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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: Karen W. on 02/10/2013 06:48:27

Title: Will preventing antibiotic sensitivity, help treat Chronic Lyme Disease as well?
Post by: Karen W. on 02/10/2013 06:48:27

Hi guys...here is the link to your bulletin which caught my eye! I hope you can expound on this...

http://thenakedscientists.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a4da488474fc2d288c609eef6&id=4c1ec4af83&e=93e63759da

I have chronic Lyme disease. Will this new discovery help in the antibiotic treatment for my Lyme disease... Right now we are rotating 2 different antibiotics at a time For several months and then we hit it with a second round of paired antibiotics in order to try to treat the Lyme spirochetes and avoid this sensitivity..I read your news bulletin on this and my heart jumped out of my chest! It has been a long road over the last 7 or 8 years now.. longer if I start way back at the time I contracted the disease and did not know about Lyme so thought nothing of it. I will spare you all the information on all the secondary Conditions I have acquired with that over the years..
  I really want To know if this new discovery will better help me battle and gain better controll over the advancement of my disease...?  It seems at the present that for every step forward, we seem to take 3 steps backwards.. it's hard to hear them tell me it gets worse before it gets better... thus far as in my case we've had very little luck with the treatment working. Because about the time we start to pull
 ahead the current antibiotic pair becomes resistent and the herxing gets so bad we
have to stop allow my body to rest. For a little while last time just over 2 months
before we were able to start the antibiotics up again...
      Will this be Benificial in my treatment or have I misunderstood the outcomes of
the whole theory and outcome of this discovery?

Title: Re: Will preventing antibiotic sensitivity, help treat Chronic Lyme Disease as well?
Post by: Edwina Lee on 03/05/2020 03:16:29

As Mayo Clinic is one of the most reputable US medical institutions, I tend to go along with their advice.
Current recommendation: "After treatment, a small number of people still have some symptoms, such as muscle aches and fatigue. The cause of these continuing symptoms, known as post-Lyme disease syndrome, is unknown, and treating with more antibiotics doesn't help.

Some experts believe that certain people who get Lyme disease are predisposed to develop an autoimmune response that contributes to their symptoms. More research is needed."

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lyme-disease/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20374655

Title: Re: Will preventing antibiotic sensitivity, help treat Chronic Lyme Disease as well?
Post by: Karen W. on 30/06/2020 13:59:39

As of the beginning of 2015 when they finally diagnose my breast cancer, the doctors stopped my antibiotic treatment for my Lyme disease due to the chemotherapy. I'm still on chemo upkeep basically a for the rest of my life as I understand it because I was hormone positive. So I'm taking a low dose letrazole tablet to treat my breast cancer. But they're no longer treating my lime. As I understand it once I was done with the lettuce all I was supposed to come back to continue treatment for the lime. Haven't done that yet but I do say after the last few years I feel lots better but, I had been on the antibiotics for several years when we found the cancer. Since then I've been treated for both thyroid cancer and breast cancer and I'm currently cancer-free and I've also had a tavern procedure for my heart valve 2 years ago June.
Thank you for your link and for your reply.