welchol and lyme disease

While you wait for the dotor ot answer: Like all the rest, foods/drinks (and coffee), vitamins, and other drugs, take Welchol hours away from your thyroid medication. Welchol can make it harder for your body to absorb certain other medications, including levothyroxine/Synthroid. So as long as you take them both far apart from each other, you should be fine. Low Vitamin D, did you tell the doctor? Will you be taking supplements to build up your low V-D, I presume.

Ask your doctor about Welchol; it's a cholesterol medicine that binds bile salts. I had mine taken out in February of last year and tried to "tough it out," but after a doctor put me on Welchol, I rarely ever get sick after eating.

Wags: I have over 20 lesions on my brain and that's not a typo! Mine are small and scattered throughout my brain. The first thing the neuro asked me was "have you had lyme disease"! They ran every test under the sun and everything including the LP came back normal (thank goodness I guess). Anyhow, it also did not show Lyme disease. I was then tested at Igenex and came back positive for lyme and erlichosis.

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the tests to determine this was an ELISHA TEST and a WESTERN BLOT TEST. same tests used for HIV. could it be at all possible that I could have HIV and not Lyme disease and they were diagnosed wrong? Im freaking out and very worried.

Thanks for the help, but I got some bad news today (in my perspective), I went to an ID doctor and he says that the other doctors were wrong and I don't have Lyme Disease, and he doesn't know what I have. He said that I was positive for IgM antibodies , but not the right ones that indicate Lyme. I really don't know. He thinks I might have a rheumatic problem. If anyone has any ideas I'm welcome to any opinions.

In your situation, I would take my child to a Lyme specialist for diagnosis and treatment *now*. Infectious disease MDs are, sadly, some of the docs most resistant to the idea of Lyme as something to be taken seriously. You might take your daughter back to the doc at Emory who at least considered the possibility of Lyme or ask him/her for a referral to a Lyme-friendly doc.

Practitioners not familiar with Lyme disease may mistake depression as the underlying problem rather than a result of the bacterial infection that Lyme disease is. There is lots of medical literature out there on this point. For example, below is a portion of a 1992 article posted at lymenet, co-authored by a number of distinguished and experienced physicians and scientists. Yes, the article is 19 years old and still stands, so this is not new information.

My dog had lyme a couple years ago. I still give him frontline. I don't think they really know whether or not dogs get immune to lyme or not (it's bacterial though, not viral, so it seems you could still get a second infection). I would think my vet would have told me if I did not need to give it anymore. But just to be on the safe side I still give it - I don't want to go through that again. I don't think there are different types of lyme disease.

Dr, What is your opinion on the significance and reliability of the CD57 in diagnosing and treating lyme disease? My cd57 score was a 13. Is it true that ONLY lyme can cause a low cd57 score? Also what is your opinion on the IND bands on the Igenex Lyme WB? Thanks again.

s and infections disease doctor stated that encephalitis is out thank god but that in my case he was not going to treat me for lymes b/c in my CSF it only showed up in 4 bands? and not 5 and that out of 10 time pt does not have lyme disease in my case.

I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis and insulin resistance, pre-diabetic and lyme disease. I think the Hashimoto's is a sign or chronic lyme. I am researching Yersinia Enterocolitica and Hashimto's and lyme and Hashimoto's. There are many people with thyroid problems and lyme. This appears to be a case of molecular mimicry. Google and read lots of articles..........

In early 2007 I awoke one morning with numbness of the left side of my body-neck, shoulder and arm. The week before my gen prac ha done an adjustment to my back and suggested I get routine massages for what has been 4 years of musculoskeletal aches/pains. Also took antiinflammatory during those years to no avail. Anyhow, I never told anyone about the numbness but was scared of it. It left as quickly as it came only after 3 days or so.

Unfortunately, you cannot rely on physicians to diagnose this unless they are Lyme literate. Many have been led to believe Lyme disease is rare and even doesn't exist in certain states such as the one I live in, Utah. I have Lyme disease. It does exist in Utah. I have no doubt it is under reported since the guidelines by the CDC are set up so that many Lyme patients will not be considered positive by the CDC and therefore are not reported.

I was tested for HIV when my doctor received my lab work there were no results for HIV but a positive result for lyme disease. My doctor never ordered a lyme disease test. Is it possible the the results were for HIV? Or was Lyme disease detected when they performed the HIV test.

Thank you! :) This process of a diagnosis takes forever. I have Graves disease also, and was told that Lyme and / or it's coinfections can wreck havoc on the thyroid. ( HMMM ??) During the years of treatment for my thyroid, RAI, Radiation to both eyes due to thyroid eye disease, 5 eye surgeries, I began to have a lot of neurological things happen. First was the optic neuropathy. I was told that it was from the eye disease. Second was the slurred speech, that lasted for two weeks.

You are all very good to reply,thanks, and so fast! Yes I did get a second opinion from an oncologist and infectious disease specialist(there's no lyme specialists over here).I don't have lyme anymore,the results just show previous infection with b.b. It's definitely aplastic anemia I have tried everything-blood transfusions...immunosuppressive therapy but nothing is working my blood levels just aren't improving. These were my latest results. Neutrophils 0.

The importance of getting all four tests--RPR, FTA-ABS, Lyme IFA IgG and IgM, and Lyme ELISA--in all patients suspected of spirochetal disease is emphasized. PMID: 2150843 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] ================================================ Gerald Zaidman MD: There is an ophthalmologist in or around Valhalla NY, Gerald Zaidman, who seems to have been writing on Lyme disease for many years and seems to be pretty well known in the field from what I see online.

I wouldn't worry. I had Lyme and another tickborne disease for over a year before the docs figured it out, and I'm find now. The hardest of Lyme is usually getting the diagnosis.

Well after the positive lyme test, their daughter refused to accept the lyme diagnosis and treatment for lyme. Why ? Because she was already addicted to painkillers and I think the lyme disease had by then affected her decision making (as well as all of the drugs she had been taking). This young woman had been taking so many painkillers, that when the producers and camera crew arrived at her apartment to film her, they found her unconscious on the floor.... glass shattered around her !

Are positive Lyme Disease Titers registered in the chronic stage of the disease?

t have to buy in to the concept of longer treatment if you do see a Lyme specialist, but I would urge you to see the doc and hear him/her out and then decide, because if you do have Lyme and any co-infections, the sooner you are treated, the better. There are some quackish docs who play in the Lyme field, just like in any group of 'professionals', so you also have to keep your eyes open, but not all Lyme docs are quacks, never mind what mainstream medicine says.

And what I meant by doing another western blot is that ive read sometimes doctor give you a trail run of antibiotics if they are not sure if you have Lyme Disease and it might produce a positive IgG if I did have lymes disease...

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