Posted by bleauberry on June 27, 2018, at 7:00:12
In reply to Let's talk about combing SSRIs and TCAs, posted by TriedEveryMedication on June 21, 2018, at 23:47:33
Just my opinion, but I think all of us here get much better improvement of quality of mood when we start combining anti-inflammatories and antimicrobials with our prescriptions. Several common lyme herbs, for example, do all that and more. Instead of limiting your thinking to making cocktails of prescriptions, start making cocktails with OTC products that address all of the issues you are not currently addressing - all of which cause symptoms like yours.
If you are not specifically targeting systemic inflammation from various angles - not a single drug, single mechanism, or single herb - then you cannot reach your best potential.
If you are not specifically targeting your immune system, to strengthen it, fortify it, and balance it, if you aren't doing that, there is no way you can ever reach your mood goals.
The common Lyme herbs do all this stuff and it really doesn't matter whether you have lyme or not. Inflammation and microbes are a huge part of the psychiatric arena and most of us totally ignore it all. We focus only on mono-amine levels which is extremely limited, finite and incomplete if you ask me.
Examples: Let's say you add a product called Resveratrol and it is made from Polygonum Cupsidatum not from grapes. With that you get strong anti-inflammatory and anti-microbes, in addition to balancing the immune system from being too hot or too cold. It is the 2nd most common herb used to treat Lyme. It also helps to mop up toxins floating around hitting brain receptors. Ok so you start this herb and then a couple month later you say that you have improved maybe 1/2 of 1 point on a 1 to 10 scale. With 10 being the most depressed, and 1 being remission, let's say you go from 8 to 7 1/2 with Resveratrol. You then take a professional multi with all the good co-factors in it and you improve maybe another 1/4 point. so now you are at 7 1/4. You add another herb, maybe Phyto-Biotic which is a combination of three different sources of the chemical Berberine. And 2 months later you are at 6 1/2.
That's not bad! 8 to 6 1/2 with safe, healthy OTC items.
You try some things that don't help. So you don't do those any more. Your bottle runs out and you don't order any more. But then in a few days you realize that herb was doing some good for you, and you have slipped since you stopped it. So you start that one again and you call it a keeper.
Eventually you find the things that make your cocktail. And you know for a fact that every one of them is worth at least a 1/4 point or a 1/2 point for your progress.
I went from about a 9 to about a 2 with antibiotics and herbs. I still take a lot of herbs. I know which ones help me and which are a waste of money.
I'm just saying that as I scan the posts here, I see a whole lot of people putting all of their eggs in one basket. And that is never a good thing.
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