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I'm hoping that it's suitable for Lyme symptom management, unlike steroids.<BR/><BR/>--AnthonyAnthony Murawskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09001002591845267374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-12019123830606804482009-04-06T15:14:00.000-07:002009-04-06T15:14:00.000-07:00Some studies of subanesthetic dosing for refractor...Some studies of subanesthetic dosing for refractory CRPS have shown significant results. One recent study showed no effect. I haven't yet compared the dosing in the studies.<BR/><BR/>AnthonyAnthony Murawskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09001002591845267374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-29492326564592818132009-04-06T15:02:00.000-07:002009-04-06T15:02:00.000-07:00I should have said that clinical trials have shown...I should have said that clinical trials have shown anesthetic dosing of ketamine to be highly effective at alleviating symptoms of CRPS. Here is data from a recent open-label phase II study:<BR/><BR/>Twenty ASA I-III patients suffering from refractory CRPS received ketamine in anesthetic dosage over 5 days. Outcome criteria were pain relief, effect on the movement disorder, quality of life, and ability to work at baseline and up to 6 months following treatment.<BR/><BR/>Results. Significant pain relief was observed at 1, 3, and 6 months following treatment (93.5 11.1%, 89.4 17.0%, 79.3 25.3%; P < 0.001). Complete remission from CRPS was observed at 1 month in all patients, at 3 months in 17, and at 6 months in 16 patients. If relapse occurred, significant pain relief was still attained at 3 and 6 months (59.0 14.7%, P < 0.004; 50.2 10.6%, P < 0.002). Quality of life, the associated movement disorder, and the ability to work significantly improved in the majority of patients at 3 and 6 months.Anthony Murawskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09001002591845267374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-267999883101138742009-04-06T13:52:00.000-07:002009-04-06T13:52:00.000-07:00Speaking of anti-inflammatories... A few years ago...Speaking of anti-inflammatories... <BR/><BR/>A few years ago, before I was diagnosed with Lyme disease, I learned of a very encouraging small-scale clinical trial of subanesthetic ketamine for treatment-resistant depression. The results were pretty amazing::<BR/><BR/>1 day after IV infusion (0.5 mg/kg over 40 minutes):<BR/><BR/>71% (12 of 17) met response criteria (50% or greater reduction in symptoms)<BR/><BR/>29% (5 of 17) met remission criteria<BR/><BR/>1 week after infusion:<BR/><BR/>35% (6 of 17) maintained response (not clear whether response criteria or remission criteria)<BR/><BR/>2 weeks after infusion:<BR/><BR/>12% (2 of 17) maintained response<BR/><BR/>Those results have been duplicated in other small-scale clinical trials. <BR/><BR/>Clinical trials have also shown subanesthetic dosing of ketamine to be very effective at treating symptoms of complex regional pain syndrome. CRPS is one of those conditions that is misdiagnosed for Lyme disease.<BR/><BR/>I hadn't researched ketamine recently, but I checked the other day out of curiosity whether ketamine has anti-inflammatory properties. As it turns out, ketamine is a potent anti-inflammatory that crosses the blood-brain barrier and has been shown in human studies to increase cerebral perfusion. <BR/><BR/>According to a recent Yale study, subanesthetic dosing appears to be safe. No serious adverse events were reported in about 500 people who have taken subanesthetic doses. There are some mild but transient (1 to 2 hour) psychiatric effects in a small percentage of patients.<BR/><BR/>According to Drug Facts & Comparisons, "Ketamine hydrochloride is rapidly absorbed following parenteral aministration. Animal experiments indicated that ketamine hydrochloride was rapidly distributed into body tissues, with relatively high concentrations appearing in body fat, liver, lung, and brain; lower concentrations were found in the heart, skeletal muscle, and blood plasma. Placental transfer of the drug was found to occur in pregnant dogs and monkeys. No significant degree of binding to serum albumin was found with ketamine hydrochloride."<BR/><BR/>I think this drug might prove to be a big breakthrough in alleviating symptoms of neuroborreliosis and making antibiotic treatment more tolerable. <BR/><BR/>Ketamine could also be taken by nebulizer.<BR/><BR/>If anyone wants copies of studies, send an e-mail to anthony(at sign)murawski-law.com.Anthony Murawskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09001002591845267374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-48992037249415928032009-01-24T17:18:00.000-08:002009-01-24T17:18:00.000-08:00Interesting that I am reading this which actually ...Interesting that I am reading this which actually confirms what I was suspicious about. The LLMD that I went to out of state put me on about $350.00 of vitamins and supplements which by the way I had to order through her, and only a very small amount of antibiotics. She prescribed me 100mg of minocycline 1x every other day and 600mg azithromycin 1 x every other day. I asked her about it and her response was that it was to reduce a herx affect and so I can stay on the antibiotics longer. Some of