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Once the VCS test pinpoints the diagnosis, PLD can be effectively treated with a toxin-binding drug ("cholestyramine," or CSM) that filters the offending neurotoxins out of bile in the lower intestine. It was Dr. Shoemaker's good fortune to be able to demonstrate as much, while presenting the first scientific paper in the world's medical literature on "Treatment of Chronic Lyme Disease Using VCS and Toxin-Binding Therapy" in April, 2000, at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. That paper showed that VCS was a better test for confirming the presence of Lyme neurotoxins than any blood, urine or DNA test for the organism, itself.
Moreover, the VCS Test showed improvement with CSM treatment as symptoms abated.
A follow up study, first presented in the Biotoxin Symposium chaired by Dr. Hudnell's during the 8th International Symposium on Neurobehavioral Methods and Effects in Occupational and Environmental Health, Brescia, Italy, June, 2002, shows a 92-percent improvement rate in more than 200 patients with PLD. Their case histories prove conclusively that Chronic Lyme can be diagnosed effectively with VCS - and that it can be treated effectively with drug therapy, provided that it takes place under the rigorous supervision of a clinical physician expert in management of CSM therapy and drugs to downregulate proinflammatory cytokines.
Patients should never take this drug on their own, because it can trigger intensification of symptoms in the absence of pre-treatment by a physician to manage the cytokines.
As each summer's tick-and-Chronic-Lyme season begins in earnest, it's important to remember that you can catch this highly infectious and debilitating disease right in your own backyard. It's also important to understand that you can't prevent tick bites by "rolling up your pant legs" or applying a standard insect repellant, which has no effect on arachnids such as ticks. (The blunt fact is that the usual public health recommendations for preventing tick bites simply don't work.)
Remember, also, that more than 30 percent of Lyme patients don't get a rash, never even realize they'd been bitten by a tick - since many bites from these tiny parasites go unnoticed.
If you do get sick (and many people will, as the epidemic continues to spread), ask your physician about using the VCS Test as a diagnostic tool.

These days, the good news for Chronic Lyme sufferers is that the list of physicians who understand the links between long-term illness and neurotoxins is growing rapidly.

Why suffer needlessly from the painful symptoms of this debilitating disease? Instead, why not take the step of obtaining an inexpensive, five-minute diagnostic test? Then go get the toxin-binding therapy you need to resume a healthy and productive life.