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Why Doctors Can’t Acknowledge, Treat, or Cure Chronic Lyme
What’s commercializable is driving the research agenda in too many cases. Not what’s medically necessary and what’s medically useful.
In 1980, the government started allowing patents on living organisms like pathogens. Perfect timing for scientists to make a mad dash for parts of newly-discovered Lyme and keep the information locked to protect future profits.
These so called experts research it with federal funds, then start private firms and patents. They write guidelines for insurance companies and HMOs so that the disease doesn’t exist (yet) or require coverage. Not only do Lyme victims spend hundreds of thousands for medical treatment, but they can’t be covered for Lyme!
The Biggest Blow In The Lyme Cover Up
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), made up of a board of doctors, created within themselves an authority to write the rule book on all things Lyme. It is the absolute bane of both the Lyme community and conscientious doctors everywhere.
They are the ones who decided that there is no chronic Lyme, that it’s easy to treat and cure, and will be cured within two weeks of oral antibiotics or else the patient has another infirmity. Doctors must follow their diagnosis and treatment guidelines or face punishment from state medical boards. Patients’ proof of cure never sways the boards – doctors broke the rules.
Out of the 400 references listed in the back of the guidelines, over half of them are directed at articles that they and their teams wrote. They have closed the door on outside contrary research.
These are the very guidelines insurance companies consult to deny medical treatment coverage. The majority of complaints that lead to doctors’ suspensions come from insurance companies, not patients or other physicians. The insurance companies wish to rid doctors who cost them the most.
The trio of insurance companies, Lyme guidelines, and Big Pharma restrict consumer choice in medical care and extort these patients.
While the IDSA acknowledges post-Lyme syndrome, they audaciously attribute it to the “aches and pains of daily living” and that poor treatment results are due to prior traumatic stress. Are they really that dumb?
No, but they are cold blooded and know exactly the nature of the disease and its destruction.
They should know…after all, they have a lot invested in it…
Busted On The Money Trail!
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal investigated the ISDA panel members for possible violation of antitrust laws and conflicts of interest.
Of the 14 panel authors of the first edition guidelines: 6 of them or their universities held patents on Lyme or its co-infections, 4 received funding from Lyme or co-infection test kit manufacturers, 4 were paid by insurance companies to write Lyme policy guidelines or consult in Lyme legal cases, and 9 received money from Lyme disease vaccine manufacturers. Some of the authors were involved in more than one conflict of interest.
So why are guideline authorities taking money from companies who have a direct interest in specific outcomes? When will doctors speak up?
So How Does This Cover Up Saga Continue?
The media keeps trumpeting the lies. CBS News recently published a story called “Lyme Disease Lies – And Truths.” Each segment features a FACT OR FICTION tidbit which is really a confusing mash up rife with deception. They pull their information from the IDSA and Dr. John Halperin who wrote a book better used for toilet paper called Lyme Disease: An Evidence-based Approach.
The article calls the following liars: people who claim to have “chronic” Lyme disease, those who believe they still have Lyme because they test positive for antibodies after treatment, those who believe their brain fog results from Lyme, the Lyme “advocacy groups” that claim anyone actually died from it, anyone who claims this syphilis like disease is spread sexually, and those that believe lengthier care is needed.
Dr. Halperin states that Lyme is benign, easy to treat, no one has died from it, are rarely hospitalized, and brain infection from Lyme is rare.
Doctors like Leo Galland are stepping out with more truth. His article on Huffington Post discloses more about chronic Lyme infection. At the bottom of his article, you will see that the majority of the 500 comments are Lyme victims sharing their nightmare stories.
Organizations that pretended to protect public health with no commercial interests (CDC, NIH, Universities) partner with Big Pharma and are not in the business of seeing anyone healed. Maybe generations from now when there is enough of an outcry, when many have lived ill and died, some drug company will try to be the hero of the day and come up with a poisonous drug to treat Lyme.
Even that scenario is highly unlikely as chronic Lyme is not allowed to exist. But when it does there will be a vaccine waiting for you.
So tragically in the meantime, Lyme victims serve as a host for the parasitical medical establishment, lining the coffers until they are bled completely dry. The real ticks (the poli-ticks) are still here.
Watch Under Our Skin for more mind blowing information. Find out about the doctor who discovered an actual link between the Lyme spirochetes and disorders like dementia, Alzeimer’s, M.S. and more. One alternative health practitioner has not seen one M.S., ALS or Parkinson’s patient in the last five years who did not test positive for Borrelia burgdorferi.
You will also see proof that Lyme inflicted mothers experience multiple miscarriages and their babies are riddled with the disease. Babies who survive often develop late stage neurological damage during childhood and adolescence. All events that the IDSA swear have never happened. They insist that Lyme cannot be spread to the unborn child.
You will witness the families grieving over their dead loved ones. Lyme Disease is listed on their death certificates.
You will hear from doctors who were bullied, investigated, and ousted for attempting to actually treat Lyme, usually with intravenous and lengthier antibiotics. After all, isn’t that how other infectious diseases are conventionally treated – Tuberculosis, HIV, Hepatitis?
