http://www.valdezlink.com/gwv/babies-gwi.htm

Tired, but Blood Tests Normal?

http://groups.msn.com/helpourGulfWarVets/elizabeth1979.msnw

a chemical to avoid

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Could Fatigue, Headaches be something else?

http://groups.msn.com/BrainTumors/somethingelse.msnw

Have they thought about worse signs in this war ... but things that are there in every war where EXPLOSIONS are going on?

Military Super Bug?  check this link

Maybe the chemical that causes fever and autoimmune issues, is the same chemical that is causing rapid Polar Cap Melt and many health issues. 

Is anything blamed on BUTYL or on EGBE or 2(2-butoxyethanol)?

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I heard that 29% or about 195,000 of the total force (500,--- US + 200,000 alied forces)

Of these how many are still alive?  Reports say that those ill have been dying off in the prime of life, unlike what would be expected.

I still suspect the teratogen, pesticide, solvent, poison:  2-butoxyethanol and all the symptoms are part of the CFIDS that it causes.  Proof is THE FATIGUE that evates doctors ... and has been so in this past century especially.

The CFIDS fatigue MUST BE AIHA or IMHA

A study needs to be done comparing the group of gulf war illness vets of 1991 to the 1989 bioremediaton workers of the Exxon Valdez oil spill workers.  We have now located over 900 of the 1000 who did this job.  (We know who to contact, but don't know what happened to them.)

My question, if these groups were compared to each other, how many would have died in each group to this point in time.  For these EVOS workers (exposed for sure to 2-butoxyethanol) ... how many have died?

... I suspect more than 70% ... & many a long time ago

They would have to have many seemingly unrelated, but autoimmune issues to suspect EGBE as the cause.  You are looking for the multiple, odd symptoms mentioned for Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (whether diagnosed or not)

Ask these questions on the 'checklist'.

Why I think the USA can not find the real cause of gulf war syndrome -

My request to Dr. Weil 

The harm of 2-butoxyethanol is unrecognized!

Is CFIDS fatigue - compensated autoimmune hemolytic anemia?

Some basic things to check - to find THIS fatigue

Janitorial Studies on EGBE & its complex form

World Health Organization says to suspect these chemicals for brain tumors (birth defect)

Might 'diabetes' (TYPE 2) be a birth defect for some?

 Chronic Overweight May not be your fault?

 ACUTE EFFECTS
    HUMAN EXPOSURE ABOVE 200 PPM CAN BE EXPECTED TO CAUSE NARCOSIS, DAMAGE
    TO THE KIDNEY AND LIVER AND PRESENT AN ABNORMAL BLOOD PICTURE SHOWING
    ERYTHROPENIA, RETICULOCYTOSIS, GRANULOCYTOSIS, LEUKOCYTOSIS AND WOULD
    BE LIKELY TO CAUSE FRAGILITY OF ERYTHROCYTES AND HEMATURIA.
    SWALLOWING OF 2-BUTOXYETHANOL RESULTS IN A SOUR TASTE THAT TURNS TO A
    BURNING SENSATION AND IS FOLLOWED BY NUMBNESS OF THE TONGUE WHICH
    INDICATES PARALYSIS OF THE SENSORY NERVE ENDINGS.
    CAUSES CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNS) DEPRESSION, LOSS OF TASTE, NUMB-
    NESS OF THE TONGUE, HEADACHES AND STUPOR.
    NARCOTIC EFFECT
    CAUSES SKIN IRRITATION.

U.S. accused of failing ill 1991 Gulf War veterans

RDW?

The RDW stands for Random Distribution of RBC Weight. It tells how consistent are the size of the red blood cells.

Page bottom for more blood cell counts ... definition

RDW is increased when someone has Hemolytic Anemia (That is the fatigue doctors are looking for in CFS, FM, CFIDS) Most of the bloodwork looks at least in normal range and doctors do not LOOK at the red blood cells. I have seen gulf war vets comment that their red blood cell count/s are in normal range, but they are small sized.

Random Distribution of Weight (RDW)

"The RDW stands for Random Distribution of RBC Weight. It tells how consistent are the size of the red blood cells. Newly made cells (reticulocytes), B12 and folic acid deficient cells are larger than iron deficient cells. This is an electronic index that may help clarify if an anemia has multiple components. The high RDW helps determine if there is only a B12 and/or folic acid deficiency (with normal RDW showing the red cells are mostly the same size) or with concomitant iron deficiency (a high RDW due to small and large red blood cells)."

"Optimal Range: 13"

_____________________________

The chemical exposure I suspect for this (Per research it causes hemolytic anemia) is 2-butoxyethanol

I have had a whole day of miserable 'sniffles' because I went by to see a grandchild age 10. She, too has been having the sniffles & her mom is blaming it on allergies starting up. I think it is the chemicals they clean with there or one of the other houses she often goes to to spend the night. She was giving her mom a pedicure while I was there. I was only there about 10 minutes, and these horrible 'sniffles' (loosening of the sinuses) started up. I am so congested tonight I can barely sleep. If I looked at the chemicals in the polish or one of the components I firmly believe I would find 2-butoxyethanol or a worse version of it. It is a complex alcohol ... that poisons your entire system. (I believe it is the cause of CFIDS)

Psoriasis from a rummage sale? I suspect this is an autoimmune issue, and that you could easily get too much exposure to the 2-butoxyethanol from someone who came or worked there (Second hand solvent exposure ... their breath into your eyes.)

I suspect this type of exposure led to Anna Nicol Smith's death. She was around someone who was taking 'flu' meds. This chemical exposure in the extreme looks like the flu.

Look for this odd assortment of symptoms ... do you have enough to suspect this chemical exposure?

Central Nervous System Effects:
Difficulty Concentrating
Short Term Memory Loss
Difficulty Sleeping
Constantly Irritable
Depression
Suicidal Tendencies

Horrible Headaches

Do you recall any times of severe flu-like symptoms more
and Horrible FATIGUE? AIHA Fatigue clues:

Chills
Fatigue
Pale color
Shortness of breath
Rapid heart rate
Yellow skin color (jaundice)
Dark urine
Enlarged spleen
Eyes burning & hurting

Red blood cells immature? etc
Blood in Urine?

I believe I know what chemical exposure would cause ALS ...

and I recognize how easy it is to be exposed, and I can tell when I am being exposed, and that is frightening to me.  Besides direct exposure and exposure in the family line from someone, like my dad, who was in WWII.  I have the same diarrhea reaction that Pres Eisenhower had.  His doctors said it came on for no apparent reason.  I say that it is when you are getting exposed second hand:  the breath of someone poisoned can get in your eyes, and that is the worst exposure after the cuticle area.

I think nurses can get around people strongly exposed and get their breath in their eyes; they can be directly exposed by being around paint fumes and cleaning fumes; and like me, they can have a parent who was poisoned by EGBE prior to their conception and have some effects from it, even if it doesn't show up until one's 50's

AVOID 2-butoxyethanol

It is a chemical poisoning that we can suspect for the soldiers of all war eras, but especially WWII, Vietnam, Korean, GULF WAR (then and now).  ALS is the stand out harm for the gulf war syndrome vets, and since I suspect 2-butoxyetahnol exposure to cause what ails them ... and also the same chemical is FOR SURE the primary exposure for the workers of the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup, I wonder how these too groups LOOK ALIKE

This poor part time school janitor was exposed, what happened to him should NEVER happen to anyonne

For the baby boomers, like me, who have adult onset diabetes, consider it a late to show up birth defect from a parent poisoned by EGBE in WWII.  I think Australians are more at risk, until recently, because you fought in a lot of wars, too.  (You were in WWII longer than USA was, etc)

Margaret

Why I looked into this chemical in the first place

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Hello everyone! I am not sure why I decided to join this group, but I am
doing so spontaneously, having just read an article about ALS and that
article's having triggered memories of my mother, Nancy, who died of ALS
in September of 2001, just before 9/11. I remember when she first told us
of her diagnosis (she was a nurse), we asked her what ALS was like, and
she said, "Honey, you don't want to know." She had the fast moving type
of ALS, and she lived just a little over three years after she was
diagnosed. I learned from her to appreciate the simplest things, like being
able to clear your throat or stretch a muscle when you're getting a cramp.
She could not do either of those things for months before she died.
Anyway, I don't know how long I'll be a member here, because this subject
is just so painful and frightening still, but for what it's worth, I'm here now.

Take care,

Sarah

What do you?

Blood in urine is significant for a particular chemical poisoning I suspect for the cause of CFIDS, CFS, FM and the primary harm to the Veterans of our wars from WWII to the present.

I'm just realizing why blood in urine, damage to red blood cells, and even kidneys and liver are related ... and all autoimmune issues if from 2-butoxyethanol

Did you know that kidneys help make red blood cells and strong bones?

And of course the liver plays a vital role in red blood cells & making blood, too

Those harmed by the benzene in oil should come down with aplastic anemia & notice a drop in white and platelet and red blood cells.
I would think that some workers of the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup could have both autoimmune hemolytic anmeia AND autoimmune aplastic anemia. True for workers after the 'gulf war, too' 2-butoxyethanol is an exposure for both of these groups, and if we knew what happened to the EVOS workers, we would see the parallels.

Can you get your doctors comments on liver, kidneys and red blood cells? Ask them if you have blood in urine. Sometimes I think they dismiss it because it doesn't match what they think the blood workup is showing. Thus, they don't think they need to look at the red blood cells.

I think someday Congress will ban this chemical from use in anything. Right now it is in paints and cleaning compounds of all kinds. Hurting our babies, our pets and everyone.

Think the 'sniffles' is OK? Think again

Research in UK finds

I'd like to share my perspective on exposure to 2-butoxyethanol - from a practical observation.

Anyway last Wed evening my daughter visited her best friend, Diane and she took her two children for the evening after she got off work.

Since her husband is away right now, I am helping babysit as she has to leave for work at 4:30 am. As I visited with her before she went to bed at 9pm she said that this 'cold type congestion' came on her suddenly.  And that both the children had started having 'the sniffles'

When I came on Thursday to watch the children it was about 2 hours later that this diarrhea started and would not quit the whole entire night. (That's how I react to just a little 2-butoxyethanol vapors getting in my eyes)

I told her I would come at 3AM on Fri because I couldn't take any more exposure to this chemical.  Well, no problem that night ... I wonder whether the vapors went higher in the house, and that's why they didn't bother me.

She let the 2 year old stay with Diane on Sat PM and Diane complained that the child was sick and coughed the whole night long. I am here at my daughter's house now, Easter Day evening, and the child hasn't coughed once.

I think that the child was getting exposed to the 2-butoxyethanol vapors from something Diane uses to clean her house or some such thing. I think sniffles and coughing are signs of too much of some type of chemical

I think Pres Eisenhower, like me, was maxed out on this chemical, and that he reacted similarly when he came into contact with it

I think that the little girl wasn't sick before going to Diane's house, I think she was being exposed to a chemical that made her sick and started coughing and coughing. (Most probably 2-butoxyethanol which causes a loosening of the sinuses, farting, diarrhea, 'flu' type symptoms)

So, I shared with my daughter, because there is some of this chemical exposure in our family ... maybe on both sides for her children (as she is married to a gulf war & Somalia & Panama Vet) ... that we react to 2-butoxyethanol more quickly that others who are not maxed out.

Each of the children was born prematurely, baby brother didn't grow for 2 months; the little girl had a hemangioma appear soon after birth. (In my opinion these are 'clues' to this chemical being somewhere in the family line)

I suspect my dad who was in WWII in the Navy during 'action' was poisoned by it prior to my conception in 1945. I know I have had my own exposure in some of the cleaning products I have used AND I have gotten second hand exposure. (Being around someone who is expelling it in their breath ... it is a complex alcohol and maybe someday they will develop a breathalyzer test for it)

Research says that it causes acute hemolytic anemia in rats .... and in humans:  just a loosening of the sinuses.

Suspect farting and diarrhea and 'the sniffles' as the first clues

Overall, suspect autoimmune issues

I wonder whether or not Lorenzo would have come down with leukodystrophy at age 5 if he hadn't moved into the house in the USA (What cleaning products did the maid use?)

I wonder about whether the grandchild of founder of Autismspeaks.org would have developed Autism after normal development if there hadn't been exposure to this chemical somewhere (Note the epidemic of Autism in China after their industrialization frenzie)

I wonder whether the headaches those with brain tumors have ... actually are part of the CFIDS that 2-butoxyethanol causes - not the brain tumor per se.

Thelma's brain tumor

I think Pres Clinton is barking up the wrong tree to blame obesity epidemic on how kids eat. Yes there have been changes, but we have more exposure to the chemical that causes autoimmune metabolic issues. Maybe it's not their fault

And DIABETES and CANCERS ... more of what too much EGBE for all sources combined ... does cause

ALS & MS type issues

Do these have a subnormal body temp?

I am just following up on the Blogs ??I suppose we can put them here
and anywhere else , plus photo's and what not ?

from

DrMyhill.co.uk -- Helping You Diagnose Illness Online

TREATING CHRONIC RICKETTSIAL INFECTION (MYCOPLASMA) SUCH AS GULF WAR
SYNDROME & LYME?S DISEASE


Chronic low grade infection may be responsible for many symptoms and
disease processes, including chronic fatigue syndrome. There are two
centres who specialise in this, namely Nancy and Garth Nicholson in
California and Dr Jadin in South Africa. The Nicholsons have found an
organism called mycoplasma incognito, which they believe was used in
biological warfare in the Gulf War. They have isolated this and
identified this organism using a technique called gene tracking.
Because mycoplasma incognito lives inside cells it does not elicit at
the normal antibody response and therefore needs specialised
techniques to identify it. They have now treated some hundreds of
Gulf War veterans with doxycycline, many of whom have been restored
to complete health.

The regime of doxycycline that they use is six weeks of 100mg daily,
followed by a break of six weeks, followed by another course of six
weeks doxycycline 100mg daily. If sufferers are not improved then
they continue to cycle with six weeks of treatment and then six weeks
of rest.

The other centre treating mycoplasma infections in this way is Dr
Jadin's clinic - she works in South Africa and believes that many
cases of chronic fatigue syndrome are due to low grade Rickettsial
infection with Borrelia Burgdorferi which is the cause of Lyme's
disease. She estimates this is extremely common and that 15% of the
world population are infected with this parasite, some of which
manifests classically with arthritis, some with no symptoms at all
and some with chronic fatigue syndrome. She believes that the tests
for Lyme's disease are not reliable and only a small percentage will
be picked up with classical antibody and PCR testing.

The bottom line appears to be response to treatment and again she
uses cyclical courses of tetracycline, including doxycycline. Her
regime is slightly different. She just uses antibiotics for one week
in every month, but continues for five months. The treatment protocol
is as follows:

MONTH 1
LESS THAN 70KG (BODY WEIGHT): Doxycycline 100mg twice daily for 7 days
MORE THAN 70KG (BODY WEIGHT): Doxycycline 100mg three times daily for
7 days

MONTH 2
LESS THAN 70KG (BODY WEIGHT): Oxytetracycline 500mg three times daily
for 7 days
MORE THAN 70KG (BODY WEIGHT): Oxytetracycline 500mg four times daily
for 7 days

MONTH 3
LESS THAN 70KG (BODY WEIGHT): Minocycline 50mg morning, 100mg night,
combined with Erythromycin 500mg twice daily for 7 days
MORE THAN 70KG (BODY WEIGHT): Minocycline 50mg morning, 100mg night,
Combined with Erythromycin 500mg twice daily for 7 days

MONTH 4
LESS THAN 70KG (BODY WEIGHT): Metronidazole 400mg twice daily,
combined with lymecycline 300mg twice daily for 7 days
MORE THAN 70KG (BODY WEIGHT): Metronidazole 400mg twice daily,
combined with lymecycline 300mg twice daily for 7 days

MONTH 5
LESS THAN 70KG (BODY WEIGHT): Doxycycline 100mg twice daily, combined
with Ciproxin 250mg twice daily for 7 days
MORE THAN 70KG (BODY WEIGHT): Doxycycline 100mg three times daily,
combined with Ciproxin 500mg twice daily for 7 days

from
DrMyhill.co.uk
Helping You Diagnose Illness Online

TOXIC CAUSES OF CFS - the more I ask, the more I find!


Toxic causes of CFS: Organophosphate Poisoning, Silicone, Carbon
Monoxide, Mercury and Others?

Recognising The Problem and Typical Symptoms

When I first started treating patients with CFS, the cause was either
viral or “I don’t know”. I now realise that many of the “I
don’t
knows” were cases of poisoning either to organophosphates, silicone,
carbon monoxide, sick building syndrome (formaldehyde, volatile
organic compounds etc) and so on. Furthermore I now suspect that many
of those patients with post viral CFS actually were poisoned by some
chemical which weakened the immune system so that it was unable to
cope adequately with a subsequent viral infection. The sort of
problems I have seen is CFS following sheep dipping, spraying
agricultural chemicals, being sprayed by tractor or helicopter and
spray drift, working in a chicken farm (fumigation, control of
parasites), working in the sea of factory farmed salmon in Scotland
(where chemicals are used to control fish lice), repeated head lice
treatments, house fumigations for flea control or bed bugs, insect
control in hot countries with DDT, OPs etc, control of sand flies
(Gulf War Syndrome), greenhouse fumigations, working in a research
plant centre where chemicals were weekly used to prevent cross
contamination, ‘A’ level student doing a biology project with
pesticides, carpet factory where fleeces are washed after sheep have
been dipped, lorry driver delivering OPs to farmers, Government
Inspectors in sheep markets, dairy farmers daily exposed to OPs for
fly control in the milking parlour, poisoning through exposure to
dumped cans of sheep dip, welders working in a factory which was
manufacturing OPs, timber treatments in houses, treatment of external
parasites in dogs, cats, cows (OP pour ons) and so on. There are many
other occupations where people are exposed to chemicals, but
incidents are often forgotten.

