Posted by bleauberry on March 30, 2018, at 6:24:03
In reply to HHV 6 Infection treatment for mental Illness?!, posted by Prefect on March 27, 2018, at 19:13:32
Well, all I can tell you is that I had 20+ years of treatment resistant depression, bipolar depression, schizo-affective, anxiety, so many diagnosis, so many psychiatrists, over $100,000 spent, failed backpacks full of prescription meds, failed ECT - after all that, all I can tell you is that all of it went 99% gone with antibiotic treatment.
Lyme = bacteria in the brain. So it should not be a surprise that nearly every lyme patient has psychiatric symptoms. Or that 9 out of 10 psychiatric patients improve more with antibiotic meds and herbs than they do with psychiatric meds.
I am obviously using a broad generalized brush but you get the point. It actually isn't as broad as it seems. It's just that the lack of awareness and knowledge on the topic is woefully low amongst most mainstream clinicians.
So while I consider myself an expert on bacterial links to psychiatry, I am not well schooled on the viral angle. However, I think common sense and logic can be employed to extrapolate the likelihood viruses in the brain are just as bad as bacteria in the brain.
I doubt that anti-viral treatment alone will get you to the goal line. Longterm Lyme patients usually require more than just antibiotics to get well.
There is an inflammation component which is crucial to treat if you want to truly see improvements. There is an anti-toxin component with all infections, or else you won't get better.
Even though the doc has determined you have a virus, I think you would gain immense knowledge and confidence if you read the book 'Healing Lyme' by Stephen Buhner. You will clearly see the direct link between stealth infections and psychiatry in that book.
There is actually no way the doctor can accurately pinpoint that you have a viral infection causing psychiatric symptoms. The doctors who got me well said something like this, "We will employ strategies that get people well but we may never know the exact bug that made you sick".
In stealth infections such as Lyme or HIV and others, a healthy immune system can be made into unhealthy, confused, too weak in some ways and too strong in other ways. In this scenario, friendly bacteria, fungi and viruses can become enemies. So we likely have more issues going on that just that one virus the doc is thinking of.
It would actually make a lot more sense to assume you have an unsuspected case of misdiagnosed Lyme, since 9 out of 10 tick born diseases are misdiagnosed as something else - usually psychiatric, fibromyalgia, or chronic fatigue syndrome, or all.
It really doesn't matter. What does matter is that the treatment involves 4 things:
1. Wide spectrum antimicrobials from multiple angles.
2. Wide spectrum anti-inflammations from multiple angles.
3. Anti-toxin strategies.
4. Time (it took me 3 years to go from suicidal basket cases to remission on antibibiotcis and herbs, with hardly any improvement at all seen in the first year) (it is a totally different game)Whether I agree or disagree with your doc doesn't matter. What does matter is that he is viewing a strategy that has the potential to lead to a cure or long-lasting enduring improvement. Psychiatry by itself really doesn't do that. Psychiatry is more like support, relief of acute symptoms, relief of short term symptoms, assistance with daily tasks. But it is not designed to end disease or infection.
Your doc sounds like he wants to take you to a higher level than merely acute symptoms and that is a great thing!
> My doctos says I have an active HHV 6 infection that may be causing my neuropsychiatric illness. I don't have the classic body symptoms of such an infection but he wants to put me on long term antivirals for treatment of my mental stuff. Sounds a little wacky to me.
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> Any thoughts on this?
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