Re: CSM & Acto

[Guest guest]

You should go to a doctor who is familiar with cholestyramine protocol.

In my experience, it took quite a while of taking cholestyramine for

that to go away completely.

Each day of taking cholestyramine four times a day reduced the load a

lttle bit. At the beginning, unlike many, I was still exposed to mold

in the apartment I was living in. But the cholestyramine helped

tremendously because that is when I was moving and I was getting major

exposure.

I likened it to a sort of exorcism. The cholestyramine molecule is

electrically charged and it grabs on to these low-moecular weight

biotoxins and attaches to them. That allows them to be excreted. If

you can't take cholestyramine, ask your doctor to call Dr. Shoemaker

and ask him about the other options. I know he talks o his web site,

biotoxin.info, about how he has some people take welchol to replace

one or more of the daily doses.

I don't think that simply taking fiber or similar things like some

people suggest would be at all comparable to taking cholestyramine.

Thats not to say that fiber would not help with the constipation from

cholestyramine. Dr. Shoemaker prescribes sorbitol and a PPI (like

Prilosec or Prevacid) to help with the side effects, I think.

As far as fber goes, watch out for inulin, though. I recently tried

replacing some of my metamucil with inulin and the inulin was

fermenting (!) in my gut like crazy and I had to cut back.. a lot.

In my experience it was important to get exercise, too, even if I was

very tired.

The combination of cholestyramine, exercise, FRESH AIR, (i.e. MOLD

AVOIDANCE) and a laxative a few hours after the CSM is a powerful one

to help someone with mold illness get better.

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:11 PM, lisapetrison <lisapetrison@...> wrote:

> I don't know how many people here are familiar with Dr. Shoemaker's biotoxin

> protocol,

> but I have some questions for those who are.

>

> 1. I get a definite cytokine intensification response when I take even a

> small amount of

> CSM. This is discussed in detail in " Desperation Medicine. " Does this kind

> of response

> occur with mold as well as lyme? I know mold is an issue for me and am

> practicing " semi-

> extreme " avoidance, which has helped a great deal. I'm not sure whether lyme

> is an issue,

> since testing for live lyme is pretty problematic. If lyme is an issue

> though, perhaps I

> should be treating it with antibiotics before commencing the csm. What do

> you think?

>

[Guest guest]

>

>In my experiencece, it took quite a while of taking cholestyramine for

> that to go away completely.

>

> Each day of taking cholestyramine four times a day reduced the load a

> lttle bit.

LiveSimply, did you previously have a lot of sensitivity to toxic mold? (In

structures? To

items that had been stored in moldy structures? Outdoors in " plumes " ?)

If so, did the CSM help at all with that?

Have whatever health problems you had resolved?

Thanks much for your help.

[Guest guest]

I have noticed a lot of additional edema with CSM. So are you saying the other

drug does

the same thing without the edema? CSM has not seemed to help me at all.

[Guest guest]

--- In , " semco_semco_semco "

<semco_semco_semco@...>

wrote:

>

> I have noticed a lot of additional edema with CSM. So are you saying the

other drug does

> the same thing without the edema? CSM has not seemed to help me at all.

>

Brown seaweed (sold under the names Modifilan and Limu) is supposed to detox a

lot of

things. I found that a lot of the reaction I was getting from it was going

through my kidneys.

I don't think that would be mold, since mold's fat soluble. And while it's nice

to detox

whatever bad stuff's in my body, I'd rather focus on the mold since that seems

my big

problem.

Both the CSM and brown seaweed have been pretty intense. Too intense to go very

fast, for

sure.