Guys and girls i promise I will try and write more about my Lyme experience but typing, spelling, and thinking are very difficult for me
It took me a good 45 min just to write what is below.e him.
Again, if it's okay to give to young teens for their entire teenage life for simple acne, why the debate over whether or not it should be prescribed for chronic Lyme? My daughter takes more than one antibiotic, and alternates with probiotics and other cocktails from her compounding pharmacy. Hell, if it was legal in my state, I'd give her medical marijuana if I thought it would help.I've also read antibiotics administered over long periods of time weaken the immune system and that can't be a good thing for fighting this disease in later stages
Lyme is a complicated, controversial disease as is it's methods of treatment.Again, if it's okay to give to young teens for their entire teenage life for simple acne, why the debate over whether or not it should be prescribed for chronic Lyme? My daughter takes more than one antibiotic, and alternates with probiotics and other cocktails from her compounding pharmacy. Hell, if it was legal in my state, I'd give her medical marijuana if I thought it would help.
Again, if it's okay to give to young teens for their entire teenage life for simple acne, why the debate over whether or not it should be prescribed for chronic Lyme? My daughter takes more than one antibiotic, and alternates with probiotics and other cocktails from her compounding pharmacy. Hell, if it was legal in my state, I'd give her medical marijuana if I thought it would help.
Very interesting thread here. While I never had the disease, I did grow up in SW Connecticut, knew people who contracted it, and kept up with the literature on it throughout my scientific research career. I am treading on thin ice in the medical community, but I feel the neurological symptoms are undeniable and directly related to inflammatory and autoimmune responses. I do agree with extended antibiotic treatment, it works most of the time, but for treating the immediate effects including co-infections. The problem is long-term. Once the immune system is triggered in people with a certain genetic makeup (still unknown), the degeneration carries on even in the absence of the bacteria. How else can one explain the neurological effects when the bacteria does not cross the blood-brain barrier?? The relationships established above between Lyme and other autoimmune diseases are very telling. So are the anecdotal examples of relief through selective dietary exposure. There is so much to discover about this disease yet very few dollars are spent researching it. It's a damn shame. The prospects of a general vaccine are nil, as the spirochetes exchange multiple plasmids (extra-genetic material) and hence are constantly changing. The tools are there to find other ways to eliminate this disease, but the funding is not I'm afraid. If current budget recommendations (huge NIH cuts) go through, the prospects are even more grim.
Please remember as I feel they might throw us a bone here and there I don't feel a solution will be easy to come by. it's not good for business to cure one disease that will probably cure a hundred others.
I asked my doctor the other day "what about the drug they give to animals. Now I am sorry I can't remember exactly what he said but it's become normal for for me to forget things seconds later. He told me what animals go thru the following days after treatment. Remember exactly what it was but I do remember it was kind of shocking and horrible and he said people would not go through that that's why we don't take it
He said something is in the works possibility sometime next year.