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Posted 9/13/2011 1:53 PM (GMT 0)
Hi everyone,
I am looking for anyone to weigh in on this thread with their antidepressant medications.

With all due respect I am not asking for herbal or natural remedies. I won't even get into all the supplements and amino acids I take. So just to keep this thread on one track of pharmacutical antidepresants I ask that we save the other great stuff for another post.

Knowing myself my entire life to be bipolar weather it is hereditary or from tick infection I am asking to hear from the people out there that have used antidepressants and which ones, how they worked and any other info on their experience.

There is a large amount of medical research and reports that antidepressants help in the healing process because of low seratonin levels and other brain function being related to assisting people in healing and maintaining health.

I am paralyzed by depression and sickness and have tried a couple of things before finding out about the lyme but I would like to hear other lyme patients
experience with this.

thank you
Posted 9/13/2011 3:22 PM (GMT 0)

Wellbutrin helped me both times when I was on abx.  It just made me feel emotionally/mentally normal.  I had been experiencing depression and anxiety attacks...something I had never had before.  I did not feel high or anything like that.  No side effects for me.

The third time treated I chose not to go the abx route.  I knew the abx's were tearing my body down.  My stomach was becoming a mess and my stomach had always been as strong as iron.

I am still on Dr. J's protocol.  I have not been depressed or had anxiety attacks.  I have not needed Wellbutrin and am feeling great. 

On his protocol he says that when you are symptom free for two months then you can stop the protocol.  I'm almost there!

PS:  I would definitely encourage anyone to get the help they need for the cognitive issues.  It is not worth suffering like that.  I'm' sure Wellbutrin was an option for me.

FYI: This is just from my experience.  I am not a doctor.  :)

Posted 9/13/2011 4:36 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks for such a great post, Daisyrib!! Sure am glad to hear that you are doing so much better too!! Hope hubby is doing as well!


Bucci~
I have been on two different antidepressants - Trazodone and Celexa. I took both of them when things got really bad, as well as Xanax. Trazodone for me is being used to basically help me sleep at night more than as an anti-depressant, but I'm sure it has an effect on my mood as well. Celexa was a real help. I took this after I realized that I was too ill to withstand the conventional, abx route of healing for my many TBI's - so I was pretty upset and just couldn't shake all of those symptoms of depression. AT that time I was on a lot of other meds for muscle spasms, intestinal cramping, Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, nerve pain, and I can't remember the rest!!! I was on way too many pharmaceuticals, I remember that!!! I was beginning to enter the no-man's land of needing more 'scripts to take care of the side effects of the 'scripts I was on- Ugh!

Anyway, I wouldn't have made it through that time in my life without the anti-depressants. I do hope that you are able to start one soon. I believe as well that the body just can't heal as well or as fast if one is dealing with things like depression and anxiety.

Please let us know what happens!
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