Re:Lyme-False Negatives

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This information of having the blood tests commonly showing false negatives

is very valuable. I had the classic 'bulleye' from a bite that I personally

removed the tick from about ten years ago. The MD upon examination made the

comment " No doubt about this one, it's definitely Lyme " . He put me on what I

recall being Doxycycline for ten-fourteen days. Meanwhile the blood test results

came back negative. I knew better.

I actually believe that even after taking the meds, my turnaround did not

come until five or so years later when I began using the Zapper. Just can't live

without that Zap!

C R

In a message dated 9/3/2006 12:21:46 PM Central Daylight Time,

haecklers@... writes:

> The CDC guidelines for lyme reporting are to eliminate any chance of

> false positives, so they can track the spread, and were never

> intended to be diagnostic criteria, which unfortunately they have

> become. An EM rash, the classic bull's eye with symptoms of lyme

> like headaches and digestive problems, should be enough for a

> diagnosis, since the rash is rarely caused by anything else. The

> labs are notoriously bad at giving false negatives, not false

> positives, because the elysa and western blot count on antibodies to

> lyme and often the immune system is so messed up that it doesn't

> react. But because only some 30% of those with lyme ever get the

> rash, and because the symptoms are so different in different

> individuals, and because of the known high rate of false negatives,

> many knowledgable doctors who treat lyme agree that it has to be a

> clinical (meaning symptom-based) diagnosis. Then even just using

> the antibiotic protocols, which are damaging to the GI and other

> organs, the people who previously thought they had fibromyalgia or

> MS or rhumatoid arthritis find themselves feeling much, much

> better. The problem is that lyme goes into cyst forms, and often

> hides in parasites in the body so after the course of antibiotics it

> comes back again, months or years later. That's where the salt/c

> comes in, because after the antibiotics, the salt raises the

> salinity of the blood just slightly, but enough to kill the lyme and

> parasites by osmotic shock. There is even a published journal

> article showing that many strains of lyme are extremely sensitive to

> the salinity and killed off easily by slight changes in it.

>

> My dog got lyme recently and one day woke up and couldn't walk. We

> took her to the vet, had her tested for lyme (vet didn't think she

> had it, but didn't see any other cause of the sudden paralysis) and

> the vet called us back saying she tested very positive for lyme. A

> few days on antibiotics and she's back to normal.

>

> Where I live, the whole area is steeped in lyme. Everyone knows

> several people who have had it; a survey of one township showed some

> 50% of households had a member who had had lyme. The deer are

> everywhere, the mice are everywhere, the ticks are everywhere. The

> MD says it's a major part of his practice these days. I know one

> woman who got Bell's palsey from lyme, another who had a complete

> personality change. Don't tell me there's no lyme. You just don't

> have it as bad there, yet.

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