Re: Re: Ringworm/Lyme/recapitulation

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You raise a point I have been wondering about. When I first started taking iodine, I felt clear improvement in several areas, & I was really excited. But just recently, things have sort of rebounded... The nodule on my thyroid, which had gotten very small & sunk deep into my throat so I could hardly feel it, suddenly swelled up again. My irritable bowel issues seemed to be clearing, & then suddenly I had a few days of severe cramping & bleeding, like what I had right after the Floxin (symptoms which I hadn't had in quite a long time.) I chatted with my chiro, who suggested that sometimes when you are feeling better than you have in a long time, the body does some house-cleaning, & starts dumping old crud it has been hanging onto for a long time. He said that people often think this sort of reaction is a signal that they need to do something different, but he thinks that maybe it means you are doing the RIGHT thing, & should stand pat. This is kind of in line with the theory of recapitulation. I must say it's unsettling, though. How do you tell a worsening problem from a healing crisis?Those of us out here in the fringes of alternative medicine are often dealing with very difficult & ambiguous conditions -- most of us have gone to doctors & not been helped. And often we get ridiculed, even when we are getting results. (I tried to tell my aunt that iodine was benefiting every member of my family, & she said it sounded like snake oil & gave me a really hard time. Now I can't even show her that my nodule is gone, because it is back. SIGH!)I have heard a LOT about Lyme lately, but the mainstream docs say that if their tests don't find it, it isn't there -- & their tests mostly don't find it. So if people are getting results treating Lyme, even though they tested negative for Lyme, are they really treating Lyme or something else? The whole mess ties my brain in knots sometimes.To a certain extent, it doesn't matter what you call it. If you are sick with SOMETHING, & get better, that's what really counts. But then when you want to share the information, you come up against defining terms. Lots of families who have cured children with autism are told that their kids were misdiagnosed & couldn't have had autism, because autism is not curable. People who feel that Lyme was their issue, & that they have beaten it, are told that they never had it to start with. And when you are feeling really great, like you have made a huge step forward with your health, some of your issues can rebound or recapitulate... ARGH!AnneOn Aug 11, 2010, at 7:56 PM, Baker wrote: I believe there is an association because the Lyme disease makes a person susceptible to many opportunistic diseases. I think in this case ringworm is an opportunistic infection, that is, its an organism that is normally present in the environment and normally doesn't cause problems until there is an imbalance in the system that allows the organism to take hold. That is, people with Lyme are probably highly susceptible to the fungus (that is called ringworm) taking hold in their skin. I've been a caregiver for people dying of HIV infection, and opportunistic infections are a big story there, that is where I learned about them originally, such as Kaposi's Sarcoma and Pneumocystii pneumonia. Some researchers also want to try to say that fibromyalgia is caused by an organism, but whatever organism is proposed, it doesn't exist in more than 70% of people with the disease. Although this is usually explained as that those persons without it were misdiagnosed and don't really have fibromyalgia, I and a lot of other people think those are just opportunistic infections associated with fibro. In any case, iodine is an antibacterial and will only assist the body in clearing it. I think that the reason people come down with things like this after starting iodine is that they are detoxing and it is manifesting as diseases the person perhaps had subclinically and the iodine is bringing it to a head (in the way that LDN therapy can bring out a subclinical systemic candida infection), or they had it in the past and it's the well-known recapitulation of symptoms, in which case usually they don't need to be treated, just the detox pathways opened and lots of unrefined salt taken, with a reduction in iodine until the detox pathways move. -- >Lyme is contagious. It might not be lyme but I wouldn't discount it >because of its seriousness. You might want to read up on it before >discounting it or maybe you have. > >Joan > > > > > > > > > > Ringworm is usually Lyme? Never heard this before. If you think > you¹re a > > > > broken record, I¹m just too new to be worn down by your info > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~ There is no way to peace; peace is the way ~~~~ > > --A.J. Muste > > > > > > >------------------------------------ > >All off topic posts should go to the IodineOT >group IodineOT/ > > >Commonly asked questions: http://tinyurl.com/yhnds5e