This month, support group meeting will be via Zoom. If you want to participate, please email Lymecoordinator56@gmail.com to obtain the link and pass code.
Date: February 12, 2022
Time: 2:30-4:30 Central Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Support & Education. Please update the group on any changes and things that have helped you recover. Questions always welcome and encouraged.
https://danielcameronmd.com/bannwarth-syndrome-lyme-disease/ Video Here
Welcome to another Inside Lyme Podcast with your host Dr. Daniel Cameron. In this episode, Dr. Cameron will be discussing the case of a 66-year-old man with Bannwarth syndrome with urinary retention in early Lyme disease.
Omotosho and colleagues described this case in an article entitled “A Unique Case of Bannwarth Syndrome in Early Disseminated Lyme Disease.”¹
The man presented to the emergency room with generalized myalgia, fatigue, and severe neck pain. The symptoms had been occurring for two weeks and began shortly after he was bitten by two ticks while performing yard work.
The patient reported having dull mid-back pain, intermittent headaches, and neck stiffness. His doctor initially suspected he had pneumonia and prescribed an antibiotic. But his symptoms worsened.
“His pain then radiated down his entire spine into his upper and lower extremities, leading to right arm weakness and new urine retention onset,” the authors wrote.
“His paraspinal tenderness and diminished deep tendon reflexes bilaterally.” His pain score was 8 out of 10. The ESR rate was 100 and C-reactive protein of 8.8 mg/L.
Test results indicated a white blood cell count of 12 k/uL, C-reactive protein of 8.8 mg/L, sedimentation rate of 100 mm/h, and creatinine kinase of 27 units/L.
Western blot and ELISA Lyme disease tests were positive and confirmed an early stage infection with Borrelia burgdorferi. In addition, a spinal tap showed lymphocytic pleocytosis and a positive Lyme disease titer.
The man was diagnosed with Bannwarth syndrome (BWS) based on his severe radiculopathy, upper extremity weakness, and urinary dysfunction. “All of these findings are pathognomonic for [Bannwarth syndrome],” wrote the authors.
Typically, Bannwarth syndrome affects a person’s limbs. In this case, Lyme disease induced sacral radiculitis leading to neurogenic urinary dysfunction.
The authors were not sure why the patient’s urinary tract was affected. They suggested, “the influence of the radiculitis on innervating fibers” and “direct invasion of the spirochetes into the bladder wall” might have played a role.
The man was treated with a 21-day course of IV ceftriaxone and “his symptoms improved with complete resolution of his urinary retention,” the authors wrote.
About Bannwarth syndrome
Bannwarth syndrome has been reported most often in Europe. And despite disputes over its incidence in the United States, “the condition does occur but is often misdiagnosed.”
BWS is characterized by a wide range of symptoms including:
The syndrome can cause severe pain. “BWS typically manifests itself with severe zoster-like segmental pain that is worse at night,” the authors wrote. “The pain has a burning, stabbing, biting, or tearing character and usually responds poorly to all common analgesics.”
Author’s Conclusion:
“The constellation of neurological symptoms, particularly when associated with a recent or suspected tick bite in an endemic region, should prompt thorough evaluation for [Lyme neuroborreliosis] and assessment for BWS,” the authors wrote.
The following questions are addressed in this Podcast episode:
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**UPDATE**
DENVER (KDVR) — Natural immunity was six times stronger during the delta wave than vaccination, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report, published Jan. 19, analyzed COVID outcome data from New York and California, which make up about one in six of the nation’s total COVID deaths. (See link for article)
What the article doesn’t mention are the overwhelming amount of adverse reactions and deaths recorded in VAERS after the COVID shots.
https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/science-says-natural-immunity-following
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“We found that NAb against the WT virus persisted in 89% and S-IgG in 97% of subjects for at least 13 months after infection.”
This study in the European Journal of Immunology has some good news: Survivors of severe COVID-19 from had very high immunity against Delta 13 months after their initial infection with earlier variants.
