1- Was the MELISA test that was negative, the LTT MELISA test?:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16876371
2- So, have you improved then with the treatment then? May I ask what have you taken/what are you taken, and how much have you improved?
Hi @
serg1942
yes that test was the LTT.
Regarding question #2, yes I did improve.
I had been housebound for about three years since I fell ill about eight years ago. I gradually went from struggling to walk or stand for only a couple of minutes, actually less than that, to being able to walk again now for a couple of hours, exercise and most of all endure stress, which had been a huge problem for me.
Overall I'm may be around 50% of being totally healthy in terms of mental and physical power. I don't crash easily but there are still limitations to what I can do, particularly intense aerobic exercise which I still avoid/am unable to do.
With regard to treatment, I started about five years ago. I'll mention only those that brought about a significant improvement, as I have taken a lot of things and didn't always work. In chronological order (more or less):
first course of doxy, after that it didn't work any longer - went from barely able to stand to walking 15 minutes and didn't need any more tablets to sleep
first course of ciprofloxacin for Bartonella and although had to give up after 10 days for tendonitis, it did something.
second course of Minocycline and Rifadin plus Boluoke for Bartonella, after that I felt so much better
first course of Metronidazole gave me perhaps my biggest improvement ever
Then, as antibiotics started to decrease their effectiveness I went back to methylation, removed my amalgams, did some mercury/lead (Cutler) chelation for a few months which helped a bit. At the same time I did a year of probiotic Gcmaf (maf314) which helped me quite a bit.
I also had very good results with 1st Line which is not supposed to be effective against Borrelia, unless it works for a specific form of the bacteria, but it may be effective against other infections. I still don't know how it works on me but it helped to progress further after the abx and maf.
I'm not sure Lyme is the whole story for me as CPn and other infections may be a factor. In fact, I fell ill after most likely a viral-like infection with symptoms similar to those of meningitis. In fact I don't think infections in general may be the whole story, otherwise I should be cured by now.
It's been at least a year now that I haven't had any treatment although I resumed Rich's methylation protocol the last couple of weeks but more as a test than anything. I feel a tiny bit better than a year ago and my Nagalase is still normal at 1.02 (from 3.9 couple of years ago). In a nutshell that's a about it.
