tests prior to hGH and bGFs

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I'm still trying to catch up on posts that I missed while I was away over

Thanksgiving for a week in a home without a computer! But I'm aware that there

have been several references to my experience with hGH and the genovations

panel.

Just to clarify: Cheney would very likely have put me on hGH regardless of my

genovations results. The dose is so low, and my other immune tests looked okay,

so I think he would have okay'd it.

The hGH can have a slight tendency to shift folks more towards Th2 who are

already shifted!! (I wasn't.) It can also, in some people, stimulate the

replication of already active viruses. (I had none.) However, I think Cheney

said that it's a little like Russian Roulette in compromised folk: it may push

you into further trouble, or it could actually help your immune system reach

better balance and therefore fight any pathogens.

However, because of the fragile state of so many of us, Cheney always errs on

the side of safety and caution, and thus is very cautious about the use of hGH

and especially the boving growth factors. The concerns about hGH shifting the

immune system and stimulating viral replication are magnified many times over

with the bGFs. They are much more potent that the hGH in terms of these possible

side effects.

To be accurate, Cheney said that if the genovations immune panel had been

available at the time, he would not have put me on the combination of hGH and

bovine growth factors, at least not without a year of modulation. And, I

suspect, close monitoring during the use of the bGFs. If I stated that it was

hGH else where, I apologize. My use of hGH was part of Cheney's study on the

combination of hGH and bGF's, and I began the bGF's soon after the hGH.

And if you'll recall, I had no problems with the first round of bGFs, which

lasted six months. Just very dramatic improvement. And the second round of bGFs

went well until the very end, when I had stopped using several of the immune

modulators and my stress level had increased, since I was beginning to pursue

possibilities of volunteering and eventually returning to work and getting off

disability.

And even though my immune system went into disarray and opened the door for all

kinds of stuff, some very interesting benefits still occured as a result that

I've just documented. I'll put that in another post.

Oh, the main point of this - there is no one single test result that would

indicate that you are / are not a candidate for hGH or the hGH/bGF combo. Cheney

looked for normal NK function, normal (near zero) RNase L levels, and no active

pathogens (CFS Panel at mdlab.com or mdlabs.com) And he would also consider the

genovations panel as an indication of how much immunmodulation you might need,

especially with the bGFs.

I needed a lot, and I need to be on them all continuously for the rest of my

life, since these are inherited abnormalities. We didn't know this until I had

the genovations test.

Take care. Carol