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LymeMIND Novel Treatments: Making Sense of Treatments for Tickborne Illness

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Hosted by “Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai proudly supported by the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation

5th Annual LymeMIND Virtual Conference 2020 Saturday, October 10th

Novel Treatments Making sense of all the treatment options
  • John Aucott, MD, Associate Professor, Director, Lyme Disease Research Center Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Tania Tyles Dempsey, MD, ABIHM, Founder, AIM Center For Personalized Medicine
  • Richard Horowitz, MD, Medical Director, Hudson Valley Arts Center
  • Andrew Petersen, DO, Chief of Staff Officer
Forum Health What are the differences in current treatment options

CDC vs. ILADS?

What are the critical time points from tick bite to chronic symptoms for patients to consider? What is the latest experience and research on treatment options?

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**Comment**

Scroll to 5:40 to hear about Chronic Lyme treatment.

Dr. Petersen makes the simple, straightforward statement that we wouldn’t send someone home from the hospital with pneumonia after a course of treatment. They would be sent home after they are off the ventilator and they can breathe well.

Logical.

I write about this phenomenon here:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/06/the-proof-is-in-the-pudding-my-letter-to-the-tbdwg/  Simple and straightforward.  I was sick, I got treatment, now I am well and do not suffer with symptoms any longer.  Please understand; however, that this treatment used multiple antibiotics and modalities simultaneously for over 5 years, and I relapsed TWICE necessitating 2-3 month treatment each time.  Each re-treatment got me better than I was before.  Hence: the proof is in the pudding.  Cause & effect.

I will say that this improvement isn’t linear and often is baffling in that you typically feel much worse before you feel better and you have to treat long, hard, and smart – taking into account diet, supplements, hormones, and the kitchen sink.  Many rabbit holes to go down.  Lazy people need not apply.  This is going to test you like nothing else – even your sanity at points.

Since this is such an individualized difference we all have different things to go after and attack, which makes it harder for doctors/researchers to standardize.  Again, lazy people need not apply.

BUT DON’T EVER, EVER GIVE UP!

Be bull-doggishly tenacious about your health and have hope.

Bartonella, Retinitis & BRAO in 13 Year Old Boy

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32435719/

Branch retinal artery occlusion secondary to Bartonella henselae infection in a 13 year-old

Affiliation

Free PMC article

Abstract

Purpose: To summarize the case of a 13 year-old boy diagnosed with a BRAO (branches of retinal vein become blocked) secondary to B. henselae infection.

Observations: The patient presented with a sudden, unilateral, and painless scotoma (interruption in the visual field or blind spot). Fundoscopic findings and multimodal imaging were consistent with a BRAO with associated areas of intraretinal whitening along the involved artery. Upon further questioning, the patient reported having 15 cats at home. Antibodies were positive for B. henselae. The patient was treated with oral doxycycline 100 mg twice daily for 2 months with complete resolution of the retinal findings and the scotoma.

Conclusions and importance: B. henselae should be considered as a potential cause of retinitis and BRAO, even in pediatric-aged patients.

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For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/08/10/multimodal-imaging-of-two-unconventional-cases-of-bartonella-neuroretinitis/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/07/21/bartonella-and-neuroretinitis/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/05/10/bartonella-neuroretinitis-not-atypical/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/08/case-series-bartonella-ocular-manifestations/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/09/07/keep-an-eye-out-for-bartonella/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/07/28/treatment-strategies-for-neuroretinitis-due-to-bartonella-current-options-emerging-therapies/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/01/understanding-bartonella-symptoms-testing-and-treatment/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/01/03/bartonella-treatment/

Study Finds 84% Fewer Hospitalizations For Patients Treated With Controversial Drug Hydroxychloroquine

The only reason this treatment is ‘controversial’ is because our ‘public authorities’ have purposely promoted biased and flawed research. They have beat this drum on that flawed and biased research so hard that the results of this study, many others, and the success of doctors globally probably won’t make a bit of difference as the word is out: HCQ is controversial so you best not use it or else!  They want everyone to use their lucrative, expensive, but ineffective anti-viral Remdesivir from Gilead Science.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/study-finds-84-fewer-hospitalizations-for-patients-treated-with-controversial-drug-hydroxychloroquine

Study finds 84% fewer hospitalizations for patients treated with controversial drug hydroxychloroquine

by Andrew Mark Miller, | November 25, 2020

A peer-reviewed study measuring the effectiveness of a controversial drug cocktail that includes hydroxychloroquine concluded that the treatment lowered hospitalizations and mortality rates of coronavirus patients. 

The study, set to be published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents in December, determined that “Low-dose hydroxychloroquine combined with zinc and azithromycin was an effective therapeutic approach against COVID-19.” (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Particulars of the study:

  • 141 diagnosed patients were treated with low-dose HCQ, zinc, and azithromycin
  • 377 diagnosed patients were in the control group – not given the treatment
  • odds of hospitalization of the treated group was 84% less than the control group
  • 1 patient in the treated group died compared to 13 in the control group

The findings of the study are in complete alignment of what doctors globally have been trying to say for months but have been effectively censored by mainstream media, which is completely bought out:

The reason for this misinformation campaign against a safe, effective, and cheap treatment is due to the severe conflicts of interests of our public ‘authorities’.  

I written about this maligning treatment phenomenon before with Lyme/MSIDS:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/26/cdc-playbook-learning-from-lyme/

What they’ve done with the HCQ treatment is quite similar to their maligning of IV antibiotics for Lyme disease – to the point nearly all doctors are scared witless of using it anymore.  Doctors are also afraid to use HCQ now for the same reasons.

