Bill Harvey's cure !!!

[Guest guest]

Just received this from a friend ....How massive is the question & what

abx's

recovered after giving himself massive doses of antibiotics...

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

MYCOPLASMA REGISTRY REPORTS

for gulf war syndrome & chronic fatigue syndrome

© Dudley & Leslee Dudley 2005. All rights reserved.

MycoplasmaRegistry/ MycoReg@...

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Doctor devised treatment plan for ALS to heal himself

BY BRYAN WOOLLEY, The Dallas Morning News

Fort Wayne News Sentinel, IN - May. 06, 2005

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/living/11580038.htm

DALLAS - (KRT) - Dr. T. Harvey says he once was a victim of

the debilitating disease for which he has been treating Charlie

. Or something like it. It was in 1987 in California, he says,

just before his 50th birthday, that his life " kind of fell through

the roof. "

" It was all pain, all brain fog, " he says. " I couldn't think anymore.

I had to quit my job. I went back to my house in San and

figured that I had a fatal disease and nobody could figure out what

it was. "

He says he recovered after giving himself massive doses of

antibiotics. Another doctor who, like Charlie, had been diagnosed

with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, said Harvey successfully treated

him with the same method.

But Harvey's methods are outside the medical mainstream, and many

experts are skeptical of his theories.

" One of the things that makes modern medicine such a powerful thing

is that there is general consensus on issues and evidence, " says Dr.

D. Radolf, a professor of medicine at the University of

Connecticut and an authority on the bacterium Harvey is

treating. " Dr. Harvey appears to be far beyond anything that's

evidence-based. He's just basically making up his own rules. "

Harvey blames a bacterium, Borellia burgdorferia, for the symptoms he

experienced. He says patients like him may be diagnosed with a range

of illnesses - chronic Lyme disease, Gulf War syndrome, fibromyalgia

or Agent Orange syndrome. Some, he says, are diagnosed with ALS or

multiple sclerosis or Parkinson's. Some are told that their problem

isn't physical, that their pain is only in their minds.

Harvey believed he had chronic fatigue syndrome, a vaguely defined

malady that many doctors didn't believe was real. In 1999, he

attended a medical conference on Lyme disease, which causes similar

symptoms, although he says he was almost certain Lyme wasn't his

problem.

At the conference, he learned of the use of oral antibiotics in

treating Lyme disease and decided to treat himself with " high, high

doses " of them to see whether they might help his condition, too.

" Little by little, I came out of the disease. Almost, " he says. He

began taking antibiotics in even larger doses through a catheter and

says he achieved complete recovery.

His wife, Pat, had experienced similar symptoms and had been " sick as

a dog, " in bed for 12 years. She remains on antibiotics. " She's

mostly well and highly functional, " Harvey says.

In 2000, Dr. Pat Salvato, head of Diversified Medical Practices in

Houston, invited Harvey to join her clinic, a chronic fatigue

syndrome practice. Eventually, he says, he identified Borellia and

another bacterium, Babesia, as agents of the illness.

Of the 900 patients that Harvey has treated over the past four years,

he says, about 300 have finished therapy, and their symptoms haven't

returned.

His star patient is another physician, Dr. Martz, an oncologist-

hematologist from Colorado Springs, Colo. Martz, now 64, was

diagnosed with ALS in May 2003 and had to retire from his practice.

" I had been in the Colorado Springs medical community for 30 years, "

he says in a phone interview. " I was pretty well-known and respected

in that community. Every expert in the community was involved in my

care, trying to figure out what was going on. I was hospitalized for

two weeks. At the end of that two weeks, they weren't sure what I

had, but they thought I probably had early ALS. "

A friend of Martz's son saw a newspaper article in land about

Harvey and his work. One of Martz's colleagues knew Harvey and put

them in touch. In January, Martz was put on high-dosage intravenous

antibiotic treatment.

His symptoms are remarkably similar to Charlie 's. But for

reasons Harvey says he doesn't know, Martz's recovery has been

quicker. After six months of intensive treatment, Martz says he was

back to 75 percent to 80 percent of the person he once was.

Now, Harvey says, a year after Martz began the antibiotic therapy, a

neurologist who specializes in the disease has declared him " symptom

free " of ALS.

Radolf says he's skeptical of Harvey's theories linking the Lyme

disease bacterium with other ailments. Radolf has done extensive

research in Lyme disease and diseases caused by Borrelia burgdorferi

and other bacteria.

" Lyme disease does have neurological syndromes, " he says. " But

regarding neurological diseases such as ALS and MS, I think very few

people in the neurological community would accept that these are due

to Lyme disease, " or Borellia burgdorferi. I don't believe there is

any evidence that real, properly diagnosed ALS is caused by Borellia

or that it is treatable with antibiotics. "

Harvey says his work has not been a scientific study. " I'm just

treating patients, " he says. " And I treat only one kind of disease -

this bacterium, Borellia. "

Harvey has moved to his Del Rio, Texas, vacation home, where he

spends most of his time writing about Borellia burgdorferi and

Babesia and organizing a database to be shared with other physicians.

He closed his Houston office in September, and except for Charlie and

a few others who were diagnosed with ALS, his patients were referred

to other physicians. But the afflicted call, and the doctor is seeing

new patients again.

(He can be reached through his assistant, Glenda Castillo, at 830-774-

4094.)

" I'm starting to understand it, finally, " Harvey says. " So are a lot

of other docs. I think this thing is just about to pop to the

surface. "

---

RESOURCES

International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society - ilads.org

ALS Association - alsa.org

---

© 2005, The Dallas Morning News.

Visit The Dallas Morning News on the World Wide Web at

http://www.dallasnews.com

Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

FREE BROCHURE: " How to Get an Accurate Polymerase Chain Reaction (PRC)

Blood Test for Mycoplasmal and Other Infections-with a List of

International Laboratories " © by and Leslee Dudley

is sent automatically and immediately to all new subscribers. It is

updated with current information and the new version is posted to the

Mycoplasma Registry Reports & News list each month.

MycoplasmaRegistry-subscribe

FAIR USE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this

material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a

prior interest in receiving the included information for research and

educational purposes. The Mycoplasma Registry has no affiliation with

the originator of this article nor is the Mycoplasma Registry

endorsed or sponsored by the originator. If you wish to use

copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go

beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright

owner.

--

No virus found in this outgoing message.

Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.

Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.7 - Release Date: 09/05/2005