[ SHOWGSD-L ] LYME DISEASE
- From: MORGAN LEWIS <shadowland22000@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 16:06:46 -0800 (PST)
Lyme disease is perhaps the best example of how the medical industry
misdiagnoses or completely misses many terrible, often life-threatening
diseases. For example, the infectious disease specialists are told straight
from Mendelâs Infections disease textbook that patients cannot have chronic
Lyme disease if the lab tests (western blot test and ELISA test) come back
negative. Mandelâs textbook itself encourages doctors to look for another
disease or another diagnosis.
But these tests are immune system sensitive tests that miss well over 50
percent of cases. Why? Simply put, a patientâs immune system is far too
compromised or weak to respond in many chronic cases, so the test returns with
a false negative. Therefore, the immune system must be tested first to include
more detailed infectious profiles with a correct patient history and symptom
list. This is the most accurate way to achieve the correct diagnosis and help
the patient towards improving quality of life. Too many people suffer
needlessly this way, but luckily there is much better way to go.
So what does this grave misdiagnosis translate to? A massive diagnostic influx
of fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, autoimmune diseases and neurological
conditions that are all idiopathic (meaning these conditions have no real know
cause or causes.) Remember, fibromyalgia was believed to be in everyoneâs
head until Lyrica was mass-marketed and prescribed, allowing pharmaceutical
companies to do what they do best: making billions by managing symptoms, never
really healing patients and keep them on expensive medication for a lifetime.
With the advent of the Affordable Care Act, more drug prescriptions will be
filled as the government will pay the bill and encourage a lifetime of
symptomatic care. However, this does little for treating the real underlying
causes of disease, merely managing symptoms. And this is the case for far too
many diseases, not just Lyme.
In recent decades, thereâs been an explosion of symptom-managing medication
prescribed, including antidepressants, pain killers, sleep aids, steroids and
newer tumor necrosis alpha blocker drugs that block pain and inflammation by
suppressing the immune system. These drugs are all huge profit makers for
pharmaceutical companies. Thereâs only one problem â these medications
treat absolutely nothing. Sure, they make your pain or other symptom
temporarily disappear, but unless you manage the root cause, the problem will
never disappear. This is simple logic.
What we are saying is that the previously mentioned conditions often fall under
infectious diseases. Itâs proven when profiles from bacteria, viruses, fungi
and parasites come back positive on these patients. In our understanding of
Lyme disease complex it involves infections, heavy metal and chemical toxins
that further complicate the diagnosis and treatment, stumping even some of the
best-trained Lyme literate doctors. But if all standard physicians and
specialists are testing for is autoimmune disease markers, inflammatory markers
and rheumatologic diseases while giving suppressive medication, how can a
patient ever really get well? They may not even know what they really have!
With the addition of the Affordable Care Act, the quality of diagnosis and time
spent with your doctor will decrease to meet the overwhelming needs of the
population. We expect to reach all-time highs in incorrect diagnoses and
misdirected treatment regimens.
So what happens when people get accurate testing for diseases such as chronic
Lyme disease complex and work with the few doctors trained to treat this
complex of infections? In our experience, an overwhelming number of patients
have a massive improvement in quality of life and a great turnaround in their
health. The reason for this is simple: when you test and treat all infections
and clinical complications, patients finally get a breakthrough and get their
life back. With only a small group of doctors, most offices require years of
treatments. Using mainly IV antibiotics, our team is accomplishing much more in
just several weeks of care by customizing the treatment plan for each patient.
The main reason for this is the clinical experience and many number of cases
helped that give us so much experience and confidence.
As for the patientâs bottom line, those that have found the correct Lyme
literate doctor and get treatment, see improvement. Those following the Center
for Disease Control or infection disease specialists (who have little to no
experience in treatment of this disease) never really improve. Instead, they
live with a lifetime of whatever disease theyâve been pigeonholed into,
because their doctor needed to find a diagnosis for the patient that fits,
usually one that is only managed with a lifetime of prescriptions.
It really seems that the entire system is mainly designed for symptomatic care
and enriching the pharmaceutical global business. Many of the drugs discovered
today donât work much better than their predecessors, but the standard is
tested to the placebo, not to the latest and best-approved drug. In addition to
that, many doctors spend less than 15 minutes with their patients, yet somehow
they are going to find and treat the cause of a very complex chronic disease.
Really?
Letâs just be honest, we have a divided system of medicine and doctors
throughout the world: those that are trained to treat causes of chronic disease
and those who focus only on medication-based symptomatic care. You as a patient
have to decide what you really want out of your health and healthcare provider.
In all fairness, many doctors donât have the freedom to treat their patients
as they would like because medical boards and federal organizations apply
political and financial pressure. The reality is sometimes hard to hear, but
ask those that have been in the middle of this debate and they tell you it gets
pretty ugly. There are so many doctors who have differing opinion than the CDC,
as well as much more clinical experience than CDC and so-called experts in
treating these diseases.
So after a patient has been told theyâre crazy, sent around to various
specialists, and is given one of the above diagnoses, finally the well-trained
Lyme literate doctor can run in-depth testing for all infections,
co-infections, immune dysfunctions, chemicals, heavy metals, nutritional
deficiencies and gathering a detailed patient history. And when corrected,
their life is vastly improved.
Lyme disease may just be an example, but itâs an important one. Patients
deserve to get well, not suffer just because the infectious disease community
hasnât figured out latent chronic infections like Lyme disease donât have
textbook presentations or descriptions. Yet, they are very real, needing to be
treated correctly so patients can get their life back. Weâre passionate about
the subject, because this is what we do everyday: help our patients heal. If
you have any questions about chronic Lyme disease complex or other idiopathic
conditions and our unique and helpful approach, feel free to contact us.
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Morgan Lewis, RPh.
Member GSDCA
President Last Hope of Georgia 501c3
"So Much to Do, So Little Time"
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