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Post by morghunter on Apr 25, 2015 12:29:13 GMT -5
Baraka, you are probably right about a lot of things.When I enter an examining room waiting my turn I feel a presence that controls everything that transpires between myself and the doctor.So powerful that on my first appointment, after reeling off all my symptoms and suggesting perhaps I had morgellons,he literally fled the room and would not return until I promissed never to mention it again.Was he fearful of the disease or was it something more sinister?Many years have passed since then and with magnification I have shown him filaments he could not see otherwise.He now agrees with me but the system has tied his hands.Except for this he is a wonderful and compassionate doctor.And threader I think hair follicles are"suspiciously" involved.Lol.
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Post by itchin4answers on Apr 25, 2015 14:27:43 GMT -5
Hi Itchin, Yes, and I only said (gets us from the outside) as a "possible" reasoning to why everyone says "skin disease"...as I don't know, because "we know" how the symptoms go. There's been WAY too many deaths amongst young people, (look in the obits in any paper any place in the world). Cancer. It's as though our "cells are really having a hard time" and they're losing because something has been added to the mix. Hi toni, I am sorry I am having a hard time grasping all of this, ie. immune response etc. I did learn all about the human body, did physiology the lot and I can not remember, it all gets jumbled. So thank you for your patience as I try to understand. It was said to me once by a doctor after my putting lab results under his nose. The pathogens that showed readings were "possibly" an Anamnestic reaction/response. HE said it doesn't mean you have an active infection at the time it means your body is producing antibodies. ...producing antibodies this is where I get completely lost. . anamnestic reaction - renewed rapid production of an antibody on the second (or subsequent) encounter with the same antigen ≡anamnestic response ↔immune reaction, immune response, immunologic response - a bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen
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Post by itchin4answers on Apr 25, 2015 14:37:04 GMT -5
I think perhaps whatever is in the atmosphere could be triggering an immune response in the skin. I don't know, I throw thoughts around until my head hurts! I would be a little more general and use the word "environment", rather than "atmosphere", but YES! And I think hair follicles are heavily involved in the process. The hair follicles are the vehicle. You know the power of suggestion the mind is so powerful, plant a seed and it will grow. Plant it in the head of the unknowing public and who knows where it will go. This part of the journalism jumped at me; “It’s not chem-trails, not nano-technology gone crazy, it’s not bio-warfare,” Wymore said. “Those things would have actually jumped out at us!” Unlike the linear spread of diseases like West Nile, the spread of Morgellons appears random. Wymore explained that people claiming to suffer from Morgellons are evenly present in every class, race, continent (except Antarctica), and, most importantly, every climate. Wymore and Middelveen’s teams have pursued a common culprit in all these demographics: the small parasitic arachnids that we call ticks, and the bacteria they transmit through bites.
Our human cells are nano scale, we are bombarded with electrical frequencies and we live in a world addicted to technology. Many of us have infections which are written up in literature as a known bioweapon. The word "chem-trails" is not in the English dictionary therefore it does not exist. The word the journalist should have used is "Geo-Engineering" or perhaps the softer version of "cloud seeding". These things JUMPED out at the victims of Morgellons back in the early 2000's and so did Lyme disease, and still to this day it is being disputed, but why? anything and everything is possible. All this technology, and weather making is quite possibly effecting the people on earth. I reckon that goes without saying.
