Thanks Joseph for all the info. I've been sick for over twenty yrs so was trying to figure all this out. Weeeeee! Isn't this fun? ha. Thanks and guess I'll go drink my silver now. Blessings, Little Bird
-----Original Message----- From: Joseph Metz Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 6:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Fw: CS>Lyme titer positive for lgM ...Marshall pls read :) Lampley, your assessment of IgG vs IgM is correct. But I agree with Marshall, if you are going with a mainstream md the testing may be misleading. The testing, particularly the Western blot & ELISA tests, seem more orientated toward maintaining the status quo & keeping victims of Lyme off the Health insurers roles. The primary problem with the tests is they are testing the blood. The Lyme bacteria doesn't thrive in the blood & quickly, sometimes before the tick is done feasting, the Lyme bacterias are into other fluids. If the bacteria aren't in the blood, the antibodies will be there less than more traditional, blood spread diseases. Also, several of the antibody bands most likely associated with Lyme have been removed from the western blot because they were also found in those who had been "vaccinated" for Lyme. If those people tested positive, the vaccine would not be classed as effective, so those bands were removed. Purely to help the vaccine developers, no help at all for Lyme sufferers. The best test for chronic (Read: long term) Lyme is the Stricker panel cd-57. If your health practitioner doesn't recommend it or refuses to order it when you ask, s/he is mainstream & may not be helping you as much as you now believe. Lyme is the most politicized disease in the US. Dr Stricker had the idea of comparing the immune system of chronic aids sufferers to those of chronic lyme sufferers. What his study found was that the aids cases had normal cd-57, Lyme cases had low cd-57. Mainstream (CDC etc.) dont acknowledge the Stricker panel study because he used aids & lyme cases but no control group. That is, he didn't compare them simultaneously to healthy individuals. If you give him the millions of dollars needed to redo the study, I'm sure he would be glad to. If you monitor your cd-57, you will easily see if you getting worse. My health practitioner told me that the cd-57 count wont go up until the last of the Lyme bacteria is gone. If you believe you were recently infected, thats is within weeks, not months, & the IgM seems to indicate that, I recommend vigorous treatment fast & for longer than you might think. I read a story of an mainstream MD Lyme researcher who recommends 14 days doxycycline to his patients for a tick bite but who kept his son on them for 2-3 months. The best alternative resources I have found are "Healing Lyme" by Stephan Buhner & the books by Bryan Rosner. (I wrote "Bacterias" above to indicate more than one of more than one strain of bacteria.) Best to you & to Wayne On Jun 12, 2009, at 3:27 PM, [email protected] wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Marshall Dudley > Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 9:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Fw: CS>Lyme titer positive for lgM ...Marshall pls > read :) > > lampley lane wrote: >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> *From:* lampley lane >> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:01 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* CS>Lyme titer positive for lgM >> >> I've read that lgM showing up first is an indicator of initial >> infection. My test was positive for that protein and not lgG. Anybody >> know if that's the case? That we caught it early maybe? Marshall?.... >> Still taking CS and herxing, and having a good day here and there >> when >> I back off of it. And no blue moons :) Blessings, Little Bird > Sorry, don't know. My experience with the testing is that you > would get > a better result by flipping a coin, and a lot cheaper too. But > that was > many years ago. > > Marshall > > > --
