sutherngrl
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Gabapentin gave me severe depression. Just a thought.
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Keebler
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- Klonipin is a central nervous system depressant. It's what is does, depress the whole system. Often used to calm but, in some, it can severely depress.
Morphine, too, would cause depression of the nervous system, and the other systems, too.
Now, of course pain must be managed yet, if the infection is addressed and support menthods used, often the pain can be far less. Many symptoms can be easier when the liver and adrenals are less taxed & supported, etc.
It's extremely important to have an ILADS educated lyme literate therapist / psychiatrist as those who don't kmow about lyme can often cause much harm.
A body without lyme is not the same as one with it. So much is different and medicines that work in someone without lyme can often react much differently for someone with lyme.
I hope you have a good team of LL doctors who will look at the whole picture. It can get better. -
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Klonopin can cause suicide ideation within one week of starting the drug and can worsen depression, too.
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Hi Anna - I know I'm late to the table, but bartonella can be associated with self-mutilating behaviors.
Burrascano has a good list of typical clinical symptoms of bartonella, although I am a perfect example of dormant bartonella whose symptoms only came to the surface after I treated lyme.
Might be worth checking with your LLMD and seeing if a trial of rifampin would be appropriate. Good thing about rifampin is that if it works, it usually shows pretty quickly.
Also, babesia can cause wicked emotional issues. In fact, my first symptoms of tick infections were from babesia (suffocating feeling, depressed, anxiety, panic attacks).
Even if you have been tested for babesia and bartonella previously, it is possible to not have a positive result.
I know this for a fact, as I have been treated for babesia for over a year and only now got a positive Babesia FISH result.
In the meantime, can your psyc doc prescribe better treatment while you are in crisis? Mine pulled out the heavy guns when I was depressesd and anxious many years ago.
But you may want to check the bart/babs aspect, just to rule it out and see if you don't respond to treatment there.
I am a shining example of how many of lyme & co's symptoms are psychiatric in nature.
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Klonopin caused severe depression and suicidal thoughts for me. Once I stopped the drug, I stopped the non-stop crying. I was only on it for 3 weeks. It caused major physical problems too.
I tried to take trileptal once too and within a day it did the same thing, so I've learned I cannot take any anti seizure meds, gabapentin included.
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