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Post by itchin4answers on Apr 26, 2015 4:55:52 GMT -5
This is not the same as Would Rense have us believe that our gov't created Cholera too? How right you are threader, I didn't notice the difference in terminology. The CDC have the list of Bioterrorism Agents/Diseases on the their website; emergency.cdc.gov/agent/agentlist.aspQ Fever is mentioned, so is Rickettisa (Typhus fever) amongst many others. I plucked one that I didn't know about (hoping to see a connection ) and I have. Chlamydia psittaci Chlamydia psittaci - also referred to as Psittacosis, Parrot Fever or chlamydiosis. The word Psittacosis comes from the Greek word Psittakos, meaning parrot. Chlamydia are gram negative, spherical, (0.4-0.6 micron diameter), intracellular parasites that people sometimes referred to as "energy parasites" because they use ATP (a crucial energy containing metabolite) produced by the host cell, hence, the term "energy parasites". Incubation periods in caged birds vary from days to weeks and longer. Most commonly this period is approximately 3 to 10 days. Latent infections are common and active disease may occur several years after exposure. The incubation period of this disease is however difficult to assess due to these chronically infected birds that develop persistent, asymptomatic infections. In birds, C. psittaci may manifest itself as an upper respiratory infection with nasal, and or ocular discharge, diarrhea, or a combination of all three. In some cases, birds may be infected but show no signs. These cases are of concern because these birds may become carriers and shed the organism. A major concern with C. psittaci is the zoonotic potential of the organism. A zoonotic disease is an infection which can be transmitted from animals to humans. C. psittaci is also one of the major causes of infectious abortion in sheep and cattle. *C. psittaci is related to Chlamydia trachomatis, the most common human STD, and Chlamydia pneumonia, a cause of human pneumonia. Chlamydia pneumonia is also being investigated as possibly being associated with cardiovascular disease in humans. www.avianbiotech.com/Diseases/Chlamydia.htm
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Post by threader on Apr 26, 2015 19:29:58 GMT -5
Has there been a decent survey that correlated tick exposure with Morgellons symptoms? I have not seen one, nor have I seen many anecdotes of tick encounters in the Morg forums. The crude epidemiological maps of Morgellons don't seem to me like they match those of tick habitats. The CDC study found zero lyme disease in a hundred subjects, according to their crappy test standards.
I'm just playing devils advocate here. I've twisted many ticks from my skin over the years. But has the rest of the Morgie population?
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Post by itchin4answers on Apr 27, 2015 20:08:45 GMT -5
Has there been a decent survey that correlated tick exposure with Morgellons symptoms? I have not seen one, nor have I seen many anecdotes of tick encounters in the Morg forums. The crude epidemiological maps of Morgellons don't seem to me like they match those of tick habitats. The CDC study found zero lyme disease in a hundred subjects, according to their crappy test standards. I'm just playing devils advocate here. I've twisted many ticks from my skin over the years. But has the rest of the Morgie population? I've twisted plenty of things out of my skin that I couldn't identify to the naked eye. So no, I couldn't say I've had to twist a tick out of my skin, besides how would I know unless he's huge. I got a bite on my upper thigh in Thailand in 2002, came home with this thing that annoyed the heck out of me. It had a black centre. It wasn't a tick apparently, because there was no bulls eye rash. I did relay this incident to a doctor when we were trying to establish remembering a tick bite. I said it was a black thing though, "no no no that's not a tick bite"....I wouldn't know...... Good point threader, very observant of you. I have never heard a word in all these years between the correlation of ticks and Morgellons. I know the CDC study was a balls up but they found no one with Lyme....well what does that say. It says what we know Lyme evades detection and the CDC are a waste of food and oxygen. Journalism and how it is quoted can be unfortunate. I am guessing poor journalistic research and sadly our Dr Wymore is taken out of context because to my knowledge he has never mentioned ticks carrying Morgellons.
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Post by threader on Apr 28, 2015 10:58:55 GMT -5
Journalism and how it is quoted can be unfortunate. I am guessing poor journalistic research and sadly our Dr Wymore is taken out of context because to my knowledge he has never mentioned ticks carrying Morgellons. If this is the case, thread is mistitled. Having watched the DVD from last years conference about 3 times, all I recall was a lot of discussion about suspecting borrelia transmission from various vectors. Were ticks even mentioned?
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Post by Baraka Obam on Apr 28, 2015 21:20:45 GMT -5
Actually, Lyme disease could be on the rise, but what about the fibers and itching this was not a result of yesteryears Lyme disease. What we have is like a HIV they do not want to admit exists. You do know there are many different types and subtypes and HIV is ALWAYS on the move making other types, its prolific. That is what this disease is like. HIV types and sub types www.avert.org/hiv-types.htm If this is the case, thread is mistitled. Having watched the DVD from last years conference about 3 times, all I recall was a lot of discussion about suspecting borrelia transmission from various vectors. Were ticks even mentioned?
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Post by itchin4answers on Apr 29, 2015 5:15:49 GMT -5
It all comes down to nit picking in the end threader, and from the start. When there is disagreement and disbelief it is inevitable for such things to be said, happen, whatever. At least people are talking about it and that's a start. I think we need to focus on what this is rather than what vector carries it, ticks carry Lyme so do mosquito's and fleas, we could go on and on like this forever. We want to know what Morgellons is first. ....and yes Baraka HIV was also way back in my research. Seems to me the DOP diagnosis has been a huge success for their big flying circus of a money spinning medical system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD78i6eoGkM
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Post by threader on Apr 30, 2015 1:08:02 GMT -5
Here's another little gem of accuracy from the article:
Kaiser may have screened a database that large, but the author makes it sound like 100k were volunteering for the study.
