Penicillin

Read what Grahame Shannon wrote to the MS mailing list. What you'll read about in Graham's e-mail is that a number of researchers have independently discovered that MS is caused by a hard to find and hard to eradicate bacterium, and the cure is good old fashioned penicillin. After he wrote it, there was a bit of negative feedback to the list, to which I simply replied: you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

(Grahame Shannon used to have a page on the web, but he was being inundated with mail, and he wanted to have a life away from the computer. You are afflicted with MS but you have a life as well. I had an e-mail from a panicked MSer who had heard a rumour that Grahame had relapsed, but I telephoned him and he is just fine.)

Also see the paper by Dr. Luther E. Lindner Multiple Sclerosis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; A bacterial etiology? He's a medical doctor, so it's a serious paper, but it's immensely readable.

I received a lot of e-mails from people asking me what precisely I took -- see here.

I started taking the penicillin on Nov 11 '95. I immediately felt better, but quickly experienced the Herxheimer reaction, i.e. you feel worse before you feel better (it only lasts a couple of weeks but it feels longer). Then I just waited, and by April 5 '96 I felt noticeably better, and could walk much further. But I didn't continue to improve. But before penicillin, my legs felt like thermometers with the numbness rising & falling. Well that's gone.

Now, after 4 years (isn't that almost 6 kilos of penicillin?) I am wondering what I should do. I had one doctor willingly prescribing this month after month, and another doctor telling me that stopping the antibiotics may cause a backwards slide. I just don't know.

But in March '01 I asked Dr Lindner was there any point continuing with the penicillin. His reply suggested a nutritional approach was probably as good as anything - he sent me a paper on nutition and lifestyle. After 5½ years on this regime I feel a bit bewildered.

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