RE: Sleep/Serotonin & gut connection? - input

[Guest guest]

When my wife was alive and suffering from Budd-Chiari syndrome

as well as being a brittle diabetic, she had Gastroparesis.

When her depression was worse, her Gastroparesis got worse.

Her gastroenterologist suggested that we tell her psychiatrist that

it was critical to get as aggressive as possible to lift her depression.

When the Serotonin levels are corrected for depression all his patients

GI problems go down. Serotonin plays a major role in the digestive track.

What worked for my wife was:

1) Switching from Propulcid to Domperidone (which I got in Mexico).

2) She added Iberogast to her medication regimen.

But this was not enough:

3) Staying on the anti-depressnts as prescribed by her psychiatrist,

I think it was Celexa and one other one, Luvox, perhaps.

4) Bright Light Therapy - when I got my light box, it lifted her depression

when she utilized it.

At this point her Gastroparesis became manageable.

She was going try to wean off the of anti-depressants and see if the light

therapy was adequate (like me) but died shortly thereafter,

when the doctors did not follow the protocol for her liver disease.

In summary, there is definitely a connection between Serotonin, sleep and the

digestive track.