I have so many more problems with this article and Dr. Wymore's statements... it's too late to begin now though.
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Post by itchin4answers on Apr 30, 2015 4:55:20 GMT -5
Here's another little gem of accuracy from the article: Kaiser may have screened a database that large, but the author makes it sound like 100k were volunteering for the study. I have so many more problems with this article and Dr. Wymore's statements... it's too late to begin now though. How do we know what Kaiser and the CDC did? how would the journalist know? how do we know that what is quoted by Dr Wymore is true? you are flogging a dead horse Threader. No one gives a damn, it's just numbers and figures.
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Post by toni on Apr 30, 2015 11:46:55 GMT -5
Itchin, You'd asked in your post: How do you we know what CDC and Kaiser did? Imho, there is no way to know, but.....we DO know one thing. Had they (really) done an investigation that (((( they wanted the results known pubically )))) they would have expressed it. CDC did admit though, at the end of their "paper" that more studying needed done, which did sound contradictory to how they'd written their results in the bulk of it all. Do you remember last year I think it was that NIH had 7 DEATHS within their establishment (and they ADMITTED pubically) that UNTIL they found the source, they kept it all under their hat. (now those are my words, but what they said, meant the same thing). I wonder if Morgs isn't treated the same way, and for great reasons. IF CDC announced publically there was (anything they don't know the source of) it seems by the way NIH handled the deaths at their establishment (not saying anything pubically until they found the source) that it seems to stand (that is the way it's done) as to not cause chaos amongst the public. Otherwise, I sure can't think of any other reasoning. It seems to be the manner in which they do things. I mean we can see why...but in the meantime, just like at NIH...people did die, and it seems that until they found the source.....their families were at risk too, ALL in the name of "finding the source" first before alarming the public...as it seems they did do. I don't know though all that was entailed, but...they said nothing to begin with. www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/outbreak-at-nih/
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Post by toni on Apr 30, 2015 11:58:59 GMT -5
Itchin,
Also, I'm very sorry to hear that you have a UTI.
Interesting ALSO that (KFLEX) is also used to treat Klebsiella..... *not saying that is what you have* but.....please get tested if you haven't-
because I knew a Morgie that had been tested, I believe by Dr. Harvey, and was positive for Klebsiella.
It was Cheryl W....she use to post here as Flowerchild and she wanted it known to help others which is why I'm bring that part up.
IF your UTI is (stubborn/abnormal) in that traditional meds aren't helping....(that's why I sure am nudging you to let your doc know this), as that can easily get totally out of control, as it did with her.
PS - it's the "resistant strain" of Klebsiella, and correction from my above post, it was 12 people there at NIH died from this resistant new strain.
Here's the link: www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2013/10/28/superbug-outbreak-at-nih-patients-dead-mysteries-persist
Superbug outbreak at NIH: 12 patients dead, mysteries persist
PBS released a documentary on the deadly KPC outbreak
In 2011, deadly, drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) spread through the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., puzzling health experts and leaving 11 patients dead. *don't know why here it says 11 dead, when the top of the article says 12*
This month, PBS explored the outbreak's path in a documentary entitled "Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria"—drawing on NIH's study of the outbreak.
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Post by toni on Apr 30, 2015 12:19:56 GMT -5
This whole thing made me just now remember something from years ago when I lived in Sacramento CA.
My dog (that I'd had for 18 years) got ill.
I took her to Davis Animal Hosp in Davis CA - and they did treat my dog and everyone's dogs extremely well, as other people I talked with said they handled animals as well as if they were their own family members. And by everything I saw (many times there) they did treat my dog as though she were theirs. So no complaints there. I said all that because I KNOW there's people here that hate Davis animal hosp. but regardless of opinions....
My dog was ill, didn't know why, so Davis was the best place I knew of, and...
my dog had "something going on"....I still to this moment don't know exactly what it was, ( I was in a cloud at that time doing what we all did, leaving "the fixes" to the doc's to figure out).
I WILL write Davis today, because of the incident that did happen last time I was there.
They said my dog had an infection that ( would close the entire Davis Hospital down into a quarantine ) and the veterinarians then put her on a steel covered table and wheeled her outside !!! and (((( TREATED HER IN THE PARKING LOT)))) as they said they could not allow her in because of the exposure factor.
