Intestinal problems, anxiety, Schizophrenia, depression ! Inaccurate and incomp!

Intestinal problems, anxiety, Schizophrenia, depression ! Inaccurate and incomplete disease testing ?

Did you know that testing for simple bacteria that can cause many symptoms and illnesses is inaccurate ?

Testing for 'giardia' requires 4-5 negative tests ?
Most tests test for specific bacteria?

Specialist labelled individual with I.B.S.

Symptoms included depression', 'anxiety', 'a feeling of not bing here', 'psychosis like feelings', 'paranoia', 'schizophrenia'

After some 16 years suffering from intestinal problems the patient was told by a country doctor he had 'GIARDIA'.

The patient stated he had been tested for giardia.

Doctor, "It takes 4-5 negative tests to treat for giardia'.

Why did not the specialist know this ?

Why aren't people with intestinal infections and related neurological symptoms treated with wide spectrum antibiotics since testing is so inaccurate ?

Did it occur to you that the patient in question might have more than one condition?

Here is a page from the CDC about giardia:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/...

Giardia is an intestinal parasite, not a bacterium. It does not penetrate the intestinal wall to cause any kind of neurological syndrome, apart from the fatigue and similar symptoms anyone with an intestinal parasite might have.

As a retired, board-certified neurologist, I can't imagine any way that a patient with only giardiasis would have symptoms that someone would diagnose as the psychiatric conditions you list. There was something else going on with this patient, something missing from what I hope even you would admit is not a comprehensive case history. It's folly for you to be making the assumptions and judgments you make with no more documentation than this. Taking someone's word blindly is neither science nor scientific medicine.

Does this patient have giardiasis or irritible bowel syndrome? How do you know? Because you took someone's word for it? If this country doctor left the patient with the impression that all this can be explained by giardia, then I wouldn't take that country doctor's word for anything, because that doesn't make sense at all.

Even I know that intestinal parasites can take many tests to detect, and this is not my area of speciality, just something all medical students learn. So it is certainly a poor assumption on your part that the specialist didn't know this. How do you know the patient isn't a paranoid schizophrenic with irritable bowel syndrome? You don't. You're just willing to smear some physician for whatever reason you are. Have you read Matthew 7:1-5 lately?

It amazes me how many answerers throughout this website think it's so easy to make a diagnosis of a patient with only whatever someone writes in a question, never having laid eyes on that person, never getting further information, never examining the patient, rarely knowing anything except the popular images of the diseases in question. Do you really think it's that easy or that you're knowledgeable enough to do this? It should take even more knowledge to contradict a physician's diagnosis, but people are just about as arrogant with that as with giving their guess at a diagnosis.

People are only human. They prove that all the time. But the person you need to apply that to first is in your mirror. God says so. If you resist or ignore that, what does that say about you?