(Infection&Inflammation2):Re: Ignenex targeted

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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. :-)

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

> To:InfectionAndInflammation (Infection &

Inflammation)

> Subject: : Re: Igenex targeted

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

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> 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.

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> 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.