Tansy - amphotericin... yeast and the AD mirtazapine

[Guest guest]

Tansy, did you have definite improvement when you used amphotericin?

Did you use any azole anti-fungal at the same time?

Now that fluconazole is highly suspect as a possible antiborrelial,

it seems difficult to directly ascertain that yeast overgrowth in

fact causes systemic symptoms. I hasten to add that this difficulty

may not exist for those having close knowledge of patient experience

with solely-yeast-oriented regimes; I dont have that knowledge and am

just probing possibilities. The only people I know of who have done

such regimes are Crantons patients and our own J, all of whom I

believe used azoles in their regimes.

Incidentally, my tongue yeast growth seems to be back under better

control - roughly coincident with stopping the antidepressant

mirtazapine. Its even possible that yeast *caused* the symptoms of

cognitive disability and general crap-tasia that made me quit the

mirtazapine after 3 weeks of excellent palliation from it. But

probably not, considering that I also experienced mania 30h (about

1.5 half-lives) after my last dose, fading over 2 days into a 10-day

period of possible withdrawal symptoms (sleep attacks and poor

cognition). These experiences are found in the lit and patient

testimony re mirtazapine, and seem more consistent with direct drug

activity on the CNS.