With silicone I am not just looking for the obvious breast implant or
silicone injections, but many other protheses have biologically
active materials. Examples include testicular implants, lens
implants, Norplant contraceptive device (silicone rods), TMJ work,
facial contouring, meshes for hernia repairs etc. In the veterinary
world reactions to suture materials are well documented – not so in
the medical world.

With carbon monoxide poisoning I am looking for evidence of illness
following a house move, new (or very old) central heating,
condensation suggesting blocked chimneys, free standing gas fires
which do not vent to the outside, odd smells etc.

I always ask about occupational history – chemicals in the work place
such as building projects, poultry and egg rearing, manufacturing
industry, paints, new carpets, flower industry (lots of chemicals on
flowers), printing industry, “sick building syndrome” and so on.

These toxic patients present with a chronic fatigue syndrome and it
is largely this which prevents them from working. However these
chemicals are extremely toxic to other parts of the body and may also
cause:

Damage to nerves – Central nervous system (psychological problems,
psychiatric, sleep, brain fog etc) autonomic nervous system
(sweating, temperature control, hyperventilation, etc) and peripheral
nervous system (numbness, tingling etc). Damage to bones –
osteoporosis, abnormal bone biopsies, abnormal bone metabolism Damage
to the immune system – allergies, autoimmune disorders and multiple
chemical sensitivity (and of course CFS). Tests often show immune
damage. Damage to the heart – particularly the electrical conduction
system producing arrhythmias Damage to the endocrine system –
abnormalities of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, thyroid
damage, sex hormones Probable damage to the liver These chemicals are
also carcinogenic, teratogenic (damage to the unborn baby), and
damage sperm causing low sperm counts and infertility.

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Vaccination - the pros and cons


revised December 2006

I have concerns about immunisations in general because I suspect they
result in an overall gradual erosion of the immune system. This is
compounded by excessive use of antibiotics, excessive use of hygiene
(mothers who bring up their children in squeaky clean environments
put them at high risk of allergy and asthma), the depletion of
micronutrients in our diets as a result of modern food choices and
agriculture techniques and the exposure to toxins such as pesticides
and heavy metals.

Vaccination and CFS
Vaccinations are a two edged sword because whilst they have the
potential to prevent illness, they can certainly cause flares of CFS.
Indeed I have several patients with CFS dated from vaccinations such
as flu or hepatitis B. However usually this has been on the
background of overwhelming stress

Gulf War Syndrome
GWS is a classic example of a CFS with several causes. One probably
cause was the many vaccinations that the soldiers received in one
day. Some said they had 14 injections at one session. It is perfectly
possible that this could have caused some sort of immune disruption
resulting in CFS.

Polio vaccination - an example of what could go wrong
The epidemic of CFS we are seeing at the moment may be partly caused
by polio vaccination. Before polio vaccination, everybody got the
polio virus at some stage in their lives and a few developed
paralysis as a result. As a result of the immune system fighting the
real polio virus an immunity to all enteroviruses was stimulated.
These enteroviruses included Epstein Barr virus (glandular fever),
ECHO, coxsackie B etc. Polio vaccination gave immunity against polio,
but not these other enteroviruses. Enteroviruses are a major cause of
post viral syndrome. Indeed, it has been estimated that over 20% of
people who get glandular fever never recover their full energy
levels.

So we have swapped one problem for another - less polio paralysis,
but more post viral syndrome.

My concerns about vaccinations
My philosophy is always "mimic Nature". A vaccination will never
produce the same strength of immunity as getting the real infection.
My worries are:



The insidious erosion of the immune system;

Giving vaccinations may block very useful cross immunity to other
viruses. For example, there are some viruses which cause cancer - I
do not wish to inadvertently block immunity to one of those!

We are constantly meeting new viruses and our bodies have to learn to
cope with them.

We have no idea of what long term problems we are storing up.

1. What medications are you taking or have you taken for CFS
symptoms (please include any medications not from the U.S.)?

IV therapy -- for back and muscle pain -- magnesium, calcium,
ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, thiamin,
riboflavin, niacin amide, dexpanthanol, pyroxidine, AMP, acetyl - L -
carnitine, NADH, D-ribose and tyrosine. Lidocaine, colchicines
IV therapy -- for hyper coagulation state triggered by cocktail
military-grade vaccines during the first Persian Gulf War -- Heparin
sodium.
IV therapy -- for muscle wasting -- Glutathione
IV therapy -- for viruses, bacteria, fungus, parasites -- hydrogen
peroxide
Compounded hormones: Testosterone (sublingual), DHEA, progesterone,
biest (estrogen), sublingual pregnenalone
Cortisol Natural S.R.: for shrunken adrenal glands or "in shock"
adrenal glands
Triiodo-L-Thyronine SOD. SR (W) -- for hypothyroiditis
Vicodin (brand name medically necessary) for pain and inflammation of
the lung and heart sacks
Talwin
Zyrtec D
Allegra
Fioricet
Axert
Frova
Vibramycin (brand name medically necessary) for mycoplasma infection,
chlamydia pneumonia
Azythromycin for mycoplasma infection, chlamydia pneumonia
Clindamycin
IV Gentamycin
Biaxin
Famvir for cytomegalovirus
Cytovene for cytomegalovirus
Metronidazole for parasites/bacterial overgrowth
Mycelex troches
Diflucan
Sporanox
Ketaconazole shampoo (2% by prescription)
Nattokinase for hyper coagulation state
Serrapeptase for hyper coagulation state
Adderal XR for adrenal dysfunction and brain fog
Provigil for adrenal dysfunction and brain fog
Neuro-B12 sublingual for energy and mental clarity
Lunesta for sleep
Ambien for sleep
Benedryl for sleep and for inflammation
7 Keto/DHEA for sudden or unexpected onset of diminished sex drive
Gingko-Biloba CoQ10 for heart pain, chest pains and shortness of
breath
Cats Claw for heart pain, chest pains and shortness of breath
Cayenne pepper for heart pain, chest pains and shortness of breath
Orthodigestzyme for putrification in the gut, malabsorption and
fungal/bacterial overgrowth
Jarrodopholous (probiotics) for putrification in the gut,
malabsorption and fungal/bacterial overgrowth
Noni juice
Kefir
NT Transfer Factor 4000

2. What if any medications have completely alleviated a symptom?
Cytovene (only while taking the medication)
Vicodin
Talwin
Fioricet
Axert
Frova
IV lidocaine
IV hydrogen peroxide
IV glutathion
IV Gentamycin
Metronidazole
Diflucan
Sporanox

3. What if any of the medications has helped with a symptom but
not offered total relief?
All others listed in No. 1 that are not mentioned in No. 2

4. What if any of the medications has been ineffective?
Famvir
Ambien
Ibuprofen
Motrin

5. Are there prescription medications that you have taken in the
past that you are no longer taking because your insurance does not
cover the medication?
Almost all brand name oral prescription medications (because generic
drugs that are ineffective and cause severe allergic reactions in me
are available -- specifically Vicodin and Vibramycin). I pay retail
for the Vicodin because it is the only pain reliever that will work
and allow me to drive or function sufficiently to shower, feed and
clothe myself.

6. Have you participated in a drug trial for a CFS medication?  If so
which medication?
No

7. Is there anything that you, as a patient would like to share with
the CFSAC Research Subcommittee that may help the committee make
recommendations to the secretary?
a. The only therapy that has worked is treatment of all
disorders and diseases simultaneously. Treating one symptom at a time
while ignoring the others causes serious decline

b. If Persons with Chronic Fatigue Immuno-Dysfunction Syndrome
(PWCs) were properly tested and diagnosed, you would find that all
have HPA axis disorders and imbalances, all have hyper coagulation
state, all have systemic fungus, all have congestive heart failure,
all have viruses and bacterial infections, all have metals (magnesium
in particular) imbalances along with potassium and calcium
imbalances, and all have some form of herpes virus -- mono, chronic
EB or chronic CMV.

c. Trying to peg the cause of CFIDS on one cause or one event is
a waste of time and a disservice to humanity.

d. Treating CFIDS with anti-depressants is usually the worst
thing you can do to PWCs, and causes GWI sufferers to become
homicidal, suicidal and irrational because the chemicals that cause
clinical depression in people truly suffering from depression are
low, while those same chemicals are "batted out of the ballpark" in
CFIDS/GWI suffers.

e. All GWI sufferers
· received military grade vaccines,
· were exposed to depleted uranium,
· were exposed to biological weapons that we sold to the Iraqis
from 1985 till we had boots on the ground in January 1990, and
· were exposed to some form of radiation to include microwave
ovens in the workplace and at home.

Chemicals, PB pills and exposure to petrochems and pesticides had
little to do with it: I was never exposed to any of the
aforementioned factors. Yet I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome within a year of my military-grade vaccines, and I was
tested positive for cytomegalovirus within 4 years of my military-
grade vaccines.

f. PWCs suffer from multiple chemical sensitivity -- NOT just
allergies

g. PWCs suffer exhaustion -- NOT just a state of being tired

h. Breathing air or oxygen greatly relieve both brain fog and
chests pains, irregular heart beat, rapid heart rate and elevated
blood pressure.

i. Corticosteroid injections greatly relieve chest pains due to
congestive heart failure.

j. The longer the doctors procrastinate on aggressively treating
these diseases, the more debilitated the workforce becomes.

k. I can no longer work or support myself financially. And I am
so debilitated that I can no longer live all by myself. Because I am
not in a wheelchair and because I am not old enough, I do not qualify
for a Veterans Home.

