Re: Re: antibodies to mold and new member

[Guest guest]

Thank you! I am waiting for the IgeneX test to arrive so I can send it off.

They claim it is 90 to 95% accurate at detecting Lyme and other

co-infections. I did have a tick bite but not rash.

I guess the thing that made me think it could be mold related is our outdoor

air here has been extremely moldy this year, I have been very dizzy and

developed asthma in the last 12 months.

What about my symptoms screams tick rather than mold?

Thanks again for your help, I really appreciate it!!

Kenda

> Those are lyme symptoms--and you may have coinfections. After 3

> courses of antibiotics, antibody tests could be negative. Since you

> apparently can tolerate the antibiotics, you are best off seeing a

> lyme specialist who will evaluate you based on symptoms and try other,

> appropriate antibiotics, or a blend of antibiotics, for you. It's

> still early for you (June bite--September) and if you are aggressive

> now can perhaps get rid of it. Don't assume it's mold, it doesn't

> sound like it (though whether or not you have a moldy home, I have no

> idea). Good luck!

[Guest guest]

Concentrations outdoors may be high but unless there has been massive

flooding in your area, I don't think that its possible for you to get

that much unless you live in New Orleans or Houston or someplace

similar where you have both been flooded with dirty water and there is

lots of sodden wallboard growing big mats of stachybotrys and

bacterial endotoxins around..

In that situation, indeed, 24% of people get sick.. The percentage is

based on the genetics at that point, if the sample is large enough its

fairly constant.

Indoor mold is a different story, though, because people close

windows.. Broken air conditioners can also do it.

[Guest guest]

Mold symptoms also include a stiff neck? Interesting. Since I know I have

the double mold gene, I am more susceptible to mold illness. I have had

candida issues since I was a teen, I am 48 now. It has been in the last

year that I have developed asthma which is what lead me to think mold and

not necessarily Lyme. I am continuing on with my Lyme testing but would

like to know if there are tests for mold illness as well that I should be

doing. Who knows, maybe I have both.

Thanks for your help!!

Kenda

> Please, can we not assume to know whats wrong with someone? theres a

> few veriables, and there are some genic links that aslo play a role

> in weither someone gets very ill from lime. not all do. who knows,

> ticks eat mold, who really knows? she should proceed with her testing

> and go from there. lyme symptoms are much like mold symptoms even

> down to the stiff neck. lets not assume to tell somebody what they

> should and shouldn't do.

>

[Guest guest]

The unfortunate thing is that I took a two-week course of Doxy when I first got

sick after the tick bite. Obviously it wasn't strong enough because my symptoms

returned about five weeks later -- or I have co-infections. Now the symptoms

are not subsiding, despite being on Doxy over a week. I had hoped maybe this

meant it was mold related rather than Lyme but from the sounds of , it's Lyme.

I'm looking for a LLMD in or near Oklahoma but am having a hard time finding

one. What is considered aggressive treatment for Lyme?

Kenda

It could easily be that you have both--but mold you can get away from,

and lyme migrates into your tissues and organs and is best treated

aggressively in the early months. I was undertreated. ..I had no clue

what I was in for and did not believe the dire warnings of chronic

lymies, chose to go with the recommendations of the infectious disease

specialist for which I am sorry now, although I'm not sure I could

have treated it aggressively and withstood that treatment over many

months.

Chronic candida problems since a teen may be due to mercury poisoning

from amalgams? Certainly because mold and lyme both create toxins and

those toxins must be detoxified by the same pathways in the body,

having lyme can make mold susceptibility greater, or so I believe.

>

> Mold symptoms also include a stiff neck? Interesting. Since I know

I have

> the double mold gene, I am more susceptible to mold illness. I have had

> candida issues since I was a teen, I am 48 now. It has been in the last

> year that I have developed asthma which is what lead me to think

mold and

> not necessarily Lyme. I am continuing on with my Lyme testing but would

> like to know if there are tests for mold illness as well that I

should be

> doing. Who knows, maybe I have both.

>

> Thanks for your help!!

>

> Kenda

>

>

[Guest guest]

what is a LLMD?