Now that hits me.
She also had the "moving lumps under her skin" just like I did when I first realized I too had something going on.
Bottom line, just sharing this, as it might have something to do with everything, so I'll see what I can find out from Davis....especially since vets are more (open about things/findings).
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Post by toni on Apr 30, 2015 13:20:31 GMT -5
This whole thing made me just now remember something from years ago when I lived in Sacramento CA. My dog (that I'd had for 18 years) got ill. I took her to Davis Animal Hosp in Davis CA - and they did treat my dog and everyone's dogs extremely well, as other people I talked with said they handled animals as well as if they were their own family members. And by everything I saw (many times there) they did treat my dog as though she were theirs. So no complaints there. I said all that because I KNOW there's people here that hate Davis animal hosp. but regardless of opinions.... My dog was ill, didn't know why, so Davis was the best place I knew of, and... my dog had "something going on"....I still to this moment don't know exactly what it was, ( I was in a cloud at that time doing what we all did, leaving "the fixes" to the doc's to figure out). I WILL write Davis today, because of the incident that did happen last time I was there. They said my dog had an infection that ( would close the entire Davis Hospital down into a quarantine ) and the veterinarians then put her on a steel covered table and wheeled her outside !!! and (((( TREATED HER IN THE PARKING LOT)))) as they said they could not allow her in because of the exposure factor. Now that hits me. She also had the "moving lumps under her skin" just like I did when I first realized I too had something going on. Bottom line, just sharing this, as it might have something to do with everything, so I'll see what I can find out from Davis....especially since vets are more (open about things/findings). Well that was easy!!! I just called Davis Hospital, and no charge, they're sending me my dogs records. Then I asked the gal (if she could see what it was that my dog had back in the 90's that the doctors said would cause the hospital to go into quarantine). She said: it was Salmonella Now isn't that interesting. Maybe not? I didn't know Salmonella could shut down an entire hospital and cause a quarantine! Maybe my ignorance on that ....maybe not, as it may be the "strain" as there are several. The gal did not get specific. I'll wait for the records to come, she said they'll go out today, and IF in the records it's not specified (as there's several Samonella's) I will persist till I do find out "exactly what strain" she had. I never got sick from my dog, BUT...my dog did have the "moving lumps under her skin" and SO DID I.
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Post by itchin4answers on May 2, 2015 3:13:03 GMT -5
This whole thing made me just now remember something from years ago when I lived in Sacramento CA. My dog (that I'd had for 18 years) got ill. I took her to Davis Animal Hosp in Davis CA - and they did treat my dog and everyone's dogs extremely well, as other people I talked with said they handled animals as well as if they were their own family members. And by everything I saw (many times there) they did treat my dog as though she were theirs. So no complaints there. I said all that because I KNOW there's people here that hate Davis animal hosp. but regardless of opinions.... My dog was ill, didn't know why, so Davis was the best place I knew of, and... my dog had "something going on"....I still to this moment don't know exactly what it was, ( I was in a cloud at that time doing what we all did, leaving "the fixes" to the doc's to figure out). I WILL write Davis today, because of the incident that did happen last time I was there. They said my dog had an infection that ( would close the entire Davis Hospital down into a quarantine ) and the veterinarians then put her on a steel covered table and wheeled her outside !!! and (((( TREATED HER IN THE PARKING LOT)))) as they said they could not allow her in because of the exposure factor. Now that hits me. She also had the "moving lumps under her skin" just like I did when I first realized I too had something going on. Bottom line, just sharing this, as it might have something to do with everything, so I'll see what I can find out from Davis....especially since vets are more (open about things/findings). Well that was easy!!! I just called Davis Hospital, and no charge, they're sending me my dogs records. Then I asked the gal (if she could see what it was that my dog had back in the 90's that the doctors said would cause the hospital to go into quarantine). She said: it was Salmonella Now isn't that interesting. Maybe not? I didn't know Salmonella could shut down an entire hospital and cause a quarantine! Maybe my ignorance on that ....maybe not, as it may be the "strain" as there are several. The gal did not get specific. I'll wait for the records to come, she said they'll go out today, and IF in the records it's not specified (as there's several Samonella's) I will persist till I do find out "exactly what strain" she had. I never got sick from my dog, BUT...my dog did have the "moving lumps under her skin" and SO DID I. So did I have the moving lumps, rolling balls I called them. I too had Salmonella around 1999. The Health Department never found the source. I was in hospital 2 days, such a shame really I was on holiday in the bush, and during that time admitted to hospital and whilst on IV treatment, I developed a UTI. I was in agony. The IV had potassium, that I know because the needle moved and my arm was going to explode. The nurse had no clue and phoned the doctor, duh the potassium burns like hell when leaked into tissue. What ever the