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by davea0511 » Thu Nov 20, 2014 10:02 am
Thank you for the replies Owen. As for context, for the last 6 months I've been doing my own "what, why and how" write-up for IVC, intended for the layperson (I'm actually about 100 pages into it so far, with 50+ different references to the medline database). As part of that effort I'm trying to assess whatever conditions will cause a contraindication, and your experience of severe RA during the Cathcart protocol is significant for a number of reasons, mainly because of the severity, and of course being that you are one of the foremost proponent of vitamin C therapies. It then follows that I should at least try to understand what might have caused the RA and any other adverse symptoms that you experienced.
I know that Solu-Cortef has been prescribed previously by many IVC practitioners to help mitigate the effects of herxheimer (prevents inflammation, allergic reaction) and you mentioned yourself that a push of it prior to administration made a big difference. As for a mechanism, endogenous steroids (cortisol) might always be necessary during IVC to keep the immune response system at bay and you didn't have enough. So it may be that anyone without sufficient cortisol will experience some sort of herxheimer-like reaction. Since it might be unrelated to preexisting toxins, I don't know however if that qualifies as a true herxheimer reaction though. I do have hydrocortisone (eg. SoluCortef) listed as one of a number of potential remedies for herxheimer type reaction.
I am also curious now why you now say that you would be afraid of doing 200g of Bioniche, when in fact it was the Cathcart that gave you the RA, yes?
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