three years ago I came down with Bells Palsy.. living in a place where Lyme Disease is endemic and recollecting a tick bite several months prior made a self diagnosis pretty sure. I googled treatments and found none that I thought would help what I believed to be a somewhat advanced case (where the bacteria were attacking my nervous system). A quick visit to my optometrist helped a little with eye care. He tried to get me to see my doctor (who could not fit it in) or go to the hospital. I decided to self treat with rest and juicing and eating foods that I believed would build my immune system like greens and aloe vera.
The Bells Palsy subsided in a week.. I have some residual nerve effects (sometimes I squint and tear when I chew I also had other symtoms like numbness and tingling in my arms, and fatigue.. they passed.. but it took a year or two to really feel strong again.
The spirochetal bacteria that causes Lyme Disease is pretty nasty.. people who diagnose it early can get a simple antibiotic which is effective.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Lyme Success Story with MMS
MMS saved my life. I've had LD for over 20 years but have always been asymptomatic. Lyme symptoms hit me really hard after some big stresses in my life and I basically couldn't get out of bed from inflammation in my head and spine and joints with extreme fatigue. I looked like a cancer patient and not like myself at all. The mirror was my enemy. Salt/C and rife (my main ammunition at the time) didn't touch the state I was in. This was 6 months ago. Then I heard about MMS. I took one drop and was so nauseous and tired I thought it was poisonous - but it's really not, it's just the lyme dying at a fast rate producing horrible neurotoxins. It took me a few months to get up to 10 drops and every time I took it I would get nauseous, extremely tired and lots of diarrhea - but my head and spine were becoming less inflamed with time. I started to feel and look somewhat normal again. After about 4 months of this I felt like I couldn't go on so I took a big rest from it. During my rest from MMS I felt really good but after a few weeks the inflammation in my head started to creep back slowly. I went back on MMS and realized that now I could take it and it cured the inflammation but I wasn't feeling so ill anymore, fatigue stopped being a problem and diarrhea is gone. I think it cleared a ton of junk from my body in a very short period of time. I still take MMS because the war is going to be a long one as I have had the lyme in my body for so damn long. Here's the important part of this story. I NOW FEEL BETTER AND LOOK YOUNGER THAN I HAVE IN 20 YEARS. I'M 45 YEARS OLD AND I'M TRAINING FOR A TRIATHLON FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE. LYME IS STILL IN MY BODY MAKING ME STIFF AND CRACK A BIT, BUT I AM SO HAPPY THAT I STUCK IT OUT BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE A NEW PERSON.
HERE'S ANOTHER IMPORTANT THING THAT I TOOK. I ORDERED BORRELLIA BORGDORFI 200C HOMEOPATHIC FROM HELIOS IN THE UK. I PUT A FEW (3) PELLETS IN A BOTTLE OF PURIFIED WATER (NVER TOUCH THE PELLETS WITH YOUR HANDS) AND HIT THE BOTTLE 10 TIMES BEFORE TAKING A TEASPOON DAILY. (I KEEP THE BOTTLE IN THE FRIDGE MARKED SO THAT NO ONE THINKS IT'S REGULAR WATER). THIS HOMEOPATHIC HELPED ME TREMENDOUSLY ALONG WITH THE MMS).
I drink MMS in organic concord grape juice from Trader Joes or in organic prune juice (neither have vit c in them). I squeeze a lemon or a lime and dropper in the amount I need to activate the MMS. My maintenance dose is 12 drops of MMS before bed (brush my teeth immediately after).
I do not and hopefully never will take antibiotics. I use homeopathy for all of my medical needs.
God bless you and I wish you success in your quest for recovery.
HERE'S ANOTHER IMPORTANT THING THAT I TOOK. I ORDERED BORRELLIA BORGDORFI 200C HOMEOPATHIC FROM HELIOS IN THE UK. I PUT A FEW (3) PELLETS IN A BOTTLE OF PURIFIED WATER (NVER TOUCH THE PELLETS WITH YOUR HANDS) AND HIT THE BOTTLE 10 TIMES BEFORE TAKING A TEASPOON DAILY. (I KEEP THE BOTTLE IN THE FRIDGE MARKED SO THAT NO ONE THINKS IT'S REGULAR WATER). THIS HOMEOPATHIC HELPED ME TREMENDOUSLY ALONG WITH THE MMS).
