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Posted: Thu Mar 1st, 2007 03:18 |
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George, sorry to hear about DW's tribulations. Also about Dr C, although I had expected that. He made it quite clear at AAEM that he didn't want to hear any more talk about 'cure'. A lot of the LLMDs seem to be like that, I am afraid.
Someone has reported spinal spurs disappearing with the MP. It may have been on SarcInfo (a looong time ago). Maybe one of the other moderators could prompt my memory on this.
Sorry about the hearing. It is a very slow healer, even slower than neuropathy. Tinnitus waxes and wanes with the immunopathology , does your hearing loss also wax and wane?
All the best to you and yours
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Posted: Thu Mar 1st, 2007 10:38 |
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Trevor,
I have thought that my hearing has waxed and waned with the herxing. But, oh so little!!! The difference really is almost not recognizable.
I have also found the same thing with my lower leg spasms with the herxing, too. But the difference is more discernible with the various products that I have mentioned ingesting. Maybe, that is caused by a greater quantity of irritating material being ingested.
For those that do not know, artificial flavors and artificial colors are made from petroleum, except for vanillin, the artificial flavor, which is made from the refuse of paper production. Our bodies were never intended to process those products.
That is very good news about the bone spurs going away. Not only does the DW have them, but I do also. I have had three surgicals now because of them. I would think that they disappear very slowly, if they do. I will keep my fingers crossed that they do.
But then, that is like most things with these CWD Body Snatchers, including them. They disappear very slowly!
Interesting comment that Dr. C made!!! Contrary to what he tells patients! However, it is a defacto recognition that what they are doing is only a "holding" action to make the patient FEEL better, that they really don't know what will "cure".
Here is to Happy Tolerable Herxing!!! and Wellness!
Dark Vader...aka, George
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Hi, All,
This is about the GOOD, BAD, and, The UGLY. I am in need of reporting.
I am The UGLY!!! I herx. I have herxes. I am herxing. Herx is the language of the common PWC... that's me! I did not go to medical school to learn all those fancy, tongue-twisting words. Those that did go to fancy medical schools need to learn some new ideas of what causes certain illnesses, and those folks can learn the language of the common PWC, as well as what really causes those certain illnesses. I am here to show that one must herx to get better. But one can control the herxing with the meds of the MP.
My definition of herx/herxes/herxing is... the various symptoms that my body gives me when it encounters the toxins of the carcasses of dead bacteria and the cytokines that the body produces to get rid of those bacterial carcasses. Actually, normal dying of bacteria causes those same toxins and cytokines, but when a person takes certain substances that are foreign to the body, "meds", and increases those symptoms, either variety or intensity, is when I think of the increase as a herx... or, what I am having, or what I am doing. I don't mean to be offensive, but this is my language! It is what words I use to convey a process. It is in honor of Drs. Jarisch and Herxheimer, who made the discovery as related to the acute stage of syphilus. But the concept carries through to the chronic stage of disease that I am going through. And it is easy to use! Herx/herxes/herxing.
The BAD were the five local doctors that refused to assist me to do the MP, and the two doctors that are on the staff of a noteworthy medical school that refused to assist me also, including one that has assisted me in the past with orthodox medical treatment, who is billed as being a Rehabilitation Specialist. One doctor even suggested that I consider "seeing a psychiartrist for evaluation...", that my ideas "represent some kind of difficulty related to the way you think and process information" (about the way current medicine thinks and treats patients). Even though I did score at the ninety-fourth percentile on the LSAT (Law School Applitude Test), and made a perfect score on the AFQT (Armed Forces Qualifying Test), he thinks that I cannot think and process information.
Sorry, folks! I, and you, cannot think for ourselves, that the MP is a good and viable pathogenesis and protocol for what ails us, according to that "God". Is it no small wonder that so many people are turning to "Alternative Medicine"? I can see that "God" voting to put a person to the burning stake for saying the earth was round and not the center of the universe, if this was the 14th Century. I was flabbergasted when he suggested that to me!
For all of you Great Thinking medical school graduates who are learning of this 21st Century MP thinking and treatment, I congratuate you, and applaud you!!!
