by inmacdonald » Fri 23 Nov 2012 17:22 ALS-like Lyme and ALS not related to Lyme Neuroborreliosis:
Let us reduce the discussion to progressive incapacitating Motor Neuron Disease. Dr William Harvey ,now deceased from a Heart Attack in year 2012 an buried with honor at the Cemetery of the US Air force Academy, developed Motor Neuron disease,progressive type. He diagnosed himself ..He started a course of Long term antiborrelia antiBabesial antimicrobialtherapy. Dr. William Harvey experienced a reversal of his motor neuron disease after long term antibiotic therapy.
Dr David Martz developed progressive motor neuron disease. He was diagnosed by several consultant neurologists as “most consistent with Amotropic Lateral Sclerosis. His children searched the Internet and found the newspaper reports of Dr William Harvey’s results with the success of long term antibiotic and antibabesia therapy in motor neuron disease. Dr David Martz became a patient of Dr Bill Harvey. Long term Therapy with antiborrelia/antibabesial medications produced a reversal of his disease. but from time to time, Dr David Martz must restart the Dr Harvey Protocol to maintain his recovery.
Dr. David Martz and I had a conversation on Nov 3, 2012 in Boston. We discussed our “MarkTwain” moments. Dr.Martz has since his recovery, treated multiple patients with Antibiotics/antibabesial medications and has noted reversal of motor neuron disease in his patients. He is drafting a manuscript to report these patients. It is likely that the completed manuscript will be published in a Scandinavian Neurology Journal, just as his case report was published. It is noteworthy that previous to the acceptance of the Harvey Martz manuscript in a Scandinavian Journal, it was reviewed and rejected by multiple journals based in the USA and in the United Kingdom.
Any therapy which is capable of reversing the untreated natural history of Motor Neuron Disease is Press-worthy. The untreated natural history of Motor Neuron Disease is a short pathway to death by suffocation. Above all , do no harm. Best, Alan B> MacDonald MD
Motor neuron disease recovery associated with IV ceftriaxone and anti-Babesia therapy
Conclusion
We have documented the full neurological recovery in a patient with an unrecoverable MND. Thesuccessful clinical outcome was associated with antibiotic therapy in response to evidence of two concurrent infections.
We suggest that MND may be associated with an infectious trigger in certain cases. The use of antibiotic therapy in MND merits further evaluation.
The above comments by Dr MacDonald was posted on Lymenet Forum here in response to my comments about an ALS/MND forum post.
Earlier posts about Dr Martz and his research can be found here
