Spotting the Target: Clinical Clues in the Diagnosis of Disseminated Lyme Disease in Pregnancy

December 20, 2022

https://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(22)00203-4/fulltext

Spotting the target: clinical clues in the diagnosis of disseminated Lyme disease in pregnancy

Published:March 18, 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2022.03.03

A 33-year-old G2P1 woman at 33 weeks’ gestation presented with 10 days of bifrontal headache despite treatment with sertraline, butalbital-acetaminophen-caffeine, and prochlorperazine and 2 days of pruritic body rash (Figure 1).

Blood pressure and urine protein: creatinine ratio were within normal limits, but she had mild transaminitis. Her rash was originally thought to be caused by a drug-induced hypersensitivity reaction, however, in addition to a generalized morbilliform eruption, a physical examination revealed a large annular erythematous patch with a dusky center on the left popliteal fossa (Figure 2)  and similar smaller annular lesions on the buttocks and legs (Figures 3 and 4).

The findings of large and multiple erythema migrans lesions and associated headache prompted a high suspicion for disseminated Lyme disease with neurologic involvement. Serum tests for Lyme disease, including whole-cell enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and Western blot (for immunoglobulins M and G), were positive. A lumbar puncture revealed elevated red blood cells and nucleated cells in the cerebrospinal fluid consistent with neurologic involvement of Lyme disease. The patient recovered with intravenous ceftriaxone for 2 weeks for disseminated Lyme disease. She delivered a healthy baby boy at 40 weeks’ gestation.

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

Unfortunately many do not remain “recovered” after only 2 weeks of antibiotics.  This woman and her baby need to be watched over time.  If mysterious, migrating symptoms continue – they need retreatment.

This is a perfect example of a glaring problem with Lyme/MSIDS.  Mainstream medicine treats it as they do other infections when this is a relapsing illness that is stealthy, embeds itself in the human body, (making it hard for treatments to reach it) is often polymicrobial (numerous pathogens that require different medications), is pleomorphic (changes forms) so the body can’t recognize it as a “bad guy,” and is often relapsing (reappears) at a later date due to stress when the body is in a weakened state.

Please read a few articles to understand these issues better:

For more on Lyme/MSIDS in pregnancy:

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Lyme Arthritis With Rheumatoid Arthritis Leads to Poor Quality of Life

https://danielcameronmd.com/lyme-and-rheumatoid-arthritis-impairs-quality-of-life/

LYME ARTHRITIS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS LEADS TO POOR QUALITY OF LIFE

Man with lyme arthritis rubbing his wrist.

Lyme Arthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis can greatly impair a person’s quality of life. A recent study examines survey results from 90 patients to assess the levels of impairment for patients with both these conditions.

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In the study “Assessment of quality of life in patients with Lyme arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis,” Yuskevych and colleagues surveyed 90 patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis who were treated at their rheumatology clinic.¹

Nearly 50% of the patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis also tested positive for Lyme disease.

Survey results indicated, “The presence of Borrelia burgdorferi [the causative agent of Lyme disease] in patients with arthritis not only significantly reduced the motor activity of patients, but also complicated the mental adaptation to their own disease.”

The patients had high and moderate disease activity, significantly reduced physical activity, and body pain.

The quality of life of patients with Lyme arthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis was worse due to severe joint pain and a greater degree of functional disorders compared to the patients with only Rheumatoid Arthritis.

The authors considered depression as a cause of the problem with Rheumatoid Arthritis. “Depression imposes a significant burden on the health-related quality of life, disability, and mortality of individuals with arthritis,” wrote the authors.

“Patients with [Lyme arthritis] have significantly lower MCS (mental component score) values, which is explained by the patients’ severe psychological adaptation to their own disease, given the prevalence of [Lyme disease] at the present and its tendency towards chronicity.”

The authors suggested that an active infection might be the cause of the mental health issues in individuals with these conditions. “We can speculate that the conscious that joints disease may be connected with infection not with the autoimmune disease caused a more depressive reaction.”

Editor’s note: I often see patients with both a rheumatologic condition and Lyme disease. I have had patients with Lyme disease whose symptoms were initially thought to be from a flare-up of the rheumatologic condition.

Related Articles:

Lyme disease protein tricks immune system, ignites arthritis
Treatment of Lyme arthritis with disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs
Will steroid injections help children with Lyme arthritis of the knee?

