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Posted by amyw on April 4, 2002, at 12:32:31
For the last few years, my son has been battling various problems including depression, OCD, anxiety, and ADD. He is doing a lot better, but I noticed something that I always thought was my imagination and recently read a NAMI newsletter that intrigued me. There were times that my son was ill that he looked so awful and sick, that he would take 10 days of antibiotics. We always found that he got better, his symptoms greatly decreased, his energy increased, and his meds worked better. I had asked psychiatrists if there
was somehow a relationship between some type of brain symptoms and antibiotics and was always told that there wasn't or if there was, it was only that the antibiotics increased the zoloft level.
Yesterday, in the NAMI newsletter, there was an article about children and an autoimmune disorder caused by a low level strep infection. I found thais totally fascinating and would like to know if anyone else has noticed a connection betweem antibiotics and "brain symptoms".
Posted by CtrlAlt n Del on April 4, 2002, at 13:30:55
In reply to antibiotics and brain symptoms, posted by amyw on April 4, 2002, at 12:32:31
Hi...
I started low dose neurontin last week but also took antibiotics at same time.
I immediately got an energy boost felt super WELL! WOW! this neurontin I thought but ...now the course of antibi's have finished the neurontin has become as useful as a sugar pill.
Was it the antibi's ???
The brain eh , we have just scratched the surface of what it can do ....not in my lifetime :(
dreamerxxxxx
Posted by amyw on April 4, 2002, at 13:48:42
In reply to Re: antibiotics and brain symptoms » amyw, posted by CtrlAlt n Del on April 4, 2002, at 13:30:55
I would find it interesting if you had a refill of the antibiotics and they helped you again. I am only a mom, not a doctor, but I find this very interesting.
Could there be an infection that causes some brain disorders?
Posted by JavaJava on April 4, 2002, at 14:31:51
In reply to Re: antibiotics and brain symptoms, posted by amyw on April 4, 2002, at 13:48:42
What was the name of the antibiotic? There are some out there that can cause central nervous system side effects. Tequin is one of them -- side effects are listed here:
http://www.fda.gov/cder/consumerinfo/druginfo/tequin.htmI'm bipolar, and my pdoc does NOT recommend my taking Tequin. He recommends Biaxin if I need an antibiotic. I also take Neurontin, which, when I first started it, made me very sleepy, and that was probably the only visible side effect I had. Now I feel nothing from it (10 months later), but I know it's working in the "background." I say this because although I have endometriosis, I no longer have menstrual cramps, and I used to be simply paralyzed for at least a day out of every month. So Neurontin seems to be working for me!
Posted by jaby on April 4, 2002, at 18:48:16
In reply to antibiotics and brain symptoms, posted by amyw on April 4, 2002, at 12:32:31
I am currently taking an antibiotic and it made my anxiety worse at first. It is called Avelox and can have some CNS effects. I also take sudafed daily for a sinus infection and get a tremendous antidepressant effect from it. This has more to do with its stimulant effect though, I think.
I have read a lot about the strep connection too (PANDAS). I had high strep titer counts as a kid even when I didn't have it. I find it interesting that the strep connection seems to only be being followed in children. Couldn't it pertain to us adults as well? Good luck to you guys. Take care.
Posted by Zo on April 5, 2002, at 0:41:20
In reply to antibiotics and brain symptoms, posted by amyw on April 4, 2002, at 12:32:31
Well, seeing as how there was something in the news just last week about a new study that shows some childhood brain cancers are caused by an INFECTION--which blows popular cancer theory all to hell--I am not surprised to hear. There was an article in The Atlantic a few years ago about a very controversial MD researcher working on that exact theory, that plain old Infectious Bacteria--nothing fancy---is the cause of damn near everything.
And--kinda related--the Borna virus, an animal to human virus, is KNOWN to cause depression. . . Nothing more than that is known, offered, done. Not til somebody figures out a way to make money off this knowledge--which will pave access to research funding.
Are we not in the infancy of learning about all this? And particularly as regards the brain?
We are.
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