Intravenous Hydrogen Peroxide Therapy

by Ron Kennedy, M.D., Santa Rosa, California

Bio-oxidative medicine is the addition of oxygen directly to the
tissues of the body in the form of singlet oxygen (lone oxygen atoms)
in a highly reactive state. To more fully understand the chemistry
involved, review: Bio-oxidative Medicine.
In living systems oxygen (as O2) is transported by hemoglobin, a
protein found in red blood cells. This is a highly efficient way of
conducting oxygen from the lungs to the tissues of the body and
insuring it does not react with anything along the way. Because it is
bound by hemoglobin, it is unable to react to anything else until it
is released by the hemoglobin (which then picks up carbon dioxide and
transports it to the lungs).
In bio-oxidative medicine, oxygen is introduced directly into the
body as hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) or as ozone (O3). Although ozone is
used safely and with great benefit throughout Europe and in many
other parts of the world, the medical establishment in the United
States refuses to recognize it as a valid therapy and actively
persecutes doctors who use it. Luckily, hydrogen peroxide is not
treated in this way, even though it is an equally powerful oxidative
approach.
The chemical reaction looks like this:
H2O2 _ H2O + O-
This is chemical shorthand to indicate that in the body, hydrogen
peroxide is converted to water and singlet oxygen. This singlet
oxygen located at the end of this reaction is a powerful oxidizing
agent. It is the active agent in hydrogen peroxide therapy.
In IV H2O2 therapy, Hydrogen peroxide is infused into the circulatory
system through a vein in the arm. It drips in over a ninety-minute
period. Five cc of pharmaceutical-grade, three-percent hydrogen
peroxide are put in 500 cc five percent glucose in water as a carrier
solution. Two grams of magnesium chloride are added alon gwith a
small amount of manganese to prevent vein sclerosis.
In the blood, it encounters two enzymes: catalase and cytochrome-C.
Catalase drives the above reaction to completion immediately. That
part of the hydrogen peroxide that binds with cytochrome-C, however,
is not allowed to become water and singlet oxygen for a period of
forty minutes. After forty minutes of being bound to cytochrome-C
this enzyme begins to act like catalase and breaks down the hydrogen
peroxide to water and singlet oxygen. By this time, the hydrogen
peroxide/cytochrome-C complex has been spread throughout the body. In
this way the benefits of hydrogen peroxide are made available to all
cells.
The effect of singlet oxygen in the human body is twofold. It kills,
or severely inhibits the growth of, anaerobic organisms (bacteria and
viruses that use carbon dioxide for fuel and leave oxygen as a by-
product). This action is immediate, on contact with the anaerobic
organism. Anaerobic bacteria are pathogens, the organisms which cause
disease. All viruses are anaerobic.
Aerobic bacteria (those that burn oxygen for fuel and leave carbon
dioxide as a by-product — as humans do) found in the human intestine
are friendly bacteria, which aid in digestion. These organisms thrive
in the presence of hydrogen peroxide.
The second effect of hydrogen peroxide is that it provides singlet
oxygen, which, in turn, transforms biological waste products and
industrial toxins into inert substances by oxidizing them. This makes
them easy to handle for the kidneys and liver. It doubles the rate of
enzymatic metabolism in the mitochondria within each cell, thus
enabling the body to cleanse itself of toxins and still have plenty
of energy to handle the business of living from moment to moment.
This increase in metabolism probably accounts for some of the
antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral effects of hydrogen
peroxide.
Hydrogen peroxide is a part of normal metabolism. Your body produces
it constantly. There are units in certain white blood cells
called "peroxisomes," which produce H2O2. These white cells then
engulf bacteria which cause disease and mix them together with these
peroxisomes. They both then disappear as the singlet oxygen from H2O2
destroys the bacteria or virus. This happens naturally, without any
help from outside sources of hydrogen peroxide.
When an infective disease becomes obvious to the person who has the
infection, the hydrogen peroxide defense mechanism already has been
overwhelmed by the number of viruses or bacteria involved, and the
immune system is into its secondary line of defense: the tedious
process of analyzing the invading organism and making antibodies,
which deal specifically with that organism.
The invention of man-made antibiotics, beginning in the 1920s, was a
revolution in medical science. However, as a strategy for fighting
infection it is clearly second best, as the body itself demonstrates.
When the body is challenged with an infection, it first turns to
hydrogen peroxide. Only when this fails does it turn to its own
antibody production.
Conditions which can be treated with H2O2 include those conditions
which can be treated with antibiotics, but without the serious
toxicity often associated with laboratory produced synthetic
antibiotics. Some of these conditions are candidiasis (yeast), viral
infections, influenza, the common cold, sinus infection, Epstein-Barr
virus and gangrene.
Hydrogen peroxide also has been found to dissolve cholesterol and
calcium deposits associated with atherosclerosis. Therefore, it is a
good treatment for vascular disorders. This can result in lessening
or disappearance of angina, leg pain and transient ischemic attacks
to the brain, which cause dizziness. It also can help reverse some of
the damage left over by a stroke, if treatment is instituted early
enough.
Research in the 1960s at Baylor University showed conclusively that
intra-arterial hydrogen peroxide dissolves plaque in large arteries.
This makes H2O2 a wonderful complement to EDTA in the treatment of
vascular disease, as EDTA has been shown to clear small vessels and
create collateral circulation around large vessel blockages. This
combination is called "Chelox Therapy."
It also clears the lungs, in cases of emphysema, by producing oxygen
bubbles in the alveoli (tiny air sacs in the lungs), literally
lifting the mucus deposits up, so they can be coughed out.
Hydrogen peroxide has a remarkable clearing effect on the skin. After
only a few intravenous treatments the skin takes on a translucent
clarity usually seen only in children. In addition, hydrogen peroxide
benefits asthma, leukemia, multiple sclerosis, degenerative spinal
disc disease and high blood pressure. It is particularly effective
with asthma, arthritis and back disorders.
All of these illnesses have a component of toxicity from accumulated
pesticides, preservatives and organic industrial pollutants. Often
the clearing of these toxins is enough to allow the body to heal, or
at least partially repair itself. Obviously, where there is anatomic
change such as in disc disease, this anatomic change will not be
altered. However, what the person with disc disease, arthritis and
other such illnesses is interested in is the disappearance of pain
and the return of function. This often is possible with hydrogen
peroxide.
Some doctors believe AIDS and cancer can be helped with hydrogen
peroxide. The theory which explains benefits enjoyed by people with
these conditions is that the cancer cell and the AIDS virus both are
anaerobic and do not do well when exposed to singlet oxygen supplied
by the hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen reaction.
Much more research needs to be done in this area. Claims of cure
should not be made unless they can be rigorously substantiated with
cause and effect proven beyond any reasonable doubt. At the present
time, we can say only that the oxidative therapies are valuable,
arresting disease processes, but not necessarily curative.
Who will make use of hydrogen peroxide, and who will write it off as
a hoax and pay for far more expensive, less effective, perhaps even
damaging therapies? I saw a bumper sticker on a car at my son's
school a few days ago: which read: "DO YOU THINK EDUCATION IS
EXPENSIVE? TRY IGNORANCE!" People who will benefit from any of the
therapies which are simple, effective and yet downplayed by the
medical establishment, are those people who have educated themselves.
Those who refuse to educate themselves, never read, never try
anything out of the mainstream of thought and insist on thoughtlessly
following the "expert's advice," will pay through the nose for
therapies which drain their resources and deliver half-baked results.
It may be there is a segment of the population which is capable of
nothing more. God bless those folks. Here is this doctor's advice:
think for yourself.
If hydrogen peroxide is so effective, why is it not made use of
in "modern" medicine? The reason is simple. Hydrogen peroxide cannot
be patented. It is present in the ocean, it is present in rainwater,
it is present in vegetables, it is present in every cell of your body
right now. It must be classified as a food, because it is part of all
fresh food of plant origin. Because it is produced in the human body,
it is undeniably safe. Since it is a food and cannot be patented,
there is no big profit to be made on it.
Pharmaceutical companies slave away to develop drugs which, although
they may be less effective, can be patented. When a company can
patent a drug it has a monopoly on the production and sales of that
drug for seventeen years, time enough to make a fortune, as well as
pay back the multiple millions of dollars it costs to produce the
research to satisfy the FDA the drug is "safe."
By the way, approximately 125,000 Americans die yearly from drugs
approved for safety by the FDA. Some of these deaths are due to
individual unique ("idiopathic") reactions. Bruce Lee, a martial
artist without equal, and a promising actor with a brilliant career
in front of him, died in 1973 in the prime of life at age 32 from
taking an FDA-approved headache pill, Equagesic. Any time a drug is
synthesized in the laboratory and not derived from nature, this kind
of reaction is a possibility.
There are uncounted hundreds of thousands of lives lost each year
from toxicity well-known to the FDA, toxicity which is printed right
on the package insert which comes with the drug. Most of these drugs
are "chemotherapeutic agents," like AZT and Tamoxifen, designed to
treat (not really) terminal conditions. They do not work to cure
these conditions, but they do treat the conditions, getting rid of
the patient by destroying the immune system — no more disease, but no
more patient either.
What happens after a new drug is developed, tested and approved is
that an advertising blitz is aimed at doctors to persuade them to
prescribe this new "miracle" drug. Doctors do listen to this sort of
thing. They cannot avoid listening, because drug company sales
representatives by the thousands fan out across the country
delivering literature on the new "miracle" drug to doctors' offices.
They leave free samples to get doctors in the habit of prescribing
this drug. They make appointments with doctor to bend his/her ear
with a high- pressured sales speech.
Doctors hate this, and they love it. They hate to give up their time
to the drug reps, they hate the high pressured presentations, and
they love the free samples. This transaction between drug reps and
doctors is a major source of the continuing medical education which
doctors receive. This is their main line to learning what is "new,"
and what is new is considered to be what is better! Such folly!
So how does hydrogen peroxide work? How can something so simple and
so common as H2O2 be responsible for the outlandish claims made for
it and the outrageous results reported by people suffering from such
diverse disorders?
There has been much written about the possible benefits of shark
cartilage in the treatment of cancer recently. The reasoning goes
that because sharks do not get cancer they must have a secret, which
may be contained in their cartilage. It is conveniently overlooked
that whales don't get cancer, dolphins don't get cancer, starfish
don't get cancer, octopi don't get cancer. In fact, none of the
creatures of the sea (except those living in polluted water) get
cancer. There may be something to shark cartilage. Sharks can live in
polluted water and still are cancer resistant. The most common
denominator is that all these creatures swim in sea water, which is
rich in H2O2.
Were it not for industrial pollutants, herbicides, pesticides and
food additives, we might be able to add "and human beings do not get
cancer." However, even if we stopped polluting the environment and
ourselves right now, we still would have environmental contaminants
in our air and food chains for hundreds of years, so the diseases
caused by these things likely are to be around for at least that
long. The task now is to see if we can find some means of treatment
and protection from this disaster until we can finally clean up our
planet.
The most fundamental feature of a cancer cell is that it is
relatively anaerobic. It needs sixty percent less oxygen than a
normal healthy cell. It does very poorly in the presence of excess
oxygen. All of this points toward the oxidative therapies as a decent
treatment for cancer and a decent preventive measure as well.
Apparently, cancer is the cell's attempt to survive under conditions
of a low supply of oxygen. If your cells are well oxygenated, they
may have no reason to transform into cancer cells. It may be that the
way toxins promote cancer is by interfering with the use of oxygen by
cells.
Most diseases we assume inherent to being human are results of the
polluted chemical soup we all live in during this modern industrial
age. Anything which allows the body to cleanse itself of these toxins
will deliver you to the pristine condition of health you were meant
to enjoy. Fasting will help, a pure diet of plant origin will help,
vitamin supplementation will help, EDTA will help, intestinal
cleansing programs and colon therapy will help, and so will hydrogen
peroxide. Any of these approaches will help cleanse your body of
toxins such as pesticides and preservatives, which are laced into the
food you buy off the grocery store shelf.
When toxins are released from the cells of the body, they must cross
the space between those cells and the outside. Ultimately, they exit
the body through the lungs, the liver, the kidneys, and the pores of
the skin. Detoxification can feel temporarily worse than the disease.
It may be accompanied by headache, fatigue, grouchiness, insomnia and
body pains for days or even, in very diseased states, weeks. Hydrogen
peroxide is no exception. Be prepared for these kinds of results on
your trip to a clear state of health.
People have been traveling to the baths at Lourdes, in southwest
France at the base of the Pyrenees Mountains, since 1858 when a girl
is said to have seen there a vision of the Virgin Mary. The waters at
the baths in Lourdes are believed by many people to have miracle
healing powers. Perhaps it is no coincidence these waters are loaded
with, you guessed it, hydrogen peroxide. People go there to bathe in
and drink the water.
How does one take hydrogen peroxide? You can go to Lourdes, or you
can go to a good organic grocery store and buy a bottle of food grade
(35%) hydrogen peroxide, dilute it and drink it, or bath in it. If
you go to Lourdes, be prepared to shell out thousands of dollars. If
you go to the grocery store, be prepared to pay a few dollars. Be
sure to dilute it, because the 35% solution will cause burning of the
skin on application, or internal damage, if you try to drink it.
If you take it orally, you should dilute it approximately ten drops
in an eight ounce glass of water, two or three times each day, on an
empty stomach (three hours after your last meal). If you take it with
food in your stomach, the hydrogen peroxide will react with the food,
and you will not get the benefit from it. Even if you take it on an
empty stomach it reacts to the cells of the stomach wall, as well as
whatever food fragments still are present, and you receive not only
hydrogen peroxide into your circulation, but also oxidation products
of H2O2 plus sluffed off cells from the lining of your stomach and
miscellaneous food.
Because of these considerations I cannot, and I do not, recommend you
take H2O2 by mouth. I believe intravenous H2O2 to be far superior to
the oral route of administration. However, because people do report
good results with the oral route, I cannot recommend you absolutely
do not take it by mouth. This is a gray area.
To benefit your body, the H2O2 must reach your circulation, where it
can be broken down by catalase and bound by cytochrome-C for
distribution throughout your body in the following forty minutes. You
should not eat anything for at least twenty minutes after taking the
H2O2.
You will notice hydrogen peroxide, even in this very dilute state,
tastes terrible. It makes many people nauseated. You may be able to
mask this effect by taking it with fresh lemon or berry juice or with
aloe vera juice.
You also can bathe in hydrogen peroxide by putting a pint in your
bath water. Be sure to stir it up well before getting in to avoid
burning your skin. Many people with arthritis swear by this
treatment.
If you are confronting a serious illness, or if oral and topical
applications are not getting the job done, you can turn to
intravenous infusion of hydrogen peroxide. Intravenous H2O2 is far
more powerful than the oral ingestion or topical application. For
this form of treatment, you must find a physician who is familiar
with the proper preparation of pharmaceutical grade H2O2 in a bottle
of sterile, isotonic intravenous fluid.
The infusion lasts ninety minutes. You will notice a warm feeling
during treatment, not much more. The main effect of hydrogen peroxide
infusions is that you regain your health through the increased
ability of your blood to carry a high concentration of oxygen. In
this sense, IV hydrogen peroxide therapy is an oxygen therapy.
Treatments are one to three times per week, occasionally five times
per week for an acute illness and, just as with chelation therapy
with EDTA, the number of treatments needed depends on the nature of
the illness with which you are dealing. From ten to fifty treatments
will get the job done in most cases, and you should be able to
maintain on oral hydrogen peroxide or the occasional intravenous
infusion after that.
As I alluded to above, there is an exciting new development in the
treatment of vascular disease, Chelox Therapy, which involves the
combination of treatment with EDTA and H2O2, not in the same infusion
however as they would oxidize/reduce each other. These two therapies
work in different ways and cross react with each other, causing a
thirty percent incidence of intravenous thrombosis. They can be given
in combination to the same patient but not on the same day. The
combination of these two therapies, given correctly, has been found
to be more powerful than either one used alone.
To find a doctor who can offer you intravenous hydrogen peroxide
therapy, consult Bio-oxidative Medicine.
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BREAKING NEWS  January 7, 2005

  Feds Whitewash US Bio-Chemical Tests in Alaska By Greg Szymanski
(below this article note important information released by The
American Gulf War Veterans Association that was posted in Oct. 1998)

http://www.rense.com/general61/bio.htm

Feds Whitewash US Bio-Chemical Tests in Alaska
By Greg Szymanski
American Free Press.com
1-2-5

President Bush extended holiday greetings to military troops this
Christmas, but one gift he'll never open is the executive order he
signed, which keeps sensitive documents secret about biological and
chemical testing at Fort Greely near Fairbanks, Alaska.

The president, by sealing important documents, obviously feels
military health concerns were of secondary importance to protecting
the Department of Defense (DOD) against potential exposure for
injuries resulting from chemical testing and dumping.

What little is known about chemical and biological testing at Fort
Greely has surfaced from leaked documents, eyewitness accounts and
other general information provided reluctantly by the DOD after
health problems began to surface by those living near the base.

Other information, scratching the surface of what really happened,
has also appeared in Seymour Hersh's book Chemical and Biological
Testing: America's Hidden Arsenal, a historical account of the base
by Norman Chase and a March 2003 article entitled "Northern Exposure"
in The Nation magazine by Korey Capozza.

"The real story of what went on is in the classified documents kept
secret by the DOD and President Bush," said Capozza, a critic of the
recent executive order signed by Bush. "They have yet to give
veterans a clear definition of possible causes of their health
problems. The DOD also refuses to grant any of the veterans health
care based on exposure to agents used in the secret site's
experiments."

Records show that Fort Greely, as far back as 1952 and continuing to
at least 1970, was used for the explicit purpose of testing chemical
and biological weapons. The base, located 100 miles southwest of
Fairbanks on 640,000 acres, originally began operating in 1942 as a
staging area for planes ferried to the Soviet Union during World War
II.

However, seven years later a nuclear reactor was built to serve as
the military's power plant. Then in 1966, the Army began testing
biological, chemical and various other weapons. The reactor was
dismantled in 1973, and in 1995 the base was scheduled for closure.

But recently, under the Bush administration, the DOD proposed Fort
Greely be used as a storage site for interceptor missiles in support
of the space-based missile defense program.

However, what transpired on the base during the 1960s and 1970s is
still heavily debated as veterans are now surfacing with what amounts
to "chemical horror" stories.

According to several veterans who spoke to VA officials, between 1962
and 1967, the Army blasted hundreds of rockets and bombs containing
sarin and VX nerve gas into the region which is densely populated by
forests and wildlife.

Veterans recall canisters of VX nerve agents being indiscriminately
buried approximately a mile from the Alaskan highway or tossed in a
nearby frozen lake in the winter of 1966, where the canisters later
sank to the bottom when the ice melted in the spring. Regular dumping
expeditions were reportedly carried out until 1970, when the testing
discontinued.

Now, 30 years later, veterans and civilians are coming forward with
serious health concerns, but since no records are available due to
Fort Greely's top-secret status, VA officials at first had a hard
time believing the veterans' credibility.

After heavy pressure was applied by watchdog groups, the DOD has
released some documents revealing the test site may have been
operated with blatant disregard for human and environmental safety.

The documents also suggest that some of the deadly materials used may
still be unaccounted for and buried somewhere beneath the pristine
Alaskan wilderness.

Critics suggest the executive order signed by Bush was designed to
protect the DOD against conclusive evidence, hiding a massive cover-
up of illegal chemical and biological testing.

Not Copyrighted. Readers can reprint and are free to redistribute -
as long as full credit is given to American Free Press - 645
Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Suite 100 Washington, D.C. 20003
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/bio-chemical_tests.html


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Read The News Release titled "40 Years of Government Sponsored
Ecological Terrorism"  BY Joyce Riley vonKleist posted Oct. 1998:
http://www.gulfwarvets.com/greely.htm


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Read The FULL TEXT Document of  "INSTALLATION ASSESSMENT OF GERSTLE
RIVER TEST SITE" :
http://www.gulfwarvets.com/greely/greely.html  (Posted on the website
Oct. 1998)


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Related articles:

*October 20, 2002
ANCHORAGE (AP) -- Gov. Tony Knowles is demanding that the Department
of Defense reveal all Cold War-era chemical or biological weapons
testing in Alaska.

* Oct. 9, 2002
Fact Sheet from The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Health Affairs)
Deployment Health Support Directive.

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Mycoplasma
Information Package
By Sharon Briggs.
SHASTA CFIDS, California USA
http://www.cfs.inform.dk
2-3-01

While it is still not known what causes CFS, FMS, and MCS, we are
hearing of reports that a very high number (75-80%) test positive for
a pathogenic form of the organism called Mycoplasma. While there are
several species of this organism, most of us have been found to have
active infections in our bodies of the Mycoplasma fermentans
(incognitus), Mycoplasma penetrans, and Mycoplasma pneumoniae types.
These organisms are a pathogenic form of Mycoplasma which are very
slow-growing, invasive into deeper parts of the body (i.e., brain,
central and peripheral nervous system, muscles and joints, bone
marrow, gastrointestinal system, lungs and heart, and the immune
system, itself), and are very difficult to treat. These are the same
organisms that have been found in AIDS patients and Gulf War Syndrome
patients.

Those who test positive for active infection with a Mycoplasma are
realizing a tremendous improvement &/or recovery in their health with
appropriate antibiotic treatment. This treatment is long term (1-2
years of continuous antibiotics). The initial segment of the
treatment can be difficult and the continuous antibiotic dose is very
harsh on the body. Many people with CFIDS are concerned (and some are
even frightened) to take antibiotics for prolonged periods of time.
However, years of medical experience in the use of antibiotics to
treat chronic infectious conditions such as rheumatic fever, acne,
recurrent ear infections, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease,
bronchiectasis, and others, have not revealed any consistent dire
consequences as a result of such medications. Indeed, the very real
consequences of untreated, chronic persistent infection with
Mycoplasma can be far worse than the potential consequences of this
treatment. If you begin treatment, it is recommended that you be
monitored closely by a knowledgeable physician. If your physician is
not familiar with long-term antibiotic therapy, or if he/she is
unsure of the pathophysiology of the Mycoplasmas, they are invited to
call Dr.'s Garth or Nancy Nicolson (see Resource List).

Since this form of treatment is so new for CFS, FMS and MCS, we are
all involved in research of a sort. Because of that, we need to keep
in touch and share triumphs and problems encountered. And, as we get
well, we need to spread the word and help others. If you test
positive for the organism, please send the enclosed form to the
Mycoplasma Registry (see Resource List). The Mycoplasma Registry is a
non-profit organization set up to track those who test positive. They
have over 800 in the registry thus far, and have compiled some
excellent statistics. Approximately 85% of those in the registry
listing come from the CFS, FMS and MCS community! Of course, all
listings are confidential. Also, feel free to copy and share any of
the papers in this Mycoplasma Packet with others.

We are all-different, and will undoubtedly respond differently to the
treatment. As with any treatment suggestions given, the information
in this packet is intended to help you make informed decisions about
your care. It is not intended to take the place of medical advice.
Please work closely with your physician to tailor any treatment to
your individual needs and differences.

Enclosed in this packet are the following:

1. Mycoplasma: A Simple Overview, written by Sharon Briggs
2. Antibiotics Recommended When Indicated for Treatment    of Gulf
War Illness/CFIDS, written by Garth Nicolson, Ph.D.
3. Additional Considerations When Undergoing Treatment    For
GWI/CFS/FMS, written by Garth Nicholson, Ph. D.
4. Mycoplasma Treatment Suggestions, written by Sharon    Briggs
5. An Overview of My Symptoms and Recovery from CFIDS    With
Antibiotics, written by Sharon Briggs
6. Mycoplasma Resource List
7. Mycoplasma Registry Form
8. Institute for Molecular Medicine, Blood Test Order and
Information Form

Any donations to offset the cost and postage of this packet would be
greatly appreciated.

Sharon Briggs Support Group Leader

MYCOPLASMA: A SIMPLE OVERVIEW

For years we in the CFS/FMS/MCS community have been watching the
reports of Gulf War Illness (GWI) knowing, instinctively, that we all
had something in common. Not only do we all have common symptoms, but
we may also be infected with common pathogenic organisms. That
pathogen is a Mycoplasma. Various pathogenic strains have been
identified including the fermentans (incognitus), penetrans,
genitalium, hominis, and pneumoniae. And, we may be infected with
several of these strains at one time. Following is a simple overview
of the information I have gathered about this Mycoplasma pathogen and
how it affects us.

How Was Mycoplasma Infection Identified
In GWS and CFIDS Patients?

