And is it somehow different in biology than schizophrenia mechanisms?
Would it make sense it the tension headaches and physiological symptoms come and go over time, instead of consistently being active?
Has anyone else here found a solution or have experience with something like this?
I ask because this is my leading theory for now. And don’t redirect me to “go ask your doctor, etc, etc”, because I did and I am being ignored when I ask for diagnosis such as an MRI or CT scan.
They mentioned it as a possibility, so hopefully it’ll happen in the when I talk to the doctor tomorrow afternoon.
Man, I’m sorry, but everyone says my hand-drawn medical diploma is fake and they’ll call the cops if I keep giving medical advice. Suggest looking for a real doctor to ask or one whose diploma doesn’t have stick men on it.
From my experience with a degree in biomedical sciences and from reading, and my lifestyle, I feel inflammation could play a role in psychosis but it’s not the whole story.
I am going to try doing things to lower inflammation, and changing my diet to lower inflammation in the body, to see if that helps.
I know your advice is in good faith, and I get what you mean, its just in my experience the doctors are just as inexperienced as me with their own profession, so doctor = nurse with a slightly higher education. At least that is my experience from where I live.
I also know how the medical system works to farm money, IMO we are just pigs to count on the way out the door. (Orwell’s farm just isn’t for me.)
When it comes to my own health, I am the ultimate arbitrator, so when the medical system drops the ball, then I need to take action to save myself. (Which I should already be doing to be healthy.)
I shouldn’t complain that we even have hospitals and “(Doctors)”, because they (the working staff) do more good than harm on average. But I am sure all of us have had our frustrations with them, and this is me venting some of that ‘no $123 Sherlock’ attitude from my past experiences with them.
I know they are being told to do this and that, but eventually things will break, and then it will take a loooong time to fix it back to something consistent again.
As a trait, honesty in a two-way relationship starts with listening, and so far I am the silent, unobservable object in the room despite blaring my trumpets to be heard.
So I play the one-man band by necessity. Doesn’t make me a good musician.
(I had seizures through VGP in the past, to be clear. Which I posted on in another past account. So it is possible inflammation or something else persists from those events.)
I know that most diseases are based on inflammation. So it is not a stretch to assume that this is at least indirectly related to that as well.
In my case with brain problems, it would make sense if the inflammation would come and go as a provocateur of the psychotic symptoms, with dopamine triggering the reactions with my brain’s inflammation levels (through VGP’s effects on my brain.)
I have heard that schizophrenia could be a reaction to something else changing in the brain, a sort of coma protection, as a maladjusted protection mechanism.
And I have also heard that Alzheimer’s is related to diabetes, as another form of it or as a side effect of insulin and blood sugar. In terms of neurological diseases with a deviation of neurological plasticity, schizophrenia is not that far away from Alzheimer disease.
Theories of correlation are still not causation, but I doubt any doctor I visit will be able to get that far in an investigative direction. They will stop wherever the hospital makes money, which is usually prescribing meds, which can help, or may not, it depends if the doctor knows what they are doing.
Nutrition plays a huge role to keep the brain on track, even more so when on antipsychotics. It is proven that AP’s actually deplete many vitamins, minerals and other nutritional factors.
But if psychosis was just about inflammation the medical community would surely have picked up on it. It’s a good idea to eat to avoid inflammation, it could potentially lessen the severity of the disease, but don’t expect it to solve the whole issue.