Posted by SLS on January 11, 2014, at 19:50:48
In reply to Re: minocycline » SLS, posted by johnLA on January 11, 2014, at 18:43:50
> i'd like to ask a question or two to you scott;
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> that maybe, just maybe, YOU are on the wrong path to getting well?
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> you have been ill for decades. looking to psychiatry for answers. i'm not attacking you. but, wondering if you got away from the 'science' of psychiatry and try another approach you might get where you want to?
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> 'a man see's only what he wants to see and disregard's the rest.'
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> john
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Thanks, John. I am doing very much better for having tweaked my dosage of Parnate. I have been improved for two years. I want more, though, and I want it quicker. I am still looking for an adjunct treatment to bring me all the way to remission. I am looking at two APs and deep rTMS.You really don't know my history, of course, but I have tried a bunch of things that lie outside the purview of mainstream psychiatry. The food allergy rotation diet was a real pain in the butt. Do you remember Stuart M. Berger? His food allergy stuff was very popular in the 1980s. Herbs, chiropractic, exercise, hypoglycemia, thyroid (Wilson's), vitamins and other supplements, antimicrobials, etc.
I would say that I am 40-45% improved, and the trend is towards further improvement. I haven't hit a plateau yet, although it is something I worry about. I will have a few "off" days in a row, followed by a surge of improvement. My doctors at the NIH observed that this was common for people with severe TRD. Robert Post likened the pattern of improvement to saw-teeth. Up, down, up more, down less, up more even more, etc. This is in contrast to a staircase pattern where there is no true worsening of depression along the way.
Anyway, thanks again. It is good that you prompted me to give an update and a brief accounting of my attempts to treat my illness using alternative methods.
How are you doing?
- ScottSome 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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