The information trail started with Garth and Nancy Nicolson. Their
daughter returned from the Gulf War with an unexplained illness. She
was unable to continue her studies at college, and moved back home.
Soon after, her parents both became ill with the same symptoms.
Medical tests revealed nothing abnormal, but they all continued to
worsen. Fortunately for them, however, the Nicolson's were molecular
pathologists with an entire research laboratory at their disposal.
The Nicolson's drew blood and tissue samples >from themselves and
their daughter, and set the research team, to work.

Garth Nicolson Ph.D. is a professor and former chairman of the
Department of Tumor Biology at the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson
Cancer Center, Houston, TX. He is also a professor of Internal
Medicine, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of
Texas Medical School. He has published over 500 scientific and
medical papers, has edited 13 books, he is the current editor of two
scientific and medical journals. Dr. Nicolson has been nominated for
the Nobel Prize in cell microbiology, is among the 100 most cited
researchers in the world, and sits on the board of the American
Association of Cancer Research. Nancy Nicolson, Ph.D. was president
of the Rhodon Foundation for Biomedical Research. She, also, has
published numerous scientific papers and was a professor in the
Department of Immunology and Microbiology at Baylor College of
Medicine.

What they found was a living Mycoplasma pathogen. In order to find
this organism, they had to break open the leukocytes (white blood
cells), and perform a specific test called a Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) of the DNA of the organism. Nancy also perfected
another test, called Gene Tracking, which confirms the PCR results.
To gather more information, they then started testing other GWI
patients. What they found was that approximately 50% were positive
for the live organism. The Nicolson's then researched treatment
options and found a number of antibiotics that were effective against
the organism. (2) After a lengthy course of antibiotics, they
recovered. But, the word was out, and requests for testing of GWI
patients kept coming in to the lab. They were inundated! As their
evidence mounted, they published their data (3) (4) (5) and testified
before the President's Panel on Gulf War Illnesses. (6) Then the
connection was made by the government of the similarities between GWI
and CFIDS. (7) By this time, the Nicolson's lab was already running
tests of those with CFIDS---with the same results-- approximately 50%
positive! Garth and Nancy Nicolson even wrote an article for the
CFIDS Chronicle outlining the diagnosis and treatment of GWI/CFIDS.
(8)

But, the politics of medicine and research have slowed the gears of
progress! Garth and Nancy had to relocate their non-profit lab (The
Institute for Molecular Medicine), first to Irvine, CA, then to
Huntington Beach, CA. They have had difficulty finding funding for
the Mycoplasma research. For their research to continue with CFIDS
testing, they need a new grant. In the meantime, they have formed a
non-profit organization and take tax deductible donations, and they
are making plans to take third-party billing in order to bill
insurance for part of the cost of the tests. Presently, one can
become a "Friend of the Institute" and have the various tests done at
The Institute for Molecular Biology lab, as well as, participate in
the research (see Resource List for full instructions).

Those of us who have tested positive and have begun treatment with
the antibiotics recommended by the Nicolson's have had tremendous
success. Some of these people have been ill with CFS/FMS/MCS for 15-
20 years. But, they are feeling better for the first time since
becoming ill! Some have even returned to work. Many have completed
several months of antibiotics, and several have been taking them
continuously for 1-12 to 2 years. Since most of us in the CFS/FMS/MCS
community have been ill with this organism for a lot longer than the
GWI patients do, it may take longer to successfully treat the
infection.

What Is Mycoplasma?

Mycoplasmas are the smallest and simplest organism known. They are
not new. They were discovered over 100 years ago and evolved from
bacteria. The "garden variety" mycoplasma is not usually associated
with severe diseases. (13) However, sometime over the past 30 years,
the organism has been altered to become more lethal. The Mycoplasmas
found by the Nicolson's, in their lab, contain unusual gene sequences
that were probably inserted into the Mycoplasma by a specific
laboratory procedure. This discovery has led them to conclude that
the new forms of mycoplasma were specifically engineered for germ
warfare. (9) In it's laboratory evolution, the Mycoplasmas have
became more invasive, more difficult to find, and capable of causing
severe diseases in humans. Diseases, like Gulf War Illness, CFS, FMS,
MCS, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and AIDS, for instance.

The earlier form of Mycoplasma was studied by Dr. Shyh Lo, formerly
of Tanox Biosystems, a spin-off biotechnology company from the Baylor
College of Medicine, but now affiliated with the Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology in Washington D.C. Dr. Lo has been credited
with discovering the new pathogenic form of Mycoplasmas, and he
currently holds several patents on methods for special handling of
the organisms for study and development. (10) In one of his patents
(in 1991), Dr. Lo lists the following diseases that are caused by
Mycoplasma: HIV infection, AIDS, Aids Related Complex (ARC), Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome, Wegener's Disease, Sarcoidosis, Respiratory
Distress Syndrome, Kibuchi's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, and Lupus.
(10) In addition, Baseman and Tully have reviewed the literature on
the role of Mycoplasmal infections in human disease and have
concluded that they are important factors or co-factors in a variety
of chronic illnesses. (11)

Unlike bacteria, the Mycoplasma has no cell wall. This enables it to
invade tissue cells, incorporating the cell's nutrients, and using
the cell to replicate itself (much like a retrovirus). (13) When the
Mycoplasma breaks out of the cell, it takes a piece of the host cell
membrane with it. When the immune system attacks the Mycoplasma, it
also gets "turned on" to attacking the host cell. In this way, an
autoimmune condition can begin. Autoimmune conditions associated with
Mycoplasmas include arthritis, fibromyalgia, myositis, thyroid
dysfunction (Hashimoto's or Grave's Diseases), and adrenal
dysfunction, signs and symptoms of Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, Lou
Gehrig's Disease. (12)

The Mycoplasma organism has the capacity to invade cells, tissues and
blood, producing systemic infections in numerous organ systems.
According to Dr. Nicholson, it can penetrate the central and
peripheral nervous system. Because it has the ability to damage the
immune system by invading the natural killer cells (NK cells) of the
lymphocytes, it weakens them, reduces their numbers, and renders them
susceptible to viral infections, such as Human Herpes Virus 6 (HHV6).
(14) (15) (16) It may also explain some of the environmentally
sensitive responses that are seen with CFIDS and MCS.

Mycoplasma infection can trigger inflammatory cytokine over-
production that is commonly seen in CFS/FMS. With the induction of CD-
4+ helper cells of the immune system, an over production of cytokines
such as Interleukin-1, Interleukin-6 and Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
occurs. (15)(16)(17) These elevated cytokines have been implicated in
the development of many of the CFS/FMS symptoms, including
neurological involvement. (19)(20) They can have specific or
nonspecific stimulatory or suppressive effects on lymphocytes, as
measured by B and T cell activation. (18) In addition, the Mycoplasma
infection has immunomodulating effects, activating the hypothalmic-
pituitary-adrenal axis. This can cause a cascade of limbic system
symptoms characteristic of CFS/FMS. (19)

The Mycoplasma is a slow-growing, stealth-type organism that can
cause the patient to be very ill. It activates the immune system,
then can successfully hide from it within the host immune cells. It
can then circulate throughout the body and go wherever a white blood
cell can go. It can cause infection deep within any or all organs. It
can even cross the blood/brain barrier and cause brain and spinal
infection. It has also been known to cross the placental barrier to
an unborn fetus. Unless the white blood cell is split open and
examined for the evidence of the live organism, it can go undetected
for years. Because the organism resides deep within the cells,
conventional antibody tests may be relatively useless. (21) The
splitting open (fraction) of leukocytes (white blood cells) from a
fresh blood sample, with a forensic PCR test is the most accurate way
to detect the presence of active infection with a live pathogen.
Further gene-tracking techniques perfected by the Nicolson's are even
more accurate. (22)

Contagion

Although the researchers have not clearly established how contagious
the Mycoplasmas are, they have made some inferences from the data
they have collected. The Mycoplasma organism has been found in the
blood and body fluids, spinal fluid, bone marrow, urine, and in the
lungs, nose and mouth. The Mycoplasma is reported to be able to
survive for two hours outside the body. Of those with Gulf War
Illness, 50% of their spouses have contracted the disease and 100% of
their children. Several babies have also been known to be born with
the disease. Some sort of chemical exposure or immune distress (i.e.,
auto accident, surgery, cancer) appears to pre-date the onset of
illness. Of those with CFS, FMS, and MCS, numerous friends and
spouses have the illness, as well as close relatives. So, from the
anecdotal reports, it would appear that Mycoplasma is contagious
after both casual and intimate contact. This means that the organism
may possibly be passed to another through sputum (coughing droplets
that contain the organism), saliva, sexual secretions, blood, and
urine. The disease is also developing in family pets.

If one test positive for any of the Mycoplasmas, in order to
safeguard those with whom you have close contact, it would be prudent
to do the following: Wash your hands a lot, never share your food or
drink with another, wash eating utensils with extremely hot water,
keep your hands away from your face, avoid closed-air spaces where
air is re-circulated (i.e., offices, airplanes), and use protective
sexual practices.

Treatment

If detected early, the diseases associated with invasive mycoplasmal
infections are treatable with long cycles of high-dose antibiotics.
(23)(24)(25) Since the organism is a slow-growing, intracellular type
with a long life cycle, several, long term courses of antibiotics may
be necessary. The infection may need to be treated for several months
or years. (The disease is treated much as Lyme's Disease is treated.)
If a person is taking antibiotics, the testing will not detect the
presence of Mycoplasma in the blood. And, if a person has been taking
antibiotics, they must wait for 2-3 months after stopping the
antibiotics for the test to be accurate.

As yet, we do not know if antibiotics are a cure for Mycoplasma
infections. Mycoplasma fermentans (incognitus) has the ability to
enter any cell and alter itself, changing its cellular makeup with
every cell division. This may make it impossible for readily
available antibiotics to clear the body of this organism. (14)

What we are hoping for is to cause the organism to be diminished or
go dormant until a cure is discovered. To do that, we need to kill as
much of the live organisms from our bodies as possible with the
antibiotics. Once our white blood cells are free of the infection,
then they can become healthier and can, hopefully, do a better job to
keep the Mycoplasma under control. This may take several months/years
of antibiotic treatment to accomplish. During this time, it is
important to not lower the dose or stop taking the antibiotic too
early, for a relapse is certain.

Is Treating Mycoplasma Infection
The Answer To Curing CFIDS?

The precise nature and cause of CFS/FMS/MCS is not clear at this
time. However, recent studies have shown that several microorganisms
may be a factor in CFIDS. Clinical PCR testing has been positive for
all of the human herpes viruses, particularly Epstein-Barr Virus
(EBV) and Human Herpes Virus-6, Types A and B (HHV-6). Most recently,
organisms like Human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV) types I and II, the
foamy or Spuma virus, and the Chlamydia pneumoniae bacteria have also
been demonstrated. (26)

Perhaps with this evidence, it would appear that CFIDS has many
causative organisms? That is a possibility. Researchers studying AIDS
have found that Mycoplasma and HHV-6a may be co-factors for causing
AIDS. (14) And, it is further speculated that this same HHV-6 virus
may be a co-factor in CFIDS and Multiple Sclerosis. Dr.'s Konnie Knox
and Donald Carrigan from the Greenfield, Wisconsin Laboratory (see
Resource List), offer some of the most sophisticated human herpes
assays in the world. They have been doing extensive research into the
various forms of human herpes and their effects on the body. Present
in about 98% of the population, HHV-6 remains dormant and harmless in
healthy people. But, when activated (possibly by the Mycoplasma
infection), it can cause a highly dysregulated immune system often
resulting in severe immune suppression which increases an individuals
vulnerability to control severe infections (such as Mycoplasma).
Perhaps, if HHV-6 were a co-factor of our disease (along with
Mycoplasma), it would appear to be best to be tested and treated for
both concurrently, if one is found to be positive.

While the researchers sort out the chicken-or-the-egg, one-organism-
one disease, multi-factor theories, it seems prudent for us to test
for and consider treating the organisms that we can. Especially when,
in the case of Mycoplasma, a few simple antibiotics can bring us so
much relief! In the case of a positive test for HHV-6, the antiviral
Zovirax may be helpful, and the FDA will soon release a new drug,
called Labucavir that may be effective against the Human Herpes Virus
family, specifically. However, it is still in the testing phase and
is not yet available.

Conclusion

Infection with a Mycoplasma organism appears to cause most of the
signs and symptoms of CFS/FMS/MCS. It can also account for most of
the dysregulation of the immune system and the abnormal immune tests.
It seems prudent to be tested for this organism, and if positive, to
be treated with the recommended antibiotics. Many of us have been ill
for 10-20 years and have spent thousands of dollars on treatments
that did nothing. Wouldn't it be a Godsend to have a treatment that
worked?

The treatment course is long term and often difficult for many. And,
while we may not become completely well, there is preliminary
evidence that many of us who are taking the antibiotics are
improving! It has certainly been a horrible disease for the Gulf War
Vets to contract, but for us, the fact that they did has saved many
lives in the CFS/FMS/MCS community!

References

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and    Analysis of Specific Gene-containing Nucleoproteins and
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(1994)

2. Nicolson, Garth L., Antibiotics Recommended When Indicated    for
Treatment of Gulf War Illness/CFIDS, (1996)

3. Nicolson, G.L., and Nicolson, N.L., Chronic Illness of
Operation    Desert Storm: The Presence of Stealth Microorganisms in
Gulf    War Veteran's Blood Suggests that Biological Warfare May
Have    Been Used In Desert Storm, Extraordinary Science, (1995)

4. Nicolson, G.L., Hyman, E., Korenyi-Both, A., Lopez, D.A.,
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Courtesy of Sharon Briggs
SHASTA CFIDS

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Antibiotics Recommended When Indicated for
Treatment of Gulf War Illness/CFIDS/FMS

By Prof. Garth L. Nicolson
The Institute for Molecular Medicine
15162 Triton Lane, Huntington Beach,
California 92649-1041
Tel: (714) 903-2900 Fax: (714) 379-2082
e-mail: gnicimm@...

Doxycycline
(AKA Vibramycin, Monodox, Doxychel, Doxy-D, Doryx)

Doxycycline is a broad spectrum tetracycline with good lipid
solubility and ability to penetrate the blood-brain-barrier. This
antibiotic acts by inhibiting microorganism protein synthesis, it is
readily absorbed by the (normal) gut, and peak blood concentrations
are maintained between 2-18 hours (half-life 18-22 hours) after an
oral dose of drug. Food, calcium, magnesium and antacids reduce
absorption, and alcohol, phenytoin [Dilantin] or barbiturates reduce
blood half-life.

For Gulf War Illness/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Fibromyaligia Syndrome
(GWI/CFIDS/FMS) use, the recommended dose is 200-300 mg/day (oral, 2-
3x100 mg capsules) for each 6 week cycle of therapy. Initially,
doxycycline initially exacerbates symptoms (Herxheimer reactions or
adverse antibiotic responses, such as transient fever, skin, gut
discomfort, etc.) but these are usually gone within 2 weeks or so.
Patients usually start feeling better with alleviation of most major
signs and symptoms within 2-6 weeks, but in some patients major
symptoms are not alleviated until the second 6-week course. Severe
reactions or prior damage to the gastrointestinal system may require
I.V. administration of 100-150 mg/day (rapid I.V. administration is
to be avoided) for 2-3 weeks, then the remainder of the 6 week course
should be on oral antibiotic (to avoid thrombophlebitis complications
which can occur with prolonged I.V. therapy). Some react to the
starch filler in the capsules and must use Doryx, a granular form of
doxycycline.

Virtually all patients relapse (show the same major signs and
symptoms) after the end of the first and second 6-week course of
therapy, and these can be run together without a pause. In a pilot
study, >85% relapsed after 2 cycles, and after 5 and 6 cycles, 27%
and 11%, respectively, still relapsed after discontinuing antibiotic
therapy.

In some cases doxycycline has been used successfully with other
antibiotics in situations where either antibiotic alone appeared to
have minimal effect (for example, doxycycline in combination with
Ciprofloxacin). Doxycycline is primarily bacteriostatic and effective
against the following organisms: gram-negative bacteria (N.
gonorrhoeae, Haemophilus influenzae, Shigella species, Yersinia
pestis, Brucella species, Vibrio cholera); gram-positive bacteria
(Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus pyogenes); myco plasmas
(Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Mycoplasma fermentans [incognitis],
Mycoplasma penetrans); others (Bacillus anthracis [anthrax],
Clostridium species, Chlamydia species, Actinomyces species,
Entamoeba species, Treponema pallidum [syphilis], Plasmodium
falciparum [malaria] and Borelia species).

Precautions: Avoid direct sunlight and drink fluids liberally.
Doxycycline therapy may result in overgrowth of fungi or yeast and
nonsensitive microorganisms (see Other Considerations). Patients on
anticoagulants may require lower anticoagulant doses. Last half of
pregnancy, infancy and children under 8 years are not recommended, in
the latter case due to tooth discoloration, but lower doses of
doxycycline have proven to be very effective in children under 8 with
GWI/CFIDS (if weight 100 lbs. or less, 1-2 mg/lb. divided into two
doses; if is weight over 100 lbs. use adult doses). Patients with
impaired kidney function should not take doxycycline, and the
following drugs should not be taken with doxycycline: methoxyflurane
[Penthrane], carbamazepine [Tegretol], digoxin or diuretics.