the vitamins she has me on arent even mentioned in Burrascano handbook. A vitamin called Boluoke, which I can only order through her and cost me $92.00 each and ALAmax CR, for my supposed nerve damage. I didn't suffer a herx affect nor do I feel any different either. I've been on the treatment for over a month now. I'm thinking about switching LLMD's, what do you think?bjb0082https://www.blogger.com/profile/04796528267920205233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-14311146173254226132009-01-17T15:38:00.000-08:002009-01-17T15:38:00.000-08:00I don't think there is any question or controversy...I don't think there is any question or controversy about taking supplements or vitimins you are low in. I take B12,iron and at times I use liquid magnesium. Usually when headaches are severe. I've used "cats claw" I know it helps some.<BR/><BR/>This is an example of what LymeMD is talking about: I went over to my friends place here. She also now sees LymeMD. I was shocked looking at her kitchen counter and it takes a lot to shock me. It was literally covered with supplements that she had bought on the recommendation of last physician some from his office some from internet. She said trying to take them she just felt like she had a huge mass in her stomach that would not disolve. They did not help so she quit.<BR/><BR/>Docs should be very selective and not just as a patient to take literally a list of supplement. Like western medicine it should be individualized. I don't think anyone argues with moderation.Michelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12480332174441696856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-20914726719663850502009-01-14T14:32:00.000-08:002009-01-14T14:32:00.000-08:00Clem - how did you find a LL Neurologist and where...Clem - how did you find a LL Neurologist and where are your?Starishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07623591174334776122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-3165092264499940892009-01-13T10:31:00.000-08:002009-01-13T10:31:00.000-08:00CoQ10 isn't just for heart health. Our Lyme neurol...CoQ10 isn't just for heart health. Our Lyme neurologist wants us to supplement at higher doses to help protect the brain and nerves.<BR/><BR/>Biol Signals Recept. 2001 May-Aug;10(3-4):224-53clemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00380894313767314023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-84410332338134698912009-01-13T01:01:00.000-08:002009-01-13T01:01:00.000-08:00Buying supplements from Whole Foods certainly gets...Buying supplements from Whole Foods certainly gets expensive. Online sources like vitacost.com are much cheaper, and often ti's the same exact brands.gimpyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03539837528253350613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-20551404941418259082009-01-12T13:52:00.000-08:002009-01-12T13:52:00.000-08:00Some of us have had testing to document the necess...Some of us have had testing to document the necessity of taking certain supplements, like zinc and B vitamins for instance.<BR/><BR/>Also, many lyme patients find that magnesium helps with cramps. If I did not take mg several times a day, my life would be miserable, especially at night.<BR/><BR/>Seems like the ability of a well person with normal digestion to get all the nutrition they need from food might be different from people with chronic diseases.lymiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00123316749536517739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-34761614248935956782009-01-12T13:14:00.000-08:002009-01-12T13:14:00.000-08:00Maybe its just me but most of us average Americans...Maybe its just me but most of us average Americans raising kids and working DON'T have the $$ for this kind of thing. I you are wealthy then try it. some seem to be able to afford everything out there because I know how much these "elite" treatments cost. I'm a working single mom. I have a good job- until they fire me- but heck, as kids get older they get more expensive. I'd like to retire some day. I don't see that possibility now. College tuition, even with scholarships is very expensive. How do you guys do it? Personally, it was not a lie when I told the doc but then you see I bought- what, only two- of the "required" supplements because of the doc recommending them. One mistake and I won't be homeless over it. I won't make it again.<BR/><BR/>IF WE HAD HELP FROM THE ENTIRE MEDICAL COMMUNITY WE COULD SOLVE THIS AND THIS ISSUE WOULD GO AWAY.Michelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12480332174441696856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-18627946781018114192009-01-12T08:09:00.000-08:002009-01-12T08:09:00.000-08:00it is hard. if you have access to the google machi...it is hard. if you have access to the google machine, you can read the guidelines and you want to do all you can to avoid a chronic condition. <BR/><BR/>i started with all Dr. B's required supplements. i divided them up in little baggies a week in advance. i was ordering once a week. i was fatigued; was it the Bb or from all the time i spent on the supps! i am kidding but not. <BR/><BR/>i wish it could be simple: you take this and you will have the best chance for success. i will spend the dollars - i will spend them all to be well. then i read and read and read, and the D debate makes me realize that THE answer is unclear. I congratulate LymeMD for the courage to acknowledge the alternative hypothesis on supps.