Posted by bleauberry on July 1, 2010, at 16:44:45
In reply to Re: Started Antibiotic and mood crash - Help!!, posted by sensitive on July 1, 2010, at 13:36:08
So in this thread I see a lot of people got a lot more depressed on antibiotics. I did too. Intensely. We seem to see it as a side effect, an adverse reaction, or something bad the drug was doing, a bad mix, etc. I propose all those are misguided. The depression got worse because we were killing the very things causing the depression. A herxheimer reaction is bad stuff. Sadly, it has to be endured to get to the peace and healing on the other side.
Those bad reactions were not bad. They were good. Really! Why? Because they were screaming at you what exactly was actually wrong in the first place. As long as the problems remain, the depression will too. Drugs can numb it or neutralize it for a time, but do nothing to stop the ongoing damage.
Only a few dozen infection experts in the country know the tricks, so it is not your doctor's fault that he doesn't. But the tricks are....much smaller doses, spaced farther apart, sometimes even days apart. Antibiotics taken that way will not be as deadly, but weaken things enough for the immune system to mount a successful attack it otherwise could not. And the herx is much tamer with much less depression.
The only true complete total remission of depression I ever experienced was after two weeks of hell on doxycylcine. Words can not describe it, either how deathly depressed I felt, and then how suddenly cured I was.
So anyway, I guess anyone can look at antibiotic related depression any way they want to. I'm just saying, there is another way to look at it that actually makes sense and is explainable.
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