I second Marnie's suggestion.Once your daughter gets home have her neurotransmitters tested.
Hubby had 4 psych admits prior to diagnosis and treatment of Lyme, babesia and bartonella.
He has been prescribed many different psychotropic meds and none of them helped with symptoms. Tremors/myoclonus/seizure-like episodes and nausea/vomiting/dry heaves continued despite these meds. He also had additional side-effects from the drugs on top of the symptoms he already had.
The worst episode was the psychiatrist who said that he didn't care how many neurologists my husband had been to he knew that hubby had Parkinson's.
This psychiatrist wanted to stop my husband's tremors in 3 days. He gave him a very high dose of Artane (an older anticholinergic for Parkinson's) plus 3 or 4 different psychotropic meds.
By the time this duck was through with him my hubby really did look like he had Parkinson's. He developed the classic shuffle step walk of a Parkinson's patient which he had never had before. This still comes back when he is the most symptomatic.
Find a doctor you can trust and get your daughter off the drugs she will be prescribed as soon as possible. Amino acids can be prescribed IV. They helped hubby some. He continues to take oral supplements as needed.
With his history of gastritis it was difficult to get things balanced. His physical symptoms are little improved but his mental attitude is 1000% better. It is a struggle every day but he is healing. The days of straight jackets are behind us I hope for good.
Hubby has been tested by 3 or 4 different labs but the one which gives the most comprehensive overall nutritional picture is Meta Metrix. The ION panel (Individual Optimal Nutrition) is worth the money. See http://www.metametrix.com
In our experience the doctors who know the most about nutrition are members of ACAM (American College for Advancement in Medicine) See http://www.acam.org click on Public then Find a Doctor
While treatment for Lyme and tick-borne co-infections are needed those treatments can actually worsen nutritional status and further deplete neurotransmitter levels.
You have to treat all these imbalances because there is frequently a domino effect where for example a deficiency in one nutrient can prevent 10 other things from working correctly.
For example, my husband's new primary care provider tests all her new patients for zinc deficiency with a taste test. She said that a low zinc level would keep vitamin B12 from crossing the blood-brain barrier. The blood level could be normal but without adequate zinc the B12 would be low in the cerebral spinal fluid and the brain which means it would be low in the nerves which is where it is really needed.
Sometimes psychotropic meds are necessary short term but long-term you must fix the supply side which is the amino acids (from protein) plus vitamins and minerals and fatty acids etc.
In my opinion you just can't get everything your body needs from food if it is already weakened from an illness plus there is the added stress to detox the drugs needed to treat the illness.
Just do whatever you have to do to get your daughter out of the psych ward as soon as possible. If they require you to schedule follow-up appointments do that and then if you can locate a nutritionally oriented doctor just cancel the psych appointment.
Don't stop psych meds without a doctor's approval as that can land you right back in the ER.
If you have not read it, read the article in Good Housekeeping magazine called "I Wouldn't Give Up on My Daughter". I think it was in the October 2003 issue. Hubby could really relate to this article on a Lyme patient as he had tried about 2/3rds of the meds she was prescribed.
Best wishes to you and your daughter
Bea Seibert
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