Posted by bleauberry on September 13, 2009, at 17:53:15
In reply to Side effects that last 4+ months from 2 pills, posted by Lizzle on September 10, 2009, at 21:44:16
This is such a mysterious disturbing phenomenon. I came up with these possibilities. As the only genius psychiatrist I ever had told me, "with these meds, anything is possible, good or bad".
1. What has happened was going to happen anyway. It was just coincidentally timed with the meds.
2. There was a predisposed condition that the meds triggered.
3. Genes can be turned up or down, on or off, with various meds. Sometimes maybe they never return to where they were. All it takes is a single dose to give a gene new instructions and maybe it becomes stuck there.
4. There is something else going on, which goes full circle back to #2 above.
I am fairly confident in assuming these points:
1. The receptors themselves did not change in that short exposure.
2. There is something else biochemically going on that is non-psychiatric. The possibilities are many, but include things like amalgam fillings, infectious organisms (unsuspected virus, Lyme, other bacteria, Candida), and unsuspected food intolerances.
3. The meds themselves did not do the harm, but obviously appeared to be the guilty ones. They were merely the triggers that alerted you to something else going on.
One of the best explanations I know of when there is sensitivity to meds or unusual reactions is a confused immune system.
I know all this isn't readily helpful, but will hopefully open up some new thought patterns in planning future health care. I think it would be wise to add an Integrative MD to your team to help navigate these things. If I had to place my own money on a bet in this case, I would confidentally do so in betting there is something nonpsychiatric at play here. It only looks psychiatric from the outside and is deceiving that way.
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