Posted by bleauberry on September 26, 2009, at 19:50:14
In reply to Heroic combos, posted by X-ray on September 26, 2009, at 13:19:02
Well, for me, the most heroic combination I ever experienced was 100mg Doxycycline and 1.25mg Hydrocortisone combination. The Doxycycline was for a boil. The Hydrocortisone was for adrenal fatigue, though that dose was merely a microdose.
Little did I know at the time I had Lyme disease and had had it ever since my depression began 15 years earlier. Doxy sent the buggers into hiding. Doxy also lowered brain inflammation. It did not however do its intended purpose of healing the boil. I'm not sure if the HC did anything or not, probably helped lower inflammation a bit, and provided deep sleep and increased daytime endurance. And based on limited pubmed studies, it probably helped 5ht1a function and norepinephrine function a little bit.
No wonder all the SSRIs, SNRIs, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, combinations and augmentations, never really did it. Makes me wonder about other people too.
Anyway, the accidental heroic combination brought 100% total absolute remission to about 20 years back in history long before illness was even on the radar screen.
The second most heroic combination was, well, just a single drug called DMSA that chelates heavy metals out of tissues. My provoked urine test was high, so this was a no-brainer. Amazing what a lift one gets when metals are removed from clogged receptors. Not to mention the high sulfur content of DMSA that can't help but beef up many of the body's natural defense mechanisms that were probably previously weakened. And not to mention how potent antibiotics are based on sulfur. Many unstudied things.
My most heroic combination in the psychiatric class was 20mg Prozac 5mg Zyprexa 300mg Adrafanil combination. A few decent highly productive years, though looking back I can see I was in a dazed dreamland the whole time before it all pooped out.
I think my case is not as unusual as people would at first glance think it is. Psychiatry is so limited in its view and scope. It basically ignores that the head is attached to a body, and that whatever goes on in that body directly impacts the head. And that if there isn't a so-called "proven" way to test for this or that, then it doesn't exist. Or if the doctor isn't familiar with it, then it doesn't exist. Never mind that they have not even a clue how to test for the things they attempt to treat.
Once in a while, as with Ace and Nardil, someone hits a jackpot. In clinical trials, that jackpot is what, maybe 12% of the entire study group? Kind of like Las Vegas, it takes the eyes off the big picture and lures one into a narrow focus at the gambling table right in front of them.
Anyway, for what it is worth, there are thousands of stories around the country of people's magical heroic combinations to end their psychiatric misery being herbs or meds that had nothing to do with psychiatry.
In reading this for errors before posting I notice it appears anti-psychiatry. It is not. It is merely to educate others that psychiatry is only a small piece of a larger puzzle, and that maybe just maybe too many people grasp that small piece with all their might while the whole puzzle remains in shambles the whole time.
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