strain of Salmonella was my family all developed a few symptoms, though not requiring to go to hospital. It was lucky my sister being a nurse, she had given me heaps that night because she said "do you EVER stop eating LOL"....then I was complaining of tummy ache. I really thought I'd eaten too much, though I had been complaining the whole day of feeling like I had a UTI developing. I was so desperate for a drink when we arrived at the accommodation I ran to the tap for water, actually I should have let the water run awhile first. So I was told after wards by the owners of the facility. My sister saw my condition worsen and around 5am she said "that's it I'm taking you to hospital now". Apparently I was the 5th case with the same symptoms that night. Terrible and horrible really, the day I came out of hospital we had a bbq and my brother in law asked me to light the bbq it was a gas one, the whole thing blew up in my face and burnt off all my eyelashes. My god was I cursed. Interesting combination of infections, thank you for sharing this toni, and your poor dog, my god we know how bad it felt for us.
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Post by itchin4answers on May 2, 2015 3:30:51 GMT -5
Itchin, You'd asked in your post: How do you we know what CDC and Kaiser did? Imho, there is no way to know, but.....we DO know one thing. Had they (really) done an investigation that (((( they wanted the results known pubically )))) they would have expressed it. CDC did admit though, at the end of their "paper" that more studying needed done, which did sound contradictory to how they'd written their results in the bulk of it all. Do you remember last year I think it was that NIH had 7 DEATHS within their establishment (and they ADMITTED pubically) that UNTIL they found the source, they kept it all under their hat. (now those are my words, but what they said, meant the same thing). I wonder if Morgs isn't treated the same way, and for great reasons. IF CDC announced publically there was (anything they don't know the source of) it seems by the way NIH handled the deaths at their establishment (not saying anything pubically until they found the source) that it seems to stand (that is the way it's done) as to not cause chaos amongst the public. Otherwise, I sure can't think of any other reasoning. It seems to be the manner in which they do things. I mean we can see why...but in the meantime, just like at NIH...people did die, and it seems that until they found the source.....their families were at risk too, ALL in the name of "finding the source" first before alarming the public...as it seems they did do. I don't know though all that was entailed, but...they said nothing to begin with. www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/outbreak-at-nih/CDC saying more studying needed to be done is in my interpretation, we know what we are dealing with but we can not tell you. We are the study. No I don't remember those deaths sorry toni, I most probably read it but it's gone from my head. This part of the link you posted really hit me right between the eyes. At the Clinical Center’s groundbreaking in 1951, President Harry Truman declared victory over the terrible infectious diseases of his childhood—typhoid, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and pneumonia. “It is safe to say that we have successfully conquered the infectious diseases,” he said. He was wrong. Infections in medical facilities now kill some 99,000 Americans a year—more than three times the number of lives lost every year to car accidents or gun violence. That’s roughly the equivalent of a fully loaded 737 jet crashing every day and killing every passenger. Check into a hospital and there’s a 5-percent chance you’ll acquire an infection. If you do, there’s a 6.5-percent chance you’ll die as a result. By overprescribing antibiotics for ourselves and the animals we eat, we humans have done something foolish—we’ve waged a war on microbes that has only made them stronger. According to the CDC, more than 70 percent of the bacteria involved in hospital-acquired infections now have at least some resistance to antibiotics. And the problem is getting worse. In March, Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the CDC, warned of the dangers posed by KPC klebsiella and other drug-resistant bacteria. “It’s not often that our scientists come to me to say that we have a very serious problem and we need to sound an alarm,” Frieden said on a conference call, “but that’s exactly what we’re doing today.” Frieden described “nightmare bacteria” that posed a triple threat: “First, they’re resistant to all or nearly all antibiotics, even some of our last-resort drugs. Second, they have high mortality rates. They kill up to half of people who get serious infections with them. And third, they can spread their resistance to other bacteria.” That last point is perhaps the most alarming. Think of KPC as a code that gives bacteria resistance to the last class of antibiotics we have that can stop infections—a code that klebsiella can share with other, more common bacteria. That means, Frieden said, “that we have only a limited window of opportunity to stop this infection from spreading to the community and spreading to more organisms.” Beyond that window, things start to look pretty scary. “We have eight years until 15 percent of the people who come to us have serious infections that we will not have treatments for,” says Dr. Allison McGeer, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, which confronted the first SARS outbreak in North America ten years ago. “Right now, if you get a urinary-tract infection, the doctor pats you on the head and gives you an antibiotic,” says Dr. Brad Spellberg, an infectious-disease expert at UCLA. “People don’t die of urinary-tract infections. They are going to start to.”
