Posted by bleauberry on November 23, 2011, at 15:04:01
In reply to i feel like i'm losing my mind, posted by markwell on November 18, 2011, at 15:02:52
Well, you know it's either the nac or the tegretol. It could be the one you most suspect or the one you least suspect.
NAC at that dose is going to stir up a lot of fat stored stuff, if there is any, such as lead and mercury. But it doesn't do the complete job of safely escorting it out the body, so it results in re-poisoning. This is more common with people who have/had amalgam fillings, but we may have accumulated more toxins than we can handle along the way because some peoples' detox genes are not up to par. And if that were the case, no mystery the psychiatric symptoms, and no mystery bizarre stuff happening on nac. I'm just thinking out loud.
NAC is involved in so many complex reactions we don't have a clue as to but maybe a smidgen of all the stuff it actually does. How do we know that it isn't somehow creating a friendly and encouraging environment for adrenalin? And the resulting anxiety? Again, not sayin anything really, just thinking out loud.
Tegretol and all the psych meds for that matter, well, these things work in complex ways we only partially understand....and even what we do understand is not good enough knowledge to use it as prediction of whether it will work on a particular symptom most of the time with most people. Whatever bizarre stuff happens that we didn't expect, well, it all happened in the clinical trials too. Ya know,the 1% and the 5% crowd. "But I though that only happened to other people". Anyway, what could tegretol be doing to cause your problems? I have no clue. Maybe it's not causing any. It's either the nac or the tegretol though.
I'm not sure what I would do in your shoes other than immediate plans to begin lowering doses one at a time to test.
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