Lyme Symptoms

This sums things up pretty well...
I guess I'd add that some of these bugs either overload or explicity shut down certain detox pathways, leading to toxicity issues, particularly metals. The toxicity feeds back into immune problems.

We ALL need to expand our radars, looking for and treating entire negative ecosystems of pathogens.

From the lyme and rife group.

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The belief that one pathogen one disease needs to be revamped. Many
people can be Lyme positive and not have any symptoms. It's a matter
of the status of the immune system, genetics, stress, overall health,
nutrition, habbits that determine if someone is going down with Lyme
disease or not. Where you find Lyme Symptoms, there is usually other
multiple pathogens that can be detected. Candida, EBV, Mycoplasma, CNp
Erlichia, Babesia, Bartenella Staph A and a slew of other things that
are not detected or even thought about. You can most likely have Bb
and not have symptoms. Add in co-infections and you go down as the
immunologic load is too overwhelming. They all co-exist in your sick
body, each taking away a piece of your immune system. This one pings
a gene that causes you to become TH1 dominant, that one turns on that
cytokine, the next one uses up that compound, another turns off
another cytokine... The next thing you know, you feel like crap,
start having fatigue, muscle pain, neck pain, nerve issues, heart
problems,arthritis, MS diagnosed, ALS... and you go down. It's not
just Bb, it's the full complement of the "other stuff". You may have
some of the other stuff and get exposed to Bb and have a pretty
immediate response. Or you may have Bb and the other stuff creeps in
and you get slowly sick. Who really knows, but I can tell you from my
own experience, this Lyme thing is about more than one pathogen and it
takes a while to get them all resolved. I think that the Medical
establishment is too focused on treating this disease and many other
diseases as though there is one major culprit, if they even are astute
enough to do that. Its a constellation of issues that need to
addressed. Depending on the Koch hypothesis is not realistic. One
antibiotic for 2-4 weeks, who are they kidding.


i think co-infection really is the
name of the game with chronic
conditions such as lyme, candida, etc.
- that is one of the reasons why they are so difficult to treat - just using
antibiotics for lyme or antifungals
for candida, fail to address the
co-infections


I agree.