Hi Dr. Stoll:
I am 59 years old with a recent diagnosis of Lyme disease and also with a PSA if 8. Upon reading your prostate article, it appears likely that I have a stress induced infection of the type you mention. My Lyme disease is chronic having been contracted about 4 years ago. With a possible systemic yeast infection my Lyme doctor has suggested that we try doxycycline and Biaxin for the Lyme, then if the PSA doesn't go down dramatically in about 2-3 weeks - go ahead with a biopsy.
Addiitionally, as a possible form of insurance, I have tried Peter D'Adamo's suggestion for type A's to eat lima beans. As he says you will kill plenty of red blood cells but you will also kill millions of cancer cells. I'm not sure how easy it is to reach cancer cells in the prostate but it does give some peace of mind here.
A third line of attack I have tried is to use your advice and have one orgasm per day on the assumption that I am stressed as per your article entitled "Prostate Problems". Clinically, Lyme stresses you: Noise, difficulty at completing small tasks, vertigo, panic attacks are all alarming in themselves let alone the stress brought on prior to diagnosis and not knowing what is causing them. Additionally, my job over the last 4 years has become increasingly stressful (more correctly, my reaction to it - I'm sure)!
Can you suggest additionaly things I might to to migigate any prostate involvement brought on by stress other that what you have mentioned in your article.
Thanks for any assistance you may be able to provide.
Regards,
Frank Schneider
Other than the lima beans, I have followed a rigorous (all beneficial items only) diet developed for my type:
A1, MM, secreter. I have very good blood parameters (CBC). Colesterol values are also fine (probability of heart attack is less than average on the laboratory report). My Lyme parameters were positive on ELISA by titer being 500% above the cutoff - also confirning IgM Western Blot with just 2 parameters confirning.
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Re: High PSA and Lyme disease
Posted by Walt Stoll on November 07, 1998 at 10:03:14:
In Reply to: High PSA and Lyme disease posted by Frank Schneider on November 06, 1998 at 13:20:12:
Hi, Frank.
I think you are the one my brother told me about that ordered some books.
That is a good place to start since you need to understand this better to make good decisions in YOUR case.
Since you have had the Lyme for 4 years, it is unlikely that any antibiotic will help at this time. Your symptoms are all due to your immune system's response to the organism. The only thing antibiotics can do now is to make the doc think /she is doing something AND wipe out any normal germs that are trying to protect you from the candida.
Once you have the book under your belt, write again with any further questions.
Walt
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Re: High PSA and Lyme disease
Posted by Frank Schneider on November 10, 1998 at 16:04:31:
In Reply to: Re: High PSA and Lyme disease posted by Walt Stoll on November 07, 1998 at 10:03:14:
Thanks Dr. Stoll for your reply to my question on Lyme disease.
I am not encouraged by your reply to my question as you can well imagine! One must face facts though!
I have just fininshed reading a book by Karen Vanderfoof-Forschner, founder of the Lyme Disease Foundation, who claims that she was chronic and also appears to have been cured of the disease. From reading the literature, I have the impression that the disease is curable with the appropriate antibiotics. A lot depends too on how well the protocol is followed, what antibiotics are used, and the particular strains of Lyme the individual has. The folks on the California Lyme net do agree that chronic Lyme is very hard to cure but not impossible. Then too one must have a definition of what "cure" means. Does it mean the lack of antibodies in blood serum, spinal fluid, other deep tissue, if so what tissue? How long must the patient remain symptom free? If we have no meaningful definition of what a cure means for Lyme is - i.e. what do we mean when we say that we have a cure for any other affliction?
Thanks again for your quick response.
Regards,
Frank Schneider
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Re: High PSA and Lyme disease
Posted by Walt Stoll on November 11, 1998 at 11:58:18:
In Reply to: Re: High PSA and Lyme disease posted by Frank Schneider on November 10, 1998 at 16:04:31:
HI, Frank.
Good questions! Now, if we can just get the conventional medical monopoly to take them seriously! So long as they can get away with calling a "5 year survival" of cancer a "cure", they are FAR, FAR away from even being interested in a "cure" for anything.
There are at least 2 different phases of "lyme". The initial, infectious phase and the long term autoimmunological phase. Management of each is very distinct.
For myself, if I had the chronic phase diagnosed, I would probably take a short course of antibiotics for insurance while I started doing something about improving my immune system enough to resolve the condition.
Is an alcoholic ever "cured"? Most say no. That means that individual can never drink again without risking falling all the way again. The same is true of "lyme". Once a person's susceptibility to lyme is revealed by their actually having it; ceasing a serious wellness program, so as to give the problem the chance to recur, is asking for it.
I have had patients tell me that they were actually grateful for having had the lyme disease since it forced them to make wellness their lifetime hobby. I have had cancer patients tell me the same thing.
Hope this is making sense to you.
Walt