Posted by Tomatheus on September 28, 2014, at 23:10:46
In reply to Re: Cyclothymia, agitation/cycling, help (please?) » Tomatheus, posted by Beckett on September 28, 2014, at 17:24:30
Hi Beckett,
Thank you for your post. I'm sorry to hear about the reaction that you had to the valtrex that you took, and I hope that the next step that you will end up taking treatment wise will end up producing better results (and hopefully *much* better results) than the results you got from valtrex. And yes, please feel free to keep posting with updates on how your treatment goes if you feel comfortable doing so, as I'd be interested in reading about how you end up faring with your treatment.
From my perspective, getting your vitamin D level tested seems like it would probably be a good idea. I think that there's some evidence that individuals with clinical depression tend to have lower vitamin D levels than most, although I think that studies that have evaluated vitamin D as a treatment for clinical depression have produced mixed results. And as I've said, I can't say that supplementing with vitamin D3 alone has done a whole lot for my fatigue or any of my other symptoms, but at the same time, I think it's possible that supplementing with the D3 may be helping me respond better to other treatments. I take a liquid version of vitamin D3, Vitamin Shoppe brand.
Other than the Lyme disease and vitamin D tests that I've already mentioned, I had the following tests done when I went to an orthomolecular treatment center last year: heavy metals profile (which tested for lead, arsenic, mercury, and cadmium), comprehensive metabolic panel, CBC (complete blood count), free thyroxine (T4), folate (folic acid), TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone), histamine determination, urinary pyrroles, vitamin B12, ceruloplasmin, copper, zinc, and ferritin. Most of the tests came back with normal results, except my serum glucose from the comprehensive metabolic panel came back slightly high (100 mg/dL), and my white blood cell count came back elevated (11.9 x10E3/uL). The report from the lab that I went to didn't indicate that my level of urinary pyrroles (11 ug/dL) was high, but my level was apparently high enough for the orthomolecular treatment center that I went to to recommend that I take supplements for pyrrole disorder. I've taken zinc and vitamin B6 without lasting positive results, but I do wonder if I might respond better to the supplements now that I've been taking enough vitamin D3 for long enough now that it's probably raised my level of the vitamin.
I'm not entirely sure if I'd be able to order my own test for antibodies to the organism that causes toxoplasmosis. I did previously come across a post on another forum from somebody who ordered his own toxoplasmosis test from a Web site, but when I checked the Web site that he mentioned using, I didn't see the tests for the IgG or IgM antibodies listed. I might be able to order it from elsewhere, though, and that's a possibility that I plan on looking into.
To conclude, I would like to wish you luck with your treatment and with getting some possible answers from any more tests that you may undergo. I don't know if you or your doctors might be interested in having you undergo some of the tests that I mentioned undergoing, but the tests that I went through (or at least some of them) might be worth thinking about. At any rate, I wish you luck, and I really hope that you'll have some good news to share with us Babblers before long.
Tomatheus
Has a psychotic disorder with strong chronic fatigue symptoms
Taking Abilify & vitamins B3, C, & D3
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