Conscientious doctors have to treat Lyme secretly if they want to help their patients without losing their license. They have to tell their patients, “Don’t mention Lyme.” How’s that for a cover up?
So What Now? What If I Have Lyme?
Chances are, you know someone who is manifesting the aforementioned symptoms and is battling the never ending circle of finding proper diagnosis and treatment. They may or may not remember a tick bite. Since the truth about Lyme is so stifled it is more than likely spread through blood transfusions (as with Babesiosis) and shared between couples (as shown in Under Our Skin).
They most likely have been diagnosed with one of the mysterious “incurables” like MS, ALS, or even early Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. The latter two are increasingly diagnosed in younger patients.
Or perhaps they were dismissed as crazy and bear the misery of not knowing that they actually suffer from Lyme. Regardless, they suffer and believe they must wait until research catches up to them before they die.
Cont. – What You Can Do About Tickborne Diseases And Treatments
~Health Freedoms
http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/07/01/lyme-cover-up-rages-on/
Sources:
Under Our Skin (2008), available on Netflix
http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/postLDS/index.html
http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-galland-md/lyme-disease-symptoms_b_876096.html
http://www.lymenet.org/SupportGroups/UnitedStates/
http://www.lymecommunity.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2711
http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-204_162-10007902.html?tag=page
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“Find out about the doctor who discovered an actual link between the Lyme spirochetes and disorders like dementia, Alzeimer’s, M.S. and more. One alternative health practitioner has not seen one M.S., ALS or Parkinson’s patient in the last five years who did not test positive for Borrelia burgdorferi.”
Above is an important clue. How does it fit with the quotes below?
“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. 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.” Donald W. Scott MA
“Mycoplasma can cause a respiratory flu-like illness that can progress to systemic chronic fatigue syndrome-like or fibromyalgia syndrome-like illness, sometimes advancing to multiple sclerosis-like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and arthritic-like symptoms.” Life Extension
“It is my contention that the disease we now call Lyme Disease, originated in a lab at Plum Island. The funding for research would be covered in the Mycoplasma grant. The very first case of Lyme Disease was isolated in a youth, in 1975, within a few miles of the dock where the Plum Island Government Ferry boat lands on the Connecticut side of Long Island Sound.” Patricia Doyle
Here is why the Medical Industry will not acknowledge CHRONIC Lyme infection.
“From its inception, the biowarfare program was characterized 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 weaponized—which means they’ve been made more contagious and more effective. And they are spreading.” Donald W. Scott
http://healthyprotocols.com/2_mycoplasma.htm
If you or a loved one has ANY of these CHRONIC diseases including Lyme Disease please get tested for mycoplasma. Since vitamin D is very protective against mycoplasma IMO get your vitamin D levels up to 100 ng/ml.
This accounting is not my experience. When I went to a neurologist for what turned out to be MS symptoms, I was tested for Lyme disease and numerous other conditions. Several years later, I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia as well; but, that diagnosis came from a rheumatologist who also tested for Lyme – among other diseases – first. These doctors are with UPMC Medical Center. Maybe small town doctors are the offenders.
In Canada, it is the AMMI that restricts the treatment and diagnosis of borreliosis (lyme), and uses faulty testing. No other disease is diagnosed by a lab technician in this way. No other bacterial infection is enough to make doctor run in fear of their patients.
This is a new class of disease. It is “politically diagnosed”. Testing and treatment are restricted, actual patients are dismissed or ignored, and lots of money is made, or mistakes covered up or whatever evil but profitable purpose they may have to cripple people needlessly.
Doctors must conform or be punished by the AMMI, who has set these criminal standards. There is no protection for Canadians, as no governing body regulates or oversees this type of “professional organization”. These Doctors have found an unsupervised way to take money from big pharma, and depend on grants, research funding, professional career advancements, and participation in these “panels” that decide the fate of thousands, with no regard to suffering. These same panel members frequently hold the patents on the tests and or vaccines, drugs that treat the misdiagnosed syndromes, or are beholden to those that do.
I am living proof of the lies. The tales of unbeleivable mistreatment and open discrimination, medical neglect, and plain criminal behaivour are true, as witnessed by me. I will not be crippled for profit!
What else have they lied about and misrepresented? Why have we let a corrupt industry like this control our care? I think the court records will support this characterization of pharma as corrupt. These corporations have proven themselves over and again to put profit above everything else. They control the care we get, and our well being is very low on the list of priorities. We are powerless against them, and now, so are our Doctors. Their careers depend on it. Why on earth would they need to pass laws in many states to specifically protect Doctors from their own colleges and agressive persecution for treating an infection with antibiotics?
Why does our government keep secret the reason behind the recent drug shortages? They do not want us to know that the factories failed thier inspections and are no longer certified, and it takes 6 months to re-certify? This is called “permanent backorder” by pharma, and Health Canada lies to the public and says they have no idea what is going on. They pulled the certification!!!
Lies and fraud are the new medical fields of expertise,and are very profitable, especially since they rarely have to actually meet or see those messy patients, and waste thier valuable time, and all thier research is decided before they begin, so they are always right.
