Hi New to site and Morgellons (6 months?)

[zip]

One school of though is that the Morg need the bacteria to live. If as with Lymes and other TH1 diseases, you are over loaded with bactetera you are more susceptible to opportunistic diseases like, I guess, Morg...

Originally Posted by bubba

Hi Zip,
Welcome! Glad you are here. I was on the Marshall Protocol for Lyme Disease for about 3 months. In that time, I began to get worse in my Lyme disease process rather than better. As my immune system took a nose dive, my body became weaker and I was much more succeptible to the parasites. My doc actually took me OFF the MP to see if I did better without it. I am starting to recover and am re-gaining my strength slowly. The lesions/fibers/creepy crawlies were not affected by the MP at all. Just my personal experience.
Hope this sheds some light.
Take care

[zip]

Very interesting posts. Haven't really noticed the 4 week periodicity but, think it's very important to keep your treatments up. I went off my low carb diet over Thanksgiving and the Morgs came on with a vengence. Lost some ground and still trying to get back to where I was... Maybe you were pushing the MP to hard. From what I've read it takes some folks a long time to move up to even 25mg of Mino. The Benacar is all they need to start their imune response... Guess you know I'm new at this and still learning and reading all I can. ZIP

[jovie]

zip is the idea of low carbs because the bugs are feeding off the simple sugars from the carbohydrate's?

[zip]

That seems to be the concenses of opinion. When you go to low carbs (typically <10-20g/day) the bitting and itching goes away. When you start back with the carbs it comes back. Dosen't really seem to kill them though. They seem to be able to go dorment for awhile. Guess there's the possibity that they would die off over time but, no real evidence of it... Take a look at http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Morgellons/. They posted it... What are you up to??? ZIP