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@benryu (how do you gets get the darn "quote" to appear??? Ahaa... I think this does it?!
@Zimichael, just out of curiosity, what drug increased your T. ?
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drugs - plural would be more accurate! You are a technical guy so here's the list.
This was 2006. I was so shit-faced I just went with the program until got out of hand...[Docs thought I had Lyme, then bacterial infection, then IBD, then SIBO, then opportunistic mold/fungal, then opp. parasitic infections hammering my weakness, etc. [Incidentally, Pimental's work at Cedars Sinai was REAL BIG at the time re 'curing' IBS with antibiotics = oral Neomycin at that point, but they forgot about trashed 'leaky gut' folks...Oooops! meds got through to systemic!]
So, all oral...not IV: Neomycin 500 mg BID for 5 weeks, then added Amphotericin 1cc. BID for 5 days (Tinnitus had > dramatically so I stopped the Neomycin, then the Ampho.) Then Xifaxan taper up, but I refused as T and new H out the roof. A week later Nystatin TID, with one nasal spray of 1% Nizoral (Ketoconzole) that blew my head off and sent the T screaming and cemented the H....Then I quit as was no longer human = a piece of quaking jelly.
Hope that answers your question
....and yeah it was nuts, but I did not sue. None of us knew. Docs were doing their best...There was total ignorance back then that the large molecules in oral Neomycin and Ampho could get extra-intestinal. Etc. ,etc., etc.
Back to Retigabine/Potiga.....I had a 'dynamic' appointment with my doc (yeah same as above...excellent...really) yesterday as mentioned here. I'm not going to report on that all as this is the wrong thread. But he checked Potiga out and is totally willing to prescribe it and we can see what a few weeks to a month of it does.
However...there are now about three things ahead of that on our agreed list:
1. Neural Therapy (shooting Prociane near the sympathetic nerves at C6 and C7 ganglia in neck, with hopes of cooling down CNS and H in particular).
2. Ketamine...targeting H more than T.
3. Chinese Skullcap & Senega Root for H and to try and get me to sleep! My sleep is a disaster.
All above will help with depression tendency too which has been big currently since I came off Tramadol, trailing clouds of fire and hell, which I nearly quenched by becoming 'at one' with a lake.
Best... Zimichael