Andrew Nowacki's channel on YouTube was also very helpful to me during treatment.
I would recommend anyone looking to heal Lyme on all levels, including spiritual, look into these videos.
He also goes over certain diets and herbal treatments for Lyme and Co and is also now in remission.

Life Goes On

I can remember how scared I was when I first found out that I had Lyme disease. I felt completely alone and horrified. I felt that no one understood me.

I felt suicidal when I realized it would be with me for life. That the life I knew I had before was gone, and that I'd never be the same again.

When I contracted Lyme from two ticks when hiking, I was 27 years old. I was the happiest I had ever been in my entire life. I felt like everything had been taken away from me, and during treatment I fell into a state of deep Nihilism.

I became suicidal during treatment, for as we all know, the treatment is always tougher than the disease itself.

I am so incredibly grateful for the support system of friends I have, who listened to me when I needed to talk, and to all of the beautiful people in the Lyme community. I have been aided by so many. Lyme helped me to feel connected, and I learned a lesson of balance.

The greatest gift of this disease, one of many, was witnessing the true beauty of the human spirit. Compassion.

 I am in remission now, my brain fully preserved, because of complete strangers who went out of their way to help someone in their same shoes. The amount of empathy I experienced was one of the greatest treasures that I will hold onto my entire life. As I write this, my entire body becomes full of emotion, and tears even come to my eyes.

These acts of compassion have urged me to continue healing some deeper wounds that are unrelated, and have compassion for myself.

As with anything, this entire ordeal was a gift and a curse rolled up into one.

I am going to quit this blog for now, but, if Lyme should ever return, than so will I.

My plans are to treat once a year for a small amount of time, to keep my bacterial load low so my immune system will not get overpowered and taken over. I will likely continue an anti inflammatory and grainless diet, and be mindful of my sugar intake and Candida balance.

Health and wellness to you Dear Reader.

Hopefully we won't have to meet again.

Some Ways to Stimulate the Vagus Nerve at Home

1. Slow, rhythmic, diaphragmatic breathing. Breathing from your diaphragm, rather than shallowly from the top of the lungs stimulates and tones the vagus nerve.
2. Humming. Since the vagus nerve is connected to the vocal cords, humming mechanically stimulates it. You can hum a song, or even better repeat the sound ‘OM.’
3. Speaking. Similarly, speaking is helpful for vagal tone, due to the connection to the vocal cords.
4. Washing your face with cold water. The mechanism here is not known, but cold water on your face stimulates the vagus nerve.
5. Meditation. Loving kindness meditation promotes feelings of goodwill towards yourself and others. A 2010 study by Barbara Fredrickson and Bethany Kik found that increasing positive emotions led to increased social closeness and an improvement in vagal tone.
6. Balancing the gut microbiome. The presence of healthy bacteria in the gut creates a positive feedback loop through the vagus nerve, increasing its tone.

Pain Management and How I dealt with Herxing

For some, herxing will be alleviated with Alkaseltzer gold. I personally have never tried this.

I looked at the root of the problem, which is inflammation, and then I took it from there and figured it out myself.

I was running in a field one morning. It was in mid Autumn. The cold air seared through my body. I stopped for a moment, feeling my breathing changing, and I started to cough.

I remembered this feeling from long before. When I was diagnosed with childhood asthma.

Anxiety spilled out of me, and I rummaged through my back pack while wheezing, looking for an inhaler that I didn't have out of habit.

What I did have was an apple, a sandwich, and a metal cylinder of fresh water.

I sat on the ground, pulling my knees to my chest, and for some reason, my body commanded me to eat the apple as fast as I could. I did that, and I sipped on the water. Within the half hour, my asthma attack was gone. The inflammation gone.

I found out much later that apples contain certain agents that fight inflammation. Including Quercetin.

Apples are powerful.

During herxes, I have used a combination of apples, lots of water and Turmeric while sitting in a hot detox both of epsom salts. If those failed, I would take a bite of Benadryl, which is a last resort but always worked.