References:
  1. Yuskevych VV, Zhulkevych IV, Makhovska OS, Smiyan SI. Assessment of quality of life in patients with Lyme arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Reumatologia. 2022;60(1):35-41. doi:10.5114/reum.2022.114352

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Practical TENS demonstration for RA in the hand

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URGENT: One Week to Stop the CDC Money Grab & AFL Lawsuit Uncovers More Damning CDC Documents Proving Collusion & Censorship

December 19, 2022

https://standforhealthfreedom.com/action/omnibus/  Go here to email your representatives.

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  • The U.S. Government doesn’t have funding set for 2023 and lawmakers are negotiating whether to shut down the government before Christmas.
  • The CDC asked for a 356.9% increase in American tax dollars, so they can beef up health data surveillance capabilities.
  • Big spenders (some of whom weren’t even re-elected) are trying to push through last-minute deals before they lose political control of the House.
  • A huge federal budget omnibus, would bypass looking at agency spending requests individually.
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  • Lawmakers had all year to get this done, but now the whole Congress is being pressured to vote next week on a budget sight-unseen, by some lawmakers trying to push through a bill that will be thousands of pages long, at the eleventh hour, before Christmas, with a new Congress taking power in the new year.
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Please remember, the CDC is a government agency that began in 1946 as a malaria control program in the U.S. Public Health Service.  It is considered a service organization, paid for by tax dollars, that is supposed to protect the public’s health.  This organization has morphed into an unrecognizable monster with far too much power and money.  It now censors free speech and is a threat to public health because of the mis & disinformation it spews forth.  It needs to be entirely disbanded.

https://aflegal.org/afl-lawsuit-uncovers-more-damning-cdc-documents-revealing-twitters-partner-support-portal-for-covid-19-related-censorship-and-the-u-s-governments-advancement-of/

AFL Lawsuit Uncovers More Damning CDC Documents Revealing Twitter’s “Partner Support Portal” for COVID-19 Related Censorship and the U.S. Government’s Advancement of “Social Inoculation” Against the “Infodemic”

December 6, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) released the fourth set of shocking documents obtained from litigation against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealing further concrete evidence of collusion between the CDC and social media companies to censor free speech and silence the public square under the government’s label of “misinformation.”This nearly 600-page release of documents contains new appalling information. Among these include the fact that Twitter ran a “Partner Support Portal” for government employees and other “stakeholders” to submit posts that it would remove or flag as “misinformation” on its platform. Documents obtained by AFL show Twitter enrolling one government employee, through their personal Twitter account, into this Portal. We know from other publicly related documents, that Facebook has copied this approach for election-related censorship.

This production also reveals that the U.S. government was actively working to “socially inoculate”–or brainwashing–the public against anything that threatened its narrative. It did so by using aligned Big Tech corporations to monitor and manipulate users for the purposes of censoring unapproved information and pushing government propaganda. For example, Facebook sent written materials to the CDC in which it bragged about censoring more than sixteen million “pieces of content” containing opinions or information the U.S. government wanted suppressed.

Finally, the documents reveal the CDC was “collaborating with UNICEF, WHO and IFCN member and leading civil society organization Mafindo” to mitigate “disinformation.” Mafindo is a Facebook third-party fact-checking partner based in Indonesia that is funded by Google.

What is clear is that the United States government, Big Tech platforms, and international organizations were fully entangled in an intricate campaign to violate the First Amendment, to silence the American people, and to censor dissenting views.

AFL’s first release of documents revealed the explicit collusion between the CDC and Big Tech to censor what the Biden Administration deemed “misinformation” and push covert COVID-19 propaganda. AFL’s second release built the evidentiary record showing that CDC specifically sent Facebook and Twitter-specific posts to take down, throttle, censor, or flag. AFL’s third release revealed that the CDC’s mask guidance policies for school children were driven by political polling by liberal dark money group The Kaiser Family Foundation rather than science.

Read through as we highlight the most damning findings from this fourth production of government documents.  (Go to link for details)

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**Comment**

Hopefully no one reading information from this website needs further prompting to stop the CDC power and moneygrab, but if you do, or if you are unaware of the corruption within the CDC, please inform yourself by reading the following (and this is just a handful of articles).

CDC Corruption with Lyme:   

This corrupt agency should not receive another dime.  It is a complete and utter joke and needs to be disbanded.

