olmesartan - friend or foe

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, for some reason your emails keep coming through as possible spam and I have to approve them. Is there anything you can do on your end to fix that?

, all I can do is share my own experience with olmesartan (benicar). Maybe you forget that I was one of the earliest people interested in this drug (other than the sarcoidosis folks). I know all about how it's supposed to work. I was very excited about it too, because it seemed to relieve my inflammatory symptoms. I took it for well over a year, maybe closer to 2, I can't recall without looking at my records. Unfortunately, in the process, I screwed up my thigh muscles and weakened my ability to fight viruses and flus.

That had nothing to do with finding bugs hidden behind inflammation and their resulting die off. Benicar didn't make my infection smaller either. I believe my infection got bigger. And that was with full strength antibiotics and anti-fungals.

I also don't believe that olmesarten "potentiates" antibiotics. I started with the protocol as designed with low dose abx. The claim that the endless suffering that people experience on the protocol is due to bacterial die-off (herxing) and nothing else, is just rediculous. Die off should be short lived. Everyone's different, but most people with big infections should probably not be toying with tiny amounts of antibiotics. It just strengthens the bugs.

I've been saying all along that I'm looking forward to more studies being done on Olmesartan. It seems to have a tremendous amount of potential. But I know far too many people who've had bad results with the experimental protocol, even deadly results, to go around promoting it as some kind of a wonder drug for people with chronic infection or so called "auto-immune" diseases. I really, really think it's irresponsible and I regret ever having publicized the marshall protocol. It should have stayed in the Sarcoidosis family where people really do have excess vitamin D issues and their only treatment option is steroids. Partly. my publicising the protocol was naivete on my part. I had no idea that people who had negative experiences or other ideas would be banned from posting their experiences. Even taken to court.

I really hope you read the previous posts about the doc who's facing disciplinary action based on 12 patients reporting her for negligence in regards to prescribing the Marshall Protocol. Even more importantly, I hope you read the Mark London analysis of the protocol. In my experience, he's always been very thorough and his analyses are very well reasoned and supported with science.

There are way too many leaps in reasoning to promote the protocol or omesartan alone as a sure tool for treating chronic infection. If anything, it's something that people should approach very cautiously, and if they decide to experiment with it, they should know they are doing it with a great deal of risk because there's nothing out there yet that indicates it's a good long term anti-inflammatory or anti-microbial.

penny