Posted by bleauberry on December 26, 2007, at 17:16:27
In reply to Wellbutrin question, posted by nihocl on December 26, 2007, at 14:18:47
You might want to consider that the symptoms are coming from the body and not the brain? You might want to take some deep looks into things like cortisol, thyroid antibodies, food intolerances, hidden yeast/bacterial infections, amalgam fillings in your teeth.
Pdocs won't be able to help with that. Actually few docs know this stuff very well. There is an underground medical community that in ways could e lightyears ahead of conventional medicine. Finding a good alternative or integrative doctor could a good move for your overall health and symptoms, while keeping the pdoc on board on an as needed basis, which hopefully would be hardly ever.
If it is a psych drug you want to increase energy and forget about fixing the cause of it then these would be other options besides wellbutrin...
ritalin, adderall, provigil
sometimes prozac and sometimes cymbaltaIf none of these work well then you have a pretty good hint the problem is in the body. In that case you would be looking at things like adrenal cortex extract, armour thyroid, tyrosine, dhea, adaptogen herbs such as rhodiola, ashwahanda, holy basil, anti-candida herbs, high dose plant based digestive enzymes, and a hair test by Doctors Data labs for all essential and heavy metals, and stop eating anything with wheat, oats, barley, or malt extract in it for 2 weeks (to see if you are gluten intolerant as your symptoms match). These are just some basics that tend to the problems mentioned earlier, and you would obviously take just the ones that target the problem your doctor finds, and it is not uncommon for people to improve a lot by taking these kinds of things even when blood tests look "normal". What is normal? The ranges are so wide. Biochemistries are so different.
Anyway, you've been the wellbutrin route already 3 times. Enough already. Try something else.
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