Aidan Walsh
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thanks, shocked to see this thinking it was wellness that lasted. Sounds like relapse ME/CFS HellHere's the definition of the word 'remission':
thanks, shocked to see this thinking it was wellness that lasted. Sounds like relapse ME/CFS HellHere's the definition of the word 'remission':
I never thought it would be so cheap, IVIG runs in the thousands I have heard. Prusty needs to find also more treatments to kill also whatever is going on. When I mentioned to Dr. Garth Nicholson this he said it is nothing what they found, not any cause he believes its more & he was the one who found the 2 mycoplasma infectionsWell, IVIG without enriched IgM has been used in ME/CFS and has helped people anecdotally. So I think IVIG, especially with IgM, is one of better ones worth trying. But hearing your severe, needing to travel 20 hours to get it (where to? that's a lot of hours), and have limited financial resources, it's hard to be enthusiastic for you to try it. If you weren't severe, and rather instead moderate, and it was closer then I would encourage you to get it. But people who are severe can have very bad often permanent setbacks with travel, and especially since it's so far, 20 hours.
I doubt it would be feasible to use since it has to be given IV and local doctor won't use a outside source, but you can buy a 500mg vial of Penaglobin off IndiaMart for around $75, and larger 5g vials for an unshown price. Subq would probably be okay and safe to do at home.
Well it depends on what your dose is. It's like 400-600mg/kg dose and can be up to 6000mg/kg. So still adds up to thousands. But it's available to buy and ship anywhere.I never thought it would be so cheap, IVIG runs in the thousands I have heard. Prusty needs to find also more treatments to kill also whatever is going on. When I mentioned to Dr. Garth Nicholson this he said it is nothing what they found, not any cause he believes its more & he was the one who found the 2 mycoplasma infections
Well it depends on what your dose is. It's like 400-600mg/kg dose and can be up to 6000mg/kg. So still adds up to thousands. But it's available to buy and ship anywhere.
PS: The 5g vials is not Penaglobin, but rather IgG collected from Indians.
Does anyone know where the Fibronection test or even the Natural IGM can be tested now in the United Kingdom, does anyone do this privately so I can order this?I’ll weigh in as an IVIG patient. I tried IVIG last year for 9 months. My dose was 1.5 g / kg (so at 55 kg I got about 80 g of IVIG over two days of infusion). Infusions were monthly, via an at home infusion nurse.
We stopped because I wasn’t getting any benefit from it. I’d feel better the day of my infusions, and maybe a day after, and that was it. My ME / CFS is post viral (EBV) onset and I’m severe.
Mine was covered by insurance but I understand if I had to pay out of pocket it would have been somewhere in the $10,000-$20,000 per month.
All that being said, I’m going to forward Prusty’s work to my immunologist and see what he thinks about Pentaglobin. The IVIG product I was given was a common one, Gammunex-C. I’m also going to ask about some of the EBV treatments discussed in the MS trials (Truvada, Frexalimab) and have a retest of my viral labs and IGA / IGM / IGG levels. If I haven’t tested his patience with bombarding him with info and new research, I’ll also ask about the fibronectin and see if there are any approaches to lowering it.
I’ve tried IVIG alone, certain antivirals alone, and of course too many supplements to count. Maybe based on Prusty’s work and others, it’s a combo approach that is needed (ie an anti-viral or retro viral + IGM enhanced IVIG and + possibly something to address fibronectin??)
The NHS can test immunoglobulin levels. My wife had hers done by her GP, you'll just need to convince them you need it be describing the expected symptoms of low levels.Does anyone know where the Fibronection test or even the Natural IGM can be tested now in the United Kingdom, does anyone do this privately so I can order this?
What are the level ranges between high and low like normal UK? Why is this illness so damn hard to get under& treated, it seems we all have to crawl up mountains to get anything at all done...
Natural IGM
Some in this thread have made it sound like the IgM that Dr Prusty was talking about cannot be tested for in a regular lab which has been confusing to me because I had that same test your wife did.The NHS can test immunoglobulin levels. My wife had hers done by her GP,
Treeman, I believe the Natural IGM test Prusty does are not these levels done in IGG IGA IGM it is a completely different test altogether now. I had all the tests you mentioned they were all in normal rangesThe NHS can test immunoglobulin levels. My wife had hers done by her GP, you'll just need to convince them you need it be describing the expected symptoms of low levels.
Normal Ranges Adult:
- IgG 6.0 - 16.0g/L
- IgA 0.8 - 3.0g/L
- IgM 0.4 - 2.5g/L
Judie, I may be wrong, but the Natural IGM is something entirely different from the IGA IGG IGM levels testSome in this thread have made it sound like the IgM the Dr Prusty was talking about cannot be tested for in a regular lab which has been confusing to me because I had that same test your wife did.
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Treeman, I believe the Natural IGM test Prusty does are not these levels done in IGG IGA IGM it is a completely different test altogether now. I had all the tests you mentioned they were all in normal ranges
No. It's a self developed ELISA test that isn't available anywhere in the world. Details are described in the TLC interview and in the paper.
So like how there are antigen tests that test for response to specific viruses? Only this one is testing for fn1?even more specifically natural IgM against fn
I think that comparison is sensible, but perhaps someone with a biomedical background would disagree.So like how there are antigen tests that test for response to specific viruses? Only this one is testing for fn1?
If Dr Prusty is on the right track, do you think they would be able to develop these tests quickly like they did the covid swab tests?None of these things are currently available to patients.
Yes, ELISA is relatively straightforward and no one has patented this. I doubt we'll see it though...If Dr Prusty is on the right track, do you think they would be able to develop these tests quickly like they did the covid swab tests?
If you look up Pentaglobin on here you can find a woman who took it after getting me from Parvo and had a remission for a few months, meaning she didn't have any symptoms. I can't remember where the other person was, but I found it at some point, I could track it down again but I'm too tired right now.Very interesting, can you share more details?
Remission would be a complete cessation of symptoms from treatment or intervention, a cure would be if it were permanent. Some people get their MS into remission through medications and lifestyle interventions, but they still have MS, it isn't gone and can come back, especially if they stop whatever treatments were working. Many autoimmune conditions can go into remission and come back.Have no idea why people write remission that is not remission when the illness comes back after the infusions
Are you referring to this post: https://forums.phoenixrising.me/thr...rom-treatment-by-any-doctor.35949/post-567065 ?If you look up Pentaglobin on here you can find a woman who took it after getting me from Parvo and had a remission for a few months, meaning she didn't have any symptoms. I can't remember where the other person was, but I found it at some point, I could track it down again but I'm too tired right now.