How many bother to test for mycoplasma?

I was tested for mycoplasma through LabCorp. My LLMD said that they usually don't treat mycoplasma specifically because the herbal treatments they use for Lyme also kill mycoplasma. When I was trying to break through a plateau, he tried treating me for mycoplasma anyway, but it didn't seem to make a difference.

Nosila so which herbs are you using for the Lyme that also targets the mycoplasma? I'm reading the buhner book and Isatis is one for myco but isn't part of the lyme.

I'm probably going to be doing Buhner's mycoplasma protocol from his Lyme co-infections book on mycoplasma.

I'm already doing his Lyme core protocol, now unsure if I should stop that one and just do the mycoplasma one.

Krimpet, I used Beyond Balance for a while and then switched to Byron White.

Traveler thats where I'm getting confused. There are some specific herbs for myco that are not included in the lyme protocol.

NotQuiteAntonio said...
I just tested positive for cool through Antonio Labs Inc.

It's a new outlet. I'm told they're very accurate in their testing.

Ah.. ha.

Bwhahahaha!! Love this, Antonio!!! Thanks for the giggles on a hard day for me!

NotQuiteAntonio said...
I just tested positive for cool through Antonio Labs Inc.

It's a new outlet. I'm told they're very accurate in their testing.

Ah.. ha.

No, no mycoplasma, that I know of anyway. I actually try to forget some of the coinfections exist, because I can't get any testing for them. lol

I just want you to know that you ALMOST got me with that one. I'm like I haven't seen that acronym "cool" before (lol)

For those on antibiotics - I was told mycoplasma was treated when you treated lyme and co's (macrolides/tetracyclines)

Same as anaplasmosis.

There is Mycoplasma Pneumonia, which is very common and airborne, and there is Mycoplasma fermentans which is transmitted by ticks and sandflies. The coinfections seem to be one of the most important of many variables in treating this disease. Sometimes they are overemphasized and sometimes under emphasized. It seems to me that they are certainly a factor, but everywhere you look you get different answers. Some say that mycoplasma is the most common coinfection with lyme. Others say it's Bartonella, others say Babesia, others say RMSf and still others say it's Ehrlichia.

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All coinfections seem extremely difficult to test for and even harder to treat. It is beyond frustrating.
Certain researchers and labs have adopted certain coinfections as their 'baby'. Dr. Breitschwerdt from unc is a self proclaimed bartonella expert. He can tell you all there is to Know about testing for and diagnosing bart through his galaxy lab at a cost of thousands, but he doesnt know how to treat it. His suggestion is to keep paying for his pcr tests to see if your chosen treatment works. Not a whole lot different from conflicts of interest in idsa, just on the opposite end of the spectrum.
It makes our disease much more difficult to treat or even understand. There's a doctor in FL who claims to have 'discovered' a coinfection he calls a protozoa and of course according to him, this is the missing link in lyme treatment and is the most common coinfection.

Point being, I take clinically diagnosed coinfections with a grain of salt. All too often you hear the same story on this site and others of patients going through months or years of treatment only to have their llmd tell them 'you arent getting better because we havent treated your bart/babesia/mycoplasma.' Is this just a convenient excuse for a failed protocol that allows the doc to move the target so to speak?

If it's not a coinfection from the tick bite, it's a fungus overgrowth or a parasite or a mold or a detox issue. It's amazing how many lyme patients supposedly carry the MTHFR 'gene mutation' Not to get too cynical, as these things can certainly play a role in treatment, but it also serves as an all too convenient excuse and a way of moving the goalposts on a patient in the midst of highly expensive and supposedly highly specialized treatment.

Are llmds just shooting in the dark? Seems like some of them want to claim they know why you arent getting better so they blame it on something besides the Borrellia. Once chronic, lyme is notoriously difficult to treat. Is this why the cdc and idsa just gave up and said it doesnt exist, because they find it too hard to treat?

DOes mycoplasma exist? Probably so. But by definition mycoplasma literally means without a cell wall. If it doesnt have a cell wall it can't be treated with antibiotics because this is what abx attack, the cell wall. So you are basically being told "heres a problem, but no one has a solution.'

Having a Lyme / coinfx diagnosis reminds me of the lifelock ad where a bank is being robbed and the customers turn to the security guard and say 'do something' and he says 'oh I,m just a security monitor. I only notify you if theres a robbery...theres a robbery.'

maybe i'm just being too critical and thinking too critically. Just really getting frustrated with both sides of the Lyme argument. The truth lyes in between. Where is the middle ground? I don't know. Im left with more questions than answers.

Labcorp...and my Mycoplasma was very high,however as of recent showed cut in half...Mycoplasma can make you feel like &$!#.

A-Myco is something I have been taking for approx 9 months.


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I found out several months ago I have mycoplasma pneumoniae. I have been on Buhner's protocol with CSA and Raintree myco formula + serrapeptase. It has really helped. I am trying to stay on antibiotics too, but it is so hard. A macrolide and a tetracycline antibiotic is needed and I herxxx the whole time I am on them.

I did quite a bit of research on mycoplasma's. They do not have a cell wall thus hard to kill. I also read Dr Garth Nicholson's work which is supposed to be the best. His wife had it, and he learned that one form causes gulf war syndrome.

I have also read where this disease was engineered using a brucella bacterium and a visnu virus. I really think this is why I am not totally recovering from lyme plus I have a positive other virus. oh it is so depressing.

Also, the form mycoplasma pneumonaie is also caused " walking pneumonia. " without the herbal treatment I get lung congestion and a dry cough.

what are you being treated with for mycoplasma yancync I bet you are from north carolina. there is a yancy county in NC.