Carrie called me about my Lyme disease support group after seeing my support group poster at a local library. She came up with this well-conveyed article. She included a fair amount of attention to my use of colloidal silver, too! The phone calls have already started coming in, and I'm getting as many questions about the silver as I am about my support group!
Now wouldn't it be interesting to have a seminar on how to make colloidal silver (and generator)! Of course I'd have to heavily enforce that I am not prescribing anything and that anyone who uses it must consider it a self-medication used at their own risk. In telling people about it, I always recommend they consult with their healthcare practitioner about it.) All I would add to the article (which was left out) is STAY AWAY from Lyme vaccines for now, and beware of other tick-borne illnesses that may coincide with Lyme disease. Maybe she can have a follow-up article about the vaccine. ==================================================================== Norwich Bulletin, vol. 139, Issue 152, Monday, June 1, 1998, page 1 Rally seeks more focus on Lyme disease By Carrie Cussen, Norwich Bulletin WINDHAM - At this stage of her life, Nancy Berntsen of Windham will do whatever it takes to keep her Lyme disease symptoms at bay. Eight years ago - when Berntsen was in her mid-30s - she noticed her health slowly decline. She was having serious allergies, menstrual problems, a strange buzzing in her ear and peculiar body aches. During the next couple of years, she was able to get her allergies treated, but then her hair started falling out and more aches appeared. "People were telling me I was getting older and it was nothing to worry about," Berntsen said. But by 1994, virtually every bone in her body ached and she noticed a blotchy rash waxing and waning throughout her body. It was then she decided to go to a doctor. The tests for Lyme disease came back positive and she was prescribed antibiotics for three weeks. her health did not improve. Signs of depression coincided with the aches, and her joints worsened. so she went on antibiotics and stuck with them for two years. But she stopped taking them and eventually began taking a homemade treatment that has kept the tickborne disease in remission. For the past 18 months, Berntsen has ingested colloidal silver daily. The treatment is controversial, because some people believe colloidal silver is argyria, [sic] or silver slats. Industrial exposure to silver salts [sic] turns human skin blue. "My current doctor did not prescribe it or endorse it," Berntsen said. "I take it at my own risk, but it really has helped me feel much better. It gives me independence. And my skin has not turned blue." Wednesday, a rally outside the annual doctors' convention at Yale New Haven Hospital's [sic] Harkness Auditorium at 333 Cedar St., New Haven, will support Lyme disease awareness. For information on the rally, call 203-374-3844. "The purpose of the rally is to make more doctors aware of the potentially dangerous health hazards if Lyme disease in not treated more aggressively," Berntsen said. The problem for many people diagnosed with Lyme disease, Berntsen said, is that many doctors do not take the disease seriously and believe it is easily treatable. They too often prescribe antibiotics for a limited amount of time and are too quick to consider the disease cured. hat's precisely what happened to Marcia Linker, 36, of Easthampton, Mass. In 1992, the formerly active Linker was diagnosed and was prescribed three weeks of antibiotics. "At that point, my doctor considered me cured, but I still had symptoms," Linker said. "I even went back for tests and they came back negative." Although she still suffered from Lyme disease symptoms for years, she was not re-diagnosed until 1995, when she came down with serious flu symptoms. She has been on antibiotics ever since. To date, Lyme disease has kept her out of work for two years. -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject: line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
