How many folks are her-2 positive & H. pylori positive???

[Gina]

Thanks to the more than 40 of you who responded to me either on the board or privately about having some Rh negative blood connection and being her-2 positive. No solid data yet, but I will keep you posted.

Today, however, I would like to launch a new poll to see how many of us who are her-2 positive are also positive for Heliocobacter pylori, the same bacterium that has been implicated by nobel prize winning Dr. Barry Marshall of Australia to be at the root of many ulcers and is now a confirmed cause of a certain percentage of stomach and gastro-intestinal cancers and a microbe that is being whispered around NIH as a possible candidate for forming certain kinds of cancers outside the digestive tract for example in the eyes, possibly breasts, and other places? Even if you do not think you have H. pylori, but know that your mother, father, sibling, partner, family member, or even family pet has had it or ulcer-disease, feel free to share your story.

I will start the poll. Hi, I am Gina Popp and I am her-2 positive and have had documented H. pylori since 1996 and still have it.

Ok, I have broken the ice, but ...smile...as always, for those shy ones of you out there who are not comfortable bearing your souls and, uh..., microbes to the world..feel free to send me a private message on this site or e-mail me at home at GPopp@Comcast.net. As always, it is a joy to hear from you all.

Warmest regards,
Gina L. Popp

[chrislmelb]

Gina, you left out i "have been tested for pylori and don't have it", like me.

[Gina]

Thanks, Chris,

I didn't put that one in because the kind of H. pylori in her-2 folks that I am researching and looking for is often the kind that does not show up on ANY test. It doesn't grow in petri dishes or in test tubes... It is called intra-cellular H. pylori (you can google it to learn all of its nasties), and it can infect any cell in your body at any time and perhaps go completely undiagnosed for a lifetime....that is unless it starts leaving a tell-tale signature..of which, according to researchers in Germany, over-expression of her-2 in the infected cell is one of these signatures...over-expression of cox-2 is another. Increase in leptin levels is another. Increase in GGT is another...blah, blah, blah. Maybe one day, I'll be able to piece my thesis together and shrink it into a paragraph and I PROMISE..you guys in Australia with Her-2 will be the first to know as AFTERALL you gave us nobel prize winning Barry Marshall...now, THERE is MY kind of researcher--I mean who ELSE but an Aussie would have the audacity to swallow ulcer spit...tease--but I for one am GLAD he did...grin...Take care all and Good'ay to those Down Under, smile...Gina