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Timeline of Major Battles in the Global War on Ivermectin

**UPDATE**

We now learn of a “cartel” led by the U.S. government allegedly bribed large pharmacy chains like Walgreens and CVS with billions of dollars in contracts to promote COVID-19 vaccines and not fill prescriptions for ivermectin.  Source

Go here to learn of all the things ivermectin does, where to get it, and treatment protocols.

https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/the-timeline-of-major-battles-in-

A Timeline of Major Battles In the Global War on Ivermectin – Part 1

My chronology of the Disinformation tactics deployed to paint ivermectin as an ineffective horse dewormer against Covid. Largely taken from the ever-evolving keynote lecture I give at conferences
Pierre Kory, MD, MPA

In this three-parter, I am going to present, in approximate chronological order, the most important events regarding both the emergence of evidence of the massive efficacy of ivermectin and the countering, neutering, and destroying tactics deployed by the Disinformationists paid for by Big Pharma and/or The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). Although many of these events will not be news to my long-time subscribers, there is some new stuff, and it reads (hits) different when presented chronologically and in somewhat rapid-fire format. Let’s go.

Lets start with some foreshadowing by taking a look as to where this is all heading. As of today, December 5, 2022, the evidence base for ivermectin in Covid is below, thanks to the tireless work of the c19early.com group.

93 controlled trials. 73 of them are peer-reviewed trials. 43 of them randomized controlled trials. Aside from the evidence base for hydroxychloroquine in Covid (which is larger), I know of no other medicine in any disease model in history with an evidence base this large, yet still considered “unproven” or “ineffective” by the health systems of advanced health economies around the world.

Similarly, it is unprecedented that, despite an evidence base this large and positive, these same health systems systematically persecute and punish physicians who use the medicine despite an unparalleled safety profile. How did we get to this dystopian nightmare? Slowly and deliberately, using relentless propaganda and censorship of the truth. Take a walk with me down memory lane of the Disinformation war on ivermectin.  (See link for article, relevant research, & powerful video)  

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https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/the-timeline-of-major-battles-in?

The Timeline of Major Battles In the Global War on Ivermectin – Part 2

In the wake of the FLCCC press conference, Senate Testimony and review paper retraction, suddenly Merck fires the first public salvo in the Disinformation war by posting brazen lies on their website.
Pierre Kory, MD, MPA

Following from all the events in December 2020 and January 2021, we continue:

FEBRUARY 4, 2021 – MERCK’S PR DEPARTMENT POSTS BRAZEN LIES ON THE COMPANY WEBSITE

The anti-ivermectin PR campaign was kicked off by Merck’s PR department when they quietly posted three brazen lies on the night of February 3rd. I already covered this action in a recent post. This ignited a media amplification of Merck’s statement, most notably by.. Reuters, posted within 6 hours of Merck’s.

The media literally started blaring unfiltered and un-fact checked Pharma lies. My confusion as to what was wrong in the world further deepened.

DISSIDENT RESPONSE

We didn’t know what to do besides attacking this action on Twitter and in interviews and podcasts (which were all on the periphery/small audiences of the independant media of the internet or on right wing-leaning outlets). Not one critical take of Merck by major media as they all assumed Merck was just trying to be helpful in their guidance. I first begin to use the phrase clown world.

Important excerpt:

 To wit, we now know that:

The three Federal Health Agencies paid media outlets $1 billion dollars to promote the safety and efficacy of the vaccines, the Trusted News Initiative made a global compact amongst the world’s largest media organizations to censor medical “misinformation” (truth actually), and now we have evidence emerging that the White House was regularly directing social media companies to censor individuals whose “science” was inconvenient to their interests. We also recently discovered that a single massive PR firm worked simultaneously for Moderna, Pfizer, and the CDC. Ultimately, all I have to say about this chapter (and it is not really a chapter or event) is that it literally spanned the entire pandemic and is only getting worse, like with Clownifornia’s recent bill threatening doctors for sharing an opinion contrary to some supposed “scientific consensus.”

(See link for research and article)

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https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/the-timeline-of-major-battles-in-bc

The Timeline of Major Battles In the Global War on Ivermectin – Part 3

The final phases of the Disinformation war on ivermectin kicks into high gear with the launch of the “Horse Dewormer” public relations campaign followed by the publication of Pharma corrupted trials.
Pierre Kory, MD, MPA

AUGUST 2021 – THE LAUNCH OF THE “HORSE DE-WORMER” PUBLIC RELATIONS CAMPAIGN AGAINST IVERMECTIN BY THE FEDERAL HEALTH AGENCIES

This was, after the manipulation of the Pharma funded trials, the biggest offensive in the war. I maintain that Weber Shandwick, the PR firm working simultaneously for Moderna, Pfizer and the CDC had constructed it well before, and were just waiting for the best time to launch it.

