The following is taken directly from Columbia.edu.
A fascinating and potentially very important study has recently come out in the journal Science.
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January 21st, 2010 | Category: Chronic Lyme Disease | Comments (2)
Antibiotics have been hailed as the super cure in their vaulted past, but over the years, as people have begun to die and suffer terrible side effects due to over-use, and still others who become sick from even a small amount of antibiotics, there is a new wave of bad publicity towards antibiotics, rightly so when taken casually.
But for those of us with chronic Lyme disease, the risks involved with taking antibiotics - for years even- are absolutely worth it. Many will admit to thinking that death is not a punishment compared to the hell we live with each day.
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Sphere: Related Content January 20th, 2010 | Tags: antibiotics, Chronic Lyme disease, dangers of antibiotics, treatment for chronic Lyme | Category: Chronic Lyme Disease, Coping with Lyme Disease, Discussion, Treatment Protocols | Comments (1)
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) has many scientists and researchers looking at the possibility of using oxygen, either as a stand-alone treatment or as a combination treatment to be used with combination of different antibiotics.
Dr. William Fife, a pioneer in undersea medicine first for the Air Force and now at Texas A & M University, has published extensive research demonstrating profound improvements in Lyme disease patients treated with HBOT. These improvements include pain reduction, return of clarity of the mind, and reduction of depression.
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Sphere: Related Content January 20th, 2010 | Tags: Add new tag, Chronic Lyme disease, Cure for Lyme, Dr. William Fife, Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber Therapy, Lyme protocol | Category: Chronic Lyme Disease, Coping with Lyme Disease, Treatment Protocols | Comments (2)
Early into my diagnosis, I begged my doctor to give me subscription drugs to manage the frightening rage and frustration taking over my fragile central nervous system.
In those early months I spent a lot of time reading other people’s experience with Lyme; and I remember the horror I felt reading about a woman who had been pushed around in the medical system and eventually blew up in uncontrollable frustration screaming, “I have Lyme! I have Lyme!” and her neighbors called the police who had to physically confine her.
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Sphere: Related Content January 19th, 2010 | Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, Violence and Rage from Lyme disease | Category: Chronic Lyme Disease, Coping with Lyme Disease, Discussion, Neurological Lyme disease | Leave a comment
When those who are friends and family watch you suffer year after year, it is only natural that they would want to help out. Sometimes it is snake oil, and sometimes it is a little known treatment that can really make a difference.
My brother-in-law told me about cinnamon and honey over the Christmas holidays (at which time I was struggling to participate for the first time in 3 years), and I promised him I would look into it, and when I promise, I follow through even if it takes some time.
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Sphere: Related Content January 16th, 2010 | Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, treatment for Lyme symptoms honey and cinnamon | Category: Chronic Lyme Disease, Coping with Lyme Disease, Product Reviews, Treatment Protocols | Comments (6)
Believe it or not, according to a press release in Cell & Microbe, a group of Yale scientists may have blown the door off the frustrating tangle of vaccine ideas to protect the populace from Lyme disease. They have found a protein found in the saliva of ticks helps protect mice from developing Lyme disease.
Traditionally, vaccines have directly targeted specific pathogens. This is the first time that antibodies against a protein in the saliva of a pathogen’s transmitting agent (in this case, the tick) has been shown to confer immunity when administered protectively as a vaccine.
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Sphere: Related Content January 16th, 2010 | Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, Lyme vaccine, tick, tick saliva, Yale | Category: Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Personal stories, Research and Development, Symptoms, Treatment Protocols | Leave a comment
I hope that this blog does not read like a medical “doctor bashing” blog, it is not meant to be, in fact the “Chronic Lyme Disease Controversy” has identified some truly heroic medical doctors. Although I firmly believe that our ultimate salvation (in terms of chronic Lyme disease) will come from the scientists who are studying the bacteria rather than the medical doctors who tend to be bound by this or that Association that governs their specialty.
However, one glaring danger that I am finally waking up to is the private and public labs who handle the actual germs and race to publish hoping for bigger and better grants through the merit of their writing.
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Sphere: Related Content January 15th, 2010 | Tags: Biolab safety, Chronic Lyme disease, protecting the US from virulent and fatal diseases | Category: Chronic Lyme Disease, Discussion, Lyme News | Comments (1)
For most of us, medical care has been taken for granted, and the authority of licensed medical practitioners unquestioned.
When you or I go to our family doctor who correctly suspects some type of infection, the medical protocol is for the licensed doctor to consult the accepted procedures as outlined in the enormous IDSA’s (Infectious Disease Society of America), and then follow the protocol with confidence.
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Sphere: Related Content January 15th, 2010 | Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, IDSA, IDSA Treatment Guidelines, Treatment for Lyme Disease | Category: Chronic Lyme Disease, Discussion, Lyme News, Research and Development | Leave a comment
One of the most devastating aspects of contracting Lyme disease today is the absence of a reliable test to diagnose Lyme and/or many of the co-infections that contribute to unnecessary suffering and mental anguish.
If you are bitten, the current protocol for doctors is to test the blood for antibodies using the ELISA test - which even some of the proponents of this system will admit to an 80% error rate. Then, IF you have a positive ELISA the protocol is to take a Western Blot which is far more accurate than the ELISA in evaluating the number of antibodies but still very unreliable for those who have chronic Lyme (regardless of how many clinical manifestations are present.)
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Sphere: Related Content January 14th, 2010 | Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, diagnosing Lyme, elevated homocysteine levels | Category: Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Research and Development | Comments (1)
Jenna, I am so happy you included this article about Teasel. My 17 year old daughter was plagued with chronic Lyme disease and neuroborreliosis, and we made many trips to the emergency room in the last two years because of meningitis-like symptoms.
Since we live in Texas, the state with no Lyme disease…HA!, the only course of treatment had been doxycycline, which we figured out was causing severe cerebral hypertension, and it was no longer an option for Katelynn.
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Sphere: Related Content January 12th, 2010 | Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, teasel | Category: Chronic Lyme Disease, Personal stories, Treatment Protocols | Comments (7)
