I wanted to give everyone an update and some pearls I learned at this weekend's Lyme Lecture.
The most important thing that I learned was how inaccurate the Quest or Labcorp or hospital blood tests are for diagnosing Lyme Disease. Apparently, there are two strains of Lyme and one strain has 8 species and the other has 5 species. That equals 13 different "bugs" that can cause Lyme Disease. Guess how many your basic Quest Lab test or hospital screening test will test for? One. Uno... That's pretty bad. So... If I or any other doctor has tested you for Lyme Disease in the past and did not test you using the newer Igenex IgG/IgM Immunoblot test, you should consider being restested especially if I or another practitioner is having trouble clearing all of your symptoms. The test to get is the Igenex IgM and IgG Immunoblot. It costs $450 unless you have Medicare which will pay for it. If you want to get this test done call the office at 248 302 0473 or email me at [email protected] The second pearl that I took away was treatming Lyme Disease with Disulfiram. This drug is usually used for alcoholism and if you drink any alcohol with it you will get violently ill. But apparently it kills spirochetes too. One reason they feel it may be effective is that it has a long half life: 60-120 hours. The treatment is for 3 months and you can have detox reactions from it as well. But... it apparently is working with relief of symptoms after the treatment. Here is a link to read more on this https://www.lymedisease.org/disulfiram-kinderlehrer/ Well, the above are the best pearls from the conference. Watch out for those ticks...
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Keri Topouzian, D.O.Dr. T specializes in holistic, functional, common sense medicine. Check out his new medical book on this website and his webinar Series. Archives
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