This is what prompted them to launch the campaign:

As you can see from the graph above.. ivermectin prescriptions in the U.S were rapidly increasing to a level never before seen in history. August 13, 2021 was the middle of the Delta wave.. and Delta was wicked. Much harder to treat than prior variants. Late Delta was insanely difficult to treat (October-December 2021), so much so that ivermectin alone was no longer enough, and during that time period of late Delta, I was routinely using between 3-6 different medicines to keep patients out of the hospital. But none died and nearly all avoided hospital (the one exception was a cousin who contacted me on Day 10 of her illness, already breathless, I treated her for a day and a half before she had to be admitted, however she was only in for 4 days and never ventilated).

https://rumble.com/v1qp4ww-october-30-2022.html  (Fauci on CNN on 10/30/22 lying about ivermectin)

Important excerpt regarding the news segment:

It was carried by every major news organization around the world, like our friends at the Associated Press. No-one notices the unprecedented nature of such an action (it has been FDA approved for years) nor that they have no authority to do this. At the risk of repeating myself, just take a moment and ponder the fact that you have three major U.S medical societies calling for an immediate end to the use of a medicine supported by a meta-analysis of 60 controlled trials showing it leads to major mortality (and other) benefits. Now you know why I call our country the United States of Pharma.

Also:

September 1, 2021 – What happened next is that the horse dewormer meme explodes throughout mass media – every late night talk show host does a bit, every broadcaster and journalist. They pull a fierce “2 by 4” PR campaign (remember a “2 by 4” defines a propaganda campaign as any story or message that appears for 2 weeks on 4 different channels or major media sources. Rachel Maddow actually “led the way” on August 21, the same day as the FDA tweet that kicked off the entire campaign. Nice coordination there Weber Shandwick. CNN then followed up on August 23, blaming “right-wing” media for “pushing” a “deworming drug.” These narratives start to build as you can see:

(See link for article)
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**Comment**
The entire sordid account is here for historical review and record.  Dr. Kory deserves serious street cred for this poignant, humble, unbelievable account he continues to live through.
He states:
I went to bed on February 6th, 2022 as a physician (albeit clinging on to his license). On Feb. 7, 2022, I woke up to discover the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had come to the conclusion that my deeply studied scientific opinions made me a domestic terrorist.

He mentions Mikki Willis’ accurate and powerfully done short documentary on ivermectin.

He ends by stating he’s probably done writing about ivermectin on his Substack as he needs to move on, but that he never wants us to forget that it all started with his first patient who had a “profound and robust clinical response within 12 hours of her first dose after being ill and feverish for the prior two weeks.”  He states that result kept happening until the variants changed which then required higher doses and synergistic therapies.  Actually, this too has been experienced in Lymeland over time.

Speaking of similarities, Kory points out that the atrocities that happened to Dr. Burzynski, who successfully treated patients with cancer, have happened to him.  In Burzynski’s case, concerted actions by health system entities began 30 years ago and predicted exactly what has happened to Kory and other doctors now considered “dissidents.”

Kory states we are predictably looking at a nasty RSV/FLU season due to “the lunatic mass vaccination campaign against a coronavirus.”  He is also busy treating the “vaccine” injured and those with long haul syndromes.  Ironically, ivermectin is one of his primary therapies to treat these syndromes which has transformed the lives of many, but similarly to Lyme/MSIDS the fly in the ointment is “insufficient evidence” for this claim, despite what he sees with his own eyes.

But fraudulent trials debunking ivermectin continue….

For more:

“ivermectin’s manufacturer does not believe the data available support the safety and efficacy of ivermectin for preventing or treating COVID-19.”  

