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Dr wants to prescribe this for chronic fatique.
Wondering if anyone else has taken this and has helped?
Thanks!
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Keebler
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- Is this an ILADS-educated lyme literate doctor?
I would not touch this with a ten-foot pole. There are so many reasons why but I can't go into that right now.
Have you been on adrenal support for a while? Is that not working at all? Besides adrenal support, there are so many safer ways to find support.
IMO, Strattera can be very bad for someone with lyme. It's likely to stress an already stressed endocrine system.
"By increasing the levels of norepinephrine" this could cause panic attacks & insomnia because those with lyme cannot handle norepinephrine well at all. At all.
It's not for anyone with irregular heart rhythm or blood vessel problems -- that all just goes with lyme. This could make it worse:
. . . Along with epinephrine, norepinephrine also underlies the fight-or-flight response, directly increasing heart rate . . . . -
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Keebler
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(What ILADS is) . . . WHY you need an ILADS-educated, Lyme Literate Doctor.
This is mostly regarding diagnostics but it also applies to other doctors who may be prescribing other Rx for us. If they are not ILADS-educated, they will not know how to treat us, even for other things (most often).
Lyme changes so much about the way the body works (or does not).
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Adrenal support will help decrease anxiety and help with safer energy support:
The ADHD drug Strattera � 55 young persons have died
Stockholm 4/13/2008 (TransWorldNews)
New reports indicate that 55 children and teenagers have died while �treated� with the ADHD drug Strattera, in the last 5 years � 31 of them committed suicide.
In total there are reports of 102 instances of death � 57 of them from suicide. . . .
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