This is a horrible time of year for me with the allergies and they make the fibromyalgiaⁱ horrible.  I am in so much pain that I walk around with an ice pack on my neck and shoulders.  I look like a little old woman.  I started feeling really sick last weekend like I had the flu or something.  I started taking flagylⁱ and felt better for 2 days then the last 3 days I've been shaking, can't sleep, flushed, exhausted, in horrible pain, etc. 

CAPⁱ month 28 Update, Progressed to Intermittent Cycles After 20 months on WheldonCAP I went on intermittent.  My MD has chosen not to order trepeat labs for the CPnⁱⁱ and co-infectionsⁱⁱ or viruses, of which I had all of these done before the starting any abxⁱⁱ therapy.   

Amazing to find a whole web site devoted to heat schock proteinⁱ. I am still trying to wrap my mind around it and what it does.

http://www.heatshock.net/showcitationlist.php?mth=Chlamydophila%20pneumoniae

Azenabor's paper is mentioned there about calcium channels and HSPⁱ.

Raven

Can anyone explain heat shock protien to me and its relation to cpnⁱ. I have gotten severe sun for the last 5 days and I think heat shock protien is the reason why im so sick. so far this is what I got from wikipedia.

Treatment Overview on March 11, 2009;

Diagnostic Evaluation May 24, 2007. Chronic Fatigue Sydrome - Progressive onset - 20 to 30 years to overwhelming fatigue, Fibromyalgiaⁱ, Mild Form.  C.Pn. positive by Lab test result > 1:512,  Bb positive by Lab test Western Blot after doxycycline taken for 3 -4 weeks for CPnⁱ, Borrelia Burgdorferi (Lyme Disease) was revealed as positve on Western Blot late July 2007.

Started CAProtocol 6-21-07 with Doxycycline, N-A-C and all supplementsⁱ,  CAP Progressed on 10-31-07 Macrolide-added, progressed 11-22-07 Tinidazole-added and also Cholestyramine HS PRN x 7d starting day 3 - 4 of pulse and continuing for +/- 7 days.

Well, it's been so long since I've posted, I'll be surprised if anyone even remembers me.  I've been fighting to get to take Flagylⁱ (or similar) and my doc wanted me to take pyruvate and then take rifampin off and on (but not take flagyl).  I wasn't up for the rifampin off and on; still terribly confused by his desire to avoid flagyl and pulse rifampin, but went ahead and took the pyruvate. 

I  vomited like I had food poisoning and had some other strong reaction on day 9 (or got the stomach flu?) and stopped taking pyruvate temporarily.  I got a similar reaction about a week later even though I hadn't started taking pyruvate again.  My gut instinct is that it was a delayed reaction, but I have no real idea.  I felt really sick and weird for a few days. 

Dec 24, 2008 marks the completion of my 18th month of treatment.  I am antibody positive for CPnⁱ and Bb.  I started treatment on bacteriocidal level of Doxycycline 400 mg/day for almost 4 months before cutting back to 100 mg BID and adding Roxithromycin 150mg BIDⁱ daily.  Those first 4 months were incapacitating and perhaps advantagious it is water under the bridge and I would not recommend it to others. 

I've written about my sister before.  She asked to be tested for CPnⁱ at Cleveland clinic and came back positive, something like 1/125 or close to that.  Cleveland Clinic asked her if she wanted to be treated with 1 abxⁱ for a few weeks. 

She has lung and sinus problemsⁱ, fibromyalgiaⁱ, fatigue and serious heart and vein problems and inflammationⁱ.  Basically the falling apart syndrome.  I tried to get her started on CAPⁱ, but she didn't follow through, claiming she didn't have time to get sick.  She did take NACⁱ for awhile.  Now she is really sick, with pretty bad heart problems.  She has been diagnosed with everything under the sun over the years, but then they always end up changing their minds and saying it probably isn't what they thought it was.

This is the news:  In England, possible antibioticsⁱ to be sold over the counter, to treat CHLAMYDIA!

This is the story form http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/aug/06/health

Oral antibiotics are to be made available for the first time without doctor's prescription under guidelines approved yesterday by the medicines regulator.

A pill to treat chlamydia, the most commonly diagnosed sexually transmitted infection, will become available for purchase in pharmacies across England later this year.

As I write this today I am not fully recovered but will try my best to convey what my latest experience involved. Am writing this with my right eye closed as a matter of fact. So anyway ... what I want to write about in my blog today is reflective of years of chronic illness that I merely pushed off as hormonal induced migraines that we women had to bear in life. Of course ... I think I know better now. Not that hormones cannot play a role in this illness but that I know the true instigator I believe.

Emerging Stratton Protocol 4/2008: a new approach to an old set of problems

Reported by Jim K

Cause Of Skin Condition Rosacea Discovered

Reading it was good; it's good news, good work. However, I don't think the headline is justified. I don't think you know "the cause" until you can start/stop the condition whenever you like.

So, although it's good to know that rosaceaⁱ results from the overproduction of cathelicidins, I don't think we know the cause until we know why cathelicidins are overproduced. Of course, many of us here suspect that the overproduction is a response to C.Pneumoniae.

I don't remember where I came across this article about Cpnⁱ and HSPⁱ (heat shock protein). It makes an interesting read especially with our knowledge of the CAPⁱ protocol. You can download the PDF here.

Raven

CAP since 8-05 for Cpn and Mycoplasma P. for MSⁱ and/or CFSⁱ