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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