trickthefox
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Yeah it was curcumin, a tumeric extract to help with the systemic inflammationAm curious, too, if you know what was in the IV @trickthefox? Am so glad you are okay and sounds very scary!
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Yeah it was curcumin, a tumeric extract to help with the systemic inflammationAm curious, too, if you know what was in the IV @trickthefox? Am so glad you are okay and sounds very scary!
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I'm not sure but I think I remember reading or hearing that a bad gut can jeopardize stem cell treatment. And I also remember Cheney and/or KDM stating that roughly 90% of stem cells go right to the gut and have most of their effect there. I can't remember the sources for these tidbits but I believe it was videos of talks given by these two doctors some years ago. Perhaps you've heard something like this.
Do you happen to know KDM's current thoughts on stem cell therapy for chronic Lyme?
Please keep us posted on your progress.
I'm confused. Did you have an allergic reaction to the curcumin? I ask because I have just started taking it for inflammation (I have hahsimotos) and I am reacting poorly to it. I have noitced, however, that the pain in my knee has disappeared for the first time in a year.
I also had a bad reaction to Curcumin (oral) and also took three months of Rifaximin for my gut. I had some stomach pain in the beginning so pulsed it for three months instead - 7 days on, 7 days off and I was absolutely fine. A little candida flare up. My gut is also in a pretty bad way with severe bacterial translocation so no oral antibiotics for me.
Good luck with the stem cell - Germany? I thought you were in the US?
Most the transplanted stem cells actually go to the lungs! Then they home into the areas of most inflammation, they are clever little buggers, so if you had a damaged gut it would make sense that they would go there, in the case of Autologous stem cells, it seems that on an immunological level they support the faulty T/B cells rather than replacing them - re-educating them until they operate properly, my last blood count showed that my lymphocites were at 1.8, which is still on the low side, but its the first time it's been within reference range in 4 years! (it used to always be under 1.2) so something is shifting on an immunological level.
I don't know KDMs thoughts on stem cells for lyme, but I know he thinks in my individual case the gut is more relevant than the lyme, which I agree on given all my brainfog/fatigue symptoms seem much much worse after eating, mornings before I've eaten are always my best time of day.
So what would you guys do if you were me? obviously i dont want to jeapordise the stem cells by constantly batteling dysbiosis, would you guys go for the two months of rifaximin?
Im also pretty sure I've got a candida issue even though its not showing on the stool test, has anyone got on top of this? whats the best approach?
from a blood test - I have Pseudomonas (aeruginosa and Putida), Citrobacter koseri, Hafnia alvei, Klebsiella pneumonia and Morganella morganii in my bloodstream, all IGM apart from one which si also IGA.@justy
How did you find out to have bacterial translocation? And I assume from gut to blood? Why no oral antibiotics?
stem cell transplant
I also had a bad reaction to Curcumin (oral) and also took three months of Rifaximin for my gut. I had some stomach pain in the beginning so pulsed it for three months instead - 7 days on, 7 days off and I was absolutely fine. A little candida flare up. My gut is also in a pretty bad way with severe bacterial translocation so no oral antibiotics for me.
Good luck with the stem cell - Germany? I thought you were in the US?
FYI its stem cell therapy, not a stem cell transplant, which is a dangerous and life threatening procedure done for types of cancers and recently with good results in MS patients.
They have two clinics, one in Germany, one in LA
I truly believe they will discover those who are suffering from chronic lyme will be found to have an autoimmune/immunodeficiency component if not route which is more significant than the persistent bacterial infection itself which is why the results from long/short term antibiotics are so varied, but thats a different discussion for a different thread. Im just really trying to find out the safety of long term rifaximin, not for the lyme, but for my gut issues, and if there are issues with resistance/symptom flare/biome worsening, but seems so far not so much
For me, my breath tests arnt showing SIBO, and i dont have any symptoms like upper gut pain, just a constant bubbling noise in my lower right quadrant (terminal illeium) and my stool test showed 40%strep. Im wandering if I have a H2S sibo because my food reactions are pretty much about 10 minutes after I eat, my stools look like something out of a horror film lol and sulfur supplements knock me on my ass, also i considered going on an elemental diet, but i react really badly to the elemental formula, my guessing is coz of the glutamine and sulfur aminos in it