some reason provigil is the one most people do best with. It is a more friendly more forgiving stimulant and it does more than wakefulness.
But inevitably, brain fog doesn't need a counter-balance medication to push against it when the underlying cause of it is removed.
If a stimulant worsens the OCD, that is yet another bingo in the diagnosis of a hidden infection.
You mentioned inflammation. I would not take that lightly. That is a serious clue. Inflammation doesn't just happen for some mysterious reason. It is the body's natural defense mechanism when it is under attack from something. It was the combination of the two words "brainfog" and "inflammation" that painted a pretty clear picture to me.
I don't know you, your history, your entire symtom presentation, and I can't see you, so obviously I am not venturing a diagnosis. I am merely trying to say what is very likely. More likely than you think. And I realize it is new stuff that you don't know much about. That's ok. The more you learn, the more progress you can make.
If I could go back and do it all again, knowing what I know today, and be a doctor, my first priority would be to immediately get the patient feeling better so they can get on with their lives, jobs, hobbies, and families. But the second priority, and actually the biggest most important priority, would be to eliminate the cause of their symptoms. Unfortunately, our doctors and most of us here do not do that. And we are still medicated and still sick decades later.
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