Good military buddy of mine called me tonight. His life has abruptly taken a bad turn and is causing him to decline rapidly. He urgently needs help. He lives in Kentucky
I'm thinking vax. Looking for advice on any medication you may have heard of and/or advice on what we can do to get VA off their asses.
Docs are all mostly blaming it as mental due to him being a diagnosed bipolar for 20+ years. And it is true, he would have some spells in the past and obese over stuff.
Two months ago he developed a constant twitch in his thumb. That rapidly turned into a leg twitch that is at its worst when trying to sleep and keeping him awake.
Docs prescribed cocktails of sleep agents but leg still kept him up which turned into a massive mental episode and close brush with suicide.
Twitch is now in his mouth as well. Filmed himself sleeping and his arms are locking up and tongue randomly sticking out of mouth and back in.
His speech Is slurring now. He's forgetting simple tasks. He's been out/put on medical at work because he's messing up on most basic stuff. He's making big changes in his life because he is freaking out (selling house, changing wedding plans, etc)
VA dicking him around. He's begging for an MRI and a lead Doc who can lead him through tests to find out what's going on.
He's scarred to death.
That's obviously his grim self-prognosis. Poor guys WebMDing himself into pysch ward but I would too if all the damn doctors are doing is saying it's in his brain and prescribing him pharma.
Hope your case gets better
DevilDog -- Ivermectin also treats MS -- and Parkinsons. (I recommend using Presearch.com to search for IVM + disease info because it doesn't seem to censor info like the other engines.)
The main thing with your buddy is to reassure him and give him HOPE. Try to get him calmed down... give him one or two simple things to start doing ... get him focused.
Also, another possible idea -- suggest that he start keeping notes in a notebook to track symptoms and recovery progress. It's a trick I used when I was detoxing myself from the benzo addiction that a shrink got me into decades ago. It helped me focus, and to start exerting a degree of control over the process. (It also gave me documentation to show to the medical jackasses.)