It has dawned on me recently that I have fine tuned my abx as far as they are going to bring me. I am waiting for my immune system to snap out of its inflammatory disfunctional state and start defending me.
The Bartonella or Myco or lyme or whatever these bugs are that have my immune system under the thumb are not going to let up. Abx have taken the place of my immunesystem. I feel like I am being kept alive artificially. I have to rotate 3 or four antibiotics every 2 weeks just to keep ahead of these bugs.
It seems to me that there are two types of people in all this, those that catch everything going (colds flu etc) all the way through and others like me who can't get a cold or any kind of immune response at all.
There have been 2 or 3 times in the last 3 years of treatment that i would start a new drug and suddenly within a day or two get a massive cold and immune reaction and very strangely feel human again and not like a zombie host to these little f%$�ers.
Now to my point, At the beginning of this year I started to take chelation very seriously. I tested very high for lead and high mercury via Doctors data. So I researched heavily and came to the conclusion Andy Cutlers Frequent dosing made most sense so I started 50 mg DMSA 50 mg ALA every 3 hours 3 days week (up at 4 am ad 8 am at night too).
As with everything I do I like to push the envelope to get a response. So two weeks in I decided to drag the ALA round to a full week on instead of just 3 days.
By day 6 I woke up at 8 am with a raging fever, fluey, shaking and horrendous. I had to stop everything and spent the next 2 days curled up on the couch shivering with fevers.
Now, I have lyme, bart and babs and have fought epic battles with all of them at one time or another but never in my illness since this thing went chronic have I had a fever of any kind.
Of course my initial feeling was too much mercury being pulled out of the cells but now I am not so sure. I was watching a programme a few days ago called the incurables, it was about stage 4 cancer survivors curing themselves without chemo. One of the women featured was taking a supplement combo with the main ingredient of Alpha Lipoic Acid to increase immune function.
It was this programme that made something click with me. What if the ALA was merely kickstarting my immune system and it was suddenly recognizing the bugs which are quite obviously still in massive numbers in my body??
I am looking for some feedback on this please. BLO has been the main player for me. Schaller and others talk about the barts ability to a shut off the immune response to allow it to float in the blood stream in large numbers.
Researching ALA show it has been used to treat HIV by boosting T-cells to fight infection. There is also a doctor using it to treat lupus and autoimmune diseases successfully (with LDN)
Could this have been the mechanism at play here???
The natural thing to do when a reaction like this occurs is to pull the plug. I am going to try again and push through the herx. I think its the jumpstart I have been looking for.
The doses of ALA I am talking about are above 1000mgs a day.
Oh and my WBC and neutraphils are chronically low, just below normal range. WBC 2.8 (normal being above 3.0) and Neutraphils 1.8 (normal being above 2.0)
any input would be great!
[ 07-22-2011, 07:11 AM: Message edited by: NMN ]
-------------------- Pos BB and Bart(Q & H IGG pos) Began treat 1 year after start of illness. Diagnosed Feb 2007. Posts: 648 | From Ireland | Registered: Jan 2007
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Supplementation with alpha-lipoic acid may positively impact patients with HIV and acquired immune deficiency syndrome by restoring blood total glutathione level and improving functional reactivity of lymphocytes to T-cell mitogens.
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