Antidepressants
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Antidepressants
Hi. I’m new to this group. Thanks for adding me. I’ve had collagenous colitis for 12 years. I have been looking for info about antidepressants that are “safe” to use with MC. I heard that Wellbutrin is the only one known. I regret starting it in 2015. It’s a whole story. My question is if anyone has had success with other antidepressants or has knowledge/input on the subject. Many thanks!
Re: Antidepressants
Hi,
Welcome to the group. I see that it's been over a week since you posted, and no one has responded, to share their experiences, so I'll offer my thoughts on the topic.
1. A chronic magnesium deficiency is one of the leading causes of depression.
2. Most antidepressants proved to be only slightly more effective than a placebo in medical trials, when their manufacturers applied for an FDA label.
3. Most antidepressants are basically strong antihistamines, although they have many more, and much more severe, side effects, when compared with conventional, over the counter H1 antihistamines.
Note that a chronic magnesium deficiency is associated with every disease known to science. Inflammatory bowel disease, especially celiac disease and microscopic colitis, significantly deplete magnesium. The most common treatments for IBD's, corticosteroids, such as budesonide, further deplete magnesium. Many other medications, especially certain antibiotics, deplete magnesium. Even coffee depletes magnesium. Doctors virtually never diagnose a magnesium deficiency, because they have traditionally ordered the wrong test when measuring magnesium levels. Adequate magnesium is required by the body in order to complete over 300 chemical processes that take place every day. If/when magnesium levels are inadequate, general health declines, and susceptibility to disease increases. The immune system, especially, cannot function without adequate magnesium and vitamin D. Most of us have this disease because we were chronically short of either magnesium or vitamin D, or both, although some other event, such as stress, probably was the "final straw that broke the camel.s back" to trigger the development of the disease.
Again, welcome aboard, and please feel free to ask anything.
Tex
Welcome to the group. I see that it's been over a week since you posted, and no one has responded, to share their experiences, so I'll offer my thoughts on the topic.
1. A chronic magnesium deficiency is one of the leading causes of depression.
2. Most antidepressants proved to be only slightly more effective than a placebo in medical trials, when their manufacturers applied for an FDA label.
3. Most antidepressants are basically strong antihistamines, although they have many more, and much more severe, side effects, when compared with conventional, over the counter H1 antihistamines.
Note that a chronic magnesium deficiency is associated with every disease known to science. Inflammatory bowel disease, especially celiac disease and microscopic colitis, significantly deplete magnesium. The most common treatments for IBD's, corticosteroids, such as budesonide, further deplete magnesium. Many other medications, especially certain antibiotics, deplete magnesium. Even coffee depletes magnesium. Doctors virtually never diagnose a magnesium deficiency, because they have traditionally ordered the wrong test when measuring magnesium levels. Adequate magnesium is required by the body in order to complete over 300 chemical processes that take place every day. If/when magnesium levels are inadequate, general health declines, and susceptibility to disease increases. The immune system, especially, cannot function without adequate magnesium and vitamin D. Most of us have this disease because we were chronically short of either magnesium or vitamin D, or both, although some other event, such as stress, probably was the "final straw that broke the camel.s back" to trigger the development of the disease.
Again, welcome aboard, and please feel free to ask anything.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.