Just an FYI on Mycoplasma...
You're probablly already aware of the different types of Mycoplasma. Most labs do not test for all of them. That is the reason for the VIPDx cost....they do test for all of them.
One of the Mycoplasmas, M. fermentans, has been indicated in Gulf War Syndrome. According to info that may or may not be on Nicholson's site, it was "manufactured" for use in biological warfare and a US doctor has patent rights on it.
While you mention the nasty side effects of antibiotic use Dr. Yes, probiotics are critical to prevent Candida overgrowth. I'm sure you already know that but I'm just stating it for those that do not!
Here is some info on the Mycoplasma fermentans... I did not write this.. just copyied....
I - PATHOGENIC MYCOPLASMA
A Common Disease Agent Weaponised
There are 200 species of Mycoplasma. Most are innocuous and do no harm; only four or five are pathogenic. Mycoplasma fermentans (incognitus strain) probably comes from the nucleus of the Brucella bacterium. This disease agent is not a bacterium and not a virus; it is a mutated form of the Brucella bacterium, combined with a visna virus, from which the mycoplasma is extracted.
The pathogenic Mycoplasma used to be very innocuous, but biological warfare research conducted between 1942 and the present time has resulted in the creation of more deadly and infectious forms of Mycoplasma. Researchers extracted this mycoplasma from the Brucella bacterium and actually reduced the disease to a crystalline form. They "weaponised" it and tested it on an unsuspecting public in North America.
Dr Maurice Hilleman, chief virologist for the pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme, stated that this disease agent is now carried by everybody in North America and possibly most people throughout the world.
Despite reporting flaws, there has clearly been an increased incidence of all the neuro/systemic degenerative diseases since World War II and especially since the 1970s with the arrival of previously unheard-of diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome and AIDS.
According to Dr Shyh-Ching Lo, senior researcher at The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and one of Americas top mycoplasma researchers, this disease agent causes many illnesses including AIDS, cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, Crohns colitis, Type I diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Parkinsons disease, Wegeners disease and collagen-vascular diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Alzheimers.
(If I read everything correctly, this Dr Shyh-Ching Lo even has patents on these mycoplasmas.)
Dr Charles Engel, who is with the US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, stated the following at an NIH meeting on February 7, 2000: "I am now of the view that the probable cause of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia is the mycoplasma..."
I have all the official documents to prove that mycoplasma is the disease agent in chronic fatigue syndrome/fibromyalgia as well as in AIDS, multiple sclerosis and many other illnesses. Of these, 80% are US or Canadian official government documents, and 20% are articles from peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, New England Journal of Medicine and the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The journal articles and government documents complement each other.