If it’s autoimmune and not a herx - how do you explain continual improvement and lessening of symptom numbers over the years of treatment?...
Hi Terrym - welcome to our forum! I am also a Canadian - but i'm on the West coast. If you do want to get another test done - go through the Igenex Lab in california. You can get the Lyme WB IgM and...
My low wbc count is directly related to taking abx. When I’m on them - my wbc drops below 4 (below bottom range) When I’m off them it rises again....
True - you wouldn’t hink abx would ramp up an autoimmune condition....
I don’t think most of us are saying we’re sick with just one bacteria, but at least two or more bacteria’s/viruses... etc lyme, Bartonella, Babesia , ebv, Candida, Etc....
For children yes - but for adults it’s generally the one dosage. For instance at 128 lbs I was on 200 mg twice daily. A man weighing over 200 lbs would get the same dose. Maybe if the adult was very...
I took 200 mg twice daily. That is the usual dose llmd’s prescribe for doxy....
I didn’t experience that. The cryptolepis sure tastes horrid...
One of the issues - how do you know you’ve treated enough and the bacterial load is low? Many docs don’t treat Babesia or bart when they see negative tests. If I had stopped treatment after my first...
Hey RTnBam - Sorry for not welcoming you to the forum - Not sure if you realized that this is an old thread from 2014....
Japanese knotweed is something to add - it’s one of the herbs for lyme plus Bartonella...
I don’t know if the lactoferrin interferes with iron absorption - hadn’t heard that. I have low ferritin - haven’t tested recently tho....
Welcome, kp#77 Agree with Quinn - I would think you’d get the side effects of a drug within the first month... that’s usually the case. How long have you had symptoms? And are you seeing a LLMD?...
Does Michael J Fox have a permanent autoimmune disease? .. or could it be untreated lyme?...
For sfn have you had the emg and ncs? Then there’s the punch biopsy (I think that’s what it’s called...