Some good news....

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Relatively good news today.

I talked to the licensed herbal nutritional advisor at my local health food

store and he has had so many people who were on antibiotics who had lymes

that he has developed a regimen that is helping them. In fact he seems to

know an awful lot about the disease. I trust this guy, he's never steered

me wrong, and a lot of what he said to me is resonating with a lot of

nutritional information I already know. He has even helped people clear

out the lymes who refused to take the antibiotics, though admits that's a

bit more difficult. When I get the whole list of things from him, I will

put it up here on this lyme list, just as informational stuff. He isn't

claiming he will cure me, but much of this information is common sense

anyway. NTL, I do have faith in him and that in itself is worth it's

weight in gold. He says I'm already doing some very good things, like

taking extra garlic, calloidal silver (I make my own, and it's at a much

more metabolized dose of 5 ppm), grapefruitseed extract, which is a natural

anti-viral (yes I know it's a bacteria, but there is evidently a

synergistic effect in terms of fighting off the spirochete), and a lot of

other things. He has a non-ibuprofen anti-inflammatory which he not only

swears by but a lot of his doctor customers are now giving to their

patients that has the added benefit of boosting the immune system.

Tomorrow I'm going to have a hypnotherapy session to help me with creative

visualization to fight this off. Since I do work for the woman who is

doing it for me, I know it can't hurt. Her website (which I maintain) is

at www.passagerites.com .

Anyway, I'm hopeful, this gives me a lift and a bit of a life-line, rather

than on relying on a doctor who is not at all lyme literate (he was

consulting with a rheumatoid arthritis expert for pity's sake! He wasn't

going to extend my anti-biotic until I TOLD him that I had never suffered

from arthritis in my life until after the tick bite). Sigh... I hate HMOs!

And the AMA! And the Pharmaceutical companies. They keep doctors in the

dark about alternative care.

Unfortunately, my nutritionist knew more about lyme than my doctor. He has

evidently treated a lot of people who had no luck with antibiotics, with a

great deal of success. He isn't charging me for his advice as he's the

paid nutritionist of the natural food store. He did say that my doctor was

pretty good when it came to holistic methods, as my MD is in an office

right next door to the store, but I got the gist that he didn't feel that

my doctor probably had enough knowledge about this type of problem.

My hypnotherapist is going to work with my subconscious in ways that are

conducive to helping me visualize killing or neutralizing the bug and also

in terms of seeing myself as healthy and whole. She is going to work with

the activities I love, like my spinning and my weaving to hypnotically

induce an image of wellness when I engage in those activities to help me in

my healing. I think this is a very positive and wholistic as well as

sensible approach, as I will heal best when I'm involved in those

activities which pleasure me. Pleasure brings about endorphin releases,

and pumping that up with suggestions to my subconscious certainly won't hurt.

In the meantime I'm still following the allopathic regimen of the

antibiotics, but I'm not all that faithful in it, as I've seen plenty of

people who did and are still suffering and because i'm suffering all the

symptoms of lyme's even though I'm on the antibiotic. It may be

endotoxinic release as the spirochete dies, but considering how it plays

such a good game at subterfuge, I'm a bit skeptical. It may be necessary

to take it long enough to make sure that we catch it in it's reproductive

stage (which is about 4-6 weeks into it's cycle in the body after

infection) when it's actually in the blood and not hiding in connective

tissue and other places anti-biotics can't reach, where it normally hides

out. My doctor did extend the antibiotic treatment for another 2 weeks so

that will be a total of 34 days, but I " m not sure that's enough, and there

are other things to worry about in terms of this, especially a depleted

immune system because of all the antibiotics. I would hate to turn around

after all of this and have lupus, candida, or another auto-immune

deficiency. That's why I'm going to be dosing really hard on very intense

doses of pro-biotics, as my nutritionist said that the pro-biotics that I

was taking since they AREN't under refrigeration are probably inadequate

and he said the dose was far too conservative anyway, especially for

fighting off diseases of this immensity.

Anyway that's where I'm at, I appreciate all your letters of support and

kindness.

Bright Blessings,

Joy