Posted by bleauberry on June 2, 2011, at 10:26:09
In reply to Diagnosed Mood disorder NOS, posted by bb154 on June 1, 2011, at 15:26:55
frustrating. i feel like a medical guinea pig.
We are all medical guinea pigs, simply because the medical world cannot adequately explain where depression comes from, what has gone awry, or how drugs work when they do or don't when they don't.
Your symptoms could be from a variety of possibilities which include food choices (reacting badly to something but you don't realize it but it is something you eat all the time), genetic insults or flaws, heavy metal accumulation, other toxin accumulation, chronic low grade unsuspected undiagnosed infection (toxins of these kinds of infections are extremely potent causes of psychiatric symptoms).
The medical community does not make hardly any effort to address causes of depression, anxiety, or racing thoughts. They instead focus merely on lessening the symptoms. That strategy itself is a pure guessing game.
Since zoloft helped somewhat, that is at least one clue to work with. Personally I would suggest adding Nortriptyline to it. But you are already on a path for Pristiq. I doubt Pristiq is going to do what you want, but I've been wrong before and would like to be wrong this time. The class of antipsychotics, to which Abilify belongs, makes sense. In that category however I would strongly favor Zyprexa over any of the others. it is, in my opinion, the first line choice, while all the others are backup second line choices. Zyprexa usually works rapidly for symptoms like yours.
What I don't like about us being medical guinea pigs is that somewhere along the line it completely fences us off from a wide array of medicines the earth has already given us. We get into a closed in rather small box in which only psychiatric pharmaceutical inventions are found. There are many plant medicines that have the potential to help you as much or more than the meds. Right off the bat I would have no problem suggesting a combo of 2 or 3 of:
Lemon Balm
Skullcap
Passionflower
Magnesium
B vitamins with emphasis on Niacinamide and B12.In my Lyme battles I accidentally discovered that the plant Japanese Knotweed pretty much puts an end to all anxiety and racing thoughts. Most people have never heard of it. It has the highest concentration of the miracle supplement Resveratrol. I don't think it directly influences any of the neurotransmitters, but its potent antioxidant activity, brain protection activity, and toxin absorbing activity yields unexpected benefits for psych patients. Assuming many of them probably have other issues they are not aware of, it also impacts many of those issues. I'm not outright suggesting this plant, but rather making a point...plant medicines have much more potential than the average person is aware of. This is not evident in the USA hardly at all, but is on par with pharmaceuticals in places like Germany and China.
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