anyone taking oil of oregano reommended by MD? if so what dose and for how long?
Posted by onbam (Member # 23758) on :
no such thing as "post-lyme." will pm.
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- Ditto. No such thing as "post-lyme" syndrome. If that is what your doctor is calling it, you need a new doctor.
Oregano - GEL CAPS are safest. Do not break open in your mouth. If you use a tincture, dilute with at least 1/2 cup water and start with just ONE drop.
There are many past threads discussing Oregano Oil:
Is 200mg twice a day of doxycline a large dose for someone who weighs 100 pounds?
I want to insist on that dose to ID MD tomorrow but I don't want to sicken myself. I was nauseated taking 100mg.
(genco)
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posted 24 August, 2010
need the name of a few LLMD in or near north brunswick n.j.
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Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- By your posting history, I see that, even if you did get into a LLMD right away, the longest you could have been treating is for 6 weeks.
That is not an adequate treatment time.
I do hope you have / will have a LLMD to guide you. If you are waiting to see a LLMD - or want to compare some of the complementary options --- to go along with care from a LLMD, you might want to look over the articles and books in the later posts at the thread below.
ILADS links are included as anyone who explores complementary methods MUST know all about that first.
Topic: How to find a LL ND (naturopathic doctor), acupuncturist, etc.
Includes how to find an ILADS-educated LL ND, an Acupuncturist, a doctor of Oriental Medicine (O.M.D.), or a doctor of Ayurvedic Medicine (D.Ay.), certified herbalists or nutritionists, etc.
Includes many articles and books on complementary / integrative methods - & RIFE links. -
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
As two medical societies battle over its diagnosis and treatment, Lyme disease remains a frequently missed illness. Here is how to spot and treat it.
Excerpts:
Meet the players
The opponents in the battle over the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease are the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the largest national organization of general infectious disease specialists, (and)
and the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS), an organization made up of physicians from many specialties. ( www.ilads.org )
ILADS, by contrast, asserts that the illness is much more common than reported, underdiagnosed, easier to contract than previously believed, difficult to diagnose through commercial blood tests, and difficult to treat, (especially)
especially when treatment is delayed because of commonly encountered diagnostic difficulties ( http://www.ilads.org/guidelines.html - Accessed April 6, 2007).
. . .
* " . . .To treat Lyme disease for a comparable number of life cycles, treatment would need to last 30 weeks. . . ."
* `` . . . Patients with Lyme disease almost always have negative results on standard blood screening tests and have no remarkable findings on physical exam, so they are frequently referred to mental-health professionals for evaluation.
* ". . . If all cases were detected and treated in the early stages of Lyme disease, the debate over the diagnosis and treatment of late-stage disease would not be an issue, and devastating rheumatologic, neurologic, and cardiac complications could be avoided..."
* . . . Clinicians do not realize that the CDC has gone on record as saying the commercial Lyme tests are designed for epidemiologic rather than diagnostic purposes, and a diagnosis should be based on clinical presentation rather than serologic results. . . .
- Full article at link above, containing MUCH more detailed information. -
Posted by genco (Member # 26789) on :
post lyme treatment means just that any treatment you are doing after completing your antibiotics be it vitamins/supplements etc.
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- How long were you treated for lyme? By an ILADS-educated LLMD ?
Did you reach remission and continue lyme treatment for another couple months after remission was achieved?
Since you only posted for a LLMD 6 weeks ago, I just want to be sure that you were not told by a doctor who is not lyme literate that a short course was enough. That happens far too often. -