In case of complicating bacterial infections, a 2 week course of
Augmentin (3 X 500 mg/day) should be taken between courses of
doxycycline or other antibiotics. For fungal and yeast complications,
please see the instructions under. Other Considerations at the end of
this handout.

Adverse Reactions: In a few patients doxycycline causes
gastrointestinal irritation, anorexia, vomiting, nausea, diarrhea,
rashes, mouth dryness, hoarseness and in rare cases hypersensitivity
reactions, hemolytic anemia, skin hypersensitivity and reduced white
blood cell counts. In general, doxycycline is considered a safe drug,
in that there are few adverse reactions reported in the literature.

Ciprofloxacin
(AKA Cipro, Cifox, Cifran, Ciloxan, Ciplox)

Ciprofloxacin is a broad spectrum synthetic fluoroquinolone
antibiotic with good absorption characteristics. This drug acts on
bacterial DNA gyrase to inhibit bacterial DNA synthesis.
Ciprofloxacin is secreted rapidly in the urine and has a half-life in
the blood of about 4 hours. Food delays the absorption of antibiotic
(by ~2 hours) but not the total absorption; antacids containing
magnesium, aluminum or other salts reduce absorption and should not
be taken at the same time of day.

For GWI/CFIDS/FMS use, the recommended dose is 1500 mg/day (for oral
use, 3x500 mg capsules) for each 6 week cycle of therapy.
Ciprofloxacin may or may not be taken with meals. Initially,
Ciprofloxacin may exacerbate some symptoms (Herxheimer reactions or
adverse antibiotic responses) but these are usually gone within a
week or so, and some patients report that doses of 1000 mg/day or
lower are not effective in alleviating GWI/CFIDS/FMS symptoms.
Patients usually start feeling better with alleviation of most major
signs and symptoms within 1-4 weeks, but in some patients major
symptoms are not alleviated until the second 6-week course.
Ciprofloxacin has been used in patients in which doxycycline cannot
be tolerated or in some patients that no longer respond to
doxycycline. In a few cases Ciprofloxacin has been used
simultaneously with doxycycline, but the usual course is one type of
antibiotic alone.

Herxheimer reaction, if present, usually passes within a few days to
2 weeks or so; prior damage to the gastrointestinal system may
require I.V. administration of 400 mg/day (over one hour per each
infusion, rapid I.V. administration is to be avoided) for 2-4 weeks,
then the remainder of the 6-week course should be on oral antibiotic
(oral doses). Virtually all patients relapse (show the same major
signs and symptoms) after the end of the first or second 6-week
course of therapy. Additional cycles of antibiotic result in milder
relapses after drug is discontinued. Subsequent cycles of antibiotics
may require the use of doxycycline or other antibiotics instead of
Ciprofloxacin.

Ciprofloxacin is effective against the following organisms: gram-
negative bacteria (Shigella species, Citrobacter diversus,
Citrobacter freundii, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae,
Haemophilus influenzae, Enterobacter species, Proteus vulgaris,
Psuedomonas aeruginosa, Yersinia pestis, Vibrio cholera); gram-
positive bacteria (Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus pyogenes,
Staphylococcus hominis, Staphylococcus saprophytieus); mycoplasmas,
moderately active (Mycoplasma species); others (Clostridium species,
Chlamydia species, Mycobacterium tuberculosis).

Precautions: Direct sunlight is to be avoided, and patients should
not take Ciprofloxacin and theophyline concurrently. Ciprofloxacin
therapy may result in drug crystals in the urine in rare cases, and
patients should be well hydrated to prevent concentration of urine.
Pregnant women and children should not use this drug due to reduction
in bone and cartilage development.

Adverse Reactions: Adverse antibiotic responses resulted in
discontinuing drug in ~3.5% of patients, and such reactions included
nausea (5%), diarrhea (2%), vomiting (2%) abdominal pain (1.7%),
headache (1.2%) and rash (1.1%). In rare cases Ciprofloxacin may
cause cardiovascular problems (<1%) and central nervous system
(dizziness, insomnia, tremor, confusion, convulsions and other
reactions (<1%). Small numbers of patients have experienced
hypersensitivity (anaphylactic) reactions which have required
immediate emergency treatment.

Azithromycin
(AKA Zithromax)

Azithromycin is an azalide (macrolide) antibiotic with good
absorption and a serum half-life of 68 hours. This class of drug acts
by binding to the 50S ribosomal subunit of susceptible organisms
where it interferes with protein synthesis. Food decreases absorption
rate, but absorption is unaffected by antacids containing magnesium,
aluminum or other salts. For GWI/CFIDS/FMS use, the recommended dose
is 500 mg/day (for oral use, 2x250 mg capsules) for each 6-week cycle
of therapy. Azithromycin should not be taken with meals (1 hour
before or 1 hour after). Initially, azithromycin may exacerbate some
symptoms but these are usually gone within a week or so. Patients
usually start feeling better with alleviation of most major signs and
symptoms within 1-2 weeks, but in some patients major symptoms are
not alleviated until the second 6 week course. Azithromycin has been
used in patients in which doxycycline cannot be tolerated or in some
patients that no longer respond to doxycycline. Herxheimer reactions
are rare and usually pass within a few days to a week or so.
Virtually all patients relapse (show the same major signs and
symptoms) after the end of the first or second 6-week course of
therapy. Additional cycles of antibiotic result in milder relapses
after drug is discontinued. Azithromycin has been shown to be safe
for pediatric use (10 mg/kg/day is recom mended for children under
14).

Azithromycin is effective against the following organisms: gram-
negative bacteria (Bordetella pertussis, Shigella species,
Haemophilus influenzae, Chlamydia species, Yersinia pestis, Brucella
species, Vibrio cholera); gram-positive bacteria (Streptococci group
C, F, G); mycoplasmas (Mycoplasma species); others (Clostridium
species, Treponema pallidum [syphilis], and Borelia sp.).

Precautions: Azithromycin is principally absorbed by the liver, and
caution should be exercised with patients with impaired liver
function. Antacids containing magnesium, aluminum or other salts
should not be taken at the same time of day with azithromycin.
Macrolides and terfenadine (Seldane) or astemizole (Hismaral) may
dangerously elevate plasma antihistamine and cause arrhythmia's and
increase serum theophyline levels in some patients, particularly
those receiving methylated xanthine causing nausea, vomiting,
seizures. Plasma levels of carbamazepine (Tegretol) can also be
elevated, leading to carbamazepine toxicity and nausea, vomiting,
drowsiness and ataxia.

Adverse Reactions: Adverse antibiotic responses were mild to moderate
in clinical trials and included diarrhea (5%), nausea (3%), abdominal
pain (3%). In rare cases (<1%) azithromycin may cause cardiovascular
problems (palpitations, tachycardia, chest pain) and central nervous
system (dizziness, headache, vertigo), allergic (rash,
photosensitivity, angioderma), fatigue and other reactions (<1%). In
pediatric patients >80% of the adverse responses were
gastrointestinal.

Clarithromycin
(AKA Biaxin)

Clarithromycin is a broad spectrum macrolide antibiotic with good
absorption and serum half-life. This class of drug acts by binding to
the 50S ribosomal subunit of susceptible organisms and interfering
with protein synthesis. The drug is mostly bacteriostatic but high
concentrations can be bactericidal. Food decreases absorption rate,
but absorption is unaffected by antacids containing magnesium,
aluminum or other salts.

The recommended dose is 500-750 mg/day (for oral use, 2-3x250 mg
capsules) for each 6-week cycle of therapy. Clarithromycin should not
be taken with meals (1 hour before or 1 hour after). Initially,
Clarithromycin may exacerbate some symptoms due to Herxheimer
reaction and bacterial death but these are usually gone within a week
or so.

Patients usually start feeling better with alleviation of most major
signs and symptoms within 1-2 weeks, but in some patients major
symptoms are not alleviated until the second 6-week course.
Clarithromycin has been used in patients that do not respond to
doxycycline or in patients that cannot tolerate doxycycline.
Herxheimer reactions usually pass within a few days to over a week or
so. Virtually all patients relapse (show the same major signs and
symptoms) after the end of the first or second 6-week course of
therapy. Additional cycles of antibiotic result in milder relapses
after drug is discontinued.

Clarithromycin is effective against the following organisms: gram-
negative bacteria (Neisseria gonorrhoeae, N. meningitides, Moraxella
catarrhalis, Campylobacter jejuni, Eikenella corrodens, Haemophilus
ducreyi, Bordetella pertussis, Shigella species, Salmonella species,
Haemophilus influenzae, Chlamydia species, Yersinia pestis, Brucella
species, Vibrio cholera, Aeromonos species, E. coli, gram-positive
bacteria (Streptococcus pyogenes, S. pneumeniae, anerobic
Streptococci, Enterococcus faccalis, Staphlococcus aureus, S.
epidermidis, Bacillus anthracis, Corynebacterium diptheriae, C.
minutissimum, Listeria monocytogenes, Actinomyces israelii);
mycoplasmas (Mycoplasma species, M. pneumoniae, Ureaplasma
urealyticum); others (Clostridium species, Treponema pallidum
[syphilis], Legionella pneumophilia, L. micdadei, Mycobacterium
avium, M. chelonae, M. chelonae absessus, M. fortuitim, Rickettsia
species and Borrelia species). Yeast's, fungi and viruses are
resistant.

Precautions: Clarithromycin is principally absorbed by the liver, and
caution should be exercised with patients with impaired liver
function. Antacids containing magnesium, aluminum or other salts
should not be taken at the same of day as azithromycin. Macrolides
and terfenadine (Seldane) or astemizole (Hismaral) may dangerously
elevate plasma antihistamine and cause arrhythmia's and increase
serum theophyline levels in some patients, particularly those
receiving methylated xanthine causing nausea, vomiting, seizures.
Plasma levels of carbamazepine (Tegretol) can also be elevated,
leading to carbamazepine toxicity and nausea, vomiting, drowsiness
and ataxia. Macrolides should not be used with cyclosporin
(Sandimmune).

Adverse Reactions: Adverse antibiotic responses were mild to moderate
in clinical trials and included diarrhea, nausea, and abdominal pain.
In rare cases (<1%) azithromycin may cause cardiovascular problems
(palpitations, tachycardia, chest pain) and central nervous system
(dizziness, headache, vertigo), allergic (rash, photosensitivity,
angioderma) and fatigue.

Other [Important] Information
(see Additional Considerations...)

GWI/CFIDS/FMS patients are often low in vitamins (B, C and E) and
minerals. Sublingual (under the tongue) natural B-complex vitamins
(Total B, Real Life Research, Norwalk, CA) can be ordered from
Vitamin Park (Irvine, CA). General vitamins plus extra C and E and
general mineral supplements are also useful, but not at the same time
of day that antibiotics are taken because minerals can affect the
absorption of the antibiotics. Selenium and magnesium are two of the
minerals that are low in GWI/CFIDS/FMS patients. Some have recommend
300-500 mg/day sodium selenite for a few days, followed by lower
maintenance doses. Some zinc supplementation is recommended. L-
cysteine supplementation has been proposed but should not be taken at
the same time as minerals.

Antibiotics can result in yeast overgrowth, especially in female
patients. Gynecologists recommend Nizoral, Diflucan, Mycelex, or anti-
yeast creams for women on antibiotics. In some cases, simultaneous
use of metronidazole (Flagyl, Prostat) have been used to prevent
fungal and parasite overgrowth or antifungals (Nystatin, Amphotericin
B, Fluconazole) have been administered for fungal infections that can
occur while on antibiotics. To replace bacteria in the
gastrointestinal system yogurt, Lactobacillus acidophillus tablets
are recommended. In some patients 'organic' food has been beneficial.
Caffeine should be avoided. On page 1 are instructions for
suppressing bacterial overgrowth (if necessary) in between cycles of
antibiotics with a 2 week course of Augmentin (3 X 500 mg/day).
Augmentin can be taken concurrently with the other antibiotics, if
necessary.

A number of natural remedies, such as ginseng root, whole lemon/olive
oil drink or an extract of olive leaves with antioxidants (Eden or
Immunoscreen of Covina, CA), and a mixture of herbals and vitamins
(Nu-Life Formula, Sophista-Care of Indian Wells, CA) have been used
to boost immune systems. Although these products appear to help
CFIDS/FM patients, their effectiveness in GWI/CFIDS/FM patients has
not been examined. They appear to be useful after antibiotic therapy.

Finally, GWI/CFIDS/FMS patients should not smoke and not drink
alcohol, caffeinated products or eat refined sugar, and they should
avoid pollutant exposure, especially those who are chemically
sensitive. Flying, excessive exercise and lack of sleep can make
signs/symptoms worse; some exercise (don't over do it!) and dry
saunas help rid the system of contaminating chemicals.

_____________


Additional Considerations when Undergoing
Treatment for Gulf War Illness/CFS/FMS

By Prof. Garth L. Nicolson
The Institute for Molecular Medicine
15162 Triton Lane, Huntington Beach,
California 92649-1041 Tel: (714) 903-2900
Fax: (714) 379-2082
e-mail: gnicimm@...

There are a number of considerations that should be taken into
account when undergoing therapy for Gulf War Illness/Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome/Fibromyaligia [GWI/CFS/FMS]. A few are mentioned below, and
some product examples are given. The Institute for Molecular Medicine
is a nonprofit institution and does not endorse commercial products.
The products mentioned below are only examples of the types of
substances that could be beneficial to patients. Consult with your
physician.

Antibiotic Therapy for Associated Chronic Infections

Please consult Antibiotics Recommended When Indicated for Treatment
of Gulf War Illness/CFS/ FMS for general information. We are finding
that subsets of GWI (~45%) and FMS/CFS (~60%) patients have chronic
mycoplasmal infections, and probably other chronic infections as
well. We usually recommend to physicians that antibiotics
(doxycycline, ciprofloxacin, Biaxin, minocycline, azithromycin) be
given for several 6 week cycles with 2 week cycles of Augmentin in
between or concurrently, if needed. To overcome Herxheimer reactions
or die-off that cause chills, low grade fever, night sweats, muscle
aches, joint pain, short term memory loss and fatigue) or adverse
responses, IV antibiotics have been used, and a whole lemon/olive
drink is useful (1 blended whole lemon, 1 cup fruit juice, 1 TBS
olive oil--strain and drink liquid). This period usually passes
within 1-2 weeks. During recovery, which is often slow and can take
over a year with ups and downs in your condition, a number of
additional nutritional and immune problems must be considered.

General Nutritional Considerations

GWI/CFS [or CFIDS]/FMS patients are often immunosuppressed and could
be susceptible to a variety of opportunistic infections, so proper
nutrition and exercise are important. GWI/CFS/FMS patients should not
smoke or drink alcohol or caffeinated products. Drink as much fresh
fluids as you can, lots of fruit juices or pure water are best. Try
to avoid high sugar and fat foods, such as military (MRE) or other
fast foods and acid-forming, allergen-prone and stressing foods or
junk foods. Increase your intake of fresh vegetables, fruits and
grains, and decrease your intake of fats and eliminate simple or
refined sugars that can suppress your immune system. To build up your
immune system cruciferous vegetables, soluble fiber foods, such as
prunes and bran, wheat germ, yogurt, fish and whole grains are
useful. In some patient's exclusive use of 'organic' foods have been
beneficial.

Vitamins and Minerals

GWI/CFS/FM patients are often depleted in vitamins (especially B, C
and E) and certain minerals. Unfortunately, illnesses like GWI result
in poor absorption. Therefore, high doses of some vitamins must be
used, and the gut (oral capsules) cannot easily absorb others, such
as vitamin B complex. Sublingual (under the tongue) natural B-complex
vitamins in small capsules or liquids (such as Total B, Real Life
Research, Norwalk, CA, 310-926-5522) should be used instead of oral
capsules that are swallowed. General vitamins plus extra C, E, CoQ-
10, beta-carotene, folic acid, bioflavoids and biotin are best. L-
cysteine, L-tyrosine, L-carnitine and malic acid are reported by some
to be useful. Certain minerals are also often depleted in GWI/CFS/FMS
patients, such as zinc, magnesium, chromium and selenium. Some
recommend doses as high as 300-mg/day-sodium selenite for a few days,
followed by lower maintenance doses. Minerals should not be taken at
the same time of day that antibiotics are taken because the minerals
can affect the absorption of certain antibiotics.

Replacement of Natural Gut Flora

GWI/CFS/FMS patients are often undergoing treatment with antibiotics
and other substances that can destroy the normal gut flora.
Antibiotic use that depletes normal gut bacteria and can result in
over-growth of less desirable bacteria. To supplement bacteria in the
gastrointestinal system yogurt and especially Lactobacillus
acidophillus tablets are recommended. One product is a mixture of
Lactobacillus acidophillus, Lactobacillus bifidus and FOS
(fructoologosaccharides) to promote growth of these "friendly"
bacteria in the gut (example, DDS-Plusor Multi-Flora ABF, UAS Labs of
Minnetonka, MN, 800-422-3371). L. acidophillus should be taken daily
to restore gut flora. A human bowel culture, Replete (Interplex) has
proven useful to restore natural gut flora.

