Posted by Lorraine on March 7, 2002, at 20:38:01
In reply to HHV-6 » Lorraine, posted by BarbaraCat on March 7, 2002, at 19:59:23
I think my naturalpathic doctors approach is to look for heavy metals. She herself has chronic fatique and the thing that helped her most was chelation. (I do believe that this is an honest person and not a quack.) I have had 2 tests for heavy metals (hair and cellular), both negative, but when I asked her if we could rule out heavy metals, she said you can never rule them out. She would like to due a heavy metal challenge test with me, but she believes that I am way too weak for that now. So she is working on the immune system with vitamins and MGN3 (which enhances natural killer cell activity). I am also taking alpha lipaic (?) acid which helps detoxify gently. I am thinking that I should think about detoxifying as a long term project and assemble the more gentle supplements for this and perhaps just take them over a one or two year period.
Also I guess gingovocular (something likee that--I mean really who has a brain anymore?) works for HHV6, but it is liver toxic and can only be given intervenously and must be given for the rest of your life. They have recently come out with it in pill form. So I am going to ask her about that. Plus some of the other herpes viruses respond to valtrex. So maybe that would be in order.
Anyway, I will keep you posted. It looks like boosting the immune system is the order of the day (colostrum as well).
Let me know if you hear of anything. I think it is so interesting how they keep saying these herpes viruses (which they all are--HHV6, Epstein Barr and cytameglo virus) are just a nuisance. They can pass the blood brain barrier (at least HSV 1 can) and I just suspect that they are more involved in this stuff than we acknowledge. For instance, they know that people with HSV2 herpes have a higher degree of depression, but they chalk it up to the knowledge of the fact that they have HSV2. Nonsense. It is just a correlational analysis--no causal connection is proven. Let's turn it on it's head and say the HSV2 cuases the depression--what then. HHV6 is implicated with MS and MS is associated with depression as well. Herpes viruses are also associated with chronic fatigue. Same with fibromylagia. All of these conditions are "diseases of unknown etiology"--they are clusters of symptoms (except for MS, which can be diagnosed physically).
We know next to nothing about the brain, viruses, or depression. It's pretty pathetic. Just spouting off I guess.
Keep me posted on your journey as well.
Lorraine
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