Posted by SLS on March 18, 2012, at 7:24:23
In reply to anti biotic treatment for neg symptoms and cogniti, posted by Jeroen on March 18, 2012, at 5:22:56
Hi Jeroen.
> Hi, i know a doctor prescribing an anti biotic for anti biotic treatment for neg symptoms and cognitive symptoms
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> maybe i should do it too, i dont remember the name, i will post it here soon
Perhaps the drug they are talking about is an antibiotic with additional anti-inflammatory properties. Doxycycline and minocycline come to mine. They might help address an imbalance between the GABA and glutamate systems. You probably know more about this imbalance than I do. I guess that's why your doctors are playing with glycine. They are attempting to dampen overactive glutamate neurons.Minocycline and doxycyline are both pretty clean drugs as they don't have too many side effects. I tried doxycycline for depression. It didn't work, but it didn't hurt. I stayed on it for a number of months. It takes awhile for it to work. You might feel worse initially. My doctor thinks that this is a good sign. I would be reluctant to say that this is the result of a microbial die-off as might some others. The immune system, which is responsible for inflammation, is complex, and modulating it is difficult. Perhaps there is an autoimmune component to schizophrenia. The other possibility is that schizophrenia is auto-aggressive in that the illness feeds off itself to become progressively worse.
I rambled a bit. Sorry. The bottom line is that minocycline and doxycycline represent valid treatments for schizophrenia. I preferred doxycycline, as I read that it was more potent than minocycline as a brain anti-inflammatory.
I am very interested to know what your doctors had in mind.
- 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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