I drink MMS in organic concord grape juice from Trader Joes or in organic prune juice (neither have vit c in them). I squeeze a lemon or a lime and dropper in the amount I need to activate the MMS. My maintenance dose is 12 drops of MMS before bed (brush my teeth immediately after).
I do not and hopefully never will take antibiotics. I use homeopathy for all of my medical needs.
God bless you and I wish you success in your quest for recovery.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Another Lyme success story
From: NE USA
Registered: Sep 2001
posted 27 November 2002 15:25 from lymenet
I think Lou is right-- people get better, and go about their lives, so that we don't often hear that side of things. I'm still around, at least from time to time, because I remember how much the encouragement meant to me when I got here.
Here's mY story. It is still unfinished, but so far, it is one of the good ones:
I trace my Lyme back to 1987, but during the years I was diagnosed with mono, suspected to have MS, depression, finally diagnosed with CFS. But I kept getting sicker.
A year ago I was so sick I was frightened. I had been going downhill for years, and it was accelerating to the point I had become incapable of living by myself, was almost entirely housebound, and increasingly bedbound.
Sometimes it was all I could do to take care of my immediate physical needs. I had severe tendonitis, ibs, was unable to be around more than 2 people at a time, watch tv, or read any but simple things because I could not concentrate. I lived in fog and pain.
I finally was able to convince a pcp to send my sample to Igenex-- some of you long-timers might remember me from then, because it was you-all who guided me through this, and the next steps of finding an LLMD.
I started treatment almost exactly eight months ago. I have been getting steadily better since, though of course with all the ups and downs that goes with recovery from Lyme (and, it turned out, a couple other TBDs).
Here is where I am now:
Monday evening, I participated in a communtity event with over 100 people in a school gym, the culminaton of 4 weeks of small group meetings. I talked lucidly with dozens of people, (cheated and ate a cookie), and volunteered to work on a task force to create a community recreation program and other community-building projects. For the first time in many years, I feel I can make a commitment to doing something like that, and be able to follow through.
The next morning, I babysat my granddaughter while my daughter went to an emergency dentist appt and did Thanksgiving shopping. I crashed in the afternoon, but was still able to stay up to watch Frasier on tv, and then keep watch so that the delinquents next door didn't throw things at our house to wake up my toddler granddaughter (sadly, a routine occurance).
Today I did laundry, folded clothes, played with my granddaughter, gave my son-in-law a hard time, wrote down all my old Thanksgiving recipes for my daughter. Now I am having my regular afternoon rest (still a must).
Tomorrow I will help my daughter prepare a quiet, traditional dinner with just my family, and then get lots of rest, because Friday I have a long drive to see my LLMD.
This all amazes me. It is far more than I ever expected. And it keeps improving. I am nearly pain free except when I herx. The herxes are much lighter-- I have not had one in weeks that put me in bed for the day, though I felt ucky.
I read the paper clear through daily, subscribe to several magazines again, which I read a bit at a time, because I am still in the process of rebuilding my cognitive abilities. I manage the VtLyme list, maintain two websites, and am beginning to write essays, fiction, and poetry in dribs and drabbles again.
I go for walks, which are getting longer, occasionally break into a run just for the heck of it. I chase my granddaughter through the house playing. Once a week I do "light" shopping. My family and I go on regular outings, and though I do get tired, I no longer have to spend two days in bed recovering.
No, I'm not completely well, yet. And I still have an occasional out-and-out sucky day. But I am living my life again, making friends, reaching out into the world. I am no longer isolated inside my illness.
I don't know if I'll be able to go back to work, but it is something I dream about, and am beginning to think it might be possible, if only part-time. We'll see.
In ten days I'll be 60 years old. What joy I feel that though I've lost my middle years, I have a healthy and active old age to look forward to. And next June my sixth grandchild will be born. And I am beginning to be able to be the kind of grandmother I always wanted to be.
