[stylist] Writers and depression

Wed Jan 28 14:50:14 UTC 2015

That's perfectly fine. It was, in fact, the same drugs we used every time because they are the standard remedy but the difference was doing them together versus one after the other and the amount of time they were administered.
Barbara

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> On Jan 28, 2015, at 07:07, Lynda Lambert <llambert at zoominternet.net> wrote:
> 
> Barbara, thanks for the information here on h Pilori - my duaghter has had it for at least 2 years and treatment with drugs has not killed it - I am going to pass along your good information to her in hopes it may help her if that is ok with you. Lynda
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Hammel via stylist
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:57 PM
> To: EJ Kobek ; Writers' Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Writers and depression
> 
> The only thing that I could add here, as my piece for the writing prompt is
> to tell you how a change in one's diet and the killing of a pesky thing
> called Helicobacter Pylori can make a huge difference.
> 
> We presume that Jesse came to us with all of his hidden health issues.
> Three years after he came into our family he had a surgery to fix double
> hernias and we thought that would be the end of our miserable existence of
> listening to him scream from sun up till sun down and most of the nights for
> SIX months.
> 
> Much to our chagrin, that was only a taste of what life would be like to a
> greater degree.  It wasn't continuous screaming and it wasn't up half the
> night every night but the next few years were pretty long.
> 
> Then we went to a gastroenterologist who had us collect a stool sample --
> such a fun task when your child is still in diapers -- so he could test it
> for whatever he was looking for.  Well, Helicobacter Pylori showed its ugly
> self and we began the couple of years of antibiotic treatments to kill the
> dumb thing.
> 
> In case you don't know, in the 1990s it was discovered that, most certainly,
> H. Pylori is the cause of stomach ulcers.  We learned that %40 of the people
> over age 60 have this monster in them but only %20 of that %40 present with
> the ulcers.  Due to healthier means of preparing food and treating the water
> supply, the percentage of folks who have H. Pylori has dropped in the under
> 60 crowd.  Why his twin doesn't have it we'll never know since they came out
> of the same environment.
> 
> In 2013, after having done the treatment for H. Pylori, as I said, it still
> persisted in lingering in his system.  So, it was off to the infectious
> disease doctor.  His recommendation:  Instead of taking the two antibiotics
> one after another and the probiotic at the same time, we were to give him
> both antibiotics for 42 days and then a month or two of probiotics.
> Amazingly, we are almost certain that Helicobacter Pylori is a thing of our
> past.
> 
> Along with all that medicine, we finally got everyone in his world on board
> to remove all gluten from his diet.  Voila!  Except for the bouts of
> aphthous ulcers he gets in his mouth -- we don't know why yet -- he has
> become a happy boy.  He does not have the horrible gassy stomach.  He does
> not have that funny garlicky-smelling breath that was peculiar to a tummy
> that was full of stuff that needed to get out.
> 
> Killing H. Pylori did not solve constipation/diarrhea cycles, but it has
> helped it become more manageable.
> 
> It is so amazing to live in a time when so much is being learned about how
> the health of our gut affects the rest of our body and in a time when autism
> is being studied so thoroughly since it seems to be on the rise.  (Autism is
> a topic for another day.)
> 
> Is it any wonder to anyone now why I need not one, but two different
> antidepressants?  And, maybe you are right.  Maybe they are what is
> inhibiting my creativity which also figures into why I can feel so down.
> Too many thoughts run through my head and yet I cannot make them leave
> through my fingertips to my Braille Edge.
> 
> Barbara
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.--Robert Frost
> -----Original Message----- From: EJ Kobek via stylist
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 6:45 PM
> To: NFB Stylist
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Writers and depression
> 
> Hi, all, esp. Vejas,
> 
> Want to say much more, as we all do!  What's amazing is that medicine is
> starting to look at lacking of imbalance of gut bacteria as a source of
> despair (whatever one calls it), and they are even starting to care for
> people with schizophrenia with probiotics....A fabulous book called
> "Missing Microbes" even looks at the gut and other bacteria we need for
> physical and mental health that are becoming extinct, along with other,
> larger creatures....micobes we really need that are being disappeared by
> misuse of antibiotics.....
> 
> Gut bacteria has an amazing impact on our mental health!!!
> 
> Might I propose a TOPIC for writing? Intestinally?
> 
> The topic:  Beneficial bacteria!
> 
> A haiku, a poem, a story, a prose piece?
> 
> Just an offering. I'll get to it during our blizzard today and
> tomorrow....anyone else?
> 
> (Smile, grin.....)
> 
> Warmly,
> 
> Helen (and her beneficial bacteria)
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