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Posted 6/24/2016 7:47 AM (GMT 0)
Hi guys so I suspect I have one or more of Babesia/Lyme/Bart/Ehrlichia. In the last 2 years that I've been sick with symptoms I noticed I dont produce any earwax that needs to be removed, or any excess earwax if you will. When I was healthy and symptom free, I always used a Q-tip after a shower to swab away extra ear wax. Now I have none, zero. Which infections if any cause this symptom or is it a sign of a specific immune problem? Can anything be gleaned from this? thanks!
Posted 6/24/2016 8:00 AM (GMT 0)
Well, I never did have much ear wax.

But, what I have noticed is my left ear - the inside is kind of greasy - pre-lyme both ears were dry.

I don't know what to say about your lack of ear wax.


I have a lot of strange things going on with my body.....like the vertical ridges on my fingernails.
Posted 6/24/2016 11:55 AM (GMT 0)
I can't be of much help here, but I have the exact same thing. I also seem to have a water-like liquid in my ears now. I recently tried not using qtips for a month and got a teeny bit of ear wax.
Posted 6/24/2016 12:13 PM (GMT 0)
I don't have an answer for that either. I have never seen anything in the literature about it. But that doesn't surprise me as Lyme and co can really affect the ears.
Posted 6/24/2016 12:16 PM (GMT 0)
After looking at the symptom list it seems for than likely it is do to Lyme.

Here is a great chart to look at for your symptoms.

www.lyme-symptoms.com/LymeCoinfectionChart.html
Posted 6/24/2016 2:37 PM (GMT 0)
Yup-oddly, the same here. Times of healthy, normal ear wax, times not healthy, none. And recently, taking a flight, coming in for a landing, pressure in my left ear had me crying in pain, losing the hearing for a spell in that ear. No kids or anyone else on the flight seemed to be effected, & in the past with lots of travel, I've not had ear issues. The pain went from that ear down left side of neck where the lymph always flares. This always points me back to the Fry/vascular theory making sense.
Posted 6/24/2016 5:45 PM (GMT 0)
interesting.

happyjo, what is the fry/vascular theory?
Posted 6/24/2016 6:52 PM (GMT 0)
I'm a broken record about this so I apologize to those of you for whom this doesn't apply, but for the others:

Yeast/fungus can grow out of the gut, up the threat and into the head lickity-split if left unmanaged. Weird throat, ear, eye, sinus symptoms aches, pain is often yeast/fungus. And with those of us on so many antibacterial remedies, it's a common occurrence. So consider what the associated symptoms might be and please make sure you do not have an untreated y/f overgrowth.

Much more info here:
www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=1606610&g=3644275#m3644275

Ear wax is a form of protective mucus our body creates in order to stop debris from entering too deeply into the ear canal. So, while I don't have a whole to of detail to offer you, I'd think about conditions that might stop healthy mucus creation and investigate that. So, so, so, so many of our weird symptoms are due to inflammation, so that is another avenue I would search.

-p
Posted 6/24/2016 7:49 PM (GMT 0)
The Fry vascular is one more piece of the MSIDS puzzle. There is one small study published with allegedly more to come soon. Basically, these protozoa have biofilm/plaque that adhere to different parts of the body impeding blood flow causing a host of problems. Shoot, have the study saved somewhere. This is an old site describing:
protomyxzoa.org/

And yes, P, I hear ya (I "done" punned myself!) re yeast/antifungal & VERY helpful info I need to pour over more so keep playin' that record! Also the anti-f is supposed to help whittle the little biofilm/plaque buggers such as proto.
Posted 6/25/2016 4:11 AM (GMT 0)
Happyjo what is fry vascular? is that a blood smear test or what? I did run a Fry Labs test last year and it showed protomyxzoa but I lack all of the classic symptoms I believe...also apparently its very common and even healthy people may carry it.
Posted 6/26/2016 12:43 AM (GMT 0)
Yes, the proto. Samples in CFS, MS, ALS...blood all showed this. So basically they form plaques & biofilms that restrict blood flow. Research continues, but it could eventually prove to be a breakthrough when the correct meds are used.

But think about it-so many symptoms that many here have here where an area of the body gets cold or the back of the brain feels squeezed...Or those who have Parkinson's like symptoms or ALS, losing limb ability....

Anyway, left lymph node pain, swelling here began before abx. I've never had ear pain, but this time it radiated from the the ever flaring, swelling neck lymph & the constriction was felt all the way up along the vein to the ear. Not to say that fungus or yeast couldn't also be implicated or that an anti fungal might not help to do double duty.

But what was interesting to me was that I just noticed this wax trend myself recently & then you posted! It "rings" true for me in particular after this recent airplane descent horror (barely kept from screaming out in "brain scanner"/ear pain). And to pun again, it "waxes & wains" literally when feeling good or not.

Anyway, here's the 1st Fry study paper:
www.termedia.pl/Original-paper-Putative-biofilm-forming-organisms-in-the-human-vasculature-expanded-case-reports-and-review-of-the-literature,76,23697,1,1.html
Posted 6/26/2016 3:46 AM (GMT 0)
Have you treated proto happy jo. What would break up atersclerosis?
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