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It's also known as Questran�. It's used as a bile binder to help prevent reabsorption of toxins in the body (as a seconday use, it's mostly used to lower cholesterol for some).
I read on another Lyme website that Dr. Shoemaker (okay to use his name, he's out there with his own website chronicneurotoxins.com) that it can be used to help treat the visual disfunction associated with Lyme.
Has anyone used this drug? I'd be interested in your impressions.
BT
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I have a friend of the family who has been treated by Dr. Shoemaker with cholesteramine for mold poisoning and has improved some, but she was also being treated for breast cancer so it's hard to tell which treatments accomplished what.
She regards him very highly, but that could be because he was the first doctor to tell her she wasn't crazy. We all know how far that goes, to have a doctor who actually listens to you.
I was going to see him but it's too far for me and he is way too expensive. Plus, from what I've read and researched, his treatment more targets mold and toxins, not so much Lyme. I could be wrong, but that's the jist that I got.
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Be careful, it can bind you up something fierce. Do a search, lots of info on it here.
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That's precisely why my LLMD started me on it ... but it doesn't bind me up at all.
It's supposed to absorb toxins. I don't know if there's any real way to tell if it's working. I've been taking it for a while ... and I'm doing other things to detox, too.
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OMIGOSH.
I tried and tried to use that.
I became, er, uh, a stranger to the bathroom, let us say.
This became so severe as to force me to phone my doctor in alarm, all over-the-counter remedies having left me 'unmoved.'
I have never had such a problem, being more a chronic diarrhea type of person. For example, there is almost no decent reading material in my bathroom, as I am rarely in there long enough.
Subsequent attempts with smaller doses met with the same result.
Not a pretty picture. I am pretty stoic but I am not that stoic.
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Cholestyramine was the opposite for me. It actually made me feel really cleaned out!
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Oh, I forgot...it does target mold and toxins, but that's necessary for successful Lyme treatment!
Many LLMDs don't realize how important it is to address mold when treating Lyme!
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