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Posted by dontlikeliver (Member # 4749) on :
 
http://www.mercola.com/2003/may/21/lyme_disease.htm

Quotes Wormser, Nowakowski et al and short-term abx as 'good', and in fact says even less antibiotics are needed than the already short courses.

I have neither the time or energy to take him up on this, but perhaps someone else does.
 

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Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
 
That sucks! I couldn't see where we're able to respond to his statements. He said 85 to 90% of patients were "completely well" after a short course of treatment.

First of all, how do they know that? Did they follow these patients many years down the line?

What about the 15% who didn't recover? I guess that's US!
 

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Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
 
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Posted by lou (Member # 81) on :
 
A lot of people seem to go to his site (not me) so it might be worth trying to educate him. On the other hand, here is a quote from his lyme write up that is such complete bull, maybe it would be a waste of time trying to talk to a person who could write such a thing:

"Nearly all the cases of RA and Lyme disease I have seen have some connection to a traumatic emotional event that occurred earlier in the patient's life. Unless this bioenergetic imbalance is resolved at a deep subconscious level, there is a serious possibility the disease may not improve."

In my opinion the traumatic emotional event IS the lyme and the horrible experiences people can have trying to get diagnosed and treated.

And here is the contact info, maybe best used by people who are already his disciples, and believe his other material:

http://www.mercola.com/forms/contact.htm
 

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Posted by lymex5&counting (Member # 7202) on :
 
I am sad to see this one on here. Although we

need to remember that these were not written by

him. Here is a much better one from a few years

before called

Lyme Disease:The Unknown Epidemic

that is listed on his site. Maybe we could echo

the praises of the above article featuring many

of our wonderful LLMD's rather

than just beating up the Annals of Internal

Medicine.


http://www.mercola.com/2001/jul/25/lyme_disease.htm
 

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Posted by Moose (Member # 8545) on :
 
Jeez, this sounds exactly what the docs at Johns Hopkins have told me last Friday. As for the rest of the problems, they do not have answers.

Secondly, how can they sum all this up based on 3 months of research?? With treatment of early lyme on as little as 14 days of dosage, a person can feel better for a while, yet lyme can stay under and pop up from time-to-time with strange unknown symptoms that seems unrelated until it becomes a full blown case and much harder to treat years later!!

Thirdly, this article is OLD, written 3 years ago...and more new discoveries are happening every day. AMA & CDC need to base their guideline according to latest researches not on old researches and leave it there.
 

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Posted by elle (Member # 7721) on :
 
I have received mercola's newsletters for years. Much of his past articles are a culmination of already written materials with originals that he would write now and again.

Over the last few years the majority of his "information" is promotion and marketing of either his books or his products for sale on his website.

He is a successful entrepreneur (dr) who does a good job at promoting and marketing his merchandise. Should this be confused with good medical advise?? I don't think so...jmho

elle
 

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Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
 

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Originally posted by elle:
Should this be confused with good medical advise?? I don't think so...jmho

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Originally posted by Lymetoo:

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Originally posted by elle:
Should this be confused with good medical advise?? I don't think so...jmho

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Please explain. Did I miss something here? [/QB]

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