Posted by SLS on March 24, 2018, at 8:37:11
In reply to Lyme disease - a neuropsychiatric disease, posted by bleauberry on March 24, 2018, at 6:38:54
Bleauberry, you wrote,
"In my opinion, all psychiatric patients should do a 3 month trial of Cordyceps mushroom - the dose is 6000mg and up."
Dr. Bransfield has not yet begun to follow your protocol. I'll ask him the next time I see him as to why not. He will, on certain patients, utilize doxycycline based on clinical presentation and not biological tests... just in case Lyme or some other tick-borne disease is involved. It was the first thing he added to my regime while we began to formulate a plan for the use of psychiatric medications. It was interesting that 3 months of doxycycline had no effect on my disease state while minocycline improved my depression within 3 days. How would you explain this? Anti-bacterial (inhibit protein synthesis)? Intrinsic anti-inflammatory activity in the brain (microglia)? Glutamatergic activity modulation (glutamate release)? The two drugs are not the same. Two people aren't the same. I definitely wouldn't generalize that minocycline is just another tetracycline class antibiotic. If doxycycline doesn't help, minocycline might.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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