I also still need you all. This is a huge transition in my life: from invalid to reclaiming health, and I need to share that with others who are also going through this process, with all the hopes and uncertainties it entails. I still experience both of those feelings, and everything in between. But, more and more, simple gratitude that after all those years, and all that loss, I am recovering, and have a life again.
Love and hugs to all of you,
and especially-- thanks!
Dayle Ann
Registered: Sep 2001
posted 27 November 2002 15:25 from lymenet
I think Lou is right-- people get better, and go about their lives, so that we don't often hear that side of things. I'm still around, at least from time to time, because I remember how much the encouragement meant to me when I got here.
Here's mY story. It is still unfinished, but so far, it is one of the good ones:
I trace my Lyme back to 1987, but during the years I was diagnosed with mono, suspected to have MS, depression, finally diagnosed with CFS. But I kept getting sicker.
A year ago I was so sick I was frightened. I had been going downhill for years, and it was accelerating to the point I had become incapable of living by myself, was almost entirely housebound, and increasingly bedbound.
Sometimes it was all I could do to take care of my immediate physical needs. I had severe tendonitis, ibs, was unable to be around more than 2 people at a time, watch tv, or read any but simple things because I could not concentrate. I lived in fog and pain.
I finally was able to convince a pcp to send my sample to Igenex-- some of you long-timers might remember me from then, because it was you-all who guided me through this, and the next steps of finding an LLMD.
I started treatment almost exactly eight months ago. I have been getting steadily better since, though of course with all the ups and downs that goes with recovery from Lyme (and, it turned out, a couple other TBDs).
Here is where I am now:
Monday evening, I participated in a communtity event with over 100 people in a school gym, the culminaton of 4 weeks of small group meetings. I talked lucidly with dozens of people, (cheated and ate a cookie), and volunteered to work on a task force to create a community recreation program and other community-building projects. For the first time in many years, I feel I can make a commitment to doing something like that, and be able to follow through.
The next morning, I babysat my granddaughter while my daughter went to an emergency dentist appt and did Thanksgiving shopping. I crashed in the afternoon, but was still able to stay up to watch Frasier on tv, and then keep watch so that the delinquents next door didn't throw things at our house to wake up my toddler granddaughter (sadly, a routine occurance).
Today I did laundry, folded clothes, played with my granddaughter, gave my son-in-law a hard time, wrote down all my old Thanksgiving recipes for my daughter. Now I am having my regular afternoon rest (still a must).
Tomorrow I will help my daughter prepare a quiet, traditional dinner with just my family, and then get lots of rest, because Friday I have a long drive to see my LLMD.
This all amazes me. It is far more than I ever expected. And it keeps improving. I am nearly pain free except when I herx. The herxes are much lighter-- I have not had one in weeks that put me in bed for the day, though I felt ucky.
I read the paper clear through daily, subscribe to several magazines again, which I read a bit at a time, because I am still in the process of rebuilding my cognitive abilities. I manage the VtLyme list, maintain two websites, and am beginning to write essays, fiction, and poetry in dribs and drabbles again.
I go for walks, which are getting longer, occasionally break into a run just for the heck of it. I chase my granddaughter through the house playing. Once a week I do "light" shopping. My family and I go on regular outings, and though I do get tired, I no longer have to spend two days in bed recovering.
No, I'm not completely well, yet. And I still have an occasional out-and-out sucky day. But I am living my life again, making friends, reaching out into the world. I am no longer isolated inside my illness.
I don't know if I'll be able to go back to work, but it is something I dream about, and am beginning to think it might be possible, if only part-time. We'll see.
In ten days I'll be 60 years old. What joy I feel that though I've lost my middle years, I have a healthy and active old age to look forward to. And next June my sixth grandchild will be born. And I am beginning to be able to be the kind of grandmother I always wanted to be.
I also still need you all. This is a huge transition in my life: from invalid to reclaiming health, and I need to share that with others who are also going through this process, with all the hopes and uncertainties it entails. I still experience both of those feelings, and everything in between. But, more and more, simple gratitude that after all those years, and all that loss, I am recovering, and have a life again.
Love and hugs to all of you,
and especially-- thanks!
Dayle Ann
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