Now this is quite amusing for two reasons 1) data show things, which has nothing to do with belief. 2) Ivermectin’s manufacturer is Merck, which just happens to also manufacture Molnupiravir, a new lucrative drug for COVID which doesn’t work and may cause birth defects, and may affect bone and cartilage growth…..yet this drug received EUA in 2021 and has been used heavily.  Ivermectin, on the other hand, is a fraction of the cost, is one of the most extensively studied drugs, is on the WHO list of essential medicines, has a long standing safety profile, and is commonly used in Africa with regular community directed ivermectin treatment programs – which just happen to have given Africa a much lower COVID morbidity and mortality and was the strongest predictor of improved survival and recovery rates.  Yet this drug is not approved by the FDA which out of one side of their mouth states the drug is safe and effective as an antiparasitic, but can somehow causes “serious harm,” is “dangerous,” and is connected with “seizures, coma and even death,” and is “highly toxic” for COVID.  Evidently, due to a lawsuit, the FDA is now back-peddling and trying to squirm out of their stance, which has caused the death of countless people.

Ivermectin fights 21 viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the cause of Covid-19. A single dose reduced the viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in cells by 99.8% in 24 hours and 99.98% in 48 hours, according to a June 2020 study published in the journal Antiviral Research.

Once again, conflicts of interest are killing patients.

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Our Public Health Officials Learned Their Lesson Through Lyme Disease

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/31167018

Our Public Health Officials learned their lesson through Lyme disease

Carl Tuttle

Hudson, NH, United States

DEC 16, 2022 — 

I would suggest you click on the “COVID-19: The Science We Should Know” link below to understand the truth that has been censored from the public.

Lyme was the precursor to the deliberate mishandling of the current pandemic. My statements below are supported through the embedded links.

———- Original Message ———-

From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “Contact-Us@thenhf.com” <Contact-Us@thenhf.com>
Date: 12/15/2022 11:31 AM
Subject: Fwd: COVID-19: The Science We Should Know

The National Health Federation (Since 1955)

https://thenhf.com/

Contact-Us@thenhf.com

To whom it may concern;

I was forwarded the reference manuscript below and wanted to thank you for organizing its contents but I must tell you there is a global group of medically gaslighted patients infected through a hidden epidemic who have been sounding the alarm for decades. Our personal experiences with this growing epidemic gave us reason to question the false Covid narrative.

COVID-19: The Science We Should Know
https://thenhf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CV19_The_Science_We_Should_Know.pdf

I know you are busy so I do not want to overwhelm you with reference after reference. Two action items: please read my letter to the editor published in the BMJ, June 2020 and listen to the testimony from a clinician on the front lines who has witnessed it all from the very beginning.

1. Letter to the editor of the BMJ

https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1041/rr-1

2. History of Lyme Disease by Joseph J. Burrascano, Jr. MD. (Video Testimony)

https://vimeo.com/306846706

-Joseph Burrascano, MD’s cogent history of Lyme: East Hampton, Long Island NY had the highest rate of Lyme in the world. 1965 internist Sidney Robin coined the term “Montauk Knee”

Summary for this communication:

The Lyme community has had decades of experience when it comes to public health and mismanagement of a disease. Refusing to acknowledge treatment failure following the one-size-fits-all IDSA guideline mandate along with suppressing mountains of scientific evidence identifying persistent Lyme infection has been the modus operandi of the Centers for Disease Control. The missing piece with Lyme however was the control of free speech from the “Lyme Loonies” a term coined by Philip Baker, NIH Program Officer for Lyme Disease and Anthrax Basic Research Programs.

Why would the CDC want to control the narrative you might ask? A chronic relapsing seronegative disease does not fit the business model of vaccine development, patent royalties and pharmaceutical profits so laboratory confirmation of persistent infection after antibiotic treatment must be squelched/suppressed at all costs.

So it would appear that our Public Health Officials learned their lesson through Lyme disease and upped the ante with Covid in an attempt once again to control the narrative but this time including the suppression/control of free speech through social media platforms which had proliferated the truth/facts/personal experiences of thousands regarding the devastating effects of Chronic Lyme Disease.

It should be blatantly obvious to everyone; pharmaceutical profits over lifesaving care.

Respectfully submitted,

Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH

Change.org Lyme Petition:

Calling for a Congressional investigation of the CDC, IDSA and ALDF
https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf

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**Comment**

I could not agree more.

A huge KUDOS to The National Health Federation (NHF) for their incredibly well-done paper “COVID-19: The Science We Should know.”

This important 395 page paper has everything you need to talk to others about the lunacy of the past two years.  All the science covering all the issues is right here, in one handy resource.

And yes, censorship is the last tool of tyrants but continues unabated.

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