Herxes are different for everyone. Mine included panic attacks, pain, my throat feeling like it was going to swell up, and feeling like I couldn't swallow or breather. Keeping mind over matter, and reminding myself the root of the Herx was inflammation, and then treating the inflammation and in the future avoiding it, resulted in the defeat of it.

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Pain Management-

Most Lyme pain that I have heard of seems to be from die-off. Inflammation. Which can be fought through diet and other methods,
Though, there is some that is pure nerve pain, from damage done by these wretched bugs.
I let myself experience the pain, but used anti inflammatory herb sand ibuprofen to help. I also stimulated my Vagus Nerve regularly.
Here are some other methods to treat:

-Stimulating the Vagus Nerve

-Nuerotin

-Lyrica

-Kratom

-Medical Marijuana

-Nueral Therapy

Affordable Methods of Treatment for Lyme and Co.

Here is a list of affordable Lyme treatments that I have heard have worked for people to heal from Lyme.
Mind you, most of these people couldn't work during treatment, so some adjustments may need to be made to your lifestyle.

1- Buhner Core Protocol.


2- Chronic Tonic-
     4oz cats claw, 2 oz echinacea root (angustfolia), 2 oz teasel, 2 oz Eleurethero, 2oz Red Root, 2 oz Japanese Knotweed, 1 oz St john's Wort, 1 oz Sweet Annie (artemisia annua, sweet wormwood), 1/2 oz Neem Leaf, 1/4 oz Oregano, 1/4 oz Thyme

You will need a scale that does both grams and ounces. Do not estimate! This is impotant as these herbs are strong. Miz all herbs together in air tight container. Store away from heat and light.

To make Tonic:
Take 13 gs of mixed herbs and add to four cups of water that has been brought to a boil and then removed from heat. (do not boil herbs) Allow to steep for 20 minutes. Set a timer. dont forget. If it goes over the time throw it out. it will be too strong. Drink 1 cup 4 times a day. Work your way up to four cups. Brew the tonic daily so it's potent.


3- Hot Water Therapy-  Using a Hot tub, Sun bathing, or Sauna or Bath, raise your body to 103. Use a thermometer. Sustain it there for a half hour once weekly. This will work for Lyme, but might not for coinfections, which can be treated additionally with herbs.


4- Vitamin C and Salt Protocol


5- Spice Treatment- Ceylon Cinnamon, Ginger, Turmeric, Ashwaganda, Diatomaceous Earth, 1 Tbsp daily. Twice a day. Work your way up. Start slow.

-Oregano oil, 4 drops daily (work your way up)

-Moringa Tea

6- Tai Qi

How I recovered, and affordable treatment options for people without insurance or cash

For starters, I got caught at day 8.

This isn't to dishearten anyone, or to say that I don't believe those who got caught later or those with Late Stage Lyme won't or can't.

I know for a fact they do and can, and even with out an LLMD. 

Some of the people I have spoken to, have even said that LLMDs made them worse.

My first LLMD was a genius, but he abandoned me after a regular MD started asking questions about his practice. My second LLMD was a total and utter quack.

Diet helped me immensely. A high protein Paleo diet did the world for me.

Antibiotic, multiple types, including Doxy, Augmentin and Biaxin were used during my year and a half of treatment.

Stimulating my Vagus Nerve, which is a natural anti inflammatory, helped me immensely. (I will post about how to do this at home separately)

Singing, dancing, hiking, creating and working out in the sun helped me to heal.I also had to cut out the toxic people in my life, including my own family members. Energy is a real thing. It can help you or hinder you.

I had to move my residence, to a place with Well water to avoid city water contents. I do believe city water keeps many sick. But I know a few with city water who have recovered. It isnt a death sentence.

Herbs also helped me to heal. And vitamins.

Buhner protocol, Oreganol Ps73 solution, Curcumin, Vitamin C and D, high salt diet, Garlic. Hot baths. Detoxing. These all helped. 

Apples came to the rescue several times with herxing as well. 

Cat's Claw. Serrapeptase. Grape fruit seed extract. Coconut oil. Sobriety.

All helped and now I am fine. 

I am in Remission...Complete Remission

Seven Months ago, I stopped going to my LLMD.

I was battling a terrible depression, and I took a leap of faith.