<BR/><BR/>i guess we will see. last week i decided that i think i am on the road to better health after 9 months. <BR/><BR/>Chronic, it's bridgework. Haven't heard from you in a while hope you are well.jmbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05843589139962678862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-5080104347511552962009-01-12T06:55:00.000-08:002009-01-12T06:55:00.000-08:00Well I don't know if I should weigh in here but wh...Well I don't know if I should weigh in here but what the heck. Sorry I will probably write too long a post but this addresses concerns of mine.<BR/><BR/>If I went to a doctor who wanted me to take $600 of supplements, especiallly if he branded them himself, I'd say no, and I'd probably also say I'm too broke as the least offensive excuse. If he wanted me to buy them online, I'd do research myself to decide if any of them seemed necessary.<BR/><BR/>I'm not a big believer in "oral" vitamin supplements. Especially multivitamins. Mostly because they're artificial, not in the form nature made them, make assumptions about what I might need that are probably false because not individualized, may not be absorbed well, etc. In addition they may be contaminated, increasingly a danger. Most Vitamin C is made in China--do we trust their plants? An article I read last week found that they will periodically shut off their water filtering system to save money, and continue making the Vitamin C anyway. As for glucosamine sulphate, it is also made in China, sometimes made in machines in the morning where they make fertilizer in the afternoon--without cleaning the machines. Fuggadabout it!!<BR/><BR/>But there are some caveats:<BR/><BR/>1) You have to do your best to eat organic *and* locally grown farmer food. Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma is a good book in this regard. Industrial agriculture has wrecked our food supply and thus we don't get nearly the value out of it that, say, our grandparents or great-grandparents did out of theirs. So if you think you're giving your body the food it needs to heal and you're eating a standard american diet and shopping at Pathmark, you are simply not getting what you need. Foods are grown in depleted soils, picked before ripe and ripened in false conditions; animals are kept in horrible conditions, fed poor quality feed that often isn't natural to them (cows like hay, not corn, and the fatty acid profile of the meat of an industrial-ag cow is completely inappropriate for us). Cows are milked while pregnant--to maximize profits, and thus the hormones in most commercial dairy are excessively high). Prepared foods, from breads, to nut butters, to cheeses, to pasta sauce to you name it, all have excess amounts of sugar and salt, neither of which is good for us, and simply is a cheap way to make it "taste" good.<BR/><BR/>There was an article recently on the fact that chicken farms in one of the states release so much toxic ammonia its a hazardous pollutant that is going to need to be regulated. Apparently humans have to wear filtering masks to even go into a standard chicken coop so *they* don't get sick. Well if the air is sick the chickens must be pretty sick, too. Not to mention they're fed arsenic to fatten them up, and when being processed are dipped in a sodium-phosphate solution to plump them up and maximize profits--leading to high sodium levels that a person on a low-salt diet has no clue about.<BR/><BR/>Local farmers are the most trustworthy so use your greenmarkets liberally in spring, summer and fall. Organic produce is somewhat industrialized now, too, but its better than supermarket produce.<BR/><BR/>Now, I will add that IV nutrition, a Meyer's Cocktail push, and IV glutathione, does a lot for me. The Meyer's Cocktail push, David Katz at Yale has already published studies indicating its effectiveness in fibromyalgia among other conditions. He has another NIH sponsored study on this and is probably analyzing data now. <BR/><BR/>Glutathione is really important for some of us. There are enough pubmed studies to indicate that both lyme and babesia oxidize glutathione. And there is enough good evidence that its neuroprotective (in fact, gene therapy scientists recently doubled lifespan in an ALS-mouse model by causing astrocytes to put out much more glutathione than normal).<BR/><BR/>It really helps me, is all I can say. We all have genetic polymorphisms. Some of us are going to need additional help under stress.jenbooks13https://www.blogger.com/profile/16782454058786511731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-11006711282220226052009-01-12T05:13:00.000-08:002009-01-12T05:13:00.000-08:00For what its worth, we tried Dr B's list of supple...For what its worth, we tried Dr B's list of supplements- no effect other than loss of $$.dogdochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16096011385493826813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-26486677329107036222009-01-12T03:39:00.000-08:002009-01-12T03:39:00.000-08:00bbatson: I have a recommendation for you. I once...bbatson: I have a recommendation for you. I once had a doc that used antibiotics but had all those supplements and IV vitimins set up in his office. <BR/><BR/>Tell your doc you just cannot afford them. That was the truth with me (I knew nothing then) <BR/>I got a good multivitimin and some liquid vitimin (one) that I was deficient in and told him that I would try that. If you can't afford to eat and lose the roof over your head buying these supplements I don't think you will get well.