Natural Immunoenhancers or Immunomodulators

A number of natural remedies, such as ginseng root, herbal teas,
whole lemon/olive extract drink or an extract of olive leaves with
antioxidants are available and are potentially useful, especially
during or after antibiotic therapy has been completed. Some examples
are botanical mixtures, such as Eden, Echinacea-C (NF Formulas, 800-
547-4891), Super-Immunotone (Phyto Pharmica, 800-553-2370), olive
leaf extract (Immunoscreen of Covina, CA, 818-966-1610), NSC-100
(Nutritional Supply, Carson City, NV, 888-246-7224), a mixture of
herbals and vitamins (Nu-Life Formula, Sophista-Care, Indian Wells,
CA, 760-837-1908) or Super Defense Plus (BioDefense Nutritionals,
Grand Terrace, CA, 800-669-9205). These have been used to boost
immune systems. Although these products appear to help some CFS/FMS
patients, their clinical effectiveness in GWI/CFS/FMS patients has
not been evaluated. They appear to be useful during therapy to boost
the immune system or after antibiotic therapy in a maintenance
program to prevent relapse of illness.

Yeast/Fungal or Bacterial Overgrowth

Yeast overgrowth can occur, especially in female patients (vaginal
infections). Gynecologists recommend Nizoral, Diflucan, Mycelex, or
anti-yeast creams for women on antibiotics. In some cases, use of
metronidazole (Flagyl, Prostat) have been used to prevent fungal or
parasite overgrowth or other antifungals (Nystatin, Amphotericin B,
Fluconazole, Diflucan) have been administered for fungal infections
that can occur while on antibiotics. As described above, L.
acidophillus should be taken daily to restore gut flora. Bacterial
overgrowth can also occur, for example, in between cycles of
antibiotics or after antibiotics have been stopped. This can be
controlled with 2-week courses of Augmentin (3 X 500 mg/day) in
between cycles or concurrent with other antibiotics.

Flying and Exercise

Flying, especially in unpressurized aircraft, excessive exercise and
lack of sleep can make GWI/CFS/FMS signs/symptoms worse. Some
exercise (Please don't over do it! A common problem when recovering
from this illness is over-exertion followed by relapse!) is useful
and even necessary for recovery. The main problem here is to adjust
your exercise level to help the recovery process without causing a
relapse. Dry saunas help rid the system of contaminating chemicals,
and saunas should be taken at least 3-5X per week--moderate exercise,
followed by 15-20 min of dry sauna and tepid shower. The sauna can be
repeated, by not more than two per day. The idea is to raise body
temperature enough to work up a good sweat, eliminating chemicals
without placing too much stress on your system. During exercise
GWI/CFS/FMS patients should always try to avoid pollutant and
allergen exposures. For recovery after exercise and to decrease
muscle soreness, some use a Jacuzzi or hot tub, but only after a
sufficient cool-down period. Don't get overheated in the process.

MYCOPLASMA TREATMENT SUGGESTIONS

As with any treatment suggestions given by Shasta CFIDS Support group
or Sharon Briggs, the information is intended to help you make
informed decisions about your health. It is not intended to take the
place of medical advice. These suggestions for treatment should be
shared with your physician to help with your plan of care.

Antibiotics

The antibiotics recommended by researchers and specialists to treat
Mycoplasma are the following: Doxycycline, Ciprofloxacin,
Azithromycin, Minocycline, Clarithromycin, and Levaquin.

Antibiotics recommended by Dr. Garth Nicolson are all at a very high
dosage. He recommends starting with Doxycycline. But, if you are
chemically sensitive, Ciprofloxacin may be the first antibiotic of
choice. Oral administration works well for most patients, but a few
highly sensitive individuals may need to have an initial two week
course of antibiotics given intravenously. Minocycline is what most
people have used for an I.V. antibiotic. If you start with I.V.
administration, you may want to have a heparin loc. catheter placed
into a vein for ease of administration. You will need the usual dose
twice a day for at least the first two weeks. Also, there are home
I.V. services that will administer the antibiotic if you are not able
to do it yourself.

Garth Nicolson's first study group took the antibiotic in 6-week
cycles. They then stopped for a while to determine if the antibiotic
was a cure. But, results of that first study demonstrated that 100%
relapsed after the first cycle, 88% after the second cycle, 64% after
the third cycle, 47% after the fourth cycle, and 25% after the fifth
cycle, and 11% after the sixth cycle. All in all, that is six cycles
of 6 weeks each for a total of 36 weeks or nine months treatment.
Therefore, based on the decreasing percentages of relapses in this
first study, many of us have decided that a cycle should be longer
than 6 weeks. Many have even taken the antibiotic continuously for a
year or more, with excellent results.

Doxycycline seems to cross the blood-brain barrier better than other
antibiotics on the list, so if your predominate symptoms are
neurological, you may want to start with this one. It is also the
Nicolson's first drug of choice. The enteric-coated tablet seems to
be less troublesome than the capsules. Less gastro-intestinal (as
well as, Herxheimer) symptoms are reported with the enteric-coated
tablets. But, a dry cracker taken before taking the Doxycycline can
also be helpful for the slight nausea experienced. (Shades of morning
sickness revisited!)

The first two or three weeks of the treatment will be the most
difficult in terms of symptoms. You will definitely feel worse before
you feel better! Although you may want to stop the treatment, try to
hang in there. If you feel worse at first, it is really a good sign!!
It means that the organisms are dying. As the antibiotic kills the
organisms, they produce a toxin, which stimulates our (already over-
active) immune system. This reaction is called Herxheimer, and is
discussed below.

Do not take antibiotics at the same time as minerals (such as those
found in vitamins and antacids). Also, do not drink alcohol at any
time while taking antibiotics. It has been found that minerals and
alcohol may decrease the absorption and effectiveness of the
antibiotic.

Because of the recent data concerning combination therapy, the
following medications/supplements may be helpful in augmenting the
antibiotic therapy.

1. Colloidal Silver taken orally (a natural antibiotic,
antifungal,    antiviral)

2. Monolaurin, or Lauricidin (a natural antibiotic, antifungal,
antiviral).

3. An antiviral (Zovirax, acyclovir, &/or Labucavir (when
available).

While we are blazing new trails with this treatment, we need to do
whatever works for each of us, individually, because there is no set
course or "tried and true" recommendations for treatment, yet. When
most of your symptoms are gone, we are not certain if one is "cured"
or the organism is reduced in enough numbers for the immune system to
keep it under control. Therefore, a periodic cycle or a maintenance
low dose of antibiotics may be necessary for months or years. Try to
avoid those things that can cause a relapse. The most common things
are: strenuous exercise, chemical exposure, extreme stress, etc.
Otherwise, those things that weaken the immune system and
consequently allow the Mycoplasma to reactivate. During this time, it
is important to support your immune system. A healthy immune system
may be all that is needed to get and/or keep the organisms dormant.

Herxheimer Reaction

A Herxheimer reaction occurs from the organism die-off. The dead
organism triggers the immune system to respond to toxins given off in
the dying process. Since our immune system is already overactive, the
cytokine production will be stimulated. The already elevated
cytokines (such as interferon, interleukin, tumor necrosis factor,
etc.), are the cause of most of our symptoms, anyway. So, when they
are stimulated even higher by the die-off, all of our usual symptoms
will worsen.

Symptoms that are associated with a Herxheimer are the following:
chills, fever, night sweats, muscle aches, joint pains, mental fog,
and extreme fatigue. (Sound familiar?)

You may want to plan on doing nothing for the first week or two of
treatment. Also, keep plenty of pain medications on hand, arrange for
a massage therapist, have a Jacuzzi handy, and alert the family that
you will need plenty of rest, space, and tender loving care during
this time.

If the Herxheimer is too severe, many people have eased the symptoms
with Whole Lemon-Olive Oil Drink (see recipe below.) Taken every day,
this drink helps the lymph glands to filter and move the dying
organisms.

Drink at least two quarts of fresh, filtered water every day to flush
the organisms from the body.

Whole Lemon-Olive Oil Drink
1 whole lemon---washed and blended until smooth
1 cup of juice or water added to the blended lemon
1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil (Montolivo
    is the best brand)---blended with the lemon
Pour through a wire strainer
Discard pulp and drink liquid



Resident Bacteria Loss

Because the recommended antibiotics are very powerful, and broad
spectrum, they tend to kill the good resident bacteria in our bowel
and else where, as well as the harmful organisms. When the "good"
bacteria is wiped out, then another form of organism can flourish.
The most common organism to flourish when we are treated with long-
term antibiotics is yeast (with Candida being the most frequent).
Yeast's normally reside in the gastro-intestinal system, from the
mouth to the anus, and in the vagina. But, its overgrowth is kept
under control by the resident "good" bacteria that also reside with
it. Nearly everyone on long-term antibiotic therapy will have a yeast
infection at some point in time! In addition, those with CFIDS seem
to have an immune dysregulation that hampers control of the growth of
yeasts. There are two forms of yeast, the spore-form and the mycelial-
form. The spore-form only infects the lining of the mucous membranes,
but the mycelial-form will go deeper into the tissues, and become
systemic. If one only limits simple sugars and starches in the diet
in an attempt to control the spore-form of Candida, it will become a
protein-loving organism, and change into the mycelial-form, going
deeper into the tissues in search of protein. Therefore, one should
treat yeasts with medications and diet (limit simple sugars and
starches).

An overgrowth of yeast in the mouth and throat will often cause the
tongue to become coated with a white or yellowish growth and the
throat may become sore. An overgrowth of yeast in the intestinal
tract will ferment the sugars and starches in our food, forming
acids, gas, and alcohol. Symptoms include gas, heartburn and/or pain
in the stomach area, and because of the alcohol formation, there can
be headaches, dizziness, lightheadedness, and wooziness. Yeasts also
produce enzymes that digest proteins and fats in order to attach
themselves to the gut mucosa lining. This may cause "leaky gut
syndrome". The "leaky gut" allows a larger molecule of food to pass
through the gut membrane. Food sensitivities and allergies can form
when the immune system recognizes these larger molecules of food as
foreign and sets up a defense against them. A vaginal yeast
overgrowth may manifest itself in a white or yellowish, itchy
discharge and/or symptoms of a bladder infection (urinary frequency,
urgency and burning upon urination). If you think you suffer from a
yeast infection, a serum antibody test for yeast or a serum arabitol
test can be done. (Aribitol is found to be elevated in those with
proven invasive Cadidiasis.)

Various medications for yeast infection of the mucous membrane can be
helpful, such as Nystatin, Mycelex, and Mycostatin as well as various
herbal preparations. These medications may come in the form of
tablets, lozenges, liquids (swish and swallow) and/or vaginal
preparations. Flagyl, Diflucan, and Amphotericin are reserved for the
mycelial-form and circulate throughout the body. In addition to the
above medications, Natamycin and Miconazole are now available in the
United States, but only from a pharmacist who can "compound" the
medication (and, of course, upon a physician's prescription). In
addition, a supplement called Micropreyl (a combination of garlic,
magnesium, calcium and caprylic acid) may also be helpful. You may
find that a continuous dose of an antifungal is necessary while you
are taking antibiotics. As with antibiotic therapy, expect a
Herxheimer "die-off" reaction to occur following the beginning of any
antifungal therapy.

The "good" bacteria are necessary in the bowel to help with
absorption of nutrients from our food. Symptoms of lack of good
bacteria in the bowel include constipation and easy bruising. Every
day, while on antibiotics, replenish the bowel with a product that
contains "good" bacteria. Do not take it at the same time as you take
your antibiotic, however. Many good products can be found at the
health food store. These contain transient bacteria; i.e.,
Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifidobacterium, etc. and/or human strains
of acidophilus such as Kyodophilus by Kyolic and Maxidophilus by
Ethical Nutrients.

Long-term use of antibiotics can permit the overgrowth of another,
resistant bacteria called Clostridium difficile (an anaerobic spore-
forming bacteria). The main symptom of this unwanted bacterial
overgrowth is diarrhea (often watery and explosive). Treatment with
another antibacterial agent that is clinically effective against this
organism may be necessary before one can resume the antibiotics for
Mycoplasma. However, regular use of the lactobacillus/acidophilus
preparations seems to be helpful in controlling this antibiotic
related colitis.

Immune System Support When the body has had a long-term infection
with an organism like Mycoplasma, it takes a tremendous toll on the
immune system. The immune system is weakened by this organism because
it infects the very cell that should kill it-- the leukocytes (or
white blood cells)! Cell destruction and oxidization occurs. Once the
immune system is rid of the organism, it can become healthy and fight
the Mycoplasma more effectively. Once the immune system starts
working in a more healthy manner, the Mycoplasma may be killed
completely or go dormant. It has been suggested by a number of
specialists treating Mycoplasma, that the following nutrients may be
helpful:

1. B complex vitamins (the sublingual form is best because it
crosses the blood-brain barrier and goes to the affected nerves.)

2. Magnesium

3. Selenium: Interferes with the replication of Mycoplasma when
taken at300-500 mg/day

4. Noni: A Polynesian fruit drink that aids in digestion and calms
the T cell activity of the immune system.

5. Ambrotose: A Manatec product that helps cell-to-cell
communication, and strengthens the cell membrane. Dosage
recommended By Dr. See, immunologist & Infectious disease
specialist from the University of Irvine, treating CFS/FMS/GWI    and
AIDS patients is: 3 teaspoons/day.

6. Phyt-Aloe: A Manetec product that calms the T-cell activity.
Dosage recommended by Dr. See is 3-6 capsules/day.
(Photosensitivity can occur at high doses.)

7. Salmon Oil (May prevent Mycoplasma from attaching to cell    wall)

8. Antioxidant supplements

    a. CO-Q 10
    b. Vitamin C
    c. Sillymarin
    d. NADH
    e. Lipoic Acid
    f. Pycnogenol
    g. Beta Carotene
    h. Vitamin E
    i. Glutathione
    j. Super Oxide Dismutase
    k. Bioflaonoids


AN OVERVIEW OF MY SYMPTOMS AND
RECOVERY FROM CFIDS WITH ANTIBIOTICS

The only reason I tell my story is so you can see what a typical
FS/FMS/MCS person who has had the disease, fairly severely, has had
to go through with the treatment. I hope it helps you to hang in
there to recovery, also. I have had contact with over 100 people,
thus far, who share my symptoms and have also been helped with the
antibiotic therapy.

I have been ill with CFIDS since spring, 1981. I was placed on low-
dose Erythromycin for 2 years and fully recovered and was symptom
free for five years. I relapsed in 1989. I started taking
antibiotics, following Dr. Nicolson's protocol, in January 1996.
Following is a summary of my CFIDS symptoms and a chronicle of the
treatment with antibiotics and how those symptoms were affected.

The most significant CFIDS symptoms I have had were muscle aches and
joint pains, headaches, severe cognitive changes, fatigue, and
neuritis (described as a low hum throughout the body---much like
lying on the floor next to a refrigerator-later captured as seizure
activity). But, I also had most of the other symptoms from the CFIDS
list, but not all the time. When I kept a diary of my symptoms, a
pattern emerged that was very unique. Here is an overview of the
symptoms: They always started with the head and worked down the body
to the feet. When the symptoms finally reached the feet, they would
disappear, and a period of remission would occur At first this
pattern took months to cycle through all the symptoms, then as I got
well, weeks and then days would be devoted to the symptoms-which were
later acknowledged to be directly associated with mycoplasma induced
meningitis/neuritis. Now, I only have one or two symptoms left, and
the complete cycle from head to toe no longer occurs. Others, who are
positive with the mycoplasma, have described a similar pattern.

The cycle always starts with severe itching of the scalp. Headaches
and severe cognitive problems are next. Soon after, the cranial
nerves are affected causing blurred vision, ringing in the ears, TMJ,
balance problems, etc. When these problems disappear, then the stiff
neck, enlarged neck glands and shoulder and back pains (classic
Fibromyalgia trigger points) abound. Next, the lungs and heart are
targeted with skipped heart beats and shortness of breath, asthma,
etc. When these symptoms fade, it then is manifest in the stomach,
liver and spleen, causing pain, indigestion, belching and bloating.
Next, the intestines and bladder are targeted, with alternating
diarrhea and constipation, frequency and burning on urination. The
last symptoms have to do with the low back, legs and feet. The low
back is painful, as if I strained it, I get severe leg cramps with
even mild exertion, and the soles of the feet hurt when I barely step
down. When the feet are no longer painful, there is a period of
respite >from all symptoms. Then the head to toe cycle starts again.

Since starting treatment with the antibiotic regime recommended by
Dr. Garth Nicolson, I have had a curious, but positive response. The
first antibiotic that was prescribed by my physician was Cipro.
Because I had tremendous chemical sensitivities, it was recommended
as a first drug. Apparently the Herxheimer reaction is not as severe,
and the tolerance of the drug, from a chemical standpoint, is better.
Anyway, within a few days, I did have a Herxheimer---with chills,
night sweats, total body aches, and a feeling of being poisoned.
After 4 days, the severe headaches began.

The Herxheimer gradually subsided, but the severe headaches
continued. When I talked to Dr. Nicolson, he explained that the
antibiotic was causing an inflammation to occur in the brain with
local swelling. He also said that Cipro does not cross the
blood/brain barrier unless it is in very high doses, and encouraged
me to increase the dose from three a day to four a day. When this
dose did not help, he then encouraged me to switch to Doxycycline. I
started to take the Doxy at 100 mg twice a day. The Herxheimer
worsened (as it has every time I start a new course of antibiotic).
But, this is when I noticed a most curious thing. Within a half-hour
of taking the Doxy, my headache would go away! In fact, this was the
first drug (including very strong opiod analgesics) that relieved my
headache! Dr. Nicolson said I was very lucky to have a symptom that
could be directly connected to the Doxy response, and encouraged me
to raise the dosage until the headaches went away completely. He said
that would be my thresh-hold dose. It took three Doxy a day for three
months to completely get rid of the headaches.

