Re: abx - Marty

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-Hi, Marty,

I had to have several courses of abx for enterococci and pseudomonas

in my bladder...they just wouldn't die off. Then my doc put me in

the hospital for IV abx for 4 days. Then one more week of oral abx.

3 weeks later, he cultured my urine and said it was clean. I was so

glad. I saw him for a recheck on Wednesday. He's going to do

another culture. Thursday, the pain started coming back full force.

I'm not out of the woods yet apparently.

Anyway, he told me my immune system was too weak and that's why I

couldn't fight off the bacteria. You mentioned strengthening the

immune system in conjunction with abx therapy. That is the way to go!

What are glut shots? glutathione? I'm starting on low dose whey

protein. What other ways can I strengthen my immune system than the

normal garlic, vit. c, etc. protocol? I really don't want to go

through such extensive abx therapy again. It reignited my CFS, and I

have a severe case of it to begin with...almost bedridden.

Does anyone still use gamma globulin? Years ago i was doing fine on

it, then it was hard to get and I stopped, and I crashed after that.

Haven't gotten back to that level of *normal* again.

Thanks so much for listening!

Hugs,

Indy

-- In onelist, Marty Zavala <marty-z@u...>

wrote:

> ate: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 08:29:20 -0800 (PST)

> From: =?iso-8859-1?q?=20on?= <jamesinspace@...>

> Subject: ABX three week trial, to be or not to be???

>

> Hello,

>

> If you had the chance to take a three week trial of

> doxy would you?

>

>

> No, I wouldn't. I know I have some bug because I herx when I get

off all

> supplements for 3 weeks then get back on. I also herx when I start

bromelain

> or OLE. (I think herx is not the same as detoxing).

>

> This is why - my immune system is out of whack. If my immune

system and the

> rest of my body was working like it should, then it would be able

to fight off

> any critters (like all the other healthy people do).

>

> I can take abx until they are all gone but when I stop and then

encounter

> someone who is carrying the critters, and my body is not strong

enough to

> withstand them, I will get them all over again. So, I prefer to fix

the

> problem (my immune dysfunction) than a symptom (which I believe

myco's & HHV6

> and all CWD's are - I believe we all have them since we have no

defense

> system)

>

> This is the same thing that they discovered about 3 years ago in

the AIDS

> community. They discovered how to put the HIV virus into remission

but people

> were still dying! They finally figured out that when they focussed

on

> strengthing their immune systems, the survival rate went up. So,

good AIDS

> Dr's do both - anti-viral cocktails to put HIV in remission and

other methods

> for strngthening immune system, (glut shots, whey, etc).

>

> Everyone has to weigh the options for themselves. The first step

in the

> immune cascade is destruction of bowel flora (from several possible

sources

> including abx given at the beginning of our illness (for some of

us).

> Remember, 60% of our immunity takes place in the gut.

>

> My humble opinion,

> Marty Z.

>

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