Re: In Praise of Lyme Activists

From: zipzip (mcpucho_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: 28 Dec 2004 20:31:19 -0800

a_weisman@yahoo.com wrote:

>
> >Countless cases of Lyme that would never have
> >been diagnosed on Steere's watch, thousands of lives that would have
> >been ruined, have been diagnosed and treated successfully.
>
> Yes with the standard treatment as they always have been. However
those
> who don't succeed on the standard Steere Yale treatment course are
> still as f%^%ED as ever. Probably worse.

the previous statement is completely fallacious and you know that.
period. and i'm not pointing fingers, benevolently or malaciously, at
steere or klempner or any "llmd" per se.

many many people have been "cured" or put into a healthy state of
remission with long term abx protocols. that much is certain and
undeniably true.

for those that do not repsond to long term abx protocols they are in a
bad state. they fall into the ambigously termed "post lyme syndrome"
which Steere last wrote, in 2004, "should be treated as if it were
Chronic fatigue syndrome or Fibromyalgia (sic)" :

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=15085185

the previous statement by Steere CERTAINLY begs the question of whether
patients previous diagnosed with Chronic fatigue syndrome or
Fibromyalgia diagnosis should be re-evaluated and treated as lyme
(thought that has a contingent problem of diagnostic serology, which is
anothe argument entirely).

when these patients "fail" a month of antibiotics, and are labeled with
"post lyme syndrome" then what?

it is specifically claimed that "post lyme syndrome" is an autoimmune
like disease and, it should be treated as such. it should not be
treated like Chronic fatigue syndrome or Fibromyalgia, which is treated
by shysters and their arsenal of cox-inhibitors, beta blockers, off
label use of kutapressin (which has been recalled by the pharmaceutical
supplier for that reason) and gabapentin drugs...

let alone the chiropracters, herbalists, rife machines and all that
unregulated, but billion dolllar business, supplement junk.

rather these patients should be treated with proven autoimmune
modulating drugs like plaquenil (see lupus, ra), minocycline (ra, and
now being used in trials for MS and a similar cell wall inhibiting abx
for autism), or flagyl (see chrons)...

or IV gamma globulin...

but if the insurance companies don't want to pay for IV rocephin or
zithromax for short terms they DEFINITELY don't want pay for IV
gammaglobulin (unless the feds support emybronic stem cell research to
make red blood cells and gamma products in the lab and, in turn, the
fat cats are making good money and filling their coiffers in bermuda
and not paying taxes).

if you REALLY read the stuff the "conservative lyme camp" has
postulated and purported in the last few yeras they are really burying
themselves into a logical hole which they are eventually going to be
buried in with dirty lies covering their coffins of foolheartyness.

Fauci and the NIH are the most at fault, more so than anyone else for
encouraging these shenanigans (while being on the payrolls of all the
big pharmaceutical and insurance companies at the same time... see
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-nih22dec22,0,751...

talk about goverment negligence and incompetence for the community at
large. what a shame. what a shame. it's truly criminal.

in conclusion your pomposity and latter argument are false, plain and
simple.