Re: Does this seem consistent?

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Pam,

We know that inflammation and insulin resistance are reciprocal

factors. One makes the other worse.

If your abx regimen is triggering a herx reaction (inflammation)

then that can increase insulin resistance that can be seen as

elevated blood sugars. Elevated blood sugars will trigger the

inflammatory cascade in a very similar fashion that microbial

pathogens do. So, in the case of diabetes, the body responds as

though it is infected. The reciprocal of that is that an acquired

chronic inflammatory disease (A-CID) will cause insulin resistance

and can lead to diabetes.

I've heard some say that all diabetes is caused by A-CIDs, however,

that's simply not true, IMO.

It's important to keep inflammation under control while trying to

kill the pathogens triggering it.

>

> I wonder if what I am experiencing fits the model so to speak of

> cytokine activity causing problems.

>

> Initially for about 10 days I did really well on 1000 mg

> Erythromycin plus 400mg Plaquenil but then I started to get some

> neuro symptoms and lack of energy which has got a lot worse and

> after just over 2 weeks I feel inflammation throughout my body

which

> isn't normally there.

>

> Yesterday I forced myself to go to a lovely warm pool and swam for

> about 12 minutes (it was then I realised I had all this pain in my

> muscles), then went in the jacuzzi for 5 minutes followed by 15

> minutes in the sauna.

>

> Initially in the sauna I felt quite unwell but was determined to

sit

> it out for a little longer because I know it usually does me

good.

> Indeed I was able to rest there for 15 minutes before having a

cool

> shower and went back in the pool to relax and swim very gently

just

> a little more. I was really surprised that all the pain that had

> been there the first time when swimming had gone and I felt a lot

> better in myself.

>

> I finished off with the warm jacuzzi for another 5 minutes

followed

> by a warm shower and then rested with a cup of tea for about 3/4

> hour feeling so much better but sweating profusely (my hair was

> soaking wet just sitting and resting and I looked like a beetroot)!

>

> The improvement went on for the rest of the day but my blood sugar

> was poor and I was craving sweet stuff. This insulin resistance

> problem also has got worse on this combo of abx at the moment

though

> I realise its really early days and when I took my fasting blood

> sugar this morning it was the highest it has ever been and almost

at

> prediabetic levels. Therefore I know I have got to be a lot

> stricter about low carb (also got a mild migraine this morning

which

> I haven't had for a couple of weeks).

>

> To sum up it would appear that there is much more inflammation in

my

> body at the moment and this is affecting the glucose getting into

> the cells. I probably had a similar pattern when on the Doxy but

I

> think it took a lot longer being on it before feeling like this.

>

> Thanks for any explanations as to what is going on but I guess it

is

> those cytokines.

>

> Pam