Oh, thank you! I thought that suggestion had fallen on deaf ears.
I've belonged to sites where if you make a statement it should be backed up, even if that resource might be wrong. Sorta like a good journalist has to get a second verification of a fact.
"With about $20,000 raised, [name deleted] left on Feb. 18 for the Klinik St. George in Bad Aibling. Over ten days, she prepared her body for two hyperthermia sessions, in which her body was heated to 107 degrees while her head is kept cool. The hope is that the toxins will not survive the high temperatures."
http://ridgewood.patch.com/groups/volunteering/p/chronic-lyme-patient-leaves-ridgewood-for-germany
Did Rau not learn anything from ICHT and Bachynsky? Of course, Bachynsky had other problems. :)
I read about Dr. Rau since I didn't know much, if anything, about him. I'm sure a lot of people love him and his ideas, much as they did Hulda Clark.
Here are the links to the papers I've been talking about:
The Bockenstedt mouse study:
http://www.jci.org/articles/view/58813
And the I posted the link to the Embers monkey study (with quotables and all!) earlier.
I will make an effort to include the actual study wherever I can. Great suggestions, cave76.
More good questions, md2013!
I have hope for the future with you there in the field.
I wonder, If indeed the Lyme is hiding, is it causing an immune system reaction?
Or does the immune system only react to Lyme antigens found in the blood stream and across organ tissues and cartilage?
Another BIG question of mine is: Is this pain I have all over my body an immune system reaction only? Or is there something else to it - like that "Lyme toxin" theory that never seemed to go anywhere?
Because, I have to say, my symptoms feel somewhat reminiscent of the flu - like fevers and chills and body aches - but there are all these other bad nasty horrible feelings I have all over my body - like this totally irritating skin sensitivity (it comes and goes), photo-sensitivity that hurts my eyes so much I can't be outside without really dark sunglasses - I sit in the dark most of the time because of this strange symptom.
These are just some examples of the terrible weirdnesses I feel. Some of them resemble flu-like symptoms, but others...I can't even relate them with any other cold or virus I've ever had before.
Oh! Here's another one: My skin gets all hot - especially around the outsides of my thighs and around large joints (hips, E=etc.) and it hurts like hell - like there isn't enough blood pumping - it almost feels like my limbs are separated from the rest of my body. And it hurts really bad!
So please take that big brain of yours and apply it to probably the century's most interesting disease!
Ricobord,
Would you believe I have already tried just about every one of Dr. Rau's treatment protocols.
This is what I'm trying to tell you all!!!
I have tried pretty much all the natural remedies (but I do, on principle refuse to shove coffee up my rectum - I don't care how clean things get. Coffee goes into the mouth - not the anus. Always!).
I also refuse to heat my body up to temperatures that would burn even some protected organs inside the body! People are so desperate, they'll try anything!
I think it is awful how much guessing we all have to do. Who do we trust? I could never trust Dr. Rau to heat up my body until all the Lyme bacteria dies. This method has been demonstrated in Germany in fact and has injured several people by burning their internal organs!
And so what if it kills the Lyme disease? Antibiotics do the very same thing - but I, and people like me, am still left with "what happened to me after taking those antibiotics?" Yes, I believe they may have killed most - maybe not all - of the Lyme bacteria.
I think we can agree that after I took 5 different antibiotics for several years each over a five-year span, that I should have at least made a dent in the number of bacteria present in my body, right?
So, why, for all those five years and going into the sixth, am I having MORE problems than before I started the antibiotics - the so-called Herxheimer?
You may want to suggest that I do not have Lyme - but rather something else. But, the problems I had before taking antibiotics did improve after taking the antibiotics - but after, I got even worse problems - with pain mostly.
Also, as I said, every single Lyme test I have taken has come up positive - some very positive. I will list them some other time.
I am certainly not the only one who has experience this life-harrowing herxing!!!
No pain, no gain?
Is that what I am to believe?
Is so much pain really good for you? Is it helping you at all? Does it mean you are getting rid of bacteria - or is it an avoidable phenomenon?
It could be a totally useless sh*t-ton baggage of pain that I have been lead to believe that I must carry if I am to get well.
Well, I'm putting my foot down here. 5 years of treatment going on six years of unbearable pain that has only let up a bit now that I have been away from antibiotics for a while??? I don't think so. I'm willing to bet that the pain we are experiencing is totally and utterly useless to our getting well.
Is anyone else out there having this problem? Am I alone?
Perhaps you have an MTHFR gene mutation? I have two and with those mutations I have trouble detoxing. This is a scientific fact.
So, the herxheimer experience for me is longer and is not a sham.