During this first course of Doxy, I also had some other curious
things happen. All the joints that had been involved since I first
became ill in 1981 became swollen and painful-at once. Then the skin
looked as if it had been sun burned or scalded over the joints, and
within a week, most of the skin had peeled. One of the other
significant events during the first three-month course was a definite
decrease in my chemical sensitivities. I had previously been
housebound because of asthma/headaches/cognitive problems to a
variety of chemicals.

The time period off the Doxy and on to another antibiotic was short
lived-two weeks. When symptoms returned, I started taking Cipro
again, but, this time the dosage of three a day seemed to be enough.
During this second 2-month course, more CFIDS symptoms disappeared.
But in each case of beginning a new course of antibiotic, the head to
toe pattern of symptoms occurred.

The fourth course was Doxy again for six weeks. More symptoms
disappeared during this course-mainly the seizures, most cognitive
problems, fatigue and painful Fibromyalgia. The fifth course of
antibiotic occurred after a four-week rest. This time Zithromax was
the drug. It caused another severe Herxheimer reaction, so I assumed
it must be very powerful against the Mycoplasma. But, after six
weeks, it had completely wiped out the flora in the bowel and I began
to have some serious problems. I decided to discontinue the
antibiotics and start a more intensive bowel regime.

By now, the Candida had gone to the mycelial form and had to be
treated with Diflucan 200 mg twice a day. Previously, I had been
taking nystatin, various forms of lactobacillus/acidophilus, etc. on
a daily basis, as well as doing a thorough bowel replacement program
between courses. But, the Zithromax had sent my bowel over the edge.
The rest period after Zithromax lasted one month. I am now back on
Doxy now. It seems to be the drug of choice for me, and I will
probably continue with it indefinitely. The only symptoms I had
return since the Zithromax are cramps in the calves and pain in the
soles of my feet. My headaches, fatigue, Fibromyalgia pain, chemical
sensitivities, and joint pains are nearly gone! The last symptoms to
deal with are sleep disturbance (insomnia) and hormonal imbalances.
With the head to toe pattern, with each time period on antibiotics,
the pattern became shorter and the severity less, until this last
course of Doxy, I experienced only a slight itchy scalp and low back
ache-within eight hours of each other. Not much considering before
antibiotic treatment the length of time from head to toe would take
several agonizing months to occur.

The Herxheimer reaction that occurs at the beginning of an antibiotic
course also became shorter and less severe with each successive
course. I have yet to have my cytokine, NK cells, Helper/suppressor
ratio, etc. done. But, plan to have those done soon to document the
state of my immune system. I suspect it will be much improved. I am
now exercising daily, have my previous brain (memory, reasoning,
concentration, etc.) and no longer have those emotional roller
coaster rides. I would say, as long as I am taking an antibiotic, I
am 95% well!! My goal is to be 100% well without antibiotics.

Starting 19 months into the antibiotic therapy, I have begun a course
of combination therapies. In addition to the Doxy, I have taken
Monolaurin, BHT, Colloidal Silver, PhyteAloe, Noni, Ambrotose,
antioxidants, and the antiviral Zovirax. My physician encouraged me
to add these other supplements to either intensify the antibiotic,
correct and enhance the immune system, and treat for a symbiotic
Human Herpes Virus-6 (HHV-6) chronic infection. Since adding the
combined therapies, I have experienced a longer time period between
antibiotics (3-4 months) and a shorter course of antibiotics (3 weeks
at a time), This is progress!

I have begun to work part time again in my home. I have been able to
resume my previous level of physical activity and my chemical
sensitivities and allergies are nearly gone. I am still battling with
hormonal problems, weight gain and sleep problems, but have added L-
Carnitine to my regime with much success.

Well, that pretty much describes my last 2 12 years of intensive
treatment. I hope this helps you to understand my problems and
successes with the antibiotic treatment. If you have any questions,
let me know. If I had it to do over again, I would not hesitate a
minute. I just wish I would have know about this before it took seven
more years of my vibrant, young life!

Sincerely,
Sharon Briggs
Support Group Leader

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MYCOPLASMA  The Linking Pathogen in Neurosystemic Diseases
Several strains of mycoplasma have been "engineered" to become more
dangerous. They are now being blamed for AIDS, cancer, CFS, MS, CJD
and other neurosystemic diseases.
Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 8, Number 5 (August-September
2001)
PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia. editor@...
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From our web page at: www.nexusmagazine.com © by Donald W. Scott, MA,
MSc © 2001
President
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Medical Research Foundation
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PATHOGENIC MYCOPLASMA    A Common Disease Agent Weaponised
There are 200 species of Mycoplasma. Most are innocuous and do no
harm; only four or five are pathogenic. Mycoplasma fermentans
(incognitus strain) probably comes from the nucleus of the Brucella
bacterium. This disease agent is not a bacterium and not a virus; it
is a mutated form of the Brucella bacterium, combined with a visna
virus, from which the mycoplasma is extracted.

The pathogenic Mycoplasma used to be very innocuous, but biological
warfare research conducted between 1942 and the present time has
resulted in the creation of more deadly and infectious forms of
Mycoplasma. Researchers extracted this mycoplasma from the Brucella
bacterium and actually reduced the disease to a crystalline form.
They "weaponised" it and tested it on an unsuspecting public in North
America.

Dr Maurice Hilleman, chief virologist for the pharmaceutical company
Merck Sharp & Dohme, stated that this disease agent is now carried by
everybody in North America and possibly most people throughout the
world.

Despite reporting flaws, there has clearly been an increased
incidence of all the neuro/systemic degenerative diseases since World
War II and especially since the 1970s with the arrival of previously
unheard-of diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome and AIDS.

According to Dr Shyh-Ching Lo, senior researcher at The Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology and one of America's top mycoplasma
researchers, this disease agent causes many illnesses including AIDS,
cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, Crohn's colitis, Type I diabetes,
multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Wegener's disease and
collagen-vascular diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and
Alzheimer's.

Dr Charles Engel, who is with the US National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, Maryland, stated the following at an NIH meeting on
February 7, 2000: "I am now of the view that the probable cause of
chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia is the mycoplasma..."

I have all the official documents to prove that mycoplasma is the
disease agent in chronic fatigue syndrome/fibromyalgia as well as in
AIDS, multiple sclerosis and many other illnesses. Of these, 80% are
US or Canadian official government documents, and 20% are articles
from peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of the American
Medical Association, New England Journal of Medicine and the Canadian
Medical Association Journal. The journal articles and government
documents complement each other.

How the Mycoplasma Works
The mycoplasma acts by entering into the individual cells of the
body, depending upon your genetic predisposition.

You may develop neurological diseases if the pathogen destroys
certain cells in your brain, or you may develop Crohn's colitis if
the pathogen invades and destroys cells in the lower bowel.

Once the mycoplasma gets into the cell, it can lie there doing
nothing sometimes for 10, 20 or 30 years, but if a trauma occurs like
an accident or a vaccination that doesn't take, the mycoplasma can
become triggered.

Because it is only the DNA particle of the bacterium, it doesn't have
any organelles to process its own nutrients, so it grows by uptaking
pre-formed sterols from its host cell and it literally kills the
cell; the cell ruptures and what is left gets dumped into the
bloodstream.

II - CREATION OF THE MYCOPLASMA
A Laboratory-Made Disease Agent
Many doctors don't know about this mycoplasma disease agent because
it was developed by the US military in biological warfare
experimentation and it was not made public. This pathogen was
patented by the United States military and Dr Shyh-Ching Lo. I have a
copy of the documented patent from the US Patent Office.1

All the countries at war were experimenting with biological weapons.
In 1942, the governments of the United States, Canada and Britain
entered into a secret agreement to create two types of biological
weapons (one that would kill, and one that was disabling) for use in
the war against Germany and Japan, who were also developing
biological weapons. While they researched a number of disease
pathogens, they primarily focused on the Brucella bacterium and began
to weaponise it.

From its inception, the biowarfare program was characterised by
continuing in-depth review and participation by the most eminent
scientists, medical consultants, industrial experts and government
officials, and it was classified Top Secret.

The US Public Health Service also closely followed the progress of
biological warfare research and development from the very start of
the program, and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States were working
with the military in weaponising these diseases. These are diseases
that have existed for thousands of years, but they have been
weaponised--which means they've been made more contagious and more
effective. And they are spreading.

The Special Virus Cancer Program, created by the CIA and NIH to
develop a deadly pathogen for which humanity had no natural immunity
(AIDS), was disguised as a war on cancer but was actually part of
MKNAOMI.2 Many members of the Senate and House of Representatives do
not know what has been going on. For example, the US Senate Committee
on Government Reform had searched the archives in Washington and
other places for the document titled "The Special Virus Cancer
Program: Progress Report No. 8", and couldn't find it. Somehow they
heard I had it, called me and asked me to mail it to them. Imagine: a
retired schoolteacher being called by the United States Senate and
asked for one of their secret documents! The US Senate, through the
Government Reform Committee, is trying to stop this type of
government research.

Crystalline Brucella
The title page of a genuine US Senate Study, declassified on February
24, 1977, shows that George Merck, of the pharmaceutical company,
Merck Sharp & Dohme (which now makes cures for diseases that at one
time it created), reported in 1946 to the US Secretary of War that
his researchers had managed "for the first time" to "isolate the
disease agent in crystalline form".3

They had produced a crystalline bacterial toxin extracted from the
Brucella bacterium. The bacterial toxin could be removed in
crystalline form and stored, transported and deployed without
deteriorating. It could be delivered by other vectors such as
insects, aerosol or the food chain (in nature it is delivered within
the bacterium). But the factor that is working in the Brucella is the
mycoplasma.

Brucella is a disease agent that doesn't kill people; it disables
them. But, according to Dr Donald MacArthur of the Pentagon,
appearing before a congressional committee in 1969,4 researchers
found that if they had mycoplasma at a certain strength--actually, 10
to the 10th power (1010)--it would develop into AIDS, and the person
would die from it within a reasonable period of time because it could
bypass the natural human defences. If the strength was 108, the
person would manifest with chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia.
If it was 107, they would present as wasting; they wouldn't die and
they wouldn't be disabled, but they would not be very interested in
life; they would waste away.

Most of us have never heard of the disease brucellosis because it
largely disappeared when they began pasteurising milk, which was the
carrier. One salt shaker of the pure disease agent in a crystalline
form could sicken the entire population of Canada. It is absolutely
deadly, not so much in terms of killing the body but disabling it.

Because the crystalline disease agent goes into solution in the
blood, ordinary blood and tissue tests will not reveal its presence.
The mycoplasma will only crystallise at 8.1 pH, and the blood has a
pH of 7.4 pH. So the doctor thinks your complaint is "all in your
head".

Crystalline Brucella and Multiple Sclerosis
In 1998 in Rochester, New York, I met a former military man, PFC
Donald Bentley, who gave me a document and told me: "I was in the US
Army, and I was trained in bacteriological warfare. We were handling
a bomb filled with brucellosis, only it wasn't brucellosis; it was a
Brucella toxin in crystalline form. We were spraying it on the
Chinese and North Koreans."

He showed me his certificate listing his training in chemical,
biological and radiological warfare. Then he showed me 16 pages of
documents given to him by the US military when he was discharged from
the service. They linked brucellosis with multiple sclerosis, and
stated in one section: "Veterans with multiple sclerosis, a kind of
creeping paralysis developing to a degree of 10% or more disability
within two years after separation from active service, may be
presumed to be service-connected for disability compensation.
Compensation is payable to eligible veterans whose disabilities are
due to service." In other words: "If you become ill with multiple
sclerosis, it is because you were handling this Brucella, and we will
give you a pension. Don't go raising any fuss about it." In these
documents, the government of the United States revealed evidence of
the cause of multiple sclerosis, but they didn't make it known to the
public--or to your doctor.

In a 1949 report, Drs Kyger and Haden suggested "the possibility that
multiple sclerosis might be a central nervous system manifestation of
chronic brucellosis". Testing approximately 113 MS patients, they
found that almost 95% also tested positive for Brucella.5 We have a
document from a medical journal, which concludes that one out of 500
people who had brucellosis would develop what they call
neurobrucellosis; in other words, brucellosis in the brain, where the
Brucella settles in the lateral ventricles--where the disease
multiple sclerosis is basically located.6

Contamination of Camp Detrick Lab Workers
A 1948 New England Journal of Medicine report titled "Acute
Brucellosis Among Laboratory Workers" shows us how actively dangerous
this agent is.7 The laboratory workers were from Camp Detrick,
Frederick, Maryland, where they were developing biological weapons.
Even though these workers had been vaccinated, wore rubberised suits
and masks and worked through holes in the compartment, many of them
came down with this awful disease because it is so absolutely and
terrifyingly infectious.

The article was written by Lt Calderone Howell, Marine Corps, Captain
Edward Miller, Marine Corps, Lt Emily Kelly, United States Naval
Reserve, and Captain Henry Bookman. They were all military personnel
engaged in making the disease agent Brucella into a more effective
biological weapon.

III - COVERT TESTING OF MYCOPLASMA
Testing the Dispersal Methods
Documented evidence proves that the biological weapons they were
developing were tested on the public in various communities without
their knowledge or consent.

The government knew that crystalline Brucella would cause disease in
humans. Now they needed to determine how it would spread and the best
way to disperse it. They tested dispersal methods for Brucella suis
and Brucella melitensis at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, in June and
September 1952. Probably, 100% of us now are infected with Brucella
suis and Brucella melitensis.8

Another government document recommended the genesis of open-air
vulnerability tests and covert research and development programs to
be conducted by the Army and supported by the Central Intelligence
Agency.

At that time, the Government of Canada was asked by the US Government
to cooperate in testing weaponised Brucella, and Canada cooperated
fully with the United States. The US Government wanted to determine
whether mosquitoes would carry the disease and also if the air would
carry it. A government report stated that "open-air testing of
infectious biological agents is considered essential to an ultimate
understanding of biological warfare potentialities because of the
many unknown factors affecting the degradation of micro-organisms in
the atmosphere".9

Testing via Mosquito Vector in Punta Gorda, Florida
A report from The New England Journal of Medicine reveals that one of
the first outbreaks of chronic fatigue syndrome was in Punta Gorda,
Florida, back in 1957.10 It was a strange coincidence that a week
before these people came down with chronic fatigue syndrome, there
was a huge influx of mosquitoes.

The National Institutes of Health claimed that the mosquitoes came
from a forest fire 30 miles away. The truth is that those mosquitoes
were infected in Canada by Dr Guilford B. Reed at Queen's University.
They were bred in Belleville, Ontario, and taken down to Punta Gorda
and released there.

Within a week, the first five cases ever of chronic fatigue syndrome
were reported to the local clinic in Punta Gorda. The cases kept
coming until finally 450 people were ill with the disease.

Testing via Mosquito Vector in Ontario
The Government of Canada had established the Dominion Parasite
Laboratory in Belleville, Ontario, where it raised 100 million
mosquitoes a month. These were shipped to Queen's University and
certain other facilities to be infected with this crystalline disease
agent. The mosquitoes were then let loose in certain communities in
the middle of the night, so that the researchers could determine how
many people would become ill with chronic fatigue syndrome or
fibromyalgia, which was the first disease to show.

One of the communities they tested it on was the St Lawrence Seaway
valley, all the way from Kingston to Cornwall, in 1984. They let out
hundreds of millions of infected mosquitoes. Over 700 people in the
next four or five weeks developed myalgic encephalomyelitis, or
chronic fatigue syndrome.

IV - COVERT TESTING OF OTHER DISEASE AGENTS
Mad Cow Disease/Kuru/CJD in the Fore Tribe
Before and during World War II, at the infamous Camp 731 in
Manchuria, the Japanese military contaminated prisoners of war with
certain disease agents.

They also established a research camp in New Guinea in 1942. There
they experimented upon the Fore Indian tribe and inoculated them with
a minced-up version of the brains of diseased sheep containing the
visna virus which causes "mad cow disease" or Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease.

About five or six years later, after the Japanese had been driven
out, the poor people of the Fore tribe developed what they called
kuru, which was their word for "wasting", and they began to shake,
lose their appetites and die. The autopsies revealed that their
brains had literally turned to mush. They had contracted "mad cow
disease" from the Japanese experiments.

When World War II ended, Dr Ishii Shiro--the medical doctor who was
commissioned as a General in the Japanese Army so he could take
command of Japan's biological warfare development, testing and
deployment--was captured. He was given the choice of a job with the
United States Army or execution as a war criminal. Not surprisingly,
Dr Ishii Shiro chose to work with the US military to demonstrate how
the Japanese had created mad cow disease in the Fore Indian tribe.

In 1957, when the disease was beginning to blossom in full among the
Fore people, Dr Carleton Gajdusek of the US National Institutes of
Health headed to New Guinea to determine how the minced-up brains of
the visna-infected sheep affected them. He spent a couple of years
there, studying the Fore people, and wrote an extensive report. He
won the Nobel Prize for "discovering" kuru disease in the Fore tribe.