Now, the GOOD!!!!!! I have found another medical doc who is assisting me... thanks! to MPer, PBear. The doctor is only a two hours drive away from my home, so I feel lucky indeed!!! I have script for MP meds and numerous lab tests, including a DEXA test on Tuesday coming up.
I stopped all MP meds about January 11 due to my DW having a pinched nerve in her cervical spine causing a need for an operation and assistance afterwards. She is doing just great now.
I herxed mildly for about ten days after stopping the meds, and then had about a week in which I felt energetic. But then, the old lack of energy set in, and I knew that I have more work to do with the MP treatment. I continued to avoid D and light.
I re-started the MP meds on April 28 with Benicar, four times a day. On May 6, I re-started with 25 mg mino, every other day. After a few days, I could start to feel mild herxing.
I re-started with a second abx on May 17. Mild herxing showed its head until May 27, when I had a hard spasm in my left side near an old hernia repair that lasted for something over three hours. I took extra Benicar and extra 25 mg of mino. It was no fun! It is hard to decide if that is what shut off the herx or not.
I had some general, over-all strong herxing that put me to sleep for whole afternoons, on May 29 and 31, along with some aching in the head, which I very seldom experience.
I re-started a third abx on June 2.
I then had some really strong, general, over-all herxing on Mon and Tues, June 4 & 5, that put me on my back for about three hours of extra sleeping each day. It hit so sudden that I was not sure that I would make the sofa before falling asleep.
Luckily, I was free of noticeable herxing yesterday for my first visit with the new med doc.
I did the three abx at noonish today.
I was surprised with the amount of herxing that I did from these small amounts of abx. I think that either the vacation from the MP meds allowed the bacteria time to leave their tissue hideouts and enter the blood stream, or, that low amounts of abx do a better job of killing the bacteria than the larger amounts that I was on prior to the med vacation. Or some combination of the two. I am planning to stay at low amounts of abx this time around for a longer time. Just rotate more often. Then, when I don't herx, increase the amount slowing.
Also, no coffee this time around!!!!!!!
Wishing all wellness!!!!
Dark Vader... aka, George
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Posted: Fri Jun 8th, 2007 03:43 |
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George,
So glad to hear your wife is doing better and that you can focus again on the MP with a good doctor.
Although "Herx" always had enough spin to make me feel like I was cursing the bacteria off as I posted, I have welcomed "immunopathology" well enough as the real big guns of the MP is one's own immune system and that term helps remind me where the real MP action is expected.
Your noticing lower doses can bring significant response is similar to when I first considered that concept in a post by Dr Waterhouse early in my MP journey. Nice example from both of you, good reminder today.
Thank you!--Janet
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Posted: Fri Jun 8th, 2007 11:27 |
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Hi, Janet,
Thanks! for the well wishing. 
I was hesitant about saying anything about the using of the term, "herx, etc". I did not want to upset Staff, but I knew that many of the PWC's liked using the term better than the longer term. And, I do! As it has turned out, one of the Staff notified me that Staff would like to see the members use the term, "herx", and that Staff thinks they should use the medical community's term to be more professional.
So, if you like to use the longer term, go for it! But you are one of the Staff. 
And, if you are like me, "herx", then! 
Wishing all wellness!
Dark Vader... aka, George
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George,
No worries. I was mostly just noting the verbage emphasis on the immune system made the science focus clearer when it was introduced, not requesting usage changes. I actually think "Herx" has more communication flexibility and could easily be identified with the Marshall Protocol as the dominant term used for a lot longer than I've been here.
The main thing is I'm so happy for you and that you are doing the MP and having notable responses at meds and levels you are at. It is good to see your posts!
Best to you George--Janet
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Posted: Fri Jun 8th, 2007 11:41 |
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George,
There are a few minor concessions we have made to make our message more acceptable to those versed in conventional Medicine. 'Immunopathology' is one of them. Sometimes I wonder if it is worth the effort, but at DMM2007 I had a chat over dinner with a leading Infectious Diseases expert at Harvard. As he shook my hand to leave he said "Trevor, I think you might be correct" (about the pathogenesis). So whether it was "immunopathology" or "persistent" pathogens or "subinhibitory" doses of antibiotics, it worked, and that is really the bottom line
Glad to hear things are back on track for you and yours.
