Posted 3/9/2016 3:47 AM (GMT 0)
Dear Infectious Disease Dr.
Here is my grading of your evaluation
A+ - you saw me swiftly, you listened to my story, you offered your perspective, you called quickly with test results, you seemed caring, you did a great job sticking to an infectious disease Dr. side of what you call the Lyme wars.
A+ - jumping to conclusions. When I told you that a friend’s mother, who had lyme disease, hearing of my blood work and my symptoms told me not to rule it out. I told you that she was told by her Dr.’s in Illinois that it was impossible for her to contract lyme because it didn’t exist in Illinois. She went to see a Dr. in CT, and he confirmed it by a tissue sample. Her blood work was negative.
You indicated - it is not confirmed by tissue samples.
WRONG!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC153420/
You indicated - “oh, she saw one of those Dr.’s” (a lyme literate Dr.)
WRONG!
I have no idea how they were testing 25-30 years ago, but when she was diagnosed, it was when the US was just beginning to understand Lyme disease. “Those type of Dr.’s” didn’t exist.
You did an outstanding job defending your view.
D - knowledge of the material
When I told you my spouse had a bulls-eye rash, and confirmed it was the type associated with lyme by pictures I showed him on the internet, and I was concerned because he gave blood, and I know that Babesia can be transmitted by blood, you indicated that all blood is screened for babesia before it is passed on. I mis-spoke about the CDC flyer, they don’t screen donors, and my guess is, they don’t screen blood, but you are wrong on this point I believe.
http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/babesiosis/resources/babesiosis_policy_brief.pdf
When I asked about the anti-biotic I was given, you, as well as another Dr. stated “It isn’t used to treat lyme” That wasn’t my question. My question was, what bacteria does it kill, because I had a reaction that I can only wrap my mind around as a herx reaction and was curious. Well - guess what - it would kill lyme bacteria and some of the co-infections, and maybe this is why after this dose of anti-biotic, some symptoms abated, and may actually have impacted the blood work done.
Dose
Bactrim, Septra
Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole
Two 80mg/400mg tablets twice per day. (Because there are two drugs mixed the amount is listed with a /.)
Description: Taken with Mepron and Zithromax or Cleocin and Quinine.
It has a half life of 12 hours and that is why dosing is twice a day. Drink lots of water with this one to avoid kidney stones.
One study found that 89% of those that took Trimethoprim with one of the above combinations were cured of Babesia while many of those that did not include it relapsed.
Dr Zhang also recommends taking this drug in combination with Qinghaosu.
F - diagnostic abilities, to imply, that all of my symptoms are related to the brain aneurysm repair is ludicrous, incredibly stupid, and beyond belief so, so, so weird! extreme fatigue, cramping muscles, no appetite, hair loss, weight loss, cognitive issues, ear issues, pains that travel, remaining headaches, experiences with “herxes, blah, blah, blah. All of which is improving as I take right action assuming that it is some tick borne illness and add suggested herbs, change my diet, etc. I am aware of the power of placebos, but this just seems to be a bit more than that. Perhaps there is something called a intuitive reverse placebo, as when I had a herx reaction when I integrated Cat’s Claw, then did research to figure out what was going on. Or maybe I created a huge amount of pain and discomfort and herxed with the anti-biotic because I really wanted 3 sleepless nights, 2 trips to urgent care, and 1 trip to the ER. What you failed to curious about is the aneurysm itself, the cause of it, as well as the intensity of the bladder infection.
http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/64/5/636.full
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1886652/
NET rating as a Dr. C+