Posted by jjjaspar on December 12, 2010, at 11:39:26
In reply to Re: What's Your Magic Pill? » Phillipa, posted by ace on December 5, 2010, at 23:37:26
Some people do find their own specific "magic pill." One psychiatrist I know called it a person's own "Lorenzo's Oil" because sometimes it isn't even a pill but rather a combination of things, usually based on finding that person's own underlying causes of illness and addressing them all - sleep, trauma, hormones, emotions, diet. Lucky is the person who can have one pill with no side-effects thus works like "magic" but usually it is a combination of things - possibly not even in pill form - and if there are no side-effects the result is simply health. But just about everything other than sleep hygiene, therapy, and diet changes result in side-effects and thus is not in the "magic" category.
I do however know people who found their solution with no side-effects. Usually it is something very simple in the end, like thyroid med switch or an allergy issue. Some a bit more complicated - perhaps nutritionally. Some found it in micronutrients. For the rest. . . ah well.
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