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Posted: Fri Jun 8th, 2007 11:54 |
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Trevor,
I must confess.....I like you as the "point" man. Thank you!!!
Keep influencing those late 19th Century thinkers. They just find it difficult to break with the regimentation.
Wishing all wellness!
Dark Vader...aka, George
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Posted: Fri Jun 8th, 2007 15:21 |
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George,
So glad to hear you're back on board and "herxing" well! Also best wishes for DW's full recovery.
You may recall I PM'ed you earlier about your dr, and you replied that you didn't have one at the time. We have one willing to prescribe the meds, but not to manage the pain (see 4wd's posts for our current dilemma).
If your "new" MP dr is actually going to "help" with MP, would you mind PMing his name, location and phone? Have MP, will travel...Thanks!
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Hi, All,
Well, I got some test and lab results back. GOOD!
My osteopenia seems to be clearing up. My DEXA is reported as NORMAL now for all indices. And, my Total Left Hip score increased 31.8%, while my Total Right Hip score went down 4%, but still remained in a good range.
My “granulomatous disease as evidence by calcified mediastinal lymph nodes” as reported five years ago in the x-ray report of then seems to be cleared up. The current radiologist report said, “ PA and lateral chest x-ray demonstrate the lungs to be clear of focal infiltrates and expanded bilaterally. The cardiac silhouette is normal in size and contour. The bones of the region are unremarkable. No active intrathoracic disease seen. When prior films are obtained, comparison report will be made.” I think that if he would have seen “granulomatous disease…”, he would have said something. I wrote to the previous radiologist previously, and he answered that it was probably due to histoplasmosis, which is quite common living in the Mississippi Valley. Wouldn’t this be amazing to find out that the prevalence of histoplamosis is really the prevalence of Th1 inflammation instead of a fungus….maybe, helped along with the prevalence of ticks in the wonderful forests of the region, vectoring pleomorphic bacteria…..such as borrelium burgdorferi, and who knows what else. IMO, the depositing of calcium in the chest soft tissue is the result of the resorption when the 125D hormone gets above the certain level.
My CRP test result is still excellent at 0.12…. up from “less than 0.1” from the test of ten months ago. But still down from the range of 0.4 to 0.8 of the twelve years prior to doing the MP. This increase is also in keeping with the fact that I was OFF all MP meds for about three and a half months due to assisting my wife and not having an assisting doc for the MP. I would wager that with my doing the MP meds again, my CRP will return to “less than 0.1” again. These results definitely show that c-reactive protein does go hand and hand with pleomorphic bacteria, IMO.
My Total Cholesterol was 211; LDL was 139; HDL was 55, and the Triglycerides was 85… for those still believing in the antiquated idea that cholesterol is the culprit in circulation and heart disease, and strokes, and not pleomorphic bacteria.
And my 25D, at a score of 23, is edging down….at last!!! For those that might be reading my post for the first time, I used as much as 16,000 units of D supplementation PER DAY for a full two years prior to learning of the MP, when I stopped. I may be loaded with 25D to a greater extent than most people. Also, I realize that I am eating some foods with a small amount of D in them due to my having to eat something to keep myself going what with the extremely small number of foods that do not have salicylates, etc, in them that I am sensitive to, and which cause me much pain with cramps. I know that my diet is not the optimum diet for doing the MP, but I do want to live until the end of doing the MP. I am down almost twenty pounds now … to where I was when I finished U.S. Air Force Officer/Pilot School at age twenty years…probably my best weight, so I have no real complaints.
But my 125D shot up again to 54  with my doing the test early in the week following a week of working outside with re-routing some fencing so that we can start building our retirement house at last. I thought that I was using enough light protection but the test score proves that I was not. I had two layers of dark shirts on; thick long Carhart pants on, 7% NoIRS, my favorite hat (in the picture), and 7% Zinc sun screen on my face, neck and hands…and was wearing leather work gloves a lot, but not always. This may wind up being a problem for me since I still have a good ways to go before we are finished with house building. We are really just starting, though I have decided to turn the general contracting over to a contractor friend.