I stopped all of my Lyme meds completely. After a year and a half. Just to see what would happen.

And guess what?

I am in remission, and have been in remission for seven months and counting now. With no symptoms beside Candida symptoms.

My LLMD told me I wasn't in remission, because I was still having Herxheimer reactions from medicines.

What he didn't tell me, is that most of the herbals I was on kill Candida, Parasites and Viruses and Mold as well, which can all create Herxheimer reactions.

He also didn't explain that even the blood and stool tests from Candida can be false.

I have no symptoms.

I have noticed an increase in my asthma, and also a slight pain in my joints like Fibro when I eat too much of certain foods, like sugar and gluten.

I believe this is Candida.

Other than that, I have no symptoms at all.

I am back to work and living life again.

This has been such a blessing, and now I can attempt to help others on their journeys.

The next post I make, I will be sharing the things that healed me, and also all of the things I have heard from trusted others that have helped them, that I might even try in the future if Lyme ever returns for me again.

I was hitting a very low point this month, and I went to MD Junction to the Lyme support forum.

There, I have been told an array of things.

Lyme can be cured. Someone knows someone that has been cured already from Lyme and is living fine. We just have to let our bodies heal, and get it strong enough to without the Lyme. Dont believe everything you read on the internet.

Lyme cannot be cured. I am definitely Chronic. I will have to be on medicine for life. That very few even obtain remission, and none stay there. The longest they've heard if 15 years tops.

On other threads, I have read about people being fine for twenty years or longer, and that some people stay there for life.

SO many opposing ideas, beliefs and stories out there. I do so wonder if anyone really even knows anything about any of it.

I know that I want to get better, and that I do not want to be on medication forever, and live in the constant fear of coming in and out of remission for the rest of my life.

I am going to put my intentions in my words, and do all that I can to make my wants realities.

I want to live to be very old, and I don't want this disease dictating my life span or hindering my quality of life.

I am currently seeking out a local support group, as the online groups seem to be full of a million people with a million different views.

I wish there was any kind of certainty.

April 2016

My last appointment with the good doctor this month led me to a series of understandings.

He spoke about himself coming in and out of remission, which makes me think of my own reality and what the future has in store.

He asked me about my relationships in my life.

My partner of two years and I are constantly on the rocks. We are both always so stressed and worried about my recovery.

Lyme is not a cheap thing to treat. Money is a huge stressor for us as well.

We have already put at least $5,000 dollars into this in the last year, and I am still not better.

Lyme has completely destroyed multiple dreams for both of us, and the pain of me having been the bringer of this all grieves me to an excrutiating degree. If I only hadn't gone on that hike.

It's a very distressing place to be.

The doctor put me back on antibiotics. Biaxin. Which makes me feel like I'm on a stimulant at times, unable to sleep. And that horrible taste is always in the back of my throat. I had nausea for a moment, and then it went away as my body adjusted.

Biaxin is sulphur based, which aids me in working outdoors.

Also, when I mentioned the issues with my cervix, and the LEEP procedure that my gynecologist wishes me to undertake, he said to really think about it.

LEEP procedures can cause infertility. They also can take orgasm away from one, if scar tissue is formed.

He told me that at a CIN 3, I can still reverse it holistically.

I really would like to try but my partner is adamant about me getting the procedure done, as he fears me getting Cancer.

"It is your body," my doctor said. "Surgeons don't care about your body, they care about your money."

He asked me to do the research and to really think about it.

It is my body. I am stuck with the decisions that come with it.

I have done the research, and I think that I should attempt the holistic route primarily. I have yet to make a decision.

More April News 2016

With the shadow that Lyme can sometimes create in one's life also opens a new door for positive things to enter as well.

I have been blessed to be able to start working again, at this point in my recovery.

I wanted to work outdoors, so then I'd be able to get sunshine and exercise to boost my immune system. I took up a job in landscaping, and I also do some foraging.

A woman I know from the writer's guild said, "You are SO brave to go back out there."

I answered, "If I didn't, then that would mean defeat."

She went on to say that nature had defeated me by passing on Lyme to me.