The study was conducted on 2586 subjects ≥18 years of age whose native language was Finnish or Swedish who lived within five selected hospital districts in Finland and with a “PCR-confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis”.
The authors examined neutralizing antibody levels (Nab) against Wild-Type (Wuhan), Alpha, Beta and Delta proteins, studying both the Spike glycoprotein (S-protein)) and the viral nucleoprotein (N-protein)) at 8 and 13 months following infection.
The Spike protein Nab measured as antibodies against two epitopes) was higher at 13 months than against the nucleoprotein (N-protein), as would be expected given the easier access of the spike protein to our immune system. That said, N-protein NAb production was still very high.
The greatest result, which is very, very welcome, came when the authors examined the Nab in subgroups. They looked at NAbs in people who had mild infections and those who had severe COVID-19.
Those who had severe COVID-19 have the highest Nabs against both proteins. And that’s excellent news for people who had to suffer severe COVID-19. (See link for full article)
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**Comment**
Despite the well known scientific fact that natural immunity is always far-superior to vaccines, which Fauci even admitted pre-2019, our corrupt government and any organization that follows in lock-step has misrepresented and denied this plain, simple fact. People have lost their jobs. Soldiers have been kicked out of the military. Children have lost out on educations due to this injustice.
But Fauci states his pre-2019 comment about natural immunity was taken out of context, and then erroneously stated:
“The issue of vaccines actually, at least with regard to SARS-CoV-2, can do better than nature,” Fauci said at the time.
This, has been proven to be completely untrue. We now have a pandemic of the “vaccinated.”
All of a sudden mainstream is talking about natural immunity and an opinion piece in the WSJ, Dr. Makary states that Omicon provides “superimmunity” which will be stronger against new variants & future coronaviruses, making “normal” life possible even as the virus continues to spread and mutate – just like the flu bug does every single year. Ironically, experts have been saying this the whole time but it’s finally making mainstream news. They remain mum on the fact these injections, which aren’t vaccines, actually reprogram innate immune responses, as well as on results of autopsies on the “vaccinated“, which show horrific findings, revealing they will only go so far with transparency, and pointing to a predetermined, agreed upon outcome.
https://thehighwire.com/videos/who-is-dying-from-covid/ Video Here (Approx. 11 Min)
Del BigTree was “fact-checked” by Snopes stating he took this out of context and that the deaths were among the fully “vaccinated” patients, and that somehow this supports the idea that the “vaccines” are effective.
BigTree than went back and showed the Aug. 2020 report, before the mass “vaccination” campaign, that showed that 94% of COVID deaths had over two comorbidities.
The clear point is the majority of COVID deaths are among the already ill, whether you are “vaccinated” or not. This is important to understand for public policy. As BigTree points out, we should not be masking healthy people, stopping children’s education, firing people, stopping the world, blaming the unvaccinated, and mandating a shot that is non-sterilizing, ineffective, and dangerous.
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https://thevaccinereaction.org/2022/01/testing-will-not-save-us/
I have heard many people say that at this moment—January 2022—testing will save us. They cite success stories like the National Basketball Association’s bubble (of 2020) to show what testing can accomplish. Unfortunately, here are nine considerations that they are missing when it comes to mass testing.
