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littabella
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| Location: | Wooli, Australia |
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Posted: Thu Feb 7th, 2008 03:22 |
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Hello, I would appreciate any comments or information from anyone who may be in a similar situation.
I am 35 and have had lyme disease for 6.5 years. I have had antibiotics on and off and also tried all kinds of natural treatments. I herx with treatment and feel better afterwards but always end up sick again. I am no longer working due to mental and physical impacts of lyme and am on a limited 2 years of Income Protection Benefit. I have since discovered the MP and am keen to start, however, I am also aware of the long term comittment and that it is not compatible with pregnancy. My issue is that I want to have children and am concerned that waiting til after I complete the MP will be too late (2-3 years commitment?).
I am also aware of the potential impacts of having a baby with lyme disease - both on the baby and me - and have heard the baby can end up with the disease or could not make it and that I am likely to get very sick.
I need to decide whether I should have children first and then start the MP or vice versa. I know this is a personal decision, but I would like any information on pregnancy and lyme as I only know a little from what I have read and am not sure of the statistics of the impacts on both bubs and Mum.
Thanks in advance!
Littabella
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Lyme disease, diagnosed 16/06/01, Fatigue,nausea,dizzy/vertigo,motion sickness,sensitive to light/noise/smells,memory loss/confusion,anxiety attacks/mood swings, no medications
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eClaire
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| Joined: | Thu Oct 18th, 2007 |
| Location: | Virginia USA |
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Posted: Thu Feb 7th, 2008 15:24 |
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Here's my two cents.
The issue is not just lyme. Your immune system is compromised; CWD have proliferated. CWD will be passed along during pregnancy and after the birth of the child.
You are already disabled; the MP can make you feel worse. How able are you to take care of children, particularly if you get worse? (1,25-D naturally goes up during pregnancy and can--probably will--exacerbate your illness.)
How will you take care of a child who might show signs of Th1 illness early in life? According to the current guidelines, you can't start the MP until age 8 and what of the restrictions of the MP? Knowing the possibilities for illness and need for treatment in advance, are you willing to ask your child to do things s/he does not understand and alter his/her childhood in ways that will make the child feel different and quite possibly left out? If you wait until your child is a teenager or young adult, they may be in as much denial as any person with chronic illness and decide that s/he is not like you; your issue is not his or her issue--this has happened with some folk on the MP--while you watch your adult child become sicker and sicker. Image means so much to young people, if the treatment continues to have some of the same essential ingredients, how sure are you that your child will protect him/herself from sunlight, wear sunglasses all the time, forgo the foods his/her friends are eating, etc. How will you police school activities?
What of the stressors involved in having children and the impact on your illness (contributes to the growth of CWD), let alone the normal stressors of having children?
38--40 is not old. You can have children. Far better to have children when healthy and full of energy, then when sick and getting sicker. Put the horse before the cart. Not the other way around.
Hope you find this helpful. ClaireLast edited on Thu Feb 7th, 2008 15:29 by eClaire
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CFS/FMS/MCS/COPD/Hypermobility/IBS/GERD/osteop/tinnitus/neurop | Beg: 1,25D-48 25D-26.1 SED 1 Alk Phos 157 chol 299| diet mid-Oct| NoIRs| 12.3.06 Beni; Ph1 Mino 12.26.06,Restart 3.19.07 | ModPh2 6.22.07 M+C | 06.22.07 25D-13
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GeorgeinRollaMO
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Posted: Fri Feb 8th, 2008 13:08 |
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Littabella,
There is another subject to cover that while not proven might be taken into account, too. Birth defects.
Microbiologists now know that microbes transfer DNA packages Laterally, meaning from one organism to another organism's cells. There are some microbiologists that believe that mankind has only studied 0.4% [that is zero point four, less than one percent] of the bacterial world, and that we harbor ten times the number of microbes as we have human cells. We, mankind, have a lot of learning to do yet. It all began with a gentleman who studied optics as a hobby, then was picked up by Louis Pasteur. But the med docs got stuck into believing what one of them postulated in 1867, and the med docs still hold onto that belief, slowing down the learning process. And making people pay one way or the other because of it.
Do read some of the articles at http://www.bacteriality.com And do read the articles that are linked in the right hand column. The articles are written by a MP member who has been and is doing the MP protocol. The two most important to you will be about Th1 inflammation running in families, and the article about Koch's Postulates.
I now realize that I have had the Th1 inflammation for a very long time. And that I had the Th1 at the time of my son's conception. He has Down's Syndrome... an extra chromosome that affects his whole being. He is 41 years old and lives in a group home. I had him tested just this past Thanksgiving vacation with me. He has the Th1 inflammation!!!! My clue was that he has developed cataracts at such an early age. His medical people have tried to tell me that that is because he is Down's Syndrome. I realize that it is the Th1 inflammation that he has causing his body to want to shut off some of the 125D hormone that is being produced too much in his eyes.
If the MP protocol had been available, and I had known what all I do now, I would have waited until I was well first, or at least the L-forms had been reduced to a very low entity in my body to start my family. A daughter had mild dyslexia, which IMO, is another set of symptoms of the Th1 inflammation.
Wishing you, and all, wellness!!! 
Dark Vader...aka, George
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Borreliosis (but really Th1 inflammation). Start D values, July '04, 125D/57, 25D/61...over supplementation with D (fish oil).
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