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2.0 out of 5 stars
Not Convinced, May 16 2007
By Marcus Oliver "MOS82" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments: Defeat Lyme Disease with the Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicine (Paperback)
I am a Lyme patient and Lyme educator in Georgia. In reading Rosner's book there were some problems that caused me to question its validity. Before writing this review I consulted with a couple of experienced Lyme doctors (ILADS members). Before my thoughts, let me say that I will give the book 2 stars because it is well-written and easy to read.The first problem is that Mr. Rosner is not a medical practitioner. The medical practitioner whom I personally see and the other one whom I discussed this with both agree that most of those "top 10" were in fact not particularly effective in their population of Lyme patients - except for antibiotics (not necessarily Rosner's suggestions however). Both said that probably the main reason that chronic Lyme patients don't get well is that co-infections are not properly diagnosed and aggressively treated. (That was my case with "chronic Lyme" that turned out to be Babesia).
The next comment was about the claim that the Marshall protocol is somehow a wonderful treatment. Both thought that it was potentially very dangerous to induce a Vitamin D deficiency is a person. Very few credible Lyme docs still promote the Marshall protocol. In fact, Dr. Klinghardt (recognized expert) from the West Coast used to promote it and now says that his results have been very disappointing. Both my docs said that they would avoid it, and that the people who did manage to improve on it probably did so because of the use of low dose antibiotics.
Finally, both my docs chuckled when they learned that Mangosteen was one of the top 10 Lyme treatments. (One of them had never heard of it and the other said that it didn't help anyone except one person's sleep problem.) Seems like someone is pushing a specific product for a reason. (I'll leave it at that.) Apparently, there are a lot of useful "natural" substances that should have made the list before Mangosteen.
In summary, while there is some good information in the book, overall I would not recommend it to serious students of Lyme disease.
44 of 52 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you are confused and disappointed with your Lyme disease treatment, get this book!, Dec 17 2007
By Dr Tedde M. Rinker - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments: Defeat Lyme Disease with the Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicine (Paperback)
I am a preventive medicine specialist and do not actively treat Lyme Disease with antibiotics, but I definitely end up diagnosing this condition in many people who come to me with a wide variety of chronic, multi-system complaints. I refer out to LLD's, and help patients keep their hormones, adrenal function and toxicity clearance in stable condition while they pursue treatment. I watch them, as some get better, but many also get worse. For those who feel as Bryan Rosner felt, after consulting a multitude of physicians and paying thousands of dollars for the very latest treatments, that you are not better and you are "on your own", get this book. Chronic Lyme disease sufferers are often on their own, with not even the enlightened health care practitioner to turn to, if antibiotics fail to heal them. Mr. Rosner, a journalist, a Lyme disease sufferer and a very intelligent man, found himself on his own in this way and began a journey to recovery that he shared with many thousands of others, trying to heal from Lyme disease using alternative, often unusual techniques. He is careful to tell us when he is simply offerring an opintion (such as with his use of the Marshall protocol), and to tell us that he is not a healthcare practitioner but he has worked hard to get a concensus view from hundreds if not thousands of people who are trying alternative treatments with success. He tells us about the war-like controversies among the medical professionals about how to treat this condition, and aptly points out that even the most enlightened of these does not guarantee a cure for people who have suffered with the condition for many years, especially if they have severe adverse reactions to antibiotics. I deeply appreciate this survey of what is working for people who have not gotten help from antibiotics alone or herbs alone. We desparately need such dialogue. The book is cogently written, easy to follow, very well organized and thorough. These treatments may or may not work for you if you have Lyme Disease, but you will have gained a good deal of insight and knowledge about the disease and about what many other people are doing to get well. The bottom line is that it is up to you, and if you find yourself abandoned by medicine or unable to tolerate antibiotic treatment, this book is definitely worth the read.Dr. Tedde M. Rinker, Redwood City, CA.
53 of 65 people found the following review helpful
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Patient, LLMD and Naturopath concerned about this book, April 20 2007
By Audrey Ries-Pullman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments: Defeat Lyme Disease with the Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicine (Paperback)
My LLMD and naturopath were concerned about this book and asked me to share these ideas here because it looks like everyone just goes along that this book is terrific. They say this is not so, and so do other patients and doctors. They were really upset that someone could write a book and declare 10 Best Treatments with no real authority or OK by the LL doctors and that gives the impression that these are treatments used by good LLMDs and good alternative doctors. It makes them all look weird and it is hard enough to get help for patients doing the smart things they do. They had many concerns because all they see is people saying this book is great and that is not so but no one says anything because they feel they will be attacked. I can only have room for a few.These 5 core treatments that even include the author's way of how to take antibiotics is his only and does not reflect what LL doctors want their patients to do. The book really pushes Rifing as the basic core treatment even with antibiotics, something that only a very small group of people follow. The author makes it sound like it is an accepted practice or should be. The title of the book misleads you. The basic therapies have been pushed on the internet a lot , and potential harm can come from these things to patient health and finances and delay in getting real help. Taking salt at high doses can be harmful as can like the silver therapy and herbs are very potent and must be used very very carefully. He pushes mangosteen, an overpriced fruit juice, that has all sorts of cure claims all over the internet so that the FDA even had to step in. My naturopath said that this is what gives his profession and other alternative professionals a bad name. He said you can't just take supplements and herbs from some book or the internet because they can hurt you like regular medicine. The author says to use trial and error with these things and my doctors say they have a hard time sorting out what is going on when their patients are sicker from they don't know what. The therapies are not backed by good evidence as is said all over the place. He just leads you in to feel it is OK to do this and that, but don't blame him if it doesn't work.
The doctors know that patients get desperate for help and when they read books like this or see all sorts of fringe stuff on the internet that is Okayed by other people, they want to try it. Too often they get in much worse shape. I know as a Lyme patient how this feels, and I also am ashamed to say that I have been sucked in to trying a few useless protocols and a number of ones that hurt me.
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