I am still alive. I am still functioning. I am still here.

Obviously, I am not defeated.

My future is so very uncertain, though.

Another woman from my weekly writer's guild meeting said that she knew someone who had Lyme. And that I was so lucky it was caught early, because the person she knows is messed up for life.

This made such anxiety rise in me, as I do so wonder if I'll ever end up like that.

If the Lyme will come out of remission and swallow me whole in my old age. If I'll die alone and homeless because of it.

I also have a job instructing art lessons in my home which will work well while I heal up, and be rewarding.

At work, I found out that both my employer and my coworker are plagued by Lyme as well.

The coworker, B., had not yet been treated with antibiotic. He had gone to many natural doctors, and said that he still suffers with many debilitating symptoms. Even after using Colloidal Silver. His diet also remains the same.

Then, the employer, D., said that she had gotten two courses of antibiotic treatment, and had to go through two rounds of treatment.

She believes she is now in remission, and she said that she believes that she has many health issues currently that have sprouted from Lyme disease. She is being treated by a holistic doctor for her issues.

How insane is it that everyone I run into seems to have or knows someone that has Lyme, and yet there is no easily accessible treatment??

This absolutely baffles and enrages me.

I have so many feelings on the subject, that I become overwhelmed.

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Immunity Supressant Detected:

March 2016

A few months ago, I had come down with an abnormal Pap Smear, which I contributed to Lyme, as I've been contributing everything to Lyme lately.

This is something I need to work on not doing anymore, as everything certainly isn't Lyme related.

I went through two biopsy's and colposcopy procedures, which are horribly uncomfortable pelvic examinations, only to receive a new phone call from my Gynecologist, explaining to me that I have a CIN 4, and that I need to have a LEEP procedure done immediately.

A LEEP procedure is when they chisel off a larger piece of the cervix to examine it and test it for a multitude of things, including Cancerous cells.

There is something going on in my reproductive system that is slowing my progress with Lyme treatment down, as whatever it is is weakening my immune system.

I pray that it isn't Cancer, but I do know that even if it is, it will be easy to treat due to how quickly it's been caught and it's place in my body.

The worst thing I could do right now is worry, so I continue on with my head held high.

I wonder what all of this means for a person with Lyme.

Will the healing processes of any of this possibly make the Lyme worse?

Only time will tell.

Although I have minor anxiety about this, I am remaining focused on maintaining a positive and stress free environment while my body continues to fight.

Keep me in your prayers/kindest thoughts/meditations, Loves.

March 2016...Return of the throat thing...

March 2016

Return of the "Throat Thing"

With March comes more sunlight, nicer weather, and a greater opportunity for exercising outdoors.
In the last few weeks, I've been hiking again and bicycling regularly and without an issue. I've aso been lucky enough to do floor aerobics regularly in my home wthout any major physical hindrance.

I was symptom free for days, and then I started to get a very slight arthritic pain in my left hand again, and a little pain in my knee caps. This comes and goes.

Then, as I was falling asleep one night, I started having really intense dreams that were so intense that I had to sit up fast. It was like right before falling asleep, I'd start to dream and see a face or an object, and then it felt like it was coming alive, right out of my head.

These visions scared me enough to make me jump up out of bed.

What's even more interesting, is that everytime I've ever had this sensation with Lyme, I also started to get the dreaded "Throat Thing".

The Throat Thing is a sensation almost like you forget how to swallow, or like you can't swallow.

It makes your anxiety peak at sky high rates, because you feel like you can't swallow, but you actually can.

Due to it's reaction to anti inflammatory's, I believe that this is the throat swelling due to die off.

Kind of like a Herxheimer reaction.

Instead of using Ibuprofen to lesson the affects of this, I started using Turmeric Curcumin with Bioperine 500 mgs by Pure Encapsulations. It works wonderfully as an anti inflammatory agent.

The good news about this round of the Throat Thing, is that it was much less intense than before which means that slowly but surely, this holistic take on Lyme treatment is working.

Japanese Knotweed

I was looking over all of the ingredients in my LB core protocol. This is definitely some powerful stuff.

