Lyme and enzymes

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This topic is hitting very close to home for me, and I really want to find *the*

answer (yeah, I know---wishful thinking)

Got Lyme in '01. Fortunately had bull's eye so got started on 28 days of Doxy.

End of problem----I assumed.

In autumn '03 got caught up in the new Vitalzyme craze and took these systemic

enzymes from mid-Sept to mid Jan of '04 when I ran out. Product extremely

pricey.

2 weeks after stopping enzymes my problems began with what eventually turned out

to be a lipoma in left groin area. It was painfully pulling on whole left leg.

Had it removed in June of '06. Surgeon said she didn't think it was source of

what had become a very painful *left* hip (somthing on this planet seems to like

to attack left hips!) and to see an ortho. Ortho said arthritis and I would

sooner or later need a hip replacement.

What I don't know, and may never know, is if this arthritic hip is from Lyme

(bull's eye was high on left thigh), did it have anything to do with using then

abruptly stopping the enzymes, OR is it just the result from a twisted pelvis

which every chiro I ever saw for 25 yrs dxed.......

Kathy's comment about enzymes breaking things down is what my mind has been

playing with ever since this whole mess started.

So, I wanted to throw my situation into this whole Lyme/enzyme topic and see

what else might turn up amongst us all.

I foolishly proclaimed about 4-6 wks ago, either here or another list where hip

problems were being tossed around, that I really felt that my hip was just about

cured due to a combo of raw liver powder and a raw powdered bone supplement.

Ha! A day or so after I wrote that, the knife started stabbing the hip again.

But, I'm still better than when I saw the ortho almost 2 yrs ago.

Among all the stuff I take to fortify the hip, I do take--rather gingerly---some

bromelain off and on. I'm a bit leery of enzymes till, when and if, I can figure

out whether they are for me or agin me.

Sharon/starshar

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Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 3:06 PM

Actually, most people who have lyme would benefit from both. Lyme causes

inflammation wherever it goes so supplementing in bewteen meals with systemic

enzymes is very helpful for that. Also when you kill the organisms they release

endotoxins wherein toxin binders would be very helpful. Both play an important

role in feeling better while treating the lyme.

-- RE: [ ] Re: Update with MMS and Lyme and need

some advice

There are many many sources for enzymes.

However, most Lyme sufferers seem to need binders, not things to break down,

which is what enzymes do.

What I've read here indicates that Lyme makes a person unable to eliminate the

wastes caused by the breakdown of pathogens.

I have deep sympathy for those who have Lyme. What a hard row to hoe.