(Infection&Inflammation2):Re: Ignenex targeted

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Pseudonomads, a good time to do a culture or 2.

> Helen, whether you test positive for lyme or not, you could still

be

> suffering from any number of serious bacterial infections

especially

> since you get relief with Augmentin. And the right side of the

head

> being stopped up along with the morning headache, yells sinus

> disease/infection/inflammation to me. If it were me, I'd get my

> sinuses scanned, and with those headaches I'd see a neurologist,

too

> (although good luck finding decent ones in either field). Then do

> LOTS of research before taking any drastic action (i.e. surgery).

>

> I really can't explain the oxygen problem at all. Perhaps the

> sinuses are so full of infection, that pumping the oxygen in there

> is creating some kind of over pressurized or increased sensitivity

> situation (purely speculative, obviously) or perhaps an anaerobic

> bacterial die off, caused by the exposure to oxygen, is creating a

> lot of excess congestion leading to sinus pressure and headache. I

> know that when I start killing bugs, I usually have a big increase

> in sinus drainage. Maybe yours is trapped, not draining.

>

> I have an oxygen concentrator that sometimes helped relieve

> headaches while using it, but only temporarily. Same for my

> daughter. Of course, that's different from using a pure oxygen

tank,

> which I know is recently being touted as a great migraine

reliever.

> All I know is that using the concentrator made me feel weird, and

> made it very difficult for me to catch my breath for quite a while

> afterwards. It was even worse when using the rebreather mask,

which

> is supposed to somehow compensate for the C02 build up. I've since

> decided that I much prefer natural breathing techniques. I did a

lot

> of prolonged exhaling when I was at retreat this summer, and I

felt

> it did me a world of good. But you've got to do them regularly.

You

> might try doing some of the newer Cheney Breathing exercises?

Mainly

> you breathe out longer than you breathe in. It's weird, these very

> diverse reactions to the same therapies. But getting oxygen into

> your sinuses and brain in a more gentle way, might be the way to

go?

>

> penny

>

> By the way, anyone want to buy an oxygen concentrator? Top of the

> line, almost new, rarely used. :-)

>

>

> >

> > From:helenw8262@c... [ Save Address ]

> > To:InfectionAndInflammation (Infection &

> Inflammation)

> > Subject: : Re: Igenex targeted

> > Date:2 Sep 2005 23:07:07 -0000

> >

> >

> > I was tested by Igenex and the results came back that I didn't

> have Lyme but shows that I had been exposed to Lyme. Has anyone

ever

> heard of such a thing?

> > I feel like that I do have lyme because I have to stay on low

dose

> Augmentin or else my headaches are too bad to function.

> >

> > Another thing that I would like to bring up, not knowing where

> else to bring it up. I have a c-pap machine because I have sleep

> apnea. Just recently I was prescribed oxygen to use with it

because

> my morning headaches are so bad. The oxygen made my head so much

> worse that I could hardly function the next day. The next night I

> only used the oxygen a short while and my head wasn't as bad but

> still bad. The oxygen people said they never heard of such a thing

> as oxygen affecting me that way. They said that usually people's

> head was better the next day. Is there such a thing as being

> allergic to oxygen or maybe it is migraine trigger for me or

maybe

> it is a herx, since the right side of my head stays stopped up all

> the time and have to use drops, etc. The settings were correct.

> > Any ideas?

> > Thanks,

> > H.