Japanese Knotweed root, Cats claw vine bark, Andrographis, Sarsparilla root and Dandelion Herb.

I realized I could harvest half of these ingredients from the land myself.

This Spring and summer, I plan on hunting for some ingredients.

Japanese Knotweed is an invasive species that grows abundantly in Pennsylvania, so I'm going to start with this and Dandelion.

The key healing ingredient in Japanese Knotweed that heals Lyme is Reveratrol. Resveratrol can be extracted from the plant with every day kitchen appliances.

Resveratrol is reported to be well known by it's anti aging and disease combating properties.

It fights against Lyme Disease, Heart Disease, Cancer (by limiting the spread of Cancer cells and triggering the process of Cancer cell death), Alzheimer's and even Diabetes.

Valentine's Day with Lyme Disease 2016

Dating with Lyme sucks.

After waking up to flowers, a card and gifts, I got into the car for a trip to an aquarium in a different state.

The way there was miserable for me. I was car sick, had migraines and forgot half the things I wanted to take on the trip at home. We tried listening to stand up together, and the voice was so loud to my sensitive ears I felt like the speaker was yelling at me! It was a relatively bright and sunny day, which was nice, but I had forgotten my sunglasses as well. I was blinded for a time.

Valentine's Day this year fell on a Sunday, and the Aquarium was PACKED.

There was a very long line of bundled up people standing outside and waiting to get their tickets.

We stood in the miserable cold for a half an hour.

An over weight woman with some kind of mental illness and disabilities walked by as we waited, shouting incoherent things as she walked and pointing to nothing. Breath escaped from her mouth as she drug her body forward, preaching an enigmatic gospel.

"That woman has a message" My guy said. "What if that woman has all of the answers to everything? Maybe she knows the future and what's going to happen, and it all is being yelled from her right now, but no one will listen to her? She's like Cassandra."

"That woman is the Oracle," I said, and then we continued to shiver.

By the time we had obtained our tickets and ventured inside of the building, I could not feel my legs.

The place was overly crowded. There were children screaming everywhere. It was a hell hole.

Everyone was crushed against the glass, and crowded around each exhibit. You had to get so close to someone to be able to see anything. I didn't want people's germs. My immune system is working hard enough!

There were some good things to see. Penguins and sharks. Smiling Manta Rays that glided by and a couple of huge sea turtles. They were my favorite.

I started taking pictures of the animals that presented themselves to me in pairs. There's the romantic in me.

Two Hippopotamus.
Two Star Fish.
Two Sea Horses.

We thought to try and have lunch there, but there was nothing I could eat with the Lyme. Not even a decent salad.

We were both happy to leave when we did.

On our way home, I was surprised to be at the gates of Longwood Gardens, a place I've been wanting to go for awhile now but never got around to it. It's an indoor garden with 4.5 acres of botanicals to observe.

I was very pleased with this surprise, until we found that it was only opened for a half hour longer by the time we had arrived. Sunday hours.

We vowed to come back again in the springtime, so we could explore the outdoor grounds.

We came home, we cooked a bland Lyme dinner and then we watched the Twilight Zone and played mystery Science Theatre 3000 with eachother while watching it. We made voices for the people on screen and our own ridiculous plot lines.

Anything sexual had been out of the question due to possible pain.

And to end the day in true Lyme fashion, I couldn't sleep that night due to Herxheimer reactions.

Even when mild, they still suck.

Dating with Lyme sucks.

On Honey and making new Lyme friends...

Lyme disease is opening so many new doors for me, and introducing me to so many new people. Some of the kindest and most empathetic people I have ever met are recent additions to my world. I am grateful for this. It also aided me to realize just how MANY people out there are suffering.

My guy will come in from work, and tell me "So and so has Lyme, too!" or "So and so's wife had Lyme."

I get onto places like MD Junction for support from others. Hundreds of people are constantly on the board, all for the same thing.

If you have Lyme Disease, MD Junction is a great place, where you will receive many answers to your anxious thoughts via both doctors and other Lymies in different stages of Lyme. I highly recommend it, and have never been disappointed with any of my visits to that page.