They’ve also pumped out biased, flawed research (just like they do with Lyme/MSIDS) that is done to cast a bad light on HCQ:

 
Excerpt:
Dr. Meryl Nass has uncovered a hornet’s nest of government sponsored Hydroxychloroquine experiments that were designed to kill severely ill, Covid-19 hospitalized patients.
 
On June 14th Dr. Nass first identified two Covid-19 experiments in which massive, high toxic doses – four times higher than safe of hydroxychloroquine were being given to severely ill hospitalized patients in intensive care units.

Numerous doctors have given explicit instructions on using HCQ, which should be used early on with COVID, as well as combined with zinc and azithromycin.  The flawed studies used high doses of HCQ on the severest of patients without zinc and azithromycin and later on in the disease.  

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/24/dr-oz-interviews-dr-didier-raoult-on-hydroxychloroquine-study-for-covid-19/

Then there’s Dr. Zelenko, a New York doctor, who’s successfully treated 1,450 COVID-19 patients with a 99% success rate using a cocktail of hydroxychloroquine, Zinc Sulfate and Azithromycin:  https://techstartups.com/2020/04/21/dr-vladimir-zelenko-now-treated-1450-coronavirus-patients-2-deaths-using-hydroxychloroquine-99-99-success-rate-latest-video-interview/  Video with Zelenko in link.

Lyme Disease: The Other Epidemic No One Is Talking About

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/04/15/lyme-disease-the-other-epidemic-no-one-is-talking-about/

Lyme disease: The other epidemic no one is talking about

Lyme disease, caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, is spread by infected ticks [Getty Images]
Lyme disease, caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, is spread by infected ticks [Getty Images]
Excerpts from article below.  (See link for article)

“I can’t move this side of my face,” she slurred, pointing to her right side…. Half of her flushed face was mysteriously paralysed.

Her experience of Bell’s palsy was just a new bullet point in an elongating list of symptoms of a then-undiagnosed condition that my typically healthy 41-year-old mother endured that year. After months of malaise, shooting pains throughout her body, dizziness, vomiting, leg paralysis, and inaccurate speculations by doctors about whether she had kidney disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease, thyroid disease, or a mental illness, an infectious disease doctor finally diagnosed her with neurological Lyme disease, which is caused by the spiral-shaped bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi and spread by deer ticks.

Almost as soon as my mother recovered, my father also contracted Lyme disease. He woke up one day with numbness in his arms, excruciating nerve pain throughout his body, and puzzling neurological symptoms including confusion, memory issues, and distorted vision.  His symptoms did not abate until a decade later.

My three siblings were next.

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**Comment**

Unfortunately, the author of the article succumbed next with fevers, aches, chronic daily headaches, rashes, and fatigue.  She points out one sibling had serious memory issues and joint pain – common symptoms of Lyme/MSIDS.

The author goes onto compare COVID-19 with Lyme and I’d like to make a few points:

  • While COVID-19 is transmissible from person to person, it has not proven to be highly deadly but has shown a mortality rate nearly identical to seasonal flu.  

I agree completely with the author’s statement that the CDC has bungled testing for both diseases, but there’s an explanation for this.  They own the patents on the organisms as well as tests & treatments.  This way they can control the entire narrative, and monopolize the market: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/26/cdc-playbook-learning-from-lyme/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/09/19/yes-fauci-and-gates-do-have-ties-to-covid-19-vaccine-maker/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/10/01/gilead-big-pharma-and-the-who-an-unholy-trifecta-of-corruption-and-bioterrorism/

The author incorrectly states there are no treatments for COVID.  Here is the long list of things that have been proven:

Unfortunately, the ‘powers that be’ do not want people to recover from COVID as it would dampen their fear-mongering campaign so that everyone agrees to get their experimental, fast-tracked mRNA vaccine which will monitor you utilizing WiFi (hence the push for 5G), change your DNA, cause sterility (as reported by a GSK whistleblower) and give them a hefty pay-check:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/21/inovio-covid-19-vaccine-uses-electricity-to-drive-dna-into-body-cells/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/09/22/a-darpa-funded-implantable-covid-19-detecting-biochip-to-use-5g/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/10/05/covid-19-vaccine-explained/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/08/24/gsk-whistleblower-covid-vaccine-caused-sterility-in-97-of-women/

They’ve already created a new court for vaccine injuries which will make it even harder to collect if you are injured:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/10/24/new-court-created-for-covid-vaccine-injuries/

They’ve already tipped their hand that they expect many adverse reactions due to a request for a vaccine specific AI tool to “handle the volume of ADRs generated by a COVID-19 vaccine”: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/14/pfizer-covid-vaccine-frenzy-high-volume-of-adverse-reactions-expected/

Study Shows 35% of Atypical Pneumonia in Chile Caused by Q Fever & Rickettsia

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32545152/

Evidence of Q Fever and Rickettsial Disease in Chile

Affiliation

Free PMC article

Abstract

Q fever and rickettsial diseases occur throughout the world and appear to be emergent zoonoses in Chile. The diagnosis of these diseases is currently uncommon in Chile, as their clinical presentations are non-specific and appropriate diagnostic laboratory assays are of limited availability. During a recent outbreak of undiagnosed human atypical pneumonia, we serologically investigated a series of 357 cases from three regions of southern Chile. The aim was to identify those caused by Coxiella burnetii and/or Rickettsia spp. Serological analysis was performed by ELISA and an immunofluorescence assay (IFA) for acute and convalescence sera of patients. Our results, including data from two international reference laboratories, demonstrate that

  • 71 (20%) of the cases were Q fever
  • 44 (15%) were a likely rickettsial infection, although the rickettsial species could not be confirmed by serology
This study is the first report of endemic Q fever and rickettsial disease affecting humans in Chile.

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For more on Q Fever:  

For more on Rickettsia: