Valterex as cure -- any first hand stories?

[pr40]

I read that article on Valtrex from the other post and would like to see if there are people here on the forum who had similar experience to what the article describes.

I do want also to make one comment about that article: it ends up suggesting a new "exciting" possibility that valtrex is a mood stabilizer and that that is the mechanism of action in helping the PANS child. Personally, i think that is nonsense but then I am not a dr or a scientist.

[Hrosenkrantz]

pr40 -- you are saying you think it is nonsense that valtrex is a mood stabalizer, and what is actually going on is the antiviral is getting at the underlying infection, and that's why it is helping?

[pr40]

hrosenkrantz -- yes, I think that to be the case that valtrex does the same thing that abx do with bacteria and not that it is a mood stabilizer as the author of the article thinks. but I have only this opinion, no proof.

[EAMom]

I guess they could actually do a study and "test" whether bipolar kids who don't have lab evidence of a viral infection also benefit from Valtrex as a "mood stabilizer".

The fact that both he (and his sister) had lab evidence of a viral infection, convinces me that this was PANS (or some sort of infection triggered neuropsych syndrome, until proven otherwise), not that the Valtrex was acting as a mood stabilizer. However, we know that antibiotics can have "other properties" such as immune modulating and anti-inflammatory so I do think it's within the realm of possibility that anti-virals also have "other properties" as well.

[pr40]

what convinces me is that he was on mood stabilizers and they did not help much. anti-viral may have mood stabilizing properties but its most direct mechanism of action is that it is an anti-viral. why the author would go out of his way to say that this is not the case, I can explain only with a prevalent dogma in the medical profession that says infection does not equal neurological and behavioral problems.

Edited October 22, 2014 by pr40