1. No one has any tests.
2. Many tests have limited sensitivity.
3. Low pre-test probability.
4. The distribution of testing.
5. Testing is only helpful if you have the resources to make salutatory choices as a result of the information.
6. Risk reduction vs delaying infection.
7. Harms of testing.
8. Contact tracing is impossible in most circumstances.
9. Testing creates anxiety and anchors our mind.
(See link for full article)
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https://thevaccinereaction.org/2022/01/treatment-protocols-for-covid-19-an-overview/
Two years into the global pandemic of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, there is scant guidance from government agencies, universities, or professional medical organizations to help individuals recover from the SARS-CoV-2 infection that causes COVID-19 without the need for hospitalization.Although the recovery rate for SARS-COV-2 infections is between 97 and 99.5 percent,4 and most people recover without hospitalization, there are currently 125,922 people hospitalized with COVID in the U.S., and numbers are on an upward trend.5 Recent estimates of costs associated with inpatient treatment for COVID average from $31,339 to $472,213 per person, depending upon the severity of the case.6
The article then highlights the following treatments:
While a number of doctors have successfully treated COVID with monoclonal antibodies, there have been reported infusion-related reactions to activation of the immune system by the monoclonal antibodies, such as flushing, itching, shortness of breath and low blood pressure,14 and there is a possibility of immediate or delayed serious adverse events, including cytokine release syndrome, acute anaphylaxis, serum sickness, infections, cancer, autoimmune disease and cardiotoxicity.15 16 There is uncertainty about whether the currently available monoclonal antibodies are effective in treating the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.17
Further, Dr. Ruby states the experimental monoclonal antibodies are like renting an army for a day, vs your own immune system which sticks around in case they are needed.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/ protocols and the science behind them for every stage of illness in twelve languages
https://www.truthforhealth.org/patientguide/patient-treatment-guide/
Controversy has surrounded the use of the drug ivermectin29 and other zinc ionophores. A meta-analysis published in August 202133 concluded that there was moderate-certainty evidence for large reductions in COVID deaths using ivermectin. A June 2020 systematic review published in the medical journal Antibiotics34 identified ivermectin as having “antimicrobial, antiviral and anti-cancer properties.” The authors stated that the drug “is highly effective against many microorganisms including some viruses.”
Despite the contribution of obesity and metabolic disorders to the disease burden of COVID, weight loss and prevention of metabolic disorders are not currently part of any published COVID public health policy.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/01/12/why-did-scientists-suppress-the-lab-leak-theory
Excerpts:
In December 2019 there was an outbreak in China of a novel bat-borne SARS-like coronavirus a few miles from the world’s leading laboratory for collecting, studying and manipulating novel bat-borne SARS-like coronaviruses. We were assured by leading scientists in China, the US and the UK that this really was a coincidence, even when the nine closest relatives of the new virus turned up in the freezer of the laboratory in question, at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Now we know what those leading scientists really thought. Emails exchanged between them after a conference call on 1 February 2020, and only now forced into the public domain by Republicans in the US Congress, show that they not only thought the virus might have leaked from a lab, but they also went much further in private. They thought the genome sequence of the new virus showed a strong likelihood of having been deliberately manipulated or accidentally mutated in the lab. Yet later they drafted an article for a scientific journal arguing that the suggestion not just of a manipulated virus, but even of an accidental spill, could be confidently dismissed and was a crackpot conspiracy theory.
In August 2020 Kristian Andersen and Robert Garry were among the lead investigators to receive $8.9 million to study emerging infectious diseases, in a grant from Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of Francis Collins’s National Institutes of Health.
Further, the investigation into the source of COVID was a complete and utter farce reminiscent of the tick-borne disease working group. Marion Koopmans – who served on the World Health Organization’s first COVID-19 origins investigation team – appears to have been removed from the body’s new “effort” to trace the source of the virus following the National Pulse revealing her long-standing ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
For more:
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/rob-thomas-how-my-wife-marisols-brain-surgery-changed-me 5 Min Video Here
Two decades of experience. Rob Thomas has been married to Marisol Maldonado for over 21 years — and after she was diagnosed with several diseases following brain surgery, he realized how thankful he is for their life together.
The Matchbox Twenty singer, 49, exclusively told Us Weekly that he doesn’t have a big secret to a long-lasting marriage. He just really loves Maldonado, 51.
“We’re friends. Above everything else, she’s my best friend,” Thomas told Us. “She’s the one that I like to spend the most time with. If something’s happening and she doesn’t know about it, it doesn’t feel like it’s happening.” (See link for article and video)
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For those of you who are unaware, Marisol suffers with Lyme/MSIDS.
Excerpt:
Marisol’s late-stage diagnosis and presence of multiple infections means it’s harder to manage. Her treatment is constantly tweaked according to which infection is flaring up most, and involves a mixture of pharmaceutical meds and holistic therapies, some of which are not easily obtainable due to being commercially unviable.