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Post by itchin4answers on May 2, 2015 4:09:02 GMT -5
Itchin,
Also, I'm very sorry to hear that you have a UTI.
Interesting ALSO that (KFLEX) is also used to treat Klebsiella..... *not saying that is what you have* but.....please get tested if you haven't-
because I knew a Morgie that had been tested, I believe by Dr. Harvey, and was positive for Klebsiella.
It was Cheryl W....she use to post here as Flowerchild and she wanted it known to help others which is why I'm bring that part up.
IF your UTI is (stubborn/abnormal) in that traditional meds aren't helping....(that's why I sure am nudging you to let your doc know this), as that can easily get totally out of control, as it did with her. I remember Flower child - when she knew how sick she was getting she was sending lots of information to me. I reckon she knew her time was running out. I think from memory her Father said that her death had been attributed to her having had many pathogens. Either way the poor woman is dead. I did get to the doctors today toni, and it was not my GP being a Saturday, but as luck had it I saw a really nice doctor. Now the GP I am seeing had sent off my urine and it was tested for Klebsiella which came back clear. I said to the doctor I wanted to be tested for it, I doubt he would have even mentioned Klebsiella had I not said my mother has had this long standing infection to the point she couldn't live her life and had to have surgery for an implant into the sacrum to control the bladder. It's no cure at all, the problem is still there for her. My results came back showing Ecoli. Now the doctor said since my immune system is compromised this has been a hard infection to shift. He has put me on a stronger antibiotic 10 days as opposed to 5 days. He was very understanding, not sure what country these doctors are from but some have a good attitude. I told him I had "tickbourne disease with co infections such as Borrellia". He said "you have Lyme disease?"...oh joy my approach worked. The doctor said to me I have seen others walk into my room just like you have and complaining of the same things. I was walking like I was punch drunk, dropped right foot, and a slight tremor. Oh yeah looking good...not!...at least he understood. He told me that in medical school they are taught about Lyme disease but just the basic that's it. Asked if I had visited South America....how many times I've been asked that question by a doctor. I said I had travelled extensively. I told him about the pain in my back, he said the infection was in my kidneys. I said I have this terrible cold, the mucous is almost bright orange just like my urine. Don't you worry toni, I won't be leaving this one alone, I have been like this for way too long. I feel an embarrassment to myself trying to walk through a public place, since I had no choice too. This infection has my nervous system rattling like you wouldn't believe. My walking today almost got to like the young woman in the first Lyme documentary under our skin, the part where she is on the front lawn trying to walk. That jitter she has with her hands and head, that happens to me. Thanks so much for this toni, as the saying goes "you're a life saver"....you could well be dear lady. E. Coli Infection From Food or Water www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/e-coli-infection-topic-overview?page=2
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Post by itchin4answers on May 3, 2015 0:22:01 GMT -5
Hi toni, I forgot to mention my cough to the doctor, rather typical for one with a mind that struggles to hold information. The antibiotics I am taking are Amoxycillin 875mg and Clavulanic Acid 125mg tablets combination therapy - 2 per day, I have had 3 so far and I am not feeling any better. I know I don't expect to feel great immediately, but I know I am not right. I HOPE by tomorrow I do start to feel a little better. Also upon reading some of your above links I looked into a few words and found this very interesting article. WHY DO WE NEED ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP?.In the early days of antibiotics, booming drug development meant that even when resistance developed, a new drug was always available to treat the increasingly resistant bacteria. Fourteen new classes of antibiotics were introduced between 1935 and 2003. However, rapid antimicrobial development came with a cost—antimicrobial resistance. In the hospital, resistance to antibiotics and antifungals poses the greatest concern. In 2003, US intensive care units (ICUs) reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that nearly 60% of Staphylococcus aureus isolates were resistant to methicillin.1 Although the rate of invasive methicillin-resistant S aureus infections in health care settings was shown to be decreasing in a 2010 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study,2 isolates intermediately or overtly resistant to vancomycin are becoming less rare.3 Perhaps even more difficult to manage has been the increase in gram-negative resistance.4 Programs such as the international SMART (Study for Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance Trend)5 and