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Reply To: Self-Diagnosis

NEW STUDY! Parasym Plus™ for Multiple Sclerosis › Forums › PrettyIll.com Discussion › POTS › Self-Diagnosis › Reply To: Self-Diagnosis

June 1, 2012 at 4:21 pm #2286
Maffin
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They tell you depression does that!? doctors are so useless just like teachers.

They do their jobs. They just don’t do them as well as we expect them to.

what medication have you tried so far?

L-Deprenyl, Modafinil, Curcumin, 7-Keto DHEA. That’s all I can think of off the top of my head (I’m currently taking the latter three).

maybe try diam-ox and see if you feel better?

Sadly Diamox is one of those “prescription medications not sold on the street”. It’s easy to get recreational drugs, difficult to get Modafinil, and downright impossible to get anything useful for treatment.

Perhaps other similar drugs would be effective(1). I’ll have to see if any are OTC / non-prescription, or otherwise not seized by customs. If that fails, pomegranate extracts are “highly active carbonic anhydrase inhibitors”, but I’m not looking forward to days of researching to determine if they are even remotely effective as such in humans. Not that it isn’t interesting, but I’m getting bored with my lack of progress on my condition. That’s why I posted here. It’s more efficient than going off on research tangents to solve relatively small, but time-consuming problems.

1) “Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors, loop diuretic agents, osmotic agents and fibrinolytic therapy are discussed. The most suitable drug seems to be acetazolamide, alone or in combination with furosemide. At present, osmotic agents are no longer used in the treatment of hydrocephalus.”

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