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It wasn't too long before I had and apt. with the specialist in Boston. I agreed when I read a number of his published papers which led me to understand he know the disease at an intimate level. At the cellular level. So began a long road of treatment with him. We made the trip to Boston many times in the five years I worked with him. My first visit was the physical, memory tests, and history. He confirmed my diagnosis of Lyme Disease. I was put on a number of oral antibiotics. I knew enough on my own to take probiotics. The treatment symptoms went through a definite cycle of sorts. Mainly, I could feel pain in my bones and inner spine, etc.. Then it would feel like my muscles were sore. After that, My blood, intestines, heart would feel funny until finally my skin would sweat it out. That is a quick synopsis of what took over five years to kind of figure out. There was another cycle to the treatment as well. I went through definite times of pain and Herxing and other times I felt considerably better. It continued like this: the pain cycles were the longest with only a day or so of good days. The pain days grew less as the good days grew more. I could record and mentally track the progress of my improvement, which was a saving grace. When I felt better longer than I felt worse, I stopped going to him. That treatment, which lasted five years, cleared my body of many spirochetes. I could tell by the way my body was able to move, and how I was able to think and follow conversations. And, very importantly, how little pain I was in compared to when I first started. I stayed on this track of about 75% better, for the next couple of years. Certain symptoms just persisted no matter what, it seemed, so I grew tired and let it go.