Posted by bleauberry on March 12, 2009, at 5:23:50
In reply to Another Lymes Article Interesting slant., posted by Phillipa on March 11, 2009, at 23:35:17
This article is so sad. Not because of anything it has to say about violence or psychosis from Lyme, but just the multitude of generalized unproven falsehood statements made in the article directed at Lyme overall. Mankind arrogance and ignorance on display.
The authors involved fall in the camp that I call the "I have spoken"s. They have self proclaimed themselves Gods with opinions that could not possibly be wrong.
As a sidenote, my LLMD is going real careful with me based on his experience with psych patients. Example. A lady with a history of psychosis began treatment with antibiotics. He did not know she had a psych history. She had not shared that with him. On normal doses of antibiotics, she went into a full blown psychotic/depressive attack that landed her in the psych ward. He immediately withdrew antibiotics, to restart later at much more conservative cautious dosing.
While in the hospital, she got a sinus infection. An unknowing doctor on duty gave her an antibiotic, the same antibiotic. She again flipped out right in the psych ward.
Hey, you start killing things that are embedded in the nervous system, of course there could be psychiatric ramifications of all kinds, good or bad, unpredictable. Not to mention the Herxheimer reaction. Not to mention how out of balance the hormones and immune system are, and how the antibiotic will tilt that in one direction or another, with the re-adjustment and adaptation phase following. Lyme is extremely complicated.
For anyone to not acknowledge that is putting their own stupidity on display.
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