Can Antidepressants make you ''sick'' if you been using it for about 5 years?!
Question:
Can Antidepressants make you ''sick'' if you been using it for about 5 years?
My friend has been using Antidepressants for the past five years. Lately she was acting different. She is usually a fun, loving person but lately she is mean and rude to people. If you try talk to her about it , she is clue less, it's like she has no idea what she is doing, she will get upset, cry and ignore you for about 2 weeks before she will talk to you again like nothing is wrong. Is it possible that Antidepressants can do that? What can I do to help?
Answers:
The quick answer is yes.
This is a question others have asked before and found a solution. Depression is on this list ... as is aggressive, argumentative etc ...
http://www.ylcf.org/hormone-imbalance/06...
Miriam wrote her story in 1997 and revised it in 2002.
Stress --> Hormone Imbalance --> "Health Issue"
In your paticular case the "health issues" are depression, aggressive, argumentative etc ...
Perhaps her source of stress is due to "worrying about things"
# # # This is from John Lee's December 2002 talk
http://uk.geocities.com/willim_walker@bt... a link to my web site and the complete talk
So when it becomes fat it starts making more oestrogen. Over here any excessive calorie intake will do it, but the big one is impaired liver function. Now when I wrote this I was thinking of cirrhosis impaired liver function or people with hepatitis C but the more I look into it I discover impaired liver function is very common in our society. And we make it worse by taking drugs that stop the liver from being able to do it's work in the business of getting oestrogen out of the system, metabolising oestrogen. 2#15:15
I mentioned the P450 system in the liver, well guess what? Prozac stops the P450 system from working. So someone has oestrogen dominance, they have depression, they have headaches, they are not doing well, they can't tolerate stress, they go to the doctor. They go to the doctor and he puts them on Prozac. That increases their oestrogen dominance, they can't excrete their own oestrogen. So here we have impaired liver function. Yeah, we do have people who drink too much but actually the liver does pretty well with that. But if you have Prozac you're damaged, you can't do that. 2#15:50
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Perhaps other anti-depressants do similar things to the liver. I don't know, that is a research project for someone else.
As a preliminary have her (on a good day?) do the on line hormone tests at www.hormoneprofile.com or www.johnleemd.com
Perhaps you are going to have to print them off and answer the questions one by one.
If as I suspect they recommend she obtain hormones please have a saliva test done see www.npis.info or www.salivatest.com. A saliva test will check out active hormones something that blood tests do not.
If a hormone is suggested by the saliva test please have her take the dose suggested for her. Size 10 shoes are not twice as good if you have size 5 feet.
The WHO (World Health Organisation) uses saliva tests.
A transcript of a John Lee talk http://www.keepsmilin.com/transcriptdrle...
I have transcribed John Lee's December 2002 & &June 2003 talks
http://uk.geocities.com/willim_walker@bt...
Any of these talks explain why for active hormone levels a blood test is worthless. Blood tests find hormones, but they are the ones on their way out of the body. They are not the active hormones.
Search the web for "natural progesterone depression" and you will find many pages read and carefully select.
e.g.
http://www.natural-progesterone-advisory...
Natural progesterone means natural to humans i.e. identical to that produced by the human body.
For a good explanation of how vital natural progesterone is to humans see
http://www.hormoneprofile.com/howhormone...
and other pages on this site
Wild yam is that Wild Yam the body will not convert it to progesterone. Also do not take fake/synthetic progesterone/progestins manufactured by the drug companies they will be of NO benefit.
After having done a saliva test any progesterone you buy must be natural progesterone USP. USP means United States Pharmacopoeia.
There is a list of doctors at www.npis.info who are aware of the benefits of natural progesterone they may be more helpful than her GP. You are about to educate her GP
Hope this of benefit to your friend. It will difficult for you to have her begin to accept some of this I hope you succeed.