the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program have shown substantial in creases in the rate of Klebsiella resistance to third-generation cephalosporins, extended-spectrum β-lactamase–producing Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas resistant to fluoroquinolones.1,6,7 During the past 30 years, antibiotic development has slowed considerably, and our options for treating increasingly resistant infections are becoming more and more limited. This review aims to describe the why, what, who, how, when, and where of antimicrobial stewardship. WHAT IS ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP?.Until this next giant step is achieved, those of us not developing new drugs have another job: conserve the antibiotics we have. In the hospital, antimicrobial stewardship teams are charged with this important initiative. Antimicrobial stewardship has been defined as “the optimal selection, dosage, and duration of antimicrobial treatment that results in the best clinical outcome for the treatment or prevention of infection, with minimal toxicity to the patient and minimal impact on subsequent resistance.”9 The goal of antimicrobial stewardship is 3-fold. The first goal is to work with health care practitioners to help each patient receive the most appropriate antimicrobial with the correct dose and duration. Joseph and Rodvold10 wrote about the “4 D’s of optimal antimicrobial therapy”: right Drug, right Dose, De-escalation to pathogen-directed therapy, and right Duration of therapy. The optimal care of an infected patient means treating with the correct, properly dosed antibiotic and one that has the least likelihood of causing collateral damage (ie, leading to resistance in the patient or his or her contacts). An added benefit of programs that aim to optimize antibiotic use is that they generally experience cost savings because fewer doses of antibiotic are used and less expensive antibiotics are chosen. Comprehensive programs have demonstrated annual savings of $200,000 to $900,000.11-17 The second goal is to prevent antimicrobial overuse, misuse, and abuse. In both the hospital and the outpatient setting, physicians use antibiotics when they are not necessary. Antibiotics are given to patients with viral infections, noninfectious processes (a classic example is the febrile patient with pancreatitis), bacterial infections that do not require antibiotics (such as small skin abscesses that will resolve with incision and drainage), and bacterial colonization (as in the case of a positive urine culture result in a patient with a bladder catheter). Antibiotics are also frequently misused, such as in the very common scenario of the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics that cover multidrug-resistant organisms in a patient whose infection was acquired in the community or the failure to adjust antibiotics according to culture data, thus maintaining the patient on a regimen to which the organism is not susceptible. Abuse of antibiotics is more difficult to define, but the term might be used to describe the use of one particular antibiotic preferentially over others by a physician as a result of aggressive detailing by the pharmaceutical representative or worse because of financial interest. The third goal is to minimize the development of resistance. Both at the individual patient level and at the community level, antibiotic use changes susceptibility patterns. Patients exposed to antibiotics are at higher risk of becoming colonized or infected by resistant organisms.18-20 The most common cause of the development of Clostridium difficile diarrhea is exposure to antibiotics.21 Gram-negative resistance to carbapenems and cephalosporins has been shown to increase 10- to 20-fold with exposure to these broad-spectrum antimicrobials.22-24 In a recent systematic review and meta-analyses of outpatient prescribing practices, the use of common antibiotics was associated with significant increased risk of development of antibiotic resistance, up to 12 months after antimicrobial exposure (pooled odds ratio [OR], 1.33; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.2-1.5).25 More importantly, antimicrobial resistance is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Carbapenem-resistant K pneumoniae is associated with an increased attributable mortality compared with sensitive Klebsiella (OR, 4.69; 95% CI, 1.9-11.58; P=.001)22 and methicillin-resistant S aureus bacteremia, relative to methicillin-sensitive S aureus bacteremia, has a significantly greater mortality risk as well (OR, 1.93; 95% CI, 1.54-2.42; P=.001).26 These resistant organisms can become transmitted to other individuals within the hospital or in the patient’s community. Antimicrobial resistance also has significant hospital and societal costs. A recent study by Roberts et al27 estimated that the cost of an antimicrobial-resistant infection is $18,588 to $29,069 per patient, with an excess duration of hospital stay of 6.4 to 12.7 days and attributable mortality of 6.5%. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3203003/
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Post by itchin4answers on May 5, 2015 5:18:17 GMT -5
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