I am still trying to get a grasp on Chlamydia Pneumoniae, I just found out on 4-11-07.  But I have been sick for awhile  .  I am just starting Antibioticsⁱ again......eeeeek .  My symptoms have been sinus infectionsⁱ and uppper respitory infections , Phlaringitis, Broncotitis, Asthmaⁱ.  In and out of the Dr. office the month of April, and my throat swelled shut I could go on and on.  I ended up at an Infetious disease Dr.

So now I have a dozen self inflicted flagyllations under my belt and the Cpnⁱ is fighting to get out!   How do I know this?  Because my arms, back and thighs are errupting.   Yes, those parts of my body look like a string of volcanoes that have suddently surfaced from the ocean.   They are of different sizes and are at different stages of evolution and when they stop errupting they leave a lovely pattern of red flesh with a pale crusty crater and a tiny red spot in the middle.   This has been going on for a couple of months now, started off with a rash of little widespead spots, some of them grew and some of them stayed small.   All very itchy, but I think that things are quietening down now.   No new ones since I started the last pulse (#12)

Yes, that's us, Ella, Hamish and I, fighters, scrapper, survivors; however heavy our concrete boots, so far we have always made it back to the surface.

Stricktly speaking of course Hamish should not feature in this blog as he is not likely to ever follow a CAPⁱ for his treatment, but I thought you would like to know that he is slowly making progress after his stem cell transplant.   Someone suggested that Cpnⁱ might be implicated in CLL (chronic lymphocistic leukemia), but my husband is much too conservative to try anything as controversial as the CAP, instead he has received a treatment which cost the NHS (National Health Service) $235,000.   At present he is still in hospital, in isolation and getting very impatient to get out.   He is likely to be there for at least another fortnight (two weeks).

I am female, 42 yeas old, 172 cm with 62 kg weight. Never had trouble with blood pressure - at least not before I catched my lung infection.

My serum lipids have been / are always normal, sometimes even to low.

Risk factor is my smoking (yes - I know I have to stop - I have stopped before I went ill. But I started again and in the current situation I really do not know how to manage it..). I smoke about 15 cigarettes per day. I eat healthy food and have normal body activity because I have no car and do everything by walking or go by bike. Besides I live in the 3rd floor without elevator und do all the shopping for two persons alone.

High blood pressureⁱ was diagnosed at first in September 2005 when I went to hospital. It was >200 / 140 or anything. They did not further investigate for reasons, but wrote a letter to my doc, that investigation and BP medicine have to follow.

If I were the real thing I would not be a ghost writer but this story must be told and will be as accurately as possible.  

Dr R has now been off of 1 of his 3 bp meds for a week and today his bp was 112/59 - pulse 59.   Even in his deepest sleep and 3 meds I bet it was never close to the highest of the past month or more.    The usual was at about 149/89 - last January, before beginning abxⁱ.  Now it has ranged from 144/84 to 136/75 to 116/69 to 107/65 with the lower range being much more usual.  Today both of us are less tired than in the past week.  I asked him if he knew what that meant, and of couse he said no.  I said "You are following the pattern of the rest of us - this is the third week of the cycle and you are sick, too".  Then I stopped him and looking him straight in the eye, said "Even the most skeptical of you guys will have to think something is happening"    So, we leave in 1 week for the Nationals and I think will "do" tinidazole  instead of flagylⁱ.  This will be #3 pulse for Dr R. Doing flagyl at the Nationals  might be kind of like the astronauts going outside the ship without a tether.

This is in response to David Wheldonⁱ's post http://www.cpnhelp.org/?q=blood_pressure_experience. If you want to download the BP.xls, you can use it to chart your BP changes. It's not ready for prime time, but it does work if you are familiar with MSⁱ Excel.

I'll keep looking for a BP chart maker online -- if I find it, I'll let you know. This is very much an experiment with Drupal -- if it tanks, I'll take it down.

Worked just fine, so I'll leave this post alone.

Ron