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I was doing some research for a friend on the link between ALS and Lyme disease and was really shocked at the misinformation I found on this web page:
I hope that some of you , many of you will write them to correct them on the false information regarding chronic neurologic lyme on their site. They state the treatment of two weeks of IV antibiotics is sufficient for lyme. They also state that lyme spares the bladder. This is not true. I was diagnosed with autonomic neuropathy secondary to lyme and I have bladder dysfunction.
I do plan on writing them, but I was hoping someone here who is used to doing this all the time could send them information.
I am not going to try to convince them that ALS really is lyme because I do not believe myself that is true in all situations. But I do think their information on chronic neuro lyme is very inaccurate and that is what bothers me greatly!
I certainly won't share this with my new friend with ALS. I was trying to find him something that would convince him to get tested for Lyme. I can't believe an ALS society would be so out of date, and so inaccurate. I was shocked reading this.
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Why try to find a cause for a disease that has no cause? That seems to be the philosophy of the ALS associations that I have spoken to.
I was practically dx'ed with ALS and if I didn't start to receive abx treatment I probably would have been dx'ed with it!
No one at the ALS association will entertain my medical history of infections with an ALS presentation. I've contacted them more than once.
You can lead a horse to water but ....
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The ALS researchers seem to be primarily doing work that gives them job security.....goes on forever, in other words. Here is an update from a group that is doing such research, same old same old. And this is the group that was set up by the family of an ALS patient, was described in a TV show as doing "guerilla science." Ha, read this and see if doesn't sound like every other ALS research program. And they have absolutely resisted the idea that any portion of the "ALS" population could respond to lyme treatment.
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I agree- the ALS Associations I have tried to talk with are very very set in their paths-
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Perhaps communication with the support group leaders would work better - perhaps.
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I had many symptoms of ALS and one dr at Hopkins suspected it. 3 years before that a neurologist has dx me with "auronomic dysfunction"
I was sent to a different neuro for the dx of ALS. Basically, what I got from it is that my sx were not progressive enough to be ALS.
I had sx of autonomic dysfunction, and muscle weakness, but really didn't fit either dx.
pure autonomic failure I think only affects blood pressure and heart rate, and I had other sx, like bladder, bowel, muscle weakness, etc.
I guess I am lucky they didn't just give me a dx like that, and kept looking. but then they tried to say it was "psychiatric"
most of my sx are getting better with abx. a few are not budging. but I no longer worry about ALS.
I feel sorry for the people with ALS and MS dx's who have no clue their disease might be infectious.
if it were me, I would definitely try abx before "giving up" with a MS or ALS dx. what can it hurt?
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