My biggest headache and PAIN are the cramps/ muscle spasms that I get at night in my lower legs and feet. They are spreading to new areas and even showing their head doing the day in my hands. I can trace a correlation with my herxing, I think, as well as certain foods with salicylates, artificial flavors and artificial colors, and natural mint (spearment and peppermint). I wonder if the problem might be that products given off by bacteria in the gut and/or by herxing might be of a phenolic material and combine with the salicylates, etc, to exceed some level that my body can tolerate. Salicylates are in the phenol family, I understand.
My lab work shows my urea nitrogen to be on the high side at 31 mg/dL; my bun/creatinine ratio to be on the high side at 31. My white blood cell count to be a bit low at 4.17 million/uL. Otherwise, all other lab work shows normal. I guess that maybe those three out of reference range might be because of re-starting the MP after almost a three and a half month vacation from meds.
Of note because of my previous osteopenia and my current leg cramps are calcium at 9.0 with a ref. range of 8.6 – 10.2 mg/dL, and, magnesium at 2.2 with a ref. range of 1.5 – 2.5 mg/dL
I have started supplementing with calcium, to the RDA, as best as I can figure, for the osteopenia, and magnesium to try to help with the cramps.
My most noteworthy herxing is yesterday and today. I think that this herx is the strongest yet since re-starting the meds. Big time dopeyness and dizziness!!! And pain last night in the lower abdominal area that lasted at least six hours, with even a little this morning when I awoke. Since the DW ate the same thing that I did last night, and she did not have the same result, I think that I can safely figure it was herxing that bothered me in the abdomen. I have had a few times when all I could think of was sleeping…and, did so!
I seem to be surviving, and even improving in some areas. The new assisting doc seems to be rather helpful; she FAXed the results right nicely. However, I can see that I have much work to do yet. The tunnel is still long.
Wishing all wellness!!!
Dark Vader…aka, George
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Hi, Toni,
Nice to hear from you!
I hope that you are doing nicely, too!!!
This sure is a nice place to meet GREAT people!
At the beginning of June, my 25D tested 23ng/ml... which was good for me!!! Finally, after a long time, my score got un-stuck from the 29 figure...the result of toooooo much supplementing with "vitamin" D for two whole years, IMO. It seems to be moving down, at last. And NO coffee drinking this time around.
And my herxing is definitely getting stronger and of a longer duration during the last few weeks. Which I take to mean that my 25D has finally broke through the 20 ng/ml wall that it takes to turn on the innate immune system, as Trevor says. I will have it tested again in September.
I am currently on three abx's. I am doing a basic ten day cycle with one of them, but went to eleven days this last cycle. I was on a three days cycle for the other abx's, but have stretched it to five days this last time to learn what happens, and also, give me time without much, or less, herxing to do my re-routing of some fencing at our "ranch". I am trying to work only during the last hour and a half of daylight to minimize that affect, so the work is progressing at a snail's pace.
DW is finally going to start the MP, also.....I think, but I give no guarantees! We have an appointment in the beginning of September, right after my appointment at my new MP doctor, for her to start the MP.  She needs it! And, is already tested, and "qualifies".
Molly, the doggie, is every bit as cute, loveable, intelligent and playful as ever, even after having her first "heat". Her Mom was very playful, too, even after eight weeks of nursing a litter of six pups, so I take it runs in the family. Mom was literally forcing the pups to play with her, when we were looking them over. Molly has stopped growing with her weight at roughly eleven pounds.
Elm, Claude and Jake are still Elm, Claude and Jake (Congo African Grey parrots)....fun to hear and work with!!
Recently, I wrote a short synopsis of my improvements from doing the MP for a monthly retired United Airlines Pilots' newsletter, which will come out about the middle of this month. One of the older retired pilots that works as a preparer of the newsletter had the opportunity to read early what I said . He is also a moderator of that groups' Yahoo website, and has invited me to expand my health knowledge to that site for all of the retired United pilots, so that they can respond in an easier fashion to what I say. The hardcopy is for about 4,500 folks, and the Yahoo account is now about 450 folks. Both are closed, private venues. Good stuff from the retired seems to filter to the active pilots. So, maybe, there will be an influx of more good-health-seeking folks on the MP. We shall see! I am a commited MPer and trying to spread the word!
