I use the phrase - a probable tick borne infection. When I do say lyme, even in SoCal, I am always surprised by how many people know of someone suffering with it!
I found this article online that I think would be EXCELLENT.
www.chelseagreen.com/blogs/welcome-lyme-wars/ I think, to understand "lyme" one needs to understand the "war."
It is from Stephen Buhner's Healing Lyme - second edition.
What I like about
him is that he sees himself as in the middle camp, not on one side or the other...and also... I am biased in that it is following the Buhner protocol (largely) that I am feeling so much better. I especially appreciate what he has to say about
antibiotic use.
"And finally: Antibiotics are thought by most physicians to be highly effective in treating Lyme disease — and for many people they are. I do wish to stress this: for many people they are. The turnaround in symptoms for some of the very ill people who take antibiotics is, in fact, (no other word is appropriate here) miraculous. People have gone from being wheel-chair bound and incapacitated as to any normal life to fully functional after a proper diagnosis and a course of antibiotics. Unfortunately, an in-depth review of the literature reveals that antibiotics are not nearly as effective as they are purported to be. Studies show that the effectiveness rates for antibiotics run anywhere from 70–95% depending on the study (and the antibiotic). Rarely included in these statistics, however, is the fact that there is often as much as a 35 percent relapse rate. Additionally, live spirochetes are regularly found in people who have undergone repeated, very potent, more time-limited antibiotic regimens – and even in some who have take antibiotics long term. (Please see the chapter on chronic Lyme disease for more on this.)"
"Over the past decade we have found that nearly everything suggested for treating the Lyme-group of disease organisms does help some people and does not help others. Sometimes a short two-week course of antibiotics can completely reverse the disease; sometimes it cannot. Sometimes herbal protocols alone will bring someone back to health, sometimes they won’t. Sometimes a combined antibiotic/herbal protocol is the only thing that will work. Sometimes this herb will help, sometimes that one. For other people, neither of them are any good."
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