This Is MS Multiple Sclerosis Community: Knowledge & Support

I'm new here... just posted an intro, started poking around, found this thread and realized everyone posting is lightyears ahead of me.

A little background: I was diagnosed in 12/04. Decided to go to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a corroborative opinion because it was close by and seemed like an institution on the cusp of research. I was mostly asymptomatic, so willing to do all the diagnostic stuff for the benefit of ...

Here's a list I compiled of many relevant links on Chlamydia pneumoniae:


** Information on Chlamydia pneumoniae in general **
http://herkules.oulu.fi/isbn9514269853/html/x467.html

** Information on Chlamydia pneumoniae and its relationship to human diseases in general **

This article includes neurological diseases and includes the statement, currently ignored by most neurologists, that “chlamydial infections should be included in the differential diagnosis of neurological syndromes.”
http://www.fmtlc.com/images/chronic_dis.pdf ...

I started using Curcumin (extract of tumeric) and after a couple of months have gotten rid of all the pain. No more chiropratic visits and no more pain. My nervous system inflammation has left as well. My nerves are behaving near normally. Highly recommend it. (2000mg daily, half morning, half evening) It is pretty inexpensive too. Haven't noticed any adverse side effects, except no pain.

I am 33 years old. I was diagnosed in March 2004. My mother had MS. I was born in May and have no younger siblings. My first symptoms were in early 2002. My symptoms then were transient (seconds - long) loss of motor function and sensory paresthesia in the right arm and difficulty swallowing. the former symptom cleared completely. Months later I had a completely numb right hand and mild malcoordination of the right foot. ...

Has anyone tried Provigil (modafinil) for fatigue? At my neuro appt. yesterday, my doctor recommended I try Provigil for fatigue. Unlike Symmetrel which is taken daily by most people, it is taken as needed. I was planning on taking it on work day mornings.
It is a medicine to treat unusually sleepy people who have a sleep disorder, narcolepsy, obstructive sleep apnea or shift work sleep disorder. It has been used with much success for ...

Daunted,
On another board you posted minimum antibiotic concentration levels needed to effectively kill Cpn.

I was led to believe that 200mg of Minocycline, (100 mg twice daily) was effective in the treatment of Cpn but according to your infomation 400mg a day would be needed to suppress the bacteria?

I am still planning on the pulses of Metro after the 90 day's but I'm not sure what the correct amount of the Minocycline should ...

Remedyfind now has a category for antibiotics.

http://remedyfind.com/rem.asp?ID=6561

Please log on and post your experience there- good, bad, or in between.

I would suggest posting your regimen as they simply have one category for "antibiotics".

As you may recall, I am not diagnosed with MS but a "clinically isolated syndrome"; I have positive VEPs and unremitting symptoms consistent with mild MS. I have had two negative MRIs. I am undergoing antibiotic treatment with the Vanderbilt protocol (Amoxicillin, Doxcycyline, Rifampin, and pulses of Flagyl).

I am in the middle of my first pulse of Flagyl. I am keeping a symptom log and when I am several months into this, I will ...

Just wondering if anyone found further research on this other than the original findings.
Anyone tying it? If so, any results?

Thanks.
Tom

I have a few questions for those of you taking antibiotics (I am on Amoxicillin and Doxycycline, adding Rifampin soon):

1. I take Bromelain and I see that it interacts with amoxicillin, making it more bio-available, supposedly. Good thing or bad thing?

2. I am having some GI difficulties despite taking loads of probiotics. How much is too much when it comes to that? I wonder if am taking too much.

3. Is the charcoal ...