Wishing all wellness!!!
Dark Vader...aka, George
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Good work George, and glad to hear your 25D is starting to drop.
I still have no data on whether prolonged exposure to high energy radiation helps fuel the decline of innate immunity, but I think it is reasonable to expect it does.
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Posted: Wed Aug 8th, 2007 20:43 |
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Thanks, Trevor!
Which "prolonged exposure to high energy radiation" are you talking about?
Being so long at high altitude, or something else?
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Which "prolonged exposure to high energy radiation" are you talking about?
I'm thinking light sabers, Dark Vader
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LOLOL Sallee, I like that!
George: I meant the high-altitude UV rays through the perspex cockpit windows (perspex/lucite transmits UV so well).
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I hadn't thought of that, Sallee!!!! That was a goodie!!!
But in fact, some of the high altitude dwelling guys have been zapped with lasers, and had trouble. One that I know about, lost his eyesight. 
Trevor, there was always talk about the problem of being exposed so much. I remember that one study found cancer to be more prevalent on the right side for co-pilots, who sat on the right side of the control cabin, and greater on the left side for captains, who sat on the left side. I do not know how prevatent cancer was for the control cabin crews. If you need this information sometime, the ALPA Health Committee might be able to direct us to where we can get it, if they don't already have it.
Wishing all wellness!!!
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Since my last report of August 8...
I am currently doing three abx of the Phase III.
My herxing seems to be stretched out longer these days, so I go with the flow, and stretch the cycle out some.
My chugging along is just... chugging along! Nothing particularly exciting to report, except below, which is of recent vintage. My herxing (IP) usually demands more sleep of me.
I have definitely correlated that my nocturnal lower leg spasms are a mixture of ingesting salicyclates, artificial colors and/or artificial flavors, and herxing (IP). If I get lucky and eliminate all of the just above, I have litttle to no cramps. If I combine all of them, especially like some high salicylates like red, juicy plump strawberries, or a curry dish, my night will be a misery. I have learned how to eliminate most of the salicylates...don't eat them. I am still working on the herxing. But I suspect that is part of doing the MP.
Three different things to report on...
At the last of April and into May, we had a real rash of ticks here in Missouri, and at this house in particular, it seemed. Our little, ten pound house doggie was found by the ticks. We discovered nineteen of them on her one day. Two days later, she had five ticks on her. We really do not allow her to go romping all over. Three of the ticks found me, too. I think off of Molly. I removed them all with a special tick removal tool that slides under the tick, and puts it in a V of the very thin flat stainless sheet metal. Then, when you lift up slowly, and keep pressure, the ticks lets go...in theory. Much better than a tweezer, even a sharp-pointed one. I thought that was what happened to all three of mine, that I got everything out. However, two of the three "sores" have remained with me now since the last of April. They are raised and redish, and itch like crazy. One is on the backside of my right leg just above the knee. The other is on my back on the left side and about where the kidney is. I sure hope that the MP takes care of those new invasions of whatever. These two tick bite sites are acting very much like the first tick bite that I remember from the Spring of 1958. However, I have not noticed the "Summer-time flu" like I did the first time.
Another REAL bothersome "herx" (?) that I am having is eczema for the very first time in my life. One patch is on my back, starting at my beltline and going up from there, perhaps in a circle of eight inches in diameter. Another patch is on my back at the base of my neck in the vicinity of C-7 and T-1, for almost six inches in diameter. A third patch is in front across my collar bone areas, both sides. They are all of the red bump type. Itchy as all get-out!!!! It all started with one little bump that was itchy for a week on my left collar bone, then went to my lower back, and everything blossumed very quickly from there during this last week. I have no known reason for them or their locations. This is one herx I do not like!!!!! I am making up for lost time with my previous easy herxing of having to sleep more.
