Saturday, May 11, 2013
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Tick Talk Ireland supports worldwide lyme disease protest
Look this up on You Tube, worth it. The name of the video is above. You may also find it at the worldwide protest web site or FB page.
The pic of the doc seen is my doctor in D. C., all the way from Ireland.
The pic of the doc seen is my doctor in D. C., all the way from Ireland.
"How goes my treatment?"
I am happy to say my treatment is going very well right now! Since finishing up the heavy duty treatment for both Borreliosis and Babesia, I am reaping the benefits. I love when this happens. It is a slow process of feeling good a few days, then, if treatment is working, the good days stretch longer, and the sick days decrease. I've been experiencing this a long time. (see first blog entries) Here is the best part; since enduring the winter treatment plan, I now feel terrific, and haven't felt this way in a very, very long time. Many years, as a matter of fact.
I ended my winter plan in April, had three plus weeks off, then began the new treatment plan, a much lighter one. It was much more easily endured, and herxing was light, happening the last three days of the two week plan. Now I am off treatment, for three weeks. It will be a good measure of how well I can hold my own. I'll be doing the two weeks 'on' (but only three days a week) and three weeks 'off' all summer, so I will be posting how I hold up. I have not had a three week 'off' cycle since beginning treatment. This helping to build up my own bodies ability to fight the infection on it's own, and helps gauge how much bacteria, etc. has been irradiated. How well I hold up during extended 'off' cycles is an indicator of a number of things. Detox is the name of the game even more now. I am in a good place to finish my goal of maintaining a healthy liver and lymph system so detoxing on my own can be effective.
I am praying this is truly the beginning of the end, and I hold up. If so, I decrease treatment once again when I go back to my doctor in August. Meanwhile it just plain feels good to feel good.
Lyme disease: Price skyrockets for doxycycline antibiotic | Minnesota Public Radio News
Lyme disease: Price skyrockets for doxycycline antibiotic | Minnesota Public Radio News
Great. What else can happen to delay treatment? Ugh.
Great. What else can happen to delay treatment? Ugh.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Monday, May 6, 2013
Lyme Mob in Maine!
Yesterday was the big day. Kickoff to "May is Lyme Awareness" month. Local businesses donated everything needed for the event, such as copies, tables, venue, water, and even a tick sculpture. My fellow Lymie friend and I brought our personal stories, and information from our different treatment plans. Very interesting. There are many options for treatment and people pick and choose to their liking. Seems like I have tried it all from homeopathic, to acupuncture, massage, hydrotherapy, over the counter pain killers, and vitamins and supplements. Not to mention antibiotics. My personal recommendation is to do them all, under the care of someone who knows the immune system and the bodies cellular needs. I feel blessed to have a doctor who is well rounded in his approach as well. That makes us a good match.
At the Lyme Event, we set up tables, had information out our ears for people, and a generous amount of information from my Vet on pets. I brought my dog who was diagnosed with Lyme two years ago and treated with three weeks of doxycycline. It was a general 'joke' that if you want more than two doxis' you need to go to your pets Vet. Not funny. We heard too many stories of people who were actually diagnosed and given 1 to 2 to 3 pills and told that was all they needed. I feel so sorry not only for those folks, but for doctors. The doctors today are stuck between a rock and a hard place. I'm not sure how hard they are fighting to get out of that spot, though. It is easier to leave it to specialists, it seems, and specialists who are effective in getting people BETTER are few and far between. And so the saga continues. One day, just like Polio, TB, and Aids, Lyme will be figured out, and a protocol which actually works with be determined. Ticks of the future will have to live with it. It's the people in between now and then who will suffer, being left with unanswered 'mysterious' neurological deficits.
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