[email protected] wrote: > In a message dated 10/7/99 9:43:42 AM Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Now is when you want to know how bad I was and if I had neurological problems > and the answer is yes I did and now I don't. Until you experience all that > some of us have you will never understand it.
I have experienced it. I had lyme for over a year before it was diagnosed, and it took two weeks of iv to get rid of it since it had crossed the blood brain barrier. I has cronic fatigue syndrome, tingling extremedies, was on crutches, couldn't sleep at night and couldn't stay awake in the day, and was in a brain fog that felt like I was half dead. At times I couldn't even finish a sentence. > Did the toxins also make me > have trouble spelling even the simplest of words in the beginning? They can. For instance, try taking some alcohol. When drunk try doing some spelling or thinking. Toxins really mess up the brain. That is why the police test for alcohol by having you count or do the alphabet. > Did they > also make me disoriented driving home and going to a store I had been in many > times and feeling lost? I have seen drunks do the same thing. Toxins can have a huge effect on the brain if they cross the barrier. Toxins can cross the barrier much easier than macromolecules or bacteria. > Thats all gone now and only the antibiotics and CS > has made me feel like my old self again. I had almost every symptom in the > book for lyme except heart problems although I did in the beginning have > times my heart felt it was racing and sometimes skipping a beat although it > was never picked up on by the doctor the short times he spent with me. That > too is gone now. I ahd them all as well. I do know that the oral antibotics helped a LOT, but would not kill it off. They did not cross the blood brain barrier. When I was on oral antibiotics, the symptoms for lyme would almost disappear, but be replaced with the symptoms of a reaction to the oral antibodies. Only after the iv, did all the symtoms go away and never come back. I believe it typically takes 3 months to a year for lyme to cross the barrier. I got many of the neurological symptoms in the first week. I believe if the doctors had given me oral antibiotics in the first month I would gotten rid of it easily. Marshall -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