Testing Carcinogens over Winnipeg, Manitoba
In 1953, the US Government asked the Canadian Government if it could
test a chemical over the city of Winnipeg. It was a big city with
500,000 people, miles from anywhere. The American military sprayed
this carcinogenic chemical in a 1,000%-attenuated form, which they
said would be so watered down that nobody would get very sick;
however, if people came to clinics with a sniffle, a sore throat or
ringing in their ears, the researchers would be able to determine
what percentage would have developed cancer if the chemical had been
used at full strength.

We located evidence that the Americans had indeed tested this
carcinogenic chemical--zinc cadmium sulphide--over Winnipeg in 1953.
We wrote to the Government of Canada, explaining that we had solid
evidence of the spraying and asking that we be informed as to how
high up in the government the request for permission to spray had
gone. We did not receive a reply.

Shortly after, the Pentagon held a press conference on May 14, 1997,
where they admitted what they had done. Robert Russo, writing for the
Toronto Star11 from Washington, DC, reported the Pentagon's admission
that in 1953 it had obtained permission from the Canadian Government
to fly over the city of Winnipeg and spray out this chemical--which
sifted down on kids going to school, housewives hanging out their
laundry and people going to work. US Army planes and trucks released
the chemical 36 times between July and August 1953. The Pentagon got
its statistics, which indicated that if the chemical released had
been full strength, approximately a third of the population of
Winnipeg would have developed cancers over the next five years.

One professor, Dr Hugh Fudenberg, MD, twice nominated for the Nobel
Prize, wrote a magazine article stating that the Pentagon came clean
on this because two researchers in Sudbury, Ontario--Don Scott and
his son, Bill Scott--had been revealing this to the public. However,
the legwork was done by other researchers!

The US Army actually conducted a series of simulated germ warfare
tests over Winnipeg. The Pentagon lied about the tests to the mayor,
saying that they were testing a chemical fog over the city, which
would protect Winnipeg in the event of a nuclear attack.

A report commissioned by US Congress, chaired by Dr Rogene Henderson,
lists 32 American towns and cities used as test sites as well.

V - BRUCELLA MYCOPLASMA AND DISEASE
AIDS
The AIDS pathogen was created out of a Brucella bacterium mutated
with a visna virus; then the toxin was removed as a DNA particle
called a mycoplasma. They used the same mycoplasma to develop
disabling diseases like MS, Crohn's colitis, Lyme disease, etc.

In the previously mentioned US congressional document of a meeting
held on June 9, 1969,12 the Pentagon delivered a report to Congress
about biological weapons. The Pentagon stated: "We are continuing to
develop disabling weapons." Dr MacArthur, who was in charge of the
research, said: "We are developing a new lethal weapon, a synthetic
biological agent that does not naturally exist, and for which no
natural immunity could have been acquired."

Think about it. If you have a deficiency of acquired immunity, you
have an acquired immunity deficiency. Plain as that. AIDS.

In laboratories throughout the United States and in a certain number
in Canada including at the University of Alberta, the US Government
provided the leadership for the development of AIDS for the purpose
of population control. After the scientists had perfected it, the
government sent medical teams from the Centers for Disease Control--
under the direction of Dr Donald A. Henderson, their investigator
into the 1957 chronic fatigue epidemic in Punta Gorda--during 1969 to
1971 to Africa and some countries such as India, Nepal and Pakistan
where they thought the population was becoming too large.13 They gave
them all a free vaccination against smallpox; but five years after
receiving this vaccination, 60% of those inoculated were suffering
from AIDS. They tried to blame it on a monkey, which is nonsense.

A professor at the University of Arkansas made the claim that while
studying the tissues of a dead chimpanzee she found traces of HIV.
The chimpanzee that she had tested was born in the United States 23
years earlier. It had lived its entire life in a US military
laboratory where it was used as an experimental animal in the
development of these diseases. When it died, its body was shipped to
a storage place where it was deep-frozen and stored in case they
wanted to analyse it later. Then they decided that they didn't have
enough space for it, so they said, "Anybody want this dead
chimpanzee?" and this researcher from Arkansas said: "Yes. Send it
down to the University of Arkansas. We are happy to get anything that
we can get." They shipped it down and she found HIV in it. That virus
was acquired by that chimpanzee in the laboratories where it was
tested.14

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
Chronic fatigue syndrome is more accurately called myalgic
encephalomyelitis. The chronic fatigue syndrome nomenclature was
given by the US National Institutes of Health because it wanted to
downgrade and belittle the disease.

An MRI scan of the brain of a teenage girl with chronic fatigue
syndrome displayed a great many scars or punctate lesions in the left
frontal lobe area where portions of the brain had literally dissolved
and been replaced by scar tissue. This caused cognitive impairment,
memory impairment, etc. And what was the cause of the scarring? The
mycoplasma. So there is very concrete physical evidence of these
tragic diseases, even though doctors continue to say they don't know
where it comes from or what they can do about it.

Many people with chronic fatigue syndrome, myalgic encephalo-myelitis
and fibromyalgia who apply to the Canada Pensions Plan Review
Tribunal will be turned down because they cannot prove that they are
ill. During 1999 I conducted several appeals to Canada Pensions and
the Workers Compensation Board (WCB, now the Workplace Safety and
Insurance Board) on behalf of people who have been turned down. I
provided documented evidence of these illnesses, and these people
were all granted their pensions on the basis of the evidence that I
provided.

In March 1999, for example, I appealed to the WCB on behalf of a lady
with fibromyalgia who had been denied her pension back in 1993. The
vice-chairman of the board came to Sudbury to hear the appeal, and I
showed him a number of documents which proved that this lady was
physically ill with fibromyalgia. It was a disease that caused
physical damage, and the disease agent was a mycoplasma. The guy
listened for three hours, and then he said to me: "Mr Scott, how is
it I have never heard of any of this before? I said: "We brought a
top authority in this area into Sudbury to speak on this subject and
not a single solitary doctor came to that presentation."

VI - TESTING FOR MYCOPLASMA IN YOUR BODY


Polymerase Chain Reaction Test
Information is not generally available about this agent because,
first of all, the mycoplasma is such a minutely small disease agent.
A hundred years ago, certain medical theoreticians conceived that
there must be a form of disease agent smaller than bacteria and
viruses. This pathogenic organism, the mycoplasma, is so minute that
normal blood and tissue tests will not reveal its presence as the
source of the disease.

Your doctor may diagnose you with Alzheimer's disease, and he will
say: "Golly, we don't know where Alzheimer's comes from. All we know
is that your brain begins to deteriorate, cells rupture, the myelin
sheath around the nerves dissolves, and so on." Or if you have
chronic fatigue syndrome, the doctor will not be able to find any
cause for your illness with ordinary blood and tissue tests.

This mycoplasma couldn't be detected until about 30 years ago when
the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test was developed, in which a
sample of your blood is examined and damaged particles are removed
and subjected to a polymerase chain reaction. This causes the DNA in
the particles to break down. The particles are then placed in a
nutrient, which causes the DNA to grow back into its original form.
If enough of the substance is produced, the form can be recognised,
so it can be determined whether Brucella or another kind of agent is
behind that particular mycoplasma.

Blood Test
If you or anybody in your family has myalgic encephalomyelitis,
fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis or Alzheimer's, you can send a blood
sample to Dr Les Simpson in New Zealand for testing.

If you are ill with these diseases, your red blood cells will not be
normal doughnut-shaped blood cells capable of being compressed and
squeezed through the capillaries, but will swell up like cherry-
filled doughnuts which cannot be compressed. The blood cells become
enlarged and distended because the only way the mycoplasma can exist
is by uptaking pre-formed sterols from the host cell. One of the best
sources of pre-formed sterols is cholesterol, and cholesterol is what
gives your blood cells flexibility. If the cholesterol is taken out
by the mycoplasma, the red blood cell swells up and doesn't go
through, and the person begins to feel all the aches and pains and
all the damage it causes to the brain, the heart, the stomach, the
feet and the whole body because blood and oxygen are cut off.

And that is why people with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome
have such a terrible time. When the blood is cut off from the brain,
punctate lesions appear because those parts of the brain die. The
mycoplasma will get into portions of the heart muscle, especially the
left ventricle, and those cells will die. Certain people have cells
in the lateral ventricles of the brain that have a genetic
predisposition to admit the mycoplasma, and this causes the lateral
ventricles to deteriorate and die. This leads to multiple sclerosis,
which will progress until these people are totally disabled;
frequently, they die prematurely. The mycoplasma will get into the
lower bowel, parts of which will die, thus causing colitis. All of
these diseases are caused by the degenerating properties of the
mycoplasma.

In early 2000, a gentleman in Sudbury phoned me and told me he had
fibromyalgia. He applied for a pension and was turned down because
his doctor said it was all in his head and there was no external
evidence. I gave him the proper form and a vial, and he sent his
blood to Dr Simpson to be tested. He did this with his family
doctor's approval, and the results from Dr Simpson showed that only
4% of his red blood cells were functioning normally and carrying the
appropriate amount of oxygen to his poor body, whereas 83% were
distended, enlarged and hardened, and wouldn't go through the
capillaries without an awful lot of pressure and trouble. This is the
physical evidence of the damage that is done.

ECG Test
You can also ask your doctor to give you a 24-hour Holter ECG. You
know, of course, that an electrocardiogram is a measure of your
heartbeat and shows what is going on in the right ventricle, the left
ventricle and so on. Tests show that 100% of patients with chronic
fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia have an irregular heartbeat. At
various periods during the 24 hours, the heart, instead of working
happily away going "bump-BUMP, bump-BUMP", every now and again
goes "buhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuh". The T-wave (the waves are called
P, Q, R, S and T) is normally a peak, and then the wave levels off
and starts with the P-wave again. In chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia
patients, the T-wave flattens off, or actually inverts. That means
the blood in the left ventricle is not being squeezed up through the
aorta and around through the body.

My client from Sudbury had this test done and, lo and behold, the
results stated: "The shape of T and S-T suggests left ventricle
strain pattern, although voltage and so on is normal." The doctor had
no clue as to why the T-wave was not working properly. I analysed the
report of this patient who had been turned down by Canada Pensions
and sent it back to them. They wrote back, saying: "It looks like we
may have made a mistake. We are going to give you a hearing and you
can explain this to us in more detail."

So it is not all in your imagination. There is actual physical damage
to the heart. The left ventricle muscles do show scarring. That is
why many people are diagnosed with a heart condition when they first
develop fibromyalgia, but it's only one of several problems because
the mycoplasma can do all kinds of damage.

Blood Volume Test
You can also ask your doctor for a blood volume test. Every human
being requires a certain amount of blood per pound of body weight,
and it has been observed that people with fibromyalgia, chronic
fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis and other illnesses do not have
the normal blood volume their body needs to function properly.
Doctors aren't normally aware of this.

This test measures the amount of blood in the human body by taking
out 5 cc, putting a tracer in it and then putting it back into the
body. One hour later, take out 5 cc again and look for the tracer.
The thicker the blood and the lower the blood volume, the more tracer
you will find.

The analysis of one of my clients stated: "This patient was referred
for red cell mass study. The red cell volume is 16.9 ml per kg of
body weight. The normal range is 25 to 35 ml per kg. This guy has 36%
less blood in his body than the body needs to function." And the
doctor hadn't even known the test existed.

If you lost 36% of your blood in an accident, do you think your
doctor would tell you that you are alright and should just take up
line dancing and get over it? They would rush you to the nearest
hospital and start transfusing you with blood. These tragic people
with these awful diseases are functioning with anywhere from 7% to
50% less blood than their body needs to function.

VII - UNDOING THE DAMAGE
The body undoes the damage itself. The scarring in the brain of
people with chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia will be repaired. There
is cellular repair going on all the time. But the mycoplasma has
moved on to the next cell.

In the early stages of a disease, doxycycline may reverse that
disease process. It is one of the tetracycline antibiotics, but it is
not bactericidal; it is bacteriostatic--it stops the growth of the
mycoplasma. And if the mycoplasma growth can be stopped for long
enough, then the immune system takes over.

Doxycycline treatment is discussed in a paper by mycoplasma expert
Professor Garth Nicholson, PhD, of the Institute for Molecular
Medicine.15 Dr Nicholson is involved in a US$8-million mycoplasma
research program funded by the US military and headed by Dr Charles
Engel of the NIH. The program is studying Gulf War veterans, 450 of
them, because there is evidence to suggest that Gulf War syndrome is
another illness (or set of illnesses) caused by mycoplasma.


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Endnotes:
1. "Pathogenic Mycoplasma", US Patent No. 5,242,820, issued September
7, 1993. Dr Lo is listed as the "Inventor" and the American Registry
of Pathology, Washington, DC, is listed as the "Assignee".
2. "Special Virus Cancer Program: Progress Report No. 8", prepared by
the National Cancer Institute, Viral Oncology, Etiology Area, July
1971, submitted to NIH Annual Report in May 1971 and updated July
1971.
3. US Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, Hearings before the Subcommittee
on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human
Resources, Biological Testing Involving Human Subjects by the
Department of Defense, 1977; released as US Army Activities in the US
Biological Warfare Programs, Volumes One and Two, 24 February 1977.
4. Dr Donald MacArthur, Pentagon, Department of Defense
Appropriations for 1970, Hearings before Subcommittee of the
Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-First
Congress, First Session, Monday June 9, 1969, pp 105-144, esp. pp.
114, 129.
5. Kyger, E. R. and Russell L. Haden, "Brucellosis and Multiple
Sclerosis", The American Journal of Medical Sciences 1949:689-693.
6. Colmonero et al., "Complications Associated with Brucella
melitensis Infection: A Study of 530 Cases", Medicine 1996;75(4).
7. Howell, Miller, Kelly and Bookman, "Acute Brucellosis Among
Laboratory Workers", New England Journal of Medicine 1948;236:741.
8. "Special Virus Cancer Program: Progress Report No. 8", ibid.,
table 4, p. 135.
9. US Senate, Hearings before the Subcommittee on Health and
Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, March 8 and
May 23, 1977, ibid.
10. New England Journal of Medicine, August 22, 1957, p. 362.
11. Toronto Star, May 15, 1997.
12. Dr Donald MacArthur, Pentagon, Department of Defense
Appropriations for 1970, Hearings, Monday June 9, 1969, ibid., p. 129.
13. Henderson, Donald A., "Smallpox: Epitaph for a Killer", National
Geographic, December 1978, p. 804.
14. Blum, Deborah, The Monkey Wars, Oxford University Press, New
York, 1994.
15. Nicholson, G. L., "Doxycycline treatment and Desert Storm", JAMA
1995;273:618-619.

Recommended Reading:
Horowitz, Leonard, Emerging Viruses: Aids and Ebola, Tetrahedron
Publishing, USA, 1996.
Johnson, Hillary, Osler's Web, Crown Publishers, New York, 1996.
Scott, Donald W. and William L. C. Scott, The Brucellosis Triangle,
The Chelmsford Publishers (Box 133, Stat. B., Sudbury, Ontario P3E
4N5), Canada, 1998 (US$21.95 + $3 s&h in US).
Scott, Donald W. and William L. C. Scott, The Extremely Unfortunate
Skull Valley Incident, The Chelmsford Publishers, Canada, 1996
(revised, extended edition available from mid-September 2001;
US$16.00 pre-pub. price + US$3 s&h in US).
The Journal of Degenerative Diseases (Donald W. Scott, Editor), The
Common Cause Medical Research Foundation (Box 133, Stat B., Sudbury,
Ontario, P3E 4N5), Canada (quarterly journal; annual subscription:
US$25.00 in USA, $30 foreign).
Additional Contacts:
Ms Jennie Burke, Australian Biologics, Level 6, 383 Pitt Street,
Sydney NSW 2000, Australia tel +61 (0)2 9283 0807, fax +61 (0)2 9283
0910. Australian Biologics does tests for mycoplasma.
Consumer Health Organization of Canada, 1220 Sheppard Avenue East
#412, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M2K 2S5, tel +1 (416) 490 0986,
website www.consumerhealth.org/.
Professor Garth Nicholson, PhD, Institute for Molecular Medicine,
15162 Triton Lane, Huntington Beach, CA, 92649-1401, USA, tel +1
(714) 903 2900.
Dr Les Simpson, Red Blood Cell Research Ltd, 31 Bath Street, Dunedin,
9001, New Zealand, tel +64 (0)3 471 8540, email
rbc.research.limited@.... (Note: Dr Simpson directs his study
to red cell shape analysis, not the mycoplasma hypothesis.)
The Mycoplasma Registry for Gulf War Illness, S. & L. Dudley, 303
47th St, J-10 San Diego, CA 92102-5961, tel/fax +1 (619) 266 1116,
fax (619) 266 1116, email mycoreg@....
About the Author:
Donald Scott, MA, MSc, is a retired high school teacher and
university professor. He is also a veteran of WWII and was awarded
the North Atlantic Star, the Burma Star with Clasp, the 1939-1945
Volunteer Service Medal and the Victory Medal. He is currently
President of The Common Cause Medical Research Foundation, a not-for-
profit organisation devoted to research into neurosystemic
degenerative diseases. He is also Adjunct Professor with the
Institute for Molecular Medicine and he produces and edits the
Journal of Degenerative Diseases. He has extensively researched
neurosystemic degenerative diseases over the past five years and has
authored many documents on the relationship between degenerative
diseases and a pathogenic mycoplasma called Mycoplasma fermentans.
His research is based upon solid government evidence.