advice needed - Lithium helps generate new grey matter in the brain

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Hi there. I too have neuro lyme and poor cognitive function. I met with

someone this past monday in Mill Valley, who works with LLMD's in San and

Santa , he recommended two products to me and my 7 year old daughter. He

believes 90% of the general population are deficient in trace minerals, and we

can all benefit from detoxing (especially those of us with Lyme), which both of

these supplements address:

ConcenTrace:

http://www.vitacost.com/Trace-Minerals-Research-Low-Sodium-ConcenTrace-Trace-Min\

eral-DropsZNatural - http://znatural.com/index-html.htmlI've been thinking about

supplementing with Lithium, which is in the ConcenTrace, and the ZNatural is a

magnesium silica molecule detox compound. I was led to believe that they can

help tremendously with fatigue/energy and brain fog issues. I started with only

5 drops and am going up in 5 drop increments every 3-4 days, so I am not at the

full dose yet, so it's too soon to be able to give an opinion as to

effectiveness, but I will keep you posted. I'm planning to give it to my

daughter once I've given it try for 2 weeks.

I haven't done much research on Lithium yet, but I've heard from others with

Lyme that they use it to help protect their brain from neurotoxins. It was

listed as a supportive supplement (as lithium orotate) in a book that I checked

out of my local library: http://www.lymebook.com/top10book (which also mentions

its ability to help generate new grey matter in the brain).

Here is a link I found with some general information about Lithium:

http://tahomaclinicblog.com/lithium-the-misunderstood-mineral-part-1/

Also, not sure where you are located, but I can give you the name of a Lyme

Literate pediatric and adult neurologist in San , California if you are

interested.

Best of luck,

>

> From: lesliefarhangi@...

> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:30:54 -0500

> Subject: Re: [ ] advice needed

>

> Thank you so much everyone, I am so glad I posted. I hesitated -- I can't

> even speak about my son publicly these days without bursting into tears,

> which is a bit embarrassing! :-)

>

> I do not know how reversible or not the damage is -- we haven't had a follow

> up appt with the neurologist yet, plus he is running a TON of bloodwork

> (which I agree with, to see if there's something autoimmune going on too

> etc) and also doing a sleep study and more neuropsych testing. After all

> the tests are in, we'll go back to our LLMD and get his take too.

>

> Those lesions might be the same thing -- the radiologist thought his was

> either caused by a stroke, or inflammation, and also was not sure what the

> effect was. The difference is that our neurologist believes it is

> consequential. Treatment has *not* improved my son's cognitive function.

>

> Thank you SO much for telling me about the interactive metronome -- this is

> EXACTLY what I'm hoping to learn. I am completely up for trying a bunch of

> therapies like this over the rest of the school year and over the summer.

> As it is, he isn't really able to cope with sixth grade.

>

> Again, thank you so much for the words of support. I feel like this is a

> very dark time for us.

>

>

>

> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Faces <faces@...> wrote:

>

> >

> >

> > What does your LLMD say about the lesion? I am just wondering if it

> > really is permanent. My daughter had a SPECT scan that showed problems

> > that our regular doctor described as the cortex dieing and felt it was

> > nonreversable damage. She had several MRIs that showed small white

> > spots, some kind of lesion? that they were not sure what caused it. The

> > neurologist felt they were inconsequential. This is not what your doctor

> > described, but in my daughters case treatment has vastly improved her

> > cognitive function and her LLMD said that sometimes the SPECT scans do

> > show improvement over time. (We have not had a repeat one done though.)

> > I am just wondering if this is truly permanent damage or something that

> > can come back? I really do not know, but if the neurologist is not

> > really Lyme literate, I would want to get to one who is.

> >

> > So sorry that the Lyme was missed even when you mentioned a tick bite!!

> > My daughter was bitten around age 2 or so and we never knew it. She had

> > ring worm that would not go away and CFS type symptoms and tons of

> > insect bites, but no known tick. She was not diagnosed for a dozen years.

> >

> > Good luck,

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > On 2/26/2011 8:24 AM, Farhangi wrote:

> > >

> > > My 11 year old has had neurological complications from lyme. Our LLMD

> > > referred us to a great neurologist, who is in the middle of doing a ton

> > of

> > > tests. However, an MRI shows a lesion in his frontal lobe that the

> > > neurologist believes is caused by the lyme inflammation. This is

> > upsetting

> > > because the damage is permanent.

> > >

> > > In the midst of this I called my son's pediatrician (at first the

> > > radiologist thought the lesion was an old stroke) and asked her about an

> > > office visit I remembered from when my son was 2. I remembered him

> > > dragging

> > > his left leg, and so I asked her to go over her notes and see if there

> > was

> > > anything that would shed light on his current situation. She read them to

> > > me over the phone. She said I told her that he had been bitten by a tick

> > > two months earlier, and that he was definitely dragging his left leg and

> > > didn't want to be touched on his left side. She did not do a lyme test.

> > >

> > > OK, so now for my questions:

> > >

> > > 1. it is unlikely, but does anyone have any experience with trying to

> > > overcome such a brain injury? My only hope, I think, is some kind of

> > > neural

> > > feedback to try and build other pathways to replace the damaged ones

> > > in his

> > > brain. I don't know if this is even possible.

> > >

> > > 2. Seems like the pediatrician committed malpractice to me -- I live in a

> > > highly lyme endemic area, why the !@#$% *wouldn't* she have just done

> > > a lyme

> > > test, thus preventing permanent brain damage? Comments? Of course we

> > don't

> > > know for sure if he had lyme then b/c no test was done. I am furious, and

> > > one outcome I would want is education for the doctors here that when a

> > > child

> > > (or anyone) comes in with unusual symptoms -- and especially if they say

> > > they've been bitten by a tick -- for god's sake, just run the test!

> > > (Understanding it is not 100% accurate, but it is 100% more accurate than

> > > doing nothing!!).

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >