MS link to Lyme- interesting read

[mojogal]

http://archive.feedblitz.com/534462/~4509561/28023432/2264d1de440efdd4995c4e203b006c46

[mojogal]

Right, and it is too strange that many of us are misdiagnosed with autoimmune diseases.  I was told I had 3.

[Ricobord]

I am also convinced that autoimmune disorders are triggered by an infection, especially since I read a study of MS on the Faroe Islands that concluded that MS there met all definitions of an epidemic. These remote islands had no MS in locals until a few years after the British occupied the islands in WWII. The occupying force had a lot of Scottish Highlanders, who have a high rate of MS.

I truly wonder if there are infections that go under the radar...that do not cause a chronic fever or other typical signs of infections, and infect particular cells in the body (such as Sjogren's which affects moisture producing cells or MS which affects myelin).  The immune system of some people then start attacking those infected cells trying to get to the invaders. The autoimmune disorder depends on what type of cell is infected and also attacked by the immune system.   Well...at least this is what I am thinking.  Of course I am not a doctor or researcher, so my opinion isn't worth much.

I read about some doctors treating immune disorders patients with Minocycline and getting some results. Also, Dr. Fry has found a parasite that he named protomyxzoa that he thinks is suspect.

There is so much we don't know!  

[mojogal]

Exactly, since I was one of those Misdiagnosed with MS and Lupus. I fully agree.
My pharmacist told me the story of her friend who was told she had MS and was in a wheelchair for 20 years. She was reading about Lyme, saw an LLMD and is now out of the wheelchair. Wasting 20 years over a misdiagnoses.

[nutrinut_bob]

Interesting reading.  I'd already decided some time ago that there is no such thing auto-immune disease, there was something else involved, something the immune system was trying to get to.  Guess I was right.  Now if you just get the Drs. to read such things and quit putting so many people in the MS section!