Guest guest Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 In a message dated 5/16/2005 2:49:34 PM Central Daylight Time, etna@... writes: Well, I don't know if that's logical. Lyme is helped by > antibiotics... antibiotics don't help MS. LDN helps MS. > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I could be wrong, but LDN helps the endorphin level which in turn helps the immune system. This allows our body to help itself, whatever the condition might be. I've also read that in order for antibiotics to help Lymes, they need to be used fairly quickly after being bitten by a tick. That's not to say that antibiotics won't help at a later point in time. I'm no doctor. Often, Lymes mimicks MS or vice-versa. Marcie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 I'm pursuing the lyme route also since nothing seems to be helping my SPMS. I am from a family of 9 and the only one with MS and the only one who has ever (that we know of) been bitten by a tick (in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, CAN) The rate of MS in Manitoba is quite high which I find quite interesting. I now live in Alberta (where MS is also quite high). Kathy H On 16-May-05, at 10:54 AM, bentleyfam26 wrote: > Martha wrote: " Her Lyme-literate doctor, and other doctors and > researchers, think MS IS Lyme.... " > > Well, I don't know if that's logical. Lyme is helped by > antibiotics... antibiotics don't help MS. LDN helps MS. > > There have been several people on this board who thought they had MS, > but were not helped by LDN... and then subsequently discovered they > actually had Lyme. > > Maureen > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 I would certainly get tested, if anything it would at least rule it out. My husband is being helped significantly by LDN and he still wants to get tested for Lyme and rule it out. Aletha Re: [low dose naltrexone] MS is Lyme? > I'm pursuing the lyme route also since nothing seems to be helping my > SPMS. I am from a family of 9 and the only one with MS and the only > one who has ever (that we know of) been bitten by a tick (in Portage la > Prairie, Manitoba, CAN) The rate of MS in Manitoba is quite high which > I find quite interesting. I now live in Alberta (where MS is also > quite high). > > Kathy H > On 16-May-05, at 10:54 AM, bentleyfam26 wrote: > >> Martha wrote: " Her Lyme-literate doctor, and other doctors and >> researchers, think MS IS Lyme.... " >> >> Well, I don't know if that's logical. Lyme is helped by >> antibiotics... antibiotics don't help MS. LDN helps MS. >> >> There have been several people on this board who thought they had MS, >> but were not helped by LDN... and then subsequently discovered they >> actually had Lyme. >> >> Maureen >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 > > > > >Martha wrote: " Her Lyme-literate doctor, and other doctors and >researchers, think MS IS Lyme.... " > >Well, I don't know if that's logical. Lyme is helped by >antibiotics... antibiotics don't help MS. LDN helps MS. > >There have been several people on this board who thought they had MS, >but were not helped by LDN... and then subsequently discovered they >actually had Lyme. > >Maureen > Maureen, I was only relaying what my friend's Lyme doctor said. My doctor doesn't know if I have borreliosis instead of or in addition to MS, if the borreliosis triggered the MS, or if they're one and the same. My symptoms are shared between the two conditions, if MS is even a separate condition and not just a description of symptoms. Multiple sclerosis just means " multiple plaques. " MS and Lyme plaques cannot be differentiated on an MRI. And antibiotics (like minocycline) do help MS. Also, some Lymers take LDN. If you'd researched, you might've found this article titled " Chronic Lyme borreliosis at the root of MS " at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve & db=pubmed & dopt=Abstra\ ct & list_uids=15617845 Did you know that during the '50s the cause of MS was attributed to bacteria? The point is, don't get so hung up on labels that it deters you from investigating something that might not only give you symptomatic relief, but also cure you. Martha > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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