Posted by Lorraine on April 20, 2002, at 10:47:20
In reply to Lyme's..., posted by JasonLohr on April 19, 2002, at 14:11:54
Jason: To me, it seems like all roads lead to Rome. The fact is that with Lyme, I have activated levels of 4 herpes viruses and a NK function that sucks. So who is to say what causes what--it's all correlational analysis anyway. And, with Lyme there is the speculation that cases that don't respond well to antibiotics (and here there is the debate, long/term vs short/term--which aren't regarded as being effective in late stage lyme anyway by lyme literate doctors) are cases that have impaired immune function (which I have). If the conventional antibiotics don't work (I am on Valtrex 4 gm/day--which is a lot), coupled with hyperbaric oxygen treatment, which is believed to help drive the antibiotics deeper and lyme is supposed to be anaerobic as well, then it's on to some other treatment and my guess for me would be ozone or UV blood irradiation at a clinic in Mexico. I believe that fundamentally the problem with all of these is restoring the appropriate balance to the immune system. I am also taking transfer factor (which one of the guys associated with stealth viruses recommended.) I know that I am not willing to be involved in a double blind trial and to me right now it seems like everyone is just taking wild guesses (eventually one of these will be right).
Lorraine
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