Link to Senate Lyme hearing papers

[Hopeny]

I am posting this on the PANDAS and Lyme boards, because there is mention of Strep related to Lyme along with IVIG. While I had to control my nausea at the numerous mentions of Alan Steere and the ridiculous recent dead spirochete pieces Yale theory when reading this, there is some interestng stuff in the Katz paper at this link http://www.help.sena...5-aa0c57233aed. I am wondering about this Plaquenil/Biaxin combination for Lyme, has anyone tried it? My Lyme Pandas DD seems to have good results with Biaxin/Augmentin I am wondering if Plaquenil would be a good idea instead. As an aside, intestingly when we switched DD back to Augmenten/Biaxin from Doxy for the school year, as expected and as before when we have switched abx she had a major herx of psych symptoms. This time though she had major OCD last night, cleaning things, lining them up, curing in a ball on the bed so she would not mess up the bed covers. Then she went to heavy crying/sobbing for a very long time. Previously the herxs have been obsessive thougts, this is the first time she has been cleaning, lining things up etc. I gave her some melatonin and she fell asleep finally. Hoping this only lasts a couple of days as it has before when we switched. We did not see full blown OCD like that when we swicted from Aug/Biax to Doxy, just depressive thoughts and some obsessions. Really shows me how each med is attacking something different.

 

* trying to post the link again, it isn't working when I paste it so just remove the quotes to paste in browser

"http://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/?id=53342b1c-5056-9502-5d05-aa0c57233aed"

Edited September 1, 2012 by Hopeny