Re: Digest Number 4908

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hi dolores

i appreciate your advice but i don't think that is what happened in my

case. my bloodwork too was normal after a yr on mino and then a year

later i was sicker than i've ever been. bloodwork still normal. Ra

completely contolled. i think what happened is that i knocked out all my

good bacteria which made me very ill. my doc at the time didn't tell me

re the importance of probiotics and of changing the diet. there is a

book called the body ecology diet by donna gates. she was on

tetracycline for years for acne and she got very sick as i did - nausea

dizziness fatigue. once she restored her inner ecosystem with diet and

probiotics and fermented foods those symptoms went away. i can bring on

the dizziness nausea fatigue by taking abx and by eating sweets and

gluten so that convinces me more that is is not a herx but in fact

severe candida. so i am trying to restore my inner ecology with diet

fermented foods and probiotics and am going to add Mp to that since it

is very low dose abx. my body just can't tolerate the high doses

anymore. i really believe they are harming my body.

monique

On 2/6/2010 3:52 AM, rheumatic wrote:

>

> Dear , It could have been that the 100mg/day was not enough

> to weaken the micoplasma overload you may have had at the time. Then

> when you switched to the 200mg load, it started to build up. You

> probably felt so good because Minocin has antiinflammatory properties

> and we feel better when we are not inflammed. Then probably the

> accumulated dosages in your body began attacking the micoplasma and

> they started fighting back. That is when they begin emitting the

> toxins and you know the minocin is working. That is the difficult

> part to endure, but if you can handle that phase, which may be a very

> long one, you will eventually get to the point in your life where the

> overload of micoplasma gets reduced. Then your immune system is able

> to handle them by being strong enough to kill them off and you

> eventually go into remission and start feeling like a normal human

> being once again. I have read Dr. MacPherson Brown's books several

> times and those written by Henry Scammell and that is the picture I

> have in my mind on how the antibiotic protocol works. We do feel

> worse while we are getting better because we are attacking the source

> of the infection and the source is fighting back. Mino is not given to

> make us feel better, it is given to weaken the micoplasmas. It is

> important to know that it is possible for a person to have multiple

> infections going on at the same time, That is why blood work and

> testing for celiac & metals, etc at the beginning is so important. In

> fact, Dr. Franco from California insists on it. Once you know what

> you are fighting, it is easier to know what antibiotics, antifungals

> or antivirals to use, and in what combinations, and what diet is best

> and what toxins you have to get rid of. It can get complicated. But

> quitting or going the route of suppressing the immune response is not

> the way to go. Most Rheumatologists want to suppress the immune

> respone. That is easy, but does nothing to clean out the system. In

> fact, in the end, one is much worse off. Getting at the root of the

> problem is the only way. Now I am speaking from the viewpoint of a

> scleroderma patient who was also diagnosed with R/A and MCTD. After 5

> years of fighting back, my blood work shows that I am in remission.

> My body shows the scars and damages, but I am still here. I hope this

> helps. Dolores & Mike