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Treatment consisted of pumping high doses of antibiotics into her heart for 24-hours a day for two months. She also underwent 30 days of treatment in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber.

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Since the treatment, Landau considers herself almost cured. The only symptom left is the headaches.

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A tube was inserted into her heart, connected to a pump fastened around her waist. Antibiotics were pumped into her heart for 2 1/2 months before she climbed into a hyperbaric oxygen chamber for 30 days.

"The theory was by oxygenating my tissues, medication would more effectively permeate my body. At the end of 30 days, my hearing and vision returned, my memory returned and the pain in my joints was gone. It cured me," Landau maintains.

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Originally posted by wrotek:
I wonder which part was not approved by FDA , HBOT or antibiotics into heart.

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Originally posted by Jill E.:

The San Diego Channel 10 (ABC) news website is www.10news.com - most likely tomorrow they will have a link with video of the story.

Here is the link to the recent San Diego newspaper article about Brooke and us, and our new support group:

http://thecoastnews.com/articles/3126/

Jill

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since i could not see it nor read it since it was in timesnewroman, i copied it here for me/others with LOW vision to read and enjoy


Group raises awareness of Lyme disease

July 20, 2007

By Jeff O'Brien
Reporter

CARMEL VALLEY --

Twelve years ago, Brooke Landau was a young college grad on her way up the corporate ladder. One evening after dinner, she laid down for bed just as she would on any other night.

The next morning, she couldn't move her body from the waist up. It was the beginning of a 12-year battle. ``I lost a quarter of my body weight and developed spinal meningitis and gall stones,'' Landau said. ``I had horrible headaches that lasted every second of every day for 12 years.''

Landau, who recently recovered from her ordeal and is now the traffic anchor for Channel 10 News San Diego, was the guest speaker at the latest meeting of the San Diego Lyme Disease Support Group on July 7. About 50 people gathered for the meeting at the Carmel Valley Library.

The group is striving to provide support for those in San Diego suffering from Lyme disease, but it is also aiming to shed light on one of the most misunderstood diseases in America.

Lyme disease, which is transmitted by ticks when they bite into human flesh, wreaks havoc on the body's muscles and nervous system.

A microscopic bacteria within the insect's saliva burrows into the body and finds its way into the brain. Victims are often bitten while hiking or in the outdoors, but ticks can also be transported by animals such as deer, rodents or pets.

According to the support group's founder, San Diego resident Maritza Padgett, the common notion that Lyme disease only exists on the East Coast is a gross misconception. Her daughter, Elyse, 15, was bitten by a tick in July of last year during a camping trip in Kern County.

`` She couldn't walk for several months and lost most of her eyesight,'' Maritza Padgett said. ``We went to 16 different doctors over the course of nine months, and they could not figure it out.''


According to Wayne Padgett, Maritza Padgett's husband, an exhaustive search finally led them to Dr. Therese Yang, who is based in Santee and is the only Lyme disease specialist in San Diego County.


Their daughter is now on the road to recovery. But the Padgetts are hoping to prevent other families from going through the medical roundabout that result in prolonged pain and suffering.

Although Lyme disease is curable through antibiotics, early detection is critical.

``There are 210,000 cases of Lyme disease diagnosed every year, but less than 30,000 of those are reported,'' Landau said. ``This is the fastest-growing infectious disease in the United States. It's growing at a rate four times faster than HIV.''


Although she admits there has been progress, Landau attributes the continuing lack of proper care to inadequate government funding and awareness.

She urged anybody who goes into the outdoors to wear long pants and long socks, and to always inspect the body for ticks.

But the threat of ticks is not just limited to dirt trails and back roads.


Jill Easton, a Carlsbad resident and member of the support group, was bitten three years ago across the street from Aviara Oaks Middle School.


``The head of infectious diseases at Scripps Ranch told me he hadn't seen Lyme disease in San Diego over the past 30 years,'' Easton said. ``I had to diagnose myself and get specialized treatment up in Northern California.''

The lack of timely care has resulted in chronic symptoms that will probably last the rest of Easton's life. She suffers from a burning sensation throughout her entire body, joint pain in the knees, muscle pain in the legs and blurred vision.

Easton said the impact of the support group, which has only been in existence for the past six months, has been monumental. ``Our group provides tremendous emotional and psychological support.''


During her ordeal, Landau went through seven spinal taps and two surgeries with no improvements.

She said she finally met a doctor who used an experimental procedure that pumped antibiotics directly into her heart for two-and-a-half months, which cured many of her symptoms.

``Unfortunately, as a result of that, this doctor lost his license because the procedure wasn't FDA approved,'' Landau said.

Landau showed the audience a plastic bag that was filled with pills, which she had to take every day for 12 straight years. ``We will all survive this somehow, and we will beat this,'' Landau said, holding up the bag. ``Because this is not our future.''


For more information on the San Diego Lyme Disease Support Group, contact Maritza Padgett at [email protected].


For more information about Lyme disease in California, visit the California Lyme Disease Association Web site at www.lymedisease.org.
Contact Reporter Jeff O'Brien via e-mail at [email protected].


wonderful, informative article! jill, thanks for sharing the link; enjoyed reading your story too! glad your support group has filled a need for each of you besides lymenet!

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