Plea to those outside our group for intellectual support:

[EvDownJr]

Each of us strives to survive, aid one-another, remain positive for the sake of the group and the cause.

Many manage chronic illnesses: some etiologies are more manageable than others. Wish anyone in the medical, biological, or chemical community with answers, hypotheses, suggestions, would offer counsel. There are many outstanding people here suffering from the same scourge, providing treatments bringing remission, symptomatic improvements, and hope to many.

I have survived this far, due to the saints on this board who have similar afflictions and have offered their knowledge. We each have our own level of physical travail, social network support, economic resources, and faiths.

I do expect to continue tomorrow, next week, as long as possible. I've must confess overall I am not fareing so well and do not know the long-term prognosis for a few of those more severly impacted.

My point being...for guests not afflicted by this, with any academic, medical, or biological experience, please consider emailing a moderator your contributions. We would protect your confidentiality, anonymity as requested. You may save lives!

Best regards

[tcmgpt13]

Ev,

Sorry you are not feeling well, but admire your upbeat attitude.

Personal opinion here, I think that using herbs to get out this stuff as much as possible has helped me from getting really really sick. Colon cleanses for parasites, using gall bladder herbals, liver herbals. Of course I had help, but there are Western equivalents formulas from various sources which can be trialed--help with herbs is best but...Keeping open the bowels every day and using herbs to get out kidney stones I find important for my improvement (most everyone gets small kidney stones with age and the critters love to get in the kidney/bladder areas too). Anyway if you can find accu-doc's recent thread he makes a lot of excellent suggestions. If you cannot find I will look up my old posts and repost the thread for you, as I posted in that thread too. He did post his phone on that thread and will talk to people (he is an acupuncture physician).

Oxygen therapy has helped me. I have someone who has a far infrared sauna and who also uses ozone right after the sauna. This has killed critters for me (this sauna allows the head to remain out so not breathing the fumes). Other oxygen suggestions in Ed McCabe's book have helped me (Flood Your Body with Oxygen).

I believe everyone has heavy metal toxicity of some sort or another. Detoxing heavy metals improves my health (sauna does a lot of this) and I notice it reduces the load of parasites over time as I do. I believe that the parasites are somehow thriving in part from this food (for them) source--maybe because as the mercury filling video I posted yesterday states this allows anerobic bacteria to develop in teeth and gums. Other heavy metals in the body also probably allow in some bad viruses, fungi, and bacteria to thrive as well. The parasites probably feed off and support this in the body. May be a symbiotic relationship among them. Something to think about I feel.

best,

tcm

[MELISSAJ]

I want you all to know that it really gets better. I am still tired and am annoyed by my brain fog, but almost all symptoms are gone. My CD57 is 28, but I'm really doing well. The boys seem to be much better too.

The house, the car, the upkeep is still a priority, but life goes on. I have setbacks here and there, but overall, things are okay.

The real sting for me is the medical expenses!! Unreimbursed in some cases. This is why we need the CDC and the medical community to get this on the books. Honestly, 20,000 in 8 mths for a single mom of 2 is absurd. The 20k includes throwing out most of our clothes and linens, office visits, meds, herbal remedies, cleaning supplies, airline tickets to CA, etc. To be honest, to be better is worth millions.

Lots of love and prayer,
Melissa

[EvDownJr]

Though I will respond in greater detail, please accept my unrelenting gratitude each and everyone's replies and encouragement!

Evan