Help. Need advices about fatigue, difficulty in concentration.

[Kissa]

My primary concern overall would in fact be a form of mental illness, particuarly depression and not so much other illnesses or deficiencies that cause similiar symptoms. I do agree it is important to rule out phsycial ailments but I do believe a full emotional health check up is of top priority even though you fear the diagnosis.

Depression causes the inability to concentrate or focus and in fact causes the fatigue you are experiencing. Depression is often caused chemically in the brain ( as Kime eluded to) and is totally treatable. Left untreated of course in some individuals it can definately wreak havoc in one's life and lead to suicide attempts. Fleeting thoughts are a sure indication that there is a problem there that you need addressed immediately.

On the other hand it is also completely plausible that you may suffer from Attention Deficiet disorder, which again is completely treatable and also has the same symptoms you discuss.

Unfortunately not all individuals would like to believe depression is a real health condition and rather fear it because it is easier to fear something you do not truly understand than to learn and accept it for what it is. It's often easier at times to try to blame the problems on a physical ailment or lack of viatamins than to accept and treat it for what it is.

I definately agree with Kime that in fact vitamins and supplements that do and can help to treat depression however. You do need to heed with caution, some viatmins do store within the body's fat cells and you can in fact become poisoned from them, vitamin C however is not one of them, your body will expell what it does not need.
St. Johns wart has been quite successful in many treatments and runs about a 50/50 chance of working.. bascially either it does or it does not. If it does you are in great luck! If you do choose this route it is very important any time you have a proceedure that you do tell the doctors what you take, some natural products to produce thinning of the blood and bleeding.

Some forms of depression will not and do not respond, those are generally the extreme cases and they do require not only medications but counseling. Counseling is very important in an initial stage but not something you need to do the rest of your life.

Bottom line is most people suffer from depression, some of it is mild, only lasting a few hours to a day while others go on for months and years. It is definately nothing to fear by any means and it does not mean you need to be on heavy medications that cause you to not function. There are some very good medications out now that have little to no side effects. Just be certain you do research any type of medication for side effects.

Best of luck
Barbie

[little hamster]

Hi kime

Thanks for the reply. May i ask how much of miligrams is equivalant to 1 gram? Is it 1000mg equal to 1 gram? or 100mg equal to 1 gram? Sorry for my ignorance..=p Thanks for the helps!
I did not take antibiotics for a long period of time before. However, i have anxiety starting when i was a child and also ocd. But did not had any medications. I feel that it is pretty mild forms of ocd and anxiety for now and in the past. But however fatigue and inability to concentrate is hindering me.
I don't really hear people talking about lymph disease or candida overgrowth here, in my country. I have never went to see a doctor complaining of fatigue before as a symptom alone. I only see doctor when i have cold or serious diseases which presented many symptoms. People around me, i suppose doesn't think fatigue is true or depression is true either. They feel it is all in the mind and if i should want to see a doctor on this to test for lymph or candida, no body will support me. They would think i am plain paranoid.
By the way, i no longer have any hallucination or thinks that people are spying me or neither do i talk to myself anymore. Now is just fatigue and cannot concentrate. Even if i can concentrate, i get distracted easily when nobody is distracted except me.
Oh and one last thing, how much of a miligram will give a 1 gram? 100mg? or 1000mg? Thanks again =)

[ncgirl88]

I hope you find relief Little Hamster. It was Lyme disease I was referring to and it can manifest itself with depression, severe lethargy, anxiety, and a multitude of psychological issues including thoughts of suicide. I mention it because it is important that everyone is educated and treated properly if they have it. Lyme and tick borne illness is everywhere not just New England. It is present in just about every country.

I accept depression as a diagnosis. I do believe though unlike most modern Western medicine that our minds and bodies are very connected. I do not believe that depression exists by itself without a neurochemical component that is influenced by some process in our physiology. It is my hope that modern medicine finds more connections and is able to treat it more accurately soon. I have a friend who has been diagnosed with depression and anxiety and I have watched him through his many adjustments of meds because it is not an exact science yet. It kills me to watch him go through it.

