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Not sure but I think my doc prescribed some meds a few months ago that had steroids in it and I am not sure if that is bad or not. Read in a pdf file from this site that steroids can be very bad but what is the relation?
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Steroids surpress your immune system, which is a bad idea when you have a bacterial infection. Do you have a doctor who is treating you for Lyme? Hopefully you've given him or her a list of all the medications you're on, and they will tell you if anything needs to be stopped.
Only in very rare situations is the use of steroids a good idea.
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I have a question about steroids, too.
If steroids are so bad for people with bacterial infections because they lower immunity...
why on earth are they given to people with cancer?
If their immunity is lowered, it seems the cancer would go nuts just like Lyme would.
I ask, because a little friend of mine has cancer and is on steroids and her little cheeks are so puffy and round because of it.
Seems ( to me ) that steroids would be just as bad for cancer patients, for the same reasons as Lyme people.
Makes no sense to me.
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My PCP does not believe it is lyme as two of three blood test have come back negative. First on I got showed positive but that makes no difference to her. Pain management doc thought chronic lyme and said she would send letter to my PCP stating her thoughts. Still, PCP "doubts" it is lyme. Calling a LLMD on Monday in the hopes of getting in before July...
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Look up steroids in the search function. You'll read about a lot of people who wished they never had steroids.
Steroid injections made me bedridden for six months, lost 75 pounds in that time, nausea and dry heaves daily. Could only eat a saltine cracker or two, and that was on a good day.
Steroids+Lyme=Hell (at least for me it did). Never again!
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Hambone, Steroids are given to cancer patients, one to help prevent allergic reactions to chemotherapy. Alot of chemo drugs have a high potential for serious allergic reaction.
Also in cancer patients and some others who have cystic fibrosis who are malnourished or have extreme weight lose and no appetite due to cancer and/or chemo the are given steroids as appetite stimulants.
Grace
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quote:Originally posted by jazzygirl24: Hambone, Steroids are given to cancer patients, one to help prevent allergic reactions to chemotherapy. Alot of chemo drugs have a high potential for serious allergic reaction.
Also in cancer patients and some others who have cystic fibrosis who are malnourished or have extreme weight lose and no appetite due to cancer and/or chemo the are given steroids as appetite stimulants.
- Thanks for the info. I always wondered that too. If I ever get cancer it'll be all over for me. I can't tolerate high dosage steroids.
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Lymetoo, Didn't you know you are immune to cancer, if you have Lyme? Those Lyme spirochetes will not allow any competition for control of you body LOL.
Grace
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Steroids turn off your immune system so that it will not try to fight the lyme and coinfections. That's like your army not fighting against the enemy. THe enemy gets to go and camp out and steal from you anything it wants--your brain, your heart, your joints, etc.
From Burrascano:
"More severe illness also results from other causes of weakened defenses, such as from severe stress, immunosuppressant medications, and severe intercurrent illnesses. This is why steroids and other immunosuppressive medications are absolutely contraindicated in Lyme. This also includes intraarticular steroids." (page 3)
"More evidence has accumulated indicating the severe detrimental effects of the concurrent use of immunosuppressants including steroids in the patient with active B. burgdorferi infection. Never give steroids or any other immunosuppressant to any patient who may even remotely be suffering from Lyme, or serious, permanent damage may result, especially if given for anything greater than a short course. If immunosuppressive therapy is absolutely necessary, then potent antibiotic treatment should begin at least 48 hours prior to the immunosuppressants." (page 12)
"However, attention must be paid to all treatment modalities for such a recovery- not only antibiotics, but rehab and exercise programs, nutritional supplements, enforced rest, low carbohydrate, high fiber diets, attention to food sensitivities, avoidance of stress, abstinence from caffeine and alcohol, and absolutely no immunosuppressants, even local doses of steroids (intra-articular injections, for example)." (page 20)
quote:Originally posted by jazzygirl24: Lymetoo, Didn't you know you are immune to cancer, if you have Lyme? Those Lyme spirochetes will not allow any competition for control of you body LOL.
Grace
- Hoping so!!
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there ae different kinds of steriods. not all are immune lowering, i.e. anabolic.
corticosteroids is what we are talking about when people talk about immune lowering steroids.
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