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I have a friend who saw a Dr. in Iowa who treats people with RA with long=term IV abx.
She got well from her "RA" which certainly looked a whole lot like my lyme disease.
She got well. And her insurance covered it because it was a treatment for RA.
Has anyone ever heard of something like this? I'm wondering about seeing him, but I don't have RA. I can't get IV.
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I've been hearing news about this lately. This could be something useful for Lyme Disease patients. Also, if physicians are using antibiotics for Crohn's Disease and other autoimmune diseases, that could be useful as well.
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It gets covered because they test for mycoplasma - a coinfection that many Lyme patients have.
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I know a doctor who had a daily radio program for years who kept telling people that he cured his wife of rheumatoid arthritis with long-term oral antibiotics. This was at least 15 years ago.
And still, the medical establishment in general does not want to use long-term oral antibiotics to get rid of this disease.
Notice the similarities to the lyme disease controversy--how the article mentions that antibiotic therapy became "political" etc.
Here is a quote (spaced out for neuros) for those who don't go to the article:
"Throughout the years, the theories that focus on mycoplasma as the responsible infectious agent and on tetracycline as the antibiotic treatment of choice have been hampered by lack of adequate funding for more research and from politics.
"Why Arthritis?" by Harold W. Clark, Ph.D., one of Brown's colleagues, assesses the rheumatoid diseases, decades of research, the search for a cure, and the frustration of researchers whose case for anti-mycoplasma therapy was overlooked for 40 years by the government and various arthritis organizations.
Clark believes efforts were impeded because a safe, simple treatment threatens the medical establishment since patients would then require less medical intervention.
Many physicians remain skeptical and still do not suggest antibiotic treatment to their patients.
The Arthritis Foundation was seemingly unimpressed even after antibiotic therapy was deemed as safe and effective.
The foundation's medical director reportedly said he did not view the treatment as a breakthrough and more study of dosages and long-term use of minocycline is needed."
Here's the write-up by the radio doc who cured his wife.
Let all your friends who get diagnosed with RA know about this treatment. They can get rid of rheumatoid arthritis if they treat at the outset with oral antibiotics.
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Dr. Mirkin treats Lyme Disease too. Long term.....
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Isn't this what the Road Back is all about?
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That's unfortunate that he retired. He did treat patients. However his therapies were basic. 200mg long term Doxy, or 200mg Mino and sometimes IV Ceftriaxone. He admitted "years" of treatment are sometimes needed.
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