21st century.:....................and yet!

With all the advances in technology, you would think that it would be easy to find a tiny bacteria. And yet there's one, Borellia Burgdoferi, that seems to be very elusive.
Apparently, this bacteria is the cousin of Syphilis. Sure, they. come from the same spirochet family, but Bb is more sophisticated. Could it be that this is a bacteria that has evolved? It's capable of getting into your system, and rapidly begins to burrow its way deep inside. It also has the ability to change its surface to evade your immune system, making it think that its not there. This in turn prevents any antibodies been produced to fight the bacteria. It's like it has a cloaking device.

I think people forget that there are worlds hidden around us, some massive(the universe) and some so small(atoms, microbes) this is an organism that has evolved in order to survive.
It's the same as the common cold which evolved into the flu, then swine flu. As we find eays to beat it, it finds ways of evolving in order to survive. All living things try to achieve one thing.....SURVIVAL.
All living things play host to other living things, and so on and so forth.
Everything I know about this bacteria has come from the web, and there is plenty of info out there, and I find it totally fascinating, but surely there is a test that is available that can detect this slippery organism? Surely, there is somewhere in the body that this thing can't go undetected? There's no point looking for antibodies to Bb, as there isn't any to find, so why use a test such as ELISA? Doesn't that defeat the object?

Am I correct in saying that the reason for the symptoms is because, the spirochet dies in the body, this then creates toxins that enter the blood stream, and causes us to have fluctuations in our symptoms? Can't these toxins be found in blood work?

I'm pretty sure if scientists changed what they were looking for, they may get better results, instead, they use out dated tests that are unreliable, and much suffering is the results.

I'm sure scientists work extremely hard, but in all honesty, medicine is still a relatively recent thing and lacks the necessary advances needed for a better chance of survival. Don't forget, breakthroughs come from experimentation and guess work.

But, then we come to the controversy, and funding, and those who believe that such a illness doesn't exist. So really, were all stuck behind a great wall, extending high and wide, preventing progress.

Unsettling, that's an understatement, we all place our trust in those who are supposed to know best, and who are there to help us when we need it, only to be disappointed, and treated unfairly and shoved around not knowing what's round the corner.

My thoughts to you all.

Science used to be all about observing something, forming a hypothesis, testing that hypothesis, and publishing the results, whether or not the results support the hypothesis.

Nowdays, companies doing research hire statisticians to make the results look like whatever it is the company wants the results to look like and then they call it evidence based medicine. They forgot that statistics is the basis of the evidence based medicine, but statistics cannot be applied to individuals. Statistics are a tool to aggregate and summarize data, therefore they are not useful when applied to single events/people/cases.

I don't think it's about greed or coverups..  I think most doctors honestly don't know how to treat lyme bacteria.  One doctor will use antibiotics, then change the antibiotic or add another one, then the patient is still not getting better, so doctor says "let's try a pic line"..  So then the patient feels hopeful but is still not getting better and wonders why..

And during that time many people are damaged from the antibiotics and don't even know it.  Their gut, liver, and other organs are ruined because their doctor never explained to them about detoxing, healthy diet, how to have a healthy gut, how to build up the immune system, and the beat goes on.. 

Ever wonder what antibiotics are made from?  Plant materials with the exception of pencillin.   Yep, good ole nature mixed with chemicals..  But the pharmacist won't tell you this, your doctor won't tell you, why the mystery? 

So remove the chemicals from the plants and what do you have?  Natural medicine without the side effects!  Of course it has to be the right plants in order to restore health and that requires another post.

As far as the history of lyme, here are some interesting links:

http://www.canlyme.com/burgdorfer.html
 
The Complexity of Arthropod-borne Spirochetes (Borrelia spp)

Speaker: Willy Burgdorfer, PhD 

Today's investigators, eager to apply their sophisticated microscopic, immunochemical, molecular and genetic methodologies often are not aware that their research objectives are similar if not identical to those of earlier workers whose publications unfortunately may no longer be available or are published in foreign journals.

My talk today identifies the highly controversial historical findings related to the biology and vector(s)/host relationships of borreliae, and emphasizes their importance to our current investigations of Lyme disease and its spirochetes.

Let us briefly recall that the first discovery of spriochetes pathogenic to humans is credited to the German physician Dr. Otto Obermeier (Fig. 1) who as early as 1868 during an epidemic in Berlin detected in the blood of relapsing fever patients highly motile threadlike microorganisms (Fig. 2) that in morphology were similar to the water spirochetes Spirocheta plicatilis -- a spirochete detected in 1835 by Dr. Ehrenberg.

Then there is this article:

http://www.lymeneteurope.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=294

Thus research has been going on for a very long time..  No mystery there...

That's pretty much how I see it as well, Lymester!

Although the current thought on reducing the current tick populations won't really help. The last I know of this was to greatly reduce the number of deer. Funny thing is the actual vector of Lyme is the white-footed mouse, so getting rid of most of the deer won't help a thing! We cant' exactly eradicate the white-footed mouse either, IMO, without exposing a whole bunch of people to massive amounts of deadly chemicals!

The way some Ranchers are reducing the incidence of LD in their cattle is to use "rubs" infused with a topical medication that kills ticks.These rubs look like short pieces of a very thick rope.(www.ehow.com/way_5790219_easy-way-make-cattle-rub.html)

I believe that a very large study needs to be done on doing exactly that with deer!! One could set up 'feeding stations' for the deer and the only way they could get to the feed is to pass through an area set up with 'rubs' that they had to touch in order to get through.

Just a few thoughts....