Re: Food and Mood

21 Dec 2005 04:17:41 -0800 in article
<1135167461.381853.70120@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Usman"
<khanusman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi Matti,
>
>I took zoloft only for two weeks and I had real horrible experience. I
>turned suicidal in two days, so doctor changed anti-depressent to
>celexa. I took it for 40 days but experienced no improvement. I
>switched to St. John's Wort and took it for 3 months. I felt relatively
>better in a sense that I started having mood swings. I took lexapro for
>3 months and it did work for me for first 2 months but I didnt feel any
>improvement in 3rd month so I stopped taking it. I did try
>psychological counselling for around 3 months but it didnt help me
>much. Psychiatrist told me that I have some sort of bio-chemical
>depression.
>
Hi Usman,

If you have some nutrient deficiencies (almost surely you have a low omega-3
status at least) it may not be possible to get full recovery with
antidepressants. Then you need to take supplements, which I already have
mentioned. If Lexapro did work for you at least in the beginning, perhaps
you should try it again, this time with nutritional supplements. Another
possibility could be Remeron (mirtazapine), which has somewhat different and
perhaps wider mechanism of action than plain SSRIs. I know some people, who
have been helped by Remeron. Sometimes to get best results the doctor may
have to prescribe a combination of 2 or more drugs.

Sometimes the cause of the depression could be a physical disease. Have
these been ruled out?

>I used to take seretide inhaler for asthma and dermovete ointment for
>psoraisis. I believe its psoraisis not atopic dermatitis. I have it on
>my left palm, elbow and left foot. I used to take rhino clenil for
>sinusitis. All these medicines really helped me controlling symptoms.
>Its important to note that both seretide and dermovete contains
>steroid.
>
Seretide contains fluticasone propionate and salmeterol. Fluticasone is
corticosteroid i.e. glucocorticoid. Glucocorticoids are usually already
elevated in depression and probably make it worse. Of course you may have to
take glucocorticoid for your asthma, but I think that it is not helping your
depression and could possibly make it worse, if used very regularly. But
that's just my guess, I'm not a doctor.

>I am currently on no medication from last 3 weeks. I am functional upto
>the level that I can goto work and do my job without any difficulty and
>people around me are not aware that I am expereincing clinical
>depression. Pakistani foods are usually gluten rich. I have started to
>feel the difference after giving up gluten containing foods. I am not
>sure if its the placebo effect, I'll wait for next couple of weeks to
>see if its working for me.
>
If I were you, I would go to see doctor and ask if he could try either
Lexapro again or Remeron or a combination of some drugs, and _with_
nutritional supplements, which have been mentioned here.

Try also get some exercise daily.


--
Matti Narkia
.

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