Posted by bleauberry on May 17, 2009, at 11:38:44
In reply to serotonin and acne?, posted by CareBear04 on May 17, 2009, at 1:22:05
Our psychiatric meds impact diverse biological functions throughout the body in diverse ways that we don't know much about.
All I know for sure is that several of us have noticed profound immediate skin improvements when trying the supplement 5htp (converts directly to serotonin). Whether it was a direct impact on skin function or whether it was an impact on the immune system, I don't know. Maybe SSRIs prevent serotonin from going places where it needs to go? Take it out of circulation? Dunno.
Extra circulating serotonin seems anecdotally awesome for skin health, skin elasticity, and skin infections such as acne and boils, but unfortunately not many have found it miraculous for depression.
My doctor is a genius and has found that many cases of acne and boils are actually yeast and not bacteria. Whenever someone is having a hard time treating acne with ABs, they should maybe try topical and systemic Nystatin instead. And just maybe accidentally find out that yeast was the whole psychiatric problem all along.
Anyway, off on a tangent. Sorry. There is no way to know or predict the diverse weird things our psych meds do to our whole chemistry.
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