Re: Forthcoming study results

[Guest guest]

Will you let us know how it goes, Kate? I'll be rooting for you!

>

> > Maybe the new study on 2-yr abx treatment of Crohns disease will

> > help a bit, when it comes out midyear.

>

> > Also, I know Trevor Marshall thinks the Fallon study, due

out

> > sometime pretty soon, will do wonders for lyme/cfs politics. I

> > understand it has alotta ugly pictures of brain lesions, which

will

> > certainly shut up the psych people who think we are a pack of

nutty

> > wimps.

[Guest guest]

Good luck - in addition to the Mattman '98 culture study, there are

a couple studies directly (microscopically) demonstrating

persistance of Bb in tissues (after abx).

Be ready for the New England Journal treatment study (c. 2002?)

where no benefits resulted from a significant amount of ceftriaxone

followed by a significant amount of doxy. I dont know how that

happened. Scattered on the web are copies of some huffy letters to

NEJM about that study, which probably have some salient points about

its methodology and epistemology.

<KateDunlay@h...> wrote:

> Thanks for mentioning these. It does provide some hope.

>

> I was just at the Columbia/Fallon site yesterday, printing out

some

> pictures to take to the ID doc my son will be seeing soon. I am

arming

> myself with everything I can think of so that I can instantly

refute

> any BS. I am feeling fairly confident about my ability to locate

what I

> need in my notebook of Lyme studies but I'm still scared.

>

> - Kate D.

[Guest guest]

On Sunday, March 13, 2005, at 05:17 PM, Hodologica wrote:

> Good luck - in addition to the Mattman '98 culture study, there are

> a couple studies directly (microscopically) demonstrating

> persistance of Bb in tissues (after abx).

Yup, that's in the notebook (thanks to you!).

> Be ready for the New England Journal treatment study (c. 2002?)

> where no benefits resulted from a significant amount of ceftriaxone

> followed by a significant amount of doxy. I dont know how that

> happened.

I think the study was too short and maybe those were the wrong drugs

for those patients. I do remember seeing discussion of it, which I

should try to locate.

- Kate D.