<BR/><BR/>Just say "I cannot afford these" Period. Don't take their "Well you want to get well" or "don't you have family that can help" If they are irritated and tell you that is why you are not getting well as many well known ones do then leave or leave now. I see it coming. Hang in there and keep your money in the bank or at home.Michelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12480332174441696856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-14488432736072065012009-01-12T03:28:00.000-08:002009-01-12T03:28:00.000-08:00I'm so glad you put this up. I read that section ...I'm so glad you put this up. I read that section also and even took it to Whole Foods, a good store, where they have almost all those items and many people have been there with this list so I guess they are making money. <BR/><BR/> First, I was overwhelmed and got frustrated. I decided to just take a look at the "required ones" I saw that just four of these would cost me $150.00 and I would have to buy them monthly. However, thinking that four "required" from "the man" wasn't so bad that I would try them once so I bought them. I took them and two hours later threw up. <BR/><BR/>After braving the supplement section I had lost patients and could not face the food list. Its not really a list as it gives about three things you can have then says ect. What is that? I can't buy ect and maybe I'm just too dumb to figure it out.<BR/><BR/>My dear daughter knows when I have reached my limit so she tried in vain to help me because she desperately wants to see me get better but she gave up saying "This is not a normal grocery store and I can't find anything that I would eat here" "I can't follow this list" (except the protein part and decaf coffee)Whole Foods is a good place but not for a teenager and I don't think for me. I said thanks for trying. No one can be expected to decipher this and it was a dirty trick to give it to her. <BR/><BR/>So there is little food to eat here but I still have my Columbian cafinated coffee so I will survive!Michelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12480332174441696856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-49633848990238657452009-01-11T19:33:00.000-08:002009-01-11T19:33:00.000-08:00I agree with the doctor on the subject of our bodi...I agree with the doctor on the subject of our bodies normally being able to extract all of the micro and macro nutrients it needs. However, what about those of us who have been on many many months of oral antibiotics?<BR/><BR/>My LLMD (a well respected guy in NYC) is convinced that my progress is stalled due to absorption issues (been on oral abx for 9 months). Though I take probiotics it seems that they are not enough to replenish what the abx are killing off.<BR/><BR/>Would it make sense for those of us in this situation to supplement the basic vitamins/minerals.<BR/><BR/>Thanks.<BR/>/CTChronic Triathletehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00741584775878432406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-88833640288084594402009-01-11T17:30:00.000-08:002009-01-11T17:30:00.000-08:00David, I'm from Raleigh- there's an LLMD in our ar...David, I'm from Raleigh- there's an LLMD in our area, check out the North Carolina Lyme yahoogroup to get more info on who that is. My roommate had a very good experience with him and from everything I can tell, the doctor seems to follow pretty standard (if there is such a thing) LLMD practices.<BR/><BR/>You can probably find his clinic by some searches for Raleigh and Lyme- I think the LLMD's website mentions Lyme, and he's been quoted in the paper in the past. <BR/><BR/>Most online Lyme websites have a protocol of not mentioning doctors names, which is why I'm putting you through such hoops.girl markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01462557261989174156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-15393712927613565242009-01-11T17:26:00.000-08:002009-01-11T17:26:00.000-08:00The first LLMD I took my daughter to see put my da...The first LLMD I took my daughter to see put my daughter on about 30 supplements. They did nothing- except give her a stomach ache.<BR/><BR/>Due to lack of progress, we changed LLMDs, our current LLMD believes the same as you do- supplements are not necessary, except for Probioitcs of course. She's improving under this LLMDs care.<BR/><BR/>I agree that the Burrascano guidelines should NOT be the "final word"..he cites no studies/sources at all in his guidelines, which does put his reputation (and ours) on the line.<BR/><BR/><BR/>David- take your wife to Dr. Jemsek or another ILADS-trained LLMD.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03692808539833529148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-26878858535013365642009-01-11T17:21:00.000-08:002009-01-11T17:21:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03692808539833529148noreply@blogger.com