And I discovered something odd a couple of days ago. My garage door opener kept popping its circuit breaker, which was in the basement and in a dark corner. I used a very bright 1,000,000 candle power flashlight that I had handy. By accident I aimed the flashlight so that the light bounced off of the glossy surface of the c.b panel, and right into my eyes. Immediately, I started to grow faint as when I bend over, and, my brain started to hurt as when I get the "dizzyes" for too deep a "cycle". Taking the light away ended the affair. I have noticed a wee bit that I become faint/dizzy when I was getting lots of light inadvertently, like outside working on re-routing my fencing (which is still going on... very slowly). {The problem with the garage door opener was a faulty light bulb socket that kept shorting out.}
My new assisting med doc is being just great with assisting me with doing the MP. Except for the two hour drive to see the doc, I am glad that the local qxxxks said, "NO!".
Wishing all wellness!!!
Dark Vader... aka, George
P.S. Profound thought for the day.... the days of the calender are numbered.
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Borreliosis:7/14/04--125D=57,25D=61. Ben 9/1/04. Mino 10/5/04. 4/13/05--125D=58,25D=43. 8/17/05--125D=52,25D=36. April 06=125D=38,25D=29. 8/29/06--125D=37,25D=29. June 07 25D=23. Oct31'07,25D=19.
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GeorgeinRollaMO
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Posted: Sat Sep 29th, 2007 14:39 |
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Since my report of Sept 12...
This period was highlighted by the eczema, and reduced lower legs spasms, both showing a relationship to the herxing.
The eczema drove me nuts with the itching, and was definitely connected with herxing. I also had to sleep LOTS during this bad time. But then the eczema started to fade out after about a week. Still here, but not nearly as bad.
And the lower leg cramps at night eased considerably from past experience. I have been having the cramps only at lite levels and once or twice per night, EXCEPT for the night near the ending long-cycle abx herx, when I had them as bad as many previous times.
I think that I am getting a bit more energy of late. My lethargic feeling is lifting. I am starting to get interested in doing some things rather than having to push myself.
Have stayed away from the re-fencing of the acreage, even the little (two or three hours at a time) that I do, due to not wanting to cause the eczema to itch. I read that exertion can cause it to do so. Warm, not hot, showers seem to be the only thing to reduce the itching.
I have been rather sedentary of late, so am amazed that for two days now, I have been having some mild "feelings" around my heart area. I wonder if it may be mild herxing coming from that area. This would be a new type of herx for me, also along with the eczema being new.
I did some reading on the Internet about eczema. There was one mention of someone finding staph bacteria associated with eczema. I think that I have read that staph is another of the pleomorphic bacteria. I wonder if the MP is driving them out of their hiding places to cause me the eczema.
Also, growing up in my home city of New Orleans and area, I remember that before air conditioning was so popular, people, babies in particular, would have "heat rashes", which looked very similar to my eczema. I wonder if they were caused by a staph infection. Another of the ways that we pick up our load of pleomorphic bacteria????
Wishing all wellness!!!
Dark Vader...aka, George
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Borreliosis:7/14/04--125D=57,25D=61. Ben 9/1/04. Mino 10/5/04. 4/13/05--125D=58,25D=43. 8/17/05--125D=52,25D=36. April 06=125D=38,25D=29. 8/29/06--125D=37,25D=29. June 07 25D=23. Oct31'07,25D=19.
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Dr Trevor Marshall
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Posted: Sat Sep 29th, 2007 15:32 |
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Staph is an interesting pathogen. It is believed to be able to form biofilm proteins with its genome, yet it doesn't seem to be the sole Th1 pathogen, or even the primary species. The Prosthetic Joints study found about 5% Staph epidermidis. Alan Cantwell said he almost always found that species in the sweat glands of patients he examined.
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BARNEY
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Posted: Sat Sep 29th, 2007 15:40 |
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George,
My great grandson (just turned 5), has suffered with eczema most of his little life.....so I made him some old fashioned lye soap with half beef tallow and half pork fat (that I rendered myself). Now he says it is helping and his eczema looks less red and 'angry' (as my husband used to say about my sarc lesions).
He lives in town (city water with lots of chlorine) so I suggested that he add a cup of baking soda to his bath water to change the PH of the water.
If you would like to try some of the soap....let me know.
Hope these ideas help until MP takes care of it.
HANG IN THERE, WE WILL MAKE IT!!!!BARNEY
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