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Hello,

I also am interested in this aspect.. from the point of view that I have a

positive diagnosis lyme (bowen labs, Dr. Shoemaker, live blood analysis,

etc) and was bitten by a tick... and have lead, mercury, cadmium... Great

Smokies provocation test..

What do we treat first... the lyme or the metals... is it possible to do

both... I have never met anyone who can tell me what comes first.. the

lyme or the metals??

jane

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> I would appreciate advise re mercury poisoning versus lyme - particularly

> from Andy if you read this post.

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> If a patient shows some improvement (not continuous, unfortunately)

> following amalgam removal and chelation (formerly DMSA and now ALA only)

> is

> this confirmation enough of a definite mercury poisoning diagnoses.

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> I am wondering if my CFS/ME symptoms could be lyme and after researching

> this I am even more confused as there is so much of an overlap of

> symptoms. I don't recall being bitten by a tick and certainly have not

> had

> a rash but many other symptoms seem to be an overlap of mercury

> poisoning.

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> What do we treat first... the lyme or the metals... is it possible

to do

> both... I have never met anyone who can tell me what comes first..

the

> lyme or the metals??

Both conditions require 'long haul' attention and treatment, and

having metals in you seems to slow progress in defeating lyme. The

most convicing answer I've seen is to treat both at the same time.

Generally, there is no reason that I'm aware of that both metal

toxicity and lyme disease can't be addressed simultaneously.

This subject was recently discussed over here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lyme-and-rife