Posted by bleauberry on March 27, 2010, at 18:57:12
In reply to When is it time to give up on all the meds?, posted by greywolf on March 26, 2010, at 1:13:11
Opinion...
There's something else going on. Staying within the psychiatric toolbox at this point does not make logical sense. There are enough glaring clues to show there is more going on here than a neurotransmitter deficiency or receptor dysfunction or anything like that. We're talking inflammation (where from?0, infection (yeast or lyme or other), and a few other possibilities.
From my own experience, I have had a couple things that created the worst depression, or OCD, or paranoia, or anxiety, that no drug could touch. They looked for all the world like classic textbook psychiatric conditions. But they weren't. One was the toxins of candida overwhelming me. The other was the toxins of lyme overwhelming me. The other was the death toxins of killing them. It feels and looks exactly like all the textbook disorders we try to treat, but it isn't them. And thus, no amount of the wrong drug (psychiatric) or electricity (ECT) or any other brain manipulation will do a thing against the presence of those toxins.
Just a thought. I speak from personal experience on this and for hundreds of others with the same.
No way to prove it, and could be wrong, but my strong hunch is, there is something else going on that you do not suspect.
I wish I had some psych suggestions for you. In the midst of the infections that were creating a scenario that looked exactly like the stuff psychiatrists treat, the only three meds I found helpful rather than hurtful were:
Savella (Milnacipran)
Parnate
Amisulpride
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