RW: Lyme Disease Almost Ended Robby Andrews’s Career. Here’s What Finally Cured Him

fisky wrote:

Continuing my previous post, but on a new topic...

Robbie's illness highlights the flaws in traditional and alternative medicines, but it doesn't give any advice on what to do about it.

Traditional medicine should be the first line of defense, but you must be proactive. Learn about your illness, your treatment, and ask questions. Change doctors if you don't think your doctor is helping you.

Traditional medicine should be the first line of defense for all serious illnesses/injuries.

Alternative medicines sometimes work, but they are alternative because they don't work all the time for everyone. My rule of thumb is the 85/15 rule. Alternative approaches will fail 85% of the time and succeed only 15% of the time. (Obviously, this isn't scientific, but it's just a rough number to illustrate a point.) For example, it means that if you try one alternative medicine, it will fail to help 85% of the time. If you try two, however, the odds of failure drop to 72%, three is 61%, four is 52%. In other words, if you persist, the odds of finding something that might work swing in your favor. For Robbie, it didn't.

HOWEVER, Robbie did eventually find that a proactive approach and a COMBINATION of traditional and alternative medicines are returning him to good health.

Here is a personal example. As I got older, I would experience a major performance decline 2-3 times a year for no apparent reason. About 5 years ago, I saw my doctor. He explained that mono can lie dormant in your body for years and then flare up. The test was positive for chronic Epstein Barr Virus. We had found the problem! But my doctor said there was no cure. I researched EBV and found that, sure enough, the symptoms of mild EBV were exactly what I was experiencing every 4-6 months... probably brought on by stress or an impaired immune system from a cold or whatever.

I researched EBV online and saw it can be a nasty disease, but I also found a possible treatment. A coconut extract called Lauricidin. How could coconuts possibly help? Still, I was desperate so I ordered a jar. It worked! That was 5 years ago.

This is one example of how traditional medicine and alternative medicine can work together to treat otherwise incurable illnesses. You should start with traditional medicine, but you absolutely must be proactive and not give up if traditional medicine isn't helping.

Vancomycin wrote:

I'm sorry but time + placebo are the reason more 90% of "alternative" (read: statistically ineffective) medicines. Glycerol monolaurate is just a soapy molecule used in a lot of cosmetics as... soap. Let's not get too crazy here.

fisky wrote:

Continuing my previous post, but on a new topic...

Robbie's illness highlights the flaws in traditional and alternative medicines, but it doesn't give any advice on what to do about it.

Traditional medicine should be the first line of defense, but you must be proactive. Learn about your illness, your treatment, and ask questions. Change doctors if you don't think your doctor is helping you.

Traditional medicine should be the first line of defense for all serious illnesses/injuries.

Alternative medicines sometimes work, but they are alternative because they don't work all the time for everyone. My rule of thumb is the 85/15 rule. Alternative approaches will fail 85% of the time and succeed only 15% of the time. (Obviously, this isn't scientific, but it's just a rough number to illustrate a point.) For example, it means that if you try one alternative medicine, it will fail to help 85% of the time. If you try two, however, the odds of failure drop to 72%, three is 61%, four is 52%. In other words, if you persist, the odds of finding something that might work swing in your favor. For Robbie, it didn't.

HOWEVER, Robbie did eventually find that a proactive approach and a COMBINATION of traditional and alternative medicines are returning him to good health.

Here is a personal example. As I got older, I would experience a major performance decline 2-3 times a year for no apparent reason. About 5 years ago, I saw my doctor. He explained that mono can lie dormant in your body for years and then flare up. The test was positive for chronic Epstein Barr Virus. We had found the problem! But my doctor said there was no cure. I researched EBV and found that, sure enough, the symptoms of mild EBV were exactly what I was experiencing every 4-6 months... probably brought on by stress or an impaired immune system from a cold or whatever.

I researched EBV online and saw it can be a nasty disease, but I also found a possible treatment. A coconut extract called Lauricidin. How could coconuts possibly help? Still, I was desperate so I ordered a jar. It worked! That was 5 years ago.

This is one example of how traditional medicine and alternative medicine can work together to treat otherwise incurable illnesses. You should start with traditional medicine, but you absolutely must be proactive and not give up if traditional medicine isn't helping.

fisky wrote:

Continuing my previous post, but on a new topic...

Robbie's illness highlights the flaws in traditional and alternative medicines, but it doesn't give any advice on what to do about it.

Traditional medicine should be the first line of defense, but you must be proactive. Learn about your illness, your treatment, and ask questions. Change doctors if you don't think your doctor is helping you.

Traditional medicine should be the first line of defense for all serious illnesses/injuries.

Alternative medicines sometimes work, but they are alternative because they don't work all the time for everyone. My rule of thumb is the 85/15 rule. Alternative approaches will fail 85% of the time and succeed only 15% of the time. (Obviously, this isn't scientific, but it's just a rough number to illustrate a point.) For example, it means that if you try one alternative medicine, it will fail to help 85% of the time. If you try two, however, the odds of failure drop to 72%, three is 61%, four is 52%. In other words, if you persist, the odds of finding something that might work swing in your favor. For Robbie, it didn't.

HOWEVER, Robbie did eventually find that a proactive approach and a COMBINATION of traditional and alternative medicines are returning him to good health.

Here is a personal example. As I got older, I would experience a major performance decline 2-3 times a year for no apparent reason. About 5 years ago, I saw my doctor. He explained that mono can lie dormant in your body for years and then flare up. The test was positive for chronic Epstein Barr Virus. We had found the problem! But my doctor said there was no cure. I researched EBV and found that, sure enough, the symptoms of mild EBV were exactly what I was experiencing every 4-6 months... probably brought on by stress or an impaired immune system from a cold or whatever.

I researched EBV online and saw it can be a nasty disease, but I also found a possible treatment. A coconut extract called Lauricidin. How could coconuts possibly help? Still, I was desperate so I ordered a jar. It worked! That was 5 years ago.

This is one example of how traditional medicine and alternative medicine can work together to treat otherwise incurable illnesses. You should start with traditional medicine, but you absolutely must be proactive and not give up if traditional medicine isn't helping.