Dr Horowitz at the Autoimmune summit - great interview!

[justy]

This is an awesome interview with Dr Richard Horowtiz on Lyme and autoimmunity, treatment etc with Amy Myers. Long, but well worth the read. I had to attach it as a pdf file. I hope it works.

Justy.

 

[Sushi]

Excerpt from Dr. Horowitz's presentation:

Lyme Disease and Autoimmunity

Presenter: Richard Horowitz, MD

Dr. Amy Myers: Hi everybody. It’s Dr. Amy Myers with The Autoimmune Summit. I’m very pleased to announce our guest today, Dr. Richard Horowitz. He is a Lyme specialist. He’s a board-certified internist who’s in private practice in Hyde Park. He’s the author of Why Can’t I Get Better?, and he has treated over 12,000 patients who have chronic Lyme. He’s one of the founding members and Past President-Elect of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society....

Dr. Richard Horowitz: Yes. Thank you so much. Good to be here.

Dr. Amy Myers: So, why am I seeing so much Lyme in my clinic? Was I just not looking for it before or do we have an epidemic on our hands? What’s going on with Lyme?

Dr. Richard Horowitz: There’s no doubt that we have an epidemic. I mean, it’s pretty severe actually. When the CDC came out with their new numbers a year and a half back, they said it went from 30,000 to 300,000 cases a year.

 

[Helen]

Thanks @justy for posting this great interview.

If you have any interest in Lyme and/or co-infections, I think it is a must-read.

 

[Dufresne]

Awesome interview!
Great information that really lines up with my own observations.
Good to read the following bit from Horowitz:

This is a chronic resistant infection. There’s no doubt about it. The CDC study, that they recently did this past
year, actually showed in one of the patients that they could find PCR positives. In one of their Xeno Diagnostics
studies, they just wouldn’t come out and say it’s a persistent infection, but Dr. Hu who did the study with Adriana
Marques, on a conference call, he was saying, “Yes, we’re seeing persistence.” They’re going in that direction.
The problem is they’ve been hesitant to come out and say it, but it’s in the animal studies, it’s in mice, it’s in
horses, it’s in dogs; the cultures are positive in humans.

 

[cigana]

You can find the questionairre he mentions here.
I scored 66. (46 is 2 standard deviations).

 

[cigana]

I made a poll for this questionairre: http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?threads/questionairre-for-msids-diagnosis.34666/
Would be great to get some data.