AP in the treatment of MS

[Anne-Marie]

Hi,

I have a friend with MS and was wondering if the AP was an effective treatment for this disease. I would be most grateful for any feedback. Many thanks.

Anne-Marie.

[Todd WI]

Hi Anne-Marie,

Checkout http://www.cpnhelp.org

Todd

[Maz]

Hi Anne-Marie,

In addition to Todd's post, here is an email I recently sent to someone which has a few links that are worth checking. I have an interest in this, too, as my brother has chronic progressive MS. I'll cut and paste the email for you below:

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The Canadians are doing minocycline drug trials on people with early MS and have been finding it very good for slowing and in some cases stopping progression.

http://www.mssociety.ca/en/releases/nr_20071025.htm

The website http://www.cpnhelp.org has connected chlamydia pneumoniae to the onset of MS and the Wheldon Protocol has been having much success:

http://www.davidwheldon.co.uk/ms-treatment.html

This is an old article from 1999, but the Vanderbilt MS Center has been making connections with chlamydia pneumoniae for a while and this article documents the case of one patient who was treated with longterm antibiotics and got well:

http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=780

Your friend will probably find a plethora of Vanderbilt research on this topic. Dr S (AP doc in GA/TN) mentioned it in one of his rheumatic.org chats when I asked him what might be the connection between my brother's MS and my RA….he just said two words, “Chlamydia Pneumoniae.”  It's a community-acquired walking pneumonia type infection and lots of people are walking around with it. Once you are exposed to any infection, you carry it around with you for life, even once the acute infection is passed. So it may be the trigger or it may be lying in wait for some other infection or environmental stressor, the gene is switched on and voila.

 

In the Winter edition of the RBF eBulletin, we included this hot off the press study linking Chlamydia pneumoniae with the onset of many AI diseases:

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19151119?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2

Lyme disease, of course, has also been heavily associated with MS. My Lyme doc showed me a map of the incidence of deaths from MS in the US and overlaid it on a map of the reported incidence of Lyme and there was virtually no difference whatsoever. If you go to the following link, you'll catch a short video clip of Dr P. (my doc) talking about MS and Lyme…he's the third video from the bottom:

http://www.ctlymedisease.org/videoclips.htm

Lots of articles on Lyme websites about the connection of MS and Lyme. Canlyme is rich with articles on the subject:

http://www.canlyme.com/mslymeswitz.html

http://www.canlyme.com/lymemultiplesclerosis.html

Columbia University also has a Lyme research center – http://www.columbia-lyme.org/ – and they have some articles on their website. Here is a complilation of research I just found doing a quick search but there is likely more. They are finding MS-like plaques in the brains and on the spinal cords of Lyme patients that are indistinguishable from MS.

http://search.cumc.columbia.edu/search?ie=&site=lymedisease&output=xml_no_dtd&client=lymedisease&proxystylesheet=lymedisease&restrict=lymedisease&lr=&q=MS&x=43&y=4

The earlier antibiotic therapy is used in cases with MS, the swifter the turnaround, before too much irreversible nerve damage is done. Early damage is more likely to be reversed than late stage damage.

 

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Peace, Maz

[Jan Lucinda]

I have several friends with MS.  Will pass this on.

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