The Natural Medicine Guide to Schizophrenia (Healthy Mind Guides) by Stephanie Marohn

Author:Stephanie Marohn [Marohn, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-02-27T06:18:00+00:00

Isabel: Pyroluric Schizophrenia

Isabel, 30, ran the family business. She kept the books, did all the hiring, and was the most capable person in her large family. When one of her sisters died suddenly, she had a mental breakdown, exhibiting the classic symptoms of pyroluria. Suicidal, she tried to kill herself by jumping off a bridge, which resulted in broken legs. She was constantly afraid and highly agitated, "her mind going in 49 different directions."

It took the PTC staff three hours to get a urine sample from her because Isabel was so agitated, troubled, and indecisive. She would start, and then say, "No, I can't." The staff worked patiently with her until they got the sample, and the test results showed that she had severe pyroluria. "This made me happy," says Dr. Walsh, "because those people get better faster and more completely."

Isabel needed large amounts of zinc and vitamins B61 C, and E. On this regimen, her condition began to improve in three weeks. At the two-month point, she was nearly her old self. After three months, she was completely recovered, and she returned to running the family business.

When she had come to Dr. Walsh, she had been on a number of medications. Feeling 100 percent better, she stopped taking the drugs and was still all right. "She was one of those who don't seem to need medication, which happens most often with the pyrolurics," Dr. Walsh comments.

Everything went fine for three years, at which point Dr. Walsh got a call from Isabel's brother, who reported that there was something wrong. Dr. Walsh told him to find out if Isabel had been taking her supplements. He called back with the information that she had stopped, probably two months before. "They don't relapse right away," Dr. Walsh explains. "Sometimes it's faster, sometimes slower." The family brought her to PTC again. She wasn't in as bad a shape as she had been the first time and in six weeks of being back on the supplements, she was normal again.

"She has now relapsed three times, each time because of noncompliance," reports Dr. Walsh. "I do not understand how any human being could be that horribly afflicted, find a rather simple, inexpensive solution, and then do it again." Isabel lives alone, and maybe that's part of the compliance problem. There is no one right there to help her stay on the protocol. She's been fine now for a year and a half, and Dr. Walsh hopes that she has learned that she needs to stay on the supplements.

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