Posted by bleauberry on July 1, 2010, at 5:20:11
In reply to Started Antibiotic and mood crash - Help!!, posted by RocketMan on June 29, 2010, at 17:06:52
Well, let me just put a few things out there and anyone can put two and two together as they wish, or not.
A history of psychiatric treatment, especially the kind that is frustrating enough that someone ends up at psychobabble, is almost universal among people who have an unsuspected chronic infection.
Minocycline is able to penetrate cells to get bacteria that live within our own cells, hidden from lab tests and hidden from the immune system.
When bacteria are killed in mass, the body is overwhelmed with their toxins and body parts, clogging up receptors, contaminating serotonin and dopamine, acting as artificial contaminated endorphins at our opioid receptors (molecular structure of the toxins very similar to endorphins), and all kinds of bizarre biological things.
It is no surprise that those who suffer depression during an antibiotic treatment had depression as a pre-existing condition. Normal healthy people without a hidden infection can expect some nausea, decrease of appetite, diarrhea or constipation, and that's about it.
A Herxheimer reaction is the worsening of problems and symptoms when the bacteria die in mass. A common starting point for it is about the 3 to 4 day mark.
There are about a dozen bacteria I am aware of that are intracellular and cause a wide range of so-called diseases...depression, schizophrenia, MS, lupus, anxiety, etc. Lyme is just one of them.
In any case, Mino is wide spectrum and can target many of them due to its ability to be intracellular where most other antibiotics are not.
Depression is probably the most common universal complaint among those with unsuspected chronic infections. Garden variety psychiatric treatments obviously fall short because they are not coming close to addressing the real biological malfunctions that are happening.
Most lab tests are unreliable with false negatives. Tests for some of these infections don't even exist. The only true test is a blind challenge test of an antibiotic to see what happens. A herxheimer reaction is the strongest diagnostic tool there is.
Most people who have long histories of bizarre symptoms or just depression who went on to be cured did so by accidental discovery.
My own opinion is that the reaction to Mino is trying to tell you something. It is not a side effect.
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