Have you been told you have MS? You might have Lyme —and its treatable.

Jenna Luché-Thayer. July 14, 2020

FRIENDS,

A type of bacteria known as spirochetes can cause Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Spirochetes also cause Lyme disease ... and Lyme can imitate MS.

How many persons have been wrongfully misdiagnosed with incurable MS, instead of treatable spirochetal infections such as Lyme?

For the first time in over 25 years, the international medical codes —developed with expertise from 194 countries and known as ICD11— now recognize that Lyme can have life threatening complications that mimic MS, as well as other diseases of Central Nervous System demyelination.

The ICD11 medical code is:

8A45.0Y "Other Specified white matter disorders due to infections; Central Nervous System demyelination due to Lyme borreliosis”

MS is a clinical diagnosis, there are no specific tests to determine MS. I personally was misdiagnosed with MS, when in fact I had the spirochetal infection of Lyme disease in my central nervous system.

I had certain symptoms that are common to both MS and Lyme disease. My MRI test showed brain lesions common to MS. These same kinds of lesions can be caused by Lyme infection in the central nervous system.

In the US and most countries, MS is not treated with antibiotics but with expensive patented 'biologics', which are immuno-suppressant drugs.

Thankfully, I did not take the immuno-suppressant drugs they recommended for MS. If I had, my Lyme infection would have most likely overwhelmed me and I might well be dead.

Since being treated for Lyme —first with many months of antibiotics and later with disulfiram— I no longer have MS symptoms.

The recognition by the ICD11 of these 'MS like' complications should encourage all those who have been diagnosed with MS to seek additional information regarding the cause of their symptoms. It may be, like myself, they discover they have a disease that is treatable and, like myself, they may regain a good quality of life.

Articles demonstrating evidence of spirochetes as a cause of MS have been published for over a century.

Here follows an illustrative (not exhaustive) example of such scientific articles as shared by scientist and Lyme advocate Thomas Grier.

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From Thomas Grier:

Is all MS caused by spirochetes?

No.

But those "MS" patients with spirochetal infection and neurologic disease often respond to antibiotic treatment.

TWO STUDIES have shown MS patients with Lyme infection had recoveries on antibiotics:

(1) 1995 the preliminary Lyme Endemic Areas of the Midwest MS Study, or LEAMS Study, sought to determine if local MS patients were actually Lyme patients. It showed eight out of 26 MS patients responded well with three months of antibiotics. One patient had a near full recovery because she stayed on amoxicillin for another 15 months.

(2) 1998 Dr. Patricia Coyle's (SUNY) research showed 15 of 47 MS patients had Borrelia [Lyme spirochetes] antigens in their spinal fluid, and responded to antibiotics. From the 'Abbreviated conference abstracts 72-77 from the 1996 San Francisco International Lyme Disease Research Symposia": Abstract #D646 - P.K. Coyle, et al. Multiple Sclerosis vs. Lyme Disease: A Diagnostic Dilemma. Forty-seven patients were identified as possible MS patients. 61 percent showed brain lesions in their MRIs, consistent with MS. CSF findings were consistant with MS in 46 percent of the patients. The final breakdown of the 47 patients was: 21 with MS, 15 had Lyme disease (LD), seven had findings constant with both LD and MS. Thirteen patients responded to antibiotics, but only those who had CSF findings consistent with LD.

Both studies indicate that 30 percent of MS patients in Lyme endemic areas may actually have Lyme disease.

Early MS research accomplishments showed lesions from MS patients caused infections in inoculated animals; then spirochetes could be seen in those animal’s brain or tissues. 

RELATED MS SPIROCHETAL STUDIES:

1911 Buzzard. Spirochetes in MS. Lancet

1913 Bullock. MS Agent in Rabbits. Lancet

1917 Steiner. Spirochetes The Cause of MS. Med Kiln

1918 Simmering Spirochetes in MS by Darkfield Micro

1918 Steiner G. Guinea Pig Inoculation with MS infectious agent from Human

1919 Steiner/ MS Agent Inoculation into Monkeys

1921 Gye F. MS Agent In Rabbits Brain 14:213

1922 Kaberlah. MS Agent In Rabbits. Deutch Med Works

1922 Sicard. MS Spirochetes in Animal Model. Rev Neurol

1922 Stepanopoulo. Spirochetes in the CSF of MS Patients

1923 Schlossman. MS Agent in Animal Model. Rev Neuro

1924 Blacklock. MS Agent in Animals. Journal of Path and Bac

1927 Wilson. The Rat as A Carrier of MS. British Med Journal

1927 Steiner G. Understanding the Pathogenesis of MS

1928 Steiner. Spirochetes in the Human Brain of MS Patients

1933 Simons. Spirochetes in the CSF of MS Patients

1939 Hassin. Spirochete-like formations in MS

1948 Adams. Spirochetes within the Ventricle Fluid of Monkeys Inoculated from Human MS

1952 Steiner. Acute Plaques in MS and the Pathogenic Role of Spirochetes as the Etiological Factor. Journal of Neuropathology Exp Med 11: No 4:343

1954 Steiner. Morphology of Spirochaeta Myelophthora [Myelin Loving]. MS Journal of Neuropathology and 1954 Exp Neurol 11:4 343

1957 Ichelson R. Cultivation of Spirochetes from Spinal Fluids of MS Cases with Negative Controls. Procl. Soc. Exp. Biol Med 70:411

Please stay safe.

Faithfully,

Jenna

Jenna Luché-Thayer. 35+ years working globally on the rights of the marginalized. Former Senior Advisor to the United Nations and the US Government. Director, Ad Hoc Committee for Health Equity in ICD11 Borreliosis Codes. Founder, Global Network on Institutional Discrimination, Inc. —Holding institutions accountable for political and scientific solutions. 

Author of $Lyme. Email jennaluche@gmail.com website: www.gnid.world