*without predjudice*
For those who don’t know about MMS and it’s ability to stop Lyme disease I recommend you check it out. The book is only about 20.00 and the MMS is about the same. Please read the book before trying the MMS for the LYME Protocol.
Look on the web for MMS.
please take time to view this video from a lyme sufferer on road to recovery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NPCKBZhlCA&feature=player_detailpage
I have been ill for over 10 years and have lost everything because of it. After finally being diagnosed and treated via IV for 6 months in 2005, I am being retreated, however I have difficulty tolerating many antibiotics, have myriad neurological symptoms, and clearly have sustained much damage in the interim. There are many more people like myself, who are in desperate need of effective treatment. This I know for sure: Lyme Disease is a devastating epidemic and Chronic Lyme Disease devastates lives.
Have had MS, fibromyalgia, peripheral neuropathy, chronic EBV, major depression, double depression, arthritis (unspecified), migraine and cluster headaches, and some others I’ve forgotten. I’ve been tested for more things than I’ll ever remember. Not one of the 1,000′s of tests were positive and explained all my symptoms and history the way the lyme diagnosis did. I didn’t want to believe it, still don’t, but it is the closest thing ever presented to me of an explanation.
The most frustrating part of all of it are the lying doctors, saying nothing is wrong with you, go see yet another specialist as there is nothing I can do, or just start asking you ?’s that are asked to crazy people. We are not crazy and there is something wrong. I wish it didn’t take 30 something docs to find one who will find out what’s going on.
I have admiration and respect for the doctors that will at least say, “Hey, I believe something is wrong, and I’m not sure what it is, but I want to help you”. Or if they know you have lyme and don’t know how to treat it, just admit they don’t know and let you move on rather than saying it’s you, when it’s SO them..
Thanks for writing this article. My family in Europe and the United States is suffering with lyme and co-infections. Lyme is a misnomer for the tick may inject Borrelia, the spirochete of lyme, Babesia, all kinds of Rickettsias, Bartonella, Coxiella burnetti or Q fever, Brucella, Tularemia, over 100 viruses,and parasites. Different kinds of these pathogens are also injected and research out of Germany specifies that different Borrelias respond to different antibiotics. How does the IDSA think a 14 day course of antibiotics is going to cure all these infections ? This world-wide epidemic is being ignored and research funds are going to find a vaccine and not to cure the millions already infected and suffering. We know that Rickettsial infections are one of three causes of Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia and have seen links to other kinds of cancer. To understand these bacterial/protozoal/fungal/parasitical infections will further our knowledge of disease. Why not spend some money and figure out cures for some of the most debilitating/deadly diseases of our time ? A local vet found out on his death bed that his ALS was caused by Lyme and told his son with similar symptoms to be tested for lyme. The son did and is now better, but it was too late to save the father who succumbed to ALS. Perhaps, that is the intention to make sure a certain amount of the population does die off prematurely ?
Jacquie, I have to disagree with you. Here’s why, my story though the same outcome is very different. I know when I was bit by the tick that I contracted Lyme by. I was 6 yrs old & I just got diagnosed at the end of 2009, almost 41 yrs later. I still have to convince dr’s that I have Lyme even with at least 3 positive tests, 2 were western blot & 1 was Elisa, plus prior testing showed things that were suppose to bare further testing. I have lived in 5 states. I have lived in some of the smallest towns (around 250 people) to some of the biggest cities (ranging from the hundreds of thousands Fort Lauderdale area to currently living in Scottsdale, AZ a suburb of what is the 5th to 6th largest city in the country, Phoenix, AZ.) I also lived in Phoenix, AZ. I even spent 4 1/2 yrs as a patient at the mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. I have seen at least a 100 dr’s, been hospitalized at least 10 times, been through so many tests & had multiple types of life saving surgeries & still I am questioned whether I have Lyme. It has nothing to do with the size of the town or what type of dr they are it is to do with money & whether a dr cares more about that then their patient. It was a neurologist also that actually listened to me when I told him my symptoms & by the 1/2 hr visit thought clinically I had Lyme. I had seen about 20 neurologists prior (in the Fort Lauderdale, FL area, at the Mayo Clinic, where Poisons singer Brett Michaels was a patient at in the Phoenix, AZ, which is called Barrows Neurological & the Muscular Dystrophy association clinic.) I also was being treated by a infectious disease dr that believed in Lyme & did 6 weeks of each IV & oral antibiotics & will being seeing soon another infectious disease dr that believes chronic Lyme exists. I also have both Pre & Post non-Lyme diseases & conditions that I had as a birth-defect & genetic & non-genetic forms of diseases & conditions. I’m not saying that all of everyones issues are Lyme related but I know for a matter- of-fact mine aren’t & though many do not want to hear it or believe that there is somethings not related to Lyme. I want a cure more than anything & I have more medical issues than most of the Lyme suffers because of my other medical problems. We need to pull together as a group & not just focus on the negatives & fight for our rights not on what they are doing.