Re: TRUS and EPS

From: NorthernSpy1 (northernspy1_at_aol.com)
Date: 11/25/04 

Date: 25 Nov 2004 01:58:00 GMT

>If you have any kind of infection and during this
>infection someone wiped out your immune system with immunosuppressants,
>you'd get a MASSIVE, maybe even life-threatening infection. Capiche? There's
>nothing to combat the bugs or keep them in check.

Yeah, I get that, but I'm not talking about wiping out my immune system, which
no one is going to do for me anyway.

I'm merely reporting the view (not my view necessarily -- I'm floundering
around looking for potenital answers) that (1) there is evidence some pelvic
stuff is autoimmune related, and (2) some autoimmune stuff is a reaction to an
ongoing infection, in which case antibiotics to cure the infection might also
cure the autoimmune response. I don't know if that's literally true, but I did
not make it up.

> note I sometimes have Reiter's symtoms (pink eye, painful
>> heels) which could mean something.
>
>Have you had the HLA B-27 antigen blood test yet?

Yep, I know about that. I've had trouble (until recently, when I started
breaking out with open sores) getting doctors to even consider the autoimmune
idea.

>LEARN TO USE MEDLINE, YOU LAZY ***.
> http://tinyurl.com/4tnnn
> http://tinyurl.com/4jmoy
> http://tinyurl.com/56onc

Thanks (for the links, anyway!).

> Gabe Mirkin is a certifiable nutcase. See
> http://www.chronicpelvicpain.us/viewtopic.php?t=1825

Thanks for that, although I'm not ready to abandon my Gabe worship for the
moment. But your link includes a comment by Dr. Shoskes that is very
unfavorable to Gabe, which counts for a lot. Dr. Shoskes is one of the few
bright lights in this area -- and he does recognize that in come cases he tests
for bacteria, kills bacteria, and effects a cure.

- Carlos