I understand what you are saying, Mrs D. I myself am saving my money and sticking with my fish oil, carnitine, and CoQ10. If lipoid acid didn't lower my thyroid function, I'd be on that, also. I think, overall, I've gotten a lot of help from the straightforward supplements that we use here. But you did mention "membrane stabilization" and that reminded me of the lyme handouts.

LizaJane, thanks for the info. One of my clients manufactures a supplement with CoQ10 and lipoid acid. He's going to send me some samples for nothing and I'll give it a try. One never knows, but maybe I'll get lucky and it will help.

Jay

I just re-read this thread, and there's something left unfinished here. I mention in it several times that I had developed neuro symptoms on Cipro, and considered myself "allergic" to it, in a loose definition of the word allergic.

Well, now that I've been properly diagnosed with Lyme, my doctor tells me that I did NOT have a bad reaction to Cipro, per se; instead, what I had was a herxheimer reaction. Cipro was killing off the lyme bacteria and they were releasing toxins which made me neurologically ill, since these bacteria mainly live in nerve cells. Herxheimer reactions are very common when treating Lyme. He thinks it could have been a tip-off at the time.

Oh well. Better late than never with treatment....

Cipro has significant CNS neuro effects all its own.

Don't have to be allergic or have a "die-off"...Cipro and its family of fluoroquinolones can damage the brain, cause seizures, massive confusion in the elderly (less so in younger patients), and have NOTHING to do with Lyme.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciprofloxacin

Cipro and its cousins are not just antibiotics...they are toxic to many types of cells in mammalian bodies.