A very helpful Lyme Activist from Iowa named Betty G. will help you out and show you around.

Oh yes, and I wanted to share with you the beautiful medicinal honey that had finally come in the mail today.

The Good Doctor prescribed one tablespoon at bedtime, which works fine for a cup of tea. :)

The Silver Angel

A friend of mine came over and invited a friend of his, who happened to be a late stage Lymer.
He believes he is fully recovered, after a long battle with many relapses.

He also is the first person I've spoken to that believes that Lyme can actually be cured, rather than just put into remission. And late stage Lyme, at that!

We'll Call him A.

A.had eventually lost his ability to even play guitar, due to illness, and he claimed to have never had a Herx heimer reaction. I guess not all Lymies have the same strand of Lyme. Because there were two ticks found on me, maybe there are multiple strands in me?

A. shared with me his secret to combating the disease, and he explained that he had seen a Naturopath in town.

She prescribed him "Safe Silver", as shown in the picture above. Safe Silver is nano particles of Colloidal Silver, which was widely used as an antibiotic in the 30's and 40's, right before pharmaceutical antibiotics started to take off.

Colloidal Silver has a colorful history, as does the usage of Silver for healing.

People dined off of silver plates and drank from silver cups to protect themselves from the Black Plague. 

The problem with extended usage of Colloidal Silver or Silver is that the body has a hard time getting rid of the metals, and then they all slowly build up in the body and start to cause problems. One widely known symptom, is that the skin of the person turns blue or gray!

A. also eats a Vegan diet. Unlike another person with Lyme I had spoken to, he is not a raw Vegan. This diet mixed with Safe Silver landed him right into remission. He now lives a normal life.

I asked my Lyme Doctor if I should mix Colloidal Silver with my LB Protocol, and I have yet to hear an answer back regarding interactions.

On this particular day, and during this particular week, I had been very run down by depression and prayed for some kind of help, and in walks in a random newcomer with a bottle of Safe Silver as a gift and a message of hope for even Late Stage Lyme. I am so grateful for the message. The universe provides.

Thoughts and Reflections...enriched with anxiety

My mind, though filtered through depression and the coming and going of memory fog, seeks out ways to create new avenues of awareness for the unknown disease. Had it been more talked about in the high risk area that I live in, I never would have contracted Lyme in the first place.

Had the boy that was there with me that day been properly educated and treated about Lyme, he would have told me to call a Lyme doctor the day I was bitten. He might have even had more of a chance himself had he known.

May is Lyme awareness month, and I want to do something for the community. I am not sure what yet, as I am brainstorming. I want people to understand, especially parents.

It is well known that Lyme can be passed through the womb to a fetus, and that some are born with Lyme.

Some believe that Lyme is the new STD and can be sexually transmitted, because the spirochetes are cork screw shaped like Syphilis and have been found in partners and in families. There is no actual evidence of this though. It is at this point a hysteric assumption with no facts to back it up.

Can you imagine being a child with Lyme, and living your entire life feeling as though that was normal? Having adults and doctors tell you you're perfectly fine when you are chronically ill or suffering from cognitive issues related to the sickness.

Then one day you wake up, years down the road and you are crippled or blind or having hallucinations or seizures, all because of lack of awareness and proper treatment. This is such a sick thing.

My mind races with anxious thoughts on a regular.

I wonder if my own life will be shortened with Lyme. What will happen to me if my immune system gets weak when I'm old? Will Lyme come back? Is this how I'll die someday? From lyme related causes?

I think of my Aunt who had Chrone's disease, who now is in remission. She is in her 50's and hasn't had any relapses.

I wonder what life in remission will be like. Will I always have occasional flare ups? Will I relapse? Will I regain my old energy and be able to continue physical activity the way that I had been? WIll it go back to life prior to Lyme?

Will I ever be able to eat a real slice of pizza again? A warm sandwich on a cold day? Some of my grandmother's cooking? Anything my friends make? Will I be able to go out on the town again and enjoy dinner and a drink? Can I share a traditional holiday meal with my family again?

Welcome to my vault of thoughts.

