The whole truth and nothing but the truth ?

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< 19/11/2005 5:16:42 PM >

Greetings,

I have been " out of sinx " for the past two weeks, but now trying to

catch up with the conversations through both the website and my

email updates. I am kind of at a standstill. While at my last gen.

doc appointment I was able to show that my doctor had dropped the

ball on a promised antibiotic treatment . I was very diplomatic, but

I could tell he was a bit embarrassed, so he dreams up this extreme

antibiotic protocol that involved home health coming to my home three

times a day and giving IV gentamyacin. Home health balked and wanted

me to get a port put in because they didn't want to stick me three

times a day. At that point I balked because this was all for a TEN

DAY course of gentamyacin ? PLEAASEE. I don't feel I have a strong

enough immunity to risk the port route right now, especially for a

ten day treatment. After it was all said and done, the doctor

probably knew it would not pan out and thus was why he went to such

an extreme. I don't know if anyone else has ever felt that when they

pushed the doctor's, sometimes the doctor's would appear to go along,

but then the whole thing gets bent out of proportion? Then you

realize the doc had no intentions of providing you what you thought

was a forgone conclusion?

Anyway........my trip to the doctor was the gateway for me to catch

another infection. I was down flat for ten days, only getting up

finally yesterday. Still foggy. After these spells it just seems to

take so much longer for me to regroup and figure out where I was when

infection interupted my world and time stopped.

So next week it is already time for my reg scheduled appt. with the

above doc and I'm trying to gather some kind of objective here. Here

is what I believe his position is. He will provide me with whatever

antibiotics I want as long as they require MINIMUM particiaption from

him. In other words he doesn't even want to do the paperwork to

recommend an allergy filter for an air conditioner (Only example for

my descriptive purpose), so as long as I know what I want, when I

want, how I want and can back it up with relatively sound

logic....then he will write the script.

So.........I'm fighting the cobwebs and I keep getting this nagging

thoughts. Like the fact that I got this sinus infection a couple of

weeks ago, even though I was on the zithromax 600mg and minocycline

200mg . That is my regular " anti-lyme " foundation. About the

third/fourth day into illness, I added 800/160 mg of Sulfameth that

said doctor gave me for last months' sinus infection. It worked last

month, so I was hoping for continued success. I have not taken this

antibiotic for at least two years. Day eight I started getting

desperate. My head was only getting worse to the point I couldn't

hear ,the congestion was so tight. I was probably in no condition to

be deciding antibiotic traits at this point, but somehow decided to

change the 800/160 mg of Sulfameth to 500 mg of Penicilin daily.

After just two days on the penicillin, I knew that I was gaining

ground. By day three I knew the penicilin did the trick. I'm trying

to stretch the few pills left to make it till next tues.

( I just realized I have no idea where I'm going with this post.) (I

think the fever is returning)

OKAY...on a different note....While reading many of your posts I

found myself confused on the gold standard of doctor's responses

about whether or not you test positive while on antibiotics or not.

Doctor Harvey told me that my Igenex results were inconclusive

because my IgG level were really low at that time. (@250) He said

that with that low of an immune level, I probably wouldn't be able to

mount a response to the standard lyme testing. That is when he sent a

blood sample to Bowen labs, and hence we receceived the high result

as shown. That was when he started the IV rocephin....

My question is this.....Does the explanation that Dr. Harvey gave me

sound plausible or was it just a load of crap? (smiling)

I uploaded the two labs mentioned in the PHOTO section here. One was

the Igenex result and the other is the Bowen Lab result. I wanted to

ask if anyone would be willing to review them and give opinions.

I appreciate any and all comments, even if you tell me to just go

back to bed. That is about all I have energy for now.

Peg Lanelle

ps. Tony , I'm hydrating, hydrating and asprining !!!