A Lyme Disease story

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I was first infected at the age of 7 (way back in 1970) with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and by the age of 9, I was showing the symptoms of late stage Lyme disease (Lyme arthritis), as well as chronic Bartonella symptoms. I may have had more tick-borne infections at that time, but no one was looking for them or their signs, so I learned to live with the ups and downs.

I had periods of my life where I was plagued with different symptoms (narcolepsy, extreme pain, and so on) and I was bed ridden for periods of time as well, then at the age of about 30 I realized that I could no longer work outside the home. IN 2002, I had a Neuro tell me that I had Bell's Palsy due to Lyme disease - but I wasn't ready to hear that - even though I had been looking into that possibility since 2000! LOL!!! [eyes] I was in denial.

It wasn't until 2007, when I was 44 ​years old, that I found a LLMD that agreed to treat me - the late, great Dr. Edwin Masters (RIP). I used antibiotics for a full 12 months and only got worse. I believe there were a number of reasons for this, not simply just because I was using antibiotics. I now know that my body was badly compromised and couldn't detox very well.

I stopped all treatments as I was beginning to have seizures and a ton of serious issues with cognitive function, my intestines shutting down and more. I quite honestly thought I was going home to die. I even called my kids to come up and we had "the talk" of what to do once I was gone.

Fortunately, my husband was not ready to give in just yet and he found a Holistic doctor not far from us that agreed to treat me, even though she said she knew nothing of these infections, but she was willing to learn. At first, after doing her intake of me, she said she wanted me to just go straight to the hospital due to my adrenals crashing - but I refused (LOL!) as I knew that I would have a fight on my hands keeping them from giving me steroids since Lyme isn't even recognized as a threat here.

As I said, My practitioner knew nothing of these infections, but since there was no one else in my state willing to treat those who had Lyme and other tick-borne infections, I decided to start treatments with her and help her learn all I could. I kind of felt like it was my one last chance.

The first 6 months all I did was detox and get my organs and systems in my body to balance back out using herbs and acupuncture. My adrenals were crashing, I had Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, ​​serious issues with my digestive system along with all the symptoms of Lyme, Bartonella, Babesia, chronic Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and more, so we had our work cut out for us.
After th​e first 6 months​, we agreed I would start on the "Chronic Tonic" herbs that can be found on page 77 of this pdf - you'll have to copy and paste this: http//:www.misty meadows.org/wendy docs/Lyme Disease.pdf​
Then choose the top listing that comes up. They are making it harder and harder to link to this - sorry!!

​ Although my Practitioner had me make the medicinal tea differently, I used all the herbs listed and in the amounts listed. It only took 2 months of using this medicinal tea before I started really feeling some decent improvements in my symptoms.I used this medicinal tea for a total of a full 12 months.

Three months after starting the 'Chronic Tonic', we added in Houttuynia - also made into a medicinal tea for my Bartonella infection. I used this medicinal tea for a total of 9 months and finished the same time as I finished my Lyme treatment. At this point I didn't seem to have many symptoms of either infection left, although it was obvious that my nerves hadn't healed yet.

We started treatment for Babesia, which proved to be quite stubborn for me. We used many herbs - often changing them every 2 weeks, tons of acupuncture and many changes in my diet to help me get through. There were so many herbs that were used to support the different organs I was having issues with, like my spleen, liver, (always) intestines, even my kidneys for a while. After treating for a full 12 months, we decided it was time to take that nerve racking 'trial run' without any treatments. To my delight and surprise, it worked!

 I was reinfected the summer of 2014, but started back on my herbs and once again, I am symptom free! I now use astragalus to keep me protected from any more of these infections and it's working very well.
 
 I can be found on Healing Well's Lyme forum. I post under the screen name of Traveler.