Winter detoxing and Lyme

Some days I have the ability to exercise, but then I have to heal the next day. Back to back exercises don't do well with me. I start to get the stiffness in my lower back and can't continue. I hope this leaves me upon remission. I miss being as active as I was. The exercise I do get serves as a great detox for the body.

As does using my home sauna. Steaming for twenty minutes daily detoxes as much as the liver does in 24 hrs. The steam is also relaxing.

Another way I detox is by taking Chlorella in capsule form daily, and by adding Tamarind pulp to my regular diet.

As I have stated in earlier posts, detox is absolutely necessary in Lyme treatment, and Epsom salts lost my vote after I read that they could possibly send lead into your pores.

Lyme and Manganese

Lyme and it's relationship with Manganese

Manganese is a chemical element necessary for human health. Our bodies cannot live without it, and will grow sick in it's absence.

We obtain Manganese in a great deal of our foods, including Tofu, Beans, Nuts, Spices, Brown Rice, Fish, Spinach and Black Tea. These are just to name a few. Whole grains carry a great deal of Manganese as well.

The bacteria that cause Lyme Disease happens to be one of the only organisms that doesn't need Iron to thrive. Instead it thrives on Manganese.

I am in awe of how intelligent pathogens can be.

After finding this out from my own research, I thought, "If I starve the Lyme of Manganese, then they won't be able to thrive. But if I starve myself from Manganese, I will not be able to thrive."

What about lessening the Manganese in the body?

Scientists say that there is no use in limiting Manganese, because no matter how low your Manganese levels, the bacteria will continue to obtain what it needs, and the body carrying it will get sick. You're better off just maintaining healthy levels of Manganese s then the body runs properly to help it to fight.

Maybe this has something to do with why the gluten free diet is so useful in treating Lyme? Because most diets contain an abundance of Manganese.

Hmm.



Current Diet:

In my own case, I've cut out all grains period.

I've also finally taken the dairy free leap, and am completely dairy free.

I still indulge in occasional meat to ensure I get my B vitmains and needed protein.

February 2016...Some new symptoms and the dying off of others

February, 2016

Lately I feel like I have the flu all of the time, and I need to rest often. It is now 7 months since I've started proper Lyme treatment, and nine months since I have been ill. I want remission.

Little by little, though I am getting better. Going herbal is a much slower, less abrasive process than being treated with antibiotic.

I have learned a great deal about Lyme this month, and about my own personal recovery, through a series of lessons and events made discernable to me via circumstance.

Some of these will be covered in this month's posts, and include learning about Colloidal Silver, ideas to further spread Lyme awareness, medicinal honey, going non dairy, Japanese Knotweed and thoughts on life in remission.

I am excited to report that as of this month, my throat hasn't swelled or closed up on me. I am very grateful for this transition, and take it as a symptom of my body healing.

I have just started experiencing pelvic pain and painful orgasm this month, but it was only for a week's time. It was an unpleasant surprise, and the pain felt dull and sharp at the same time, and continued for days afterward.

I went to my OBGYN to be sure that it was nothing more serious. I came up with an abnormal pap smear and am due for a colposcopy early next month.

Every once in a while, I'll get a flare up of arthritic pain in the sides of hands, and an uncomfortable lower back stiffness. Overall, I am feeling much better, beside the constant nausea.

My current medicinal regimen goes as follows:
Honey-1 Tbsp before bed by Tropical Traditions
Curcumin 500- once a day by Pure Encapuslations
Methyl Folate once daily by Jarrow
Vitamin D twice daily by Pure Encapulations
Ashwaganda before bed by Gaia
Chlorella once daily for detox by Solaray

and 12 capsules of  LB Protocol taken four times daily. I have been suffering from the nausea more so as I'm up to 12 a day. I wonder if maybe it has something to do with Oxalic acid in the Japanese Knotweed

I feel as though it's still going to be a long road. Possibly even another seven months until remission, but I'll be back to where I was by the end of all of this.

Observations of my own have shown me that Lyme symptoms follow a cycle or pattern through out the body, making certain ones pop up and others die down.

As wary as my mind gets, and as tired as my body is, I remain grateful for my strong immune system and anticipate a healthier future.