I hope that you find all the answers that you need. I pray that one day there will be much more understanding when it comes to depression and neurology.

-ncgirl88

[Kime]

A gram is 1000mg.
If you have never taken many antibiotics then you probably don't have candida, although I wouldn't completely rule it out. The dietary suggestions below would help you if you did have candida, though, so if you decide to try them you are covered there to a certain extent.
You could try switching to a diet that completely eliminates all processed foods. This might be the easiest to try first. Only eat things made from fresh fruit, vegetables, and meat that has not been processed. This means no condiments unless they are made fresh from fresh ingredients. No sugar either. If you don't do anything else, cut out sugar completely. No bread unless you know exactly what went into it. Eating like this would probably help most of us to feel better anyway and if you have a sensitivity to food additives it will solve that problem.

If the fresh food, no processed food diet doesn't help, your symptoms could also be caused by an allergy to food or something else like mold or chemical exposure, but as far as allergy is concerned a food would be the most likely. If you fast for 4 days the symptoms should go away by the 5th day IF they are caused by a food allergy. Then you can test one thing at a time to see if you have a reaction. Or sometimes you can find a food allergen by eating a very limited diet for 5 days, too, instead of fasting, only eating things that you usually don't eat. The most common allergens are: gluten (from wheat or bread usually, but it is in other grains), or casien (milk products) or corn or eggs or sugar or food additives. At least those are common here in the USA. If you have a food allergy it is usually something that you eat at least twice a week, often something you eat every day or almost every day. There is a great book called "Brain Allergies" that talks about this, but I don't know if you can get it in your country.

By the way, when a person has a food allergy, and especially with sugar, they often feel worse for the first few days they eliminate the allergen from their diet, and they often crave the very thing that is making them sick. So if you change your diet and feel worse at first don't give up. If you don't feel at least a little better by the 5th or 6th day then your problem probably has some other source.
It sounds like in your country you have less options as far as the types of medical treatment that you can seek.

ncgirl88, I don't think my son has lyme. He is seeing a pretty sharp doctor and he hasn't said anything about lyme, and also, I only told you a couple of my son's symptoms, he hardly has any of the lyme symptoms, and they are ones that can be caused by many other things. But thank you for telling me anyway. You never know.

[little hamster]

Hi ncgirl88

I did a little bit of research on lyme disease and was reminded of before i went to my college, i had a serious unknown skin rashes. I went to the first doctor who was very ignorant and gave me casual diagnosis and treatment. Why do i say this? because she was the one who told me i had fungal attack and when i took her fungal medicines my rashes immediately gotten worse. As a result i have to change doctor to see if it gets any better. I couldn't go back to the first doctor because she charged me heavily when her medicines is not expensive at all. So i decided to change a doctor and because they were not skin specialist they all go saying i have skin fungal and tell me to keep my skin clean and not too damp. I tried all these way before they told me. With each passing day and medicines i took my rashes keep worsening. Then i decided to go for a skin test and i realised it was not even fungal attack! There was tested negative fungal infection. Can u feel how i felt? Then the doctor decided to change a new type of medicines and my rashes kept worsening. Until one day they decided they couldn't help because they were not skin specialist and they referred me to the hospital. Because school was starting in a few days and my appointment means i will not be able to attend the appointment so i went to a skin specialist clinic. That doctor gave me betamethasone oral drug and my rashes got healed. But i remembered so clearly when i took betamethasone oral drug, my two wrists developed a 'lump' it got kind of sowllen and my ankles too. The 'lump' is hard and very solid feeling. I am sure it is not present before i was on the drug. Immediately i told the doc about it and he said there was no known side effects reported with this drug and he shrugged it off as it was perhaps my muscles. I was pretty upset because i obviously know if it was really muscles. But with that drug my rashes healed completely. And he added that maybe it was fever that caused me to have all this rashes. Uptil today i still does not know what caused my rashes. Could it be the lyme u talking about? My rashes look alot like mosquitoe bite but just that it isn't. It does not itch either. That was somewhat a 3 years ago incident. Surely it have not that impact on me till now?