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Posted 9/26/2012 8:42 PM (GMT 0)
Just spent some time looking into my favorite part of getting better. Oxygen! And I was able to find many facilities in my own neighborhood. Yippie! I also found that a man named Ken Locklear got the Texas State of Insurance Commission to approve the use of Hyberbaric oxygen therapy. So that is why the facilities are next to hospitals! There is also a group called the IHMA- The Hyberbaric medical community.
Well if insurance will cover this in Texas then that is great news for a bunch of you out there!
Again, it is the only treatment that my most conservative of Dr.s all agreed on.
This is exciting news!
Posted 9/26/2012 8:46 PM (GMT 0)
I am going to look into the ones here in my town and see what they have to say about treating my daughter for her symptoms due to her lyme infections.
Posted 9/27/2012 2:51 PM (GMT 0)
MV

Good luck to you and your daughter!
Posted 9/27/2012 7:08 PM (GMT 0)
Thank you flower gal,
How are you doing? You know you can
contact me anytime. Always here to
answer any concerns, even if you think they
are silly!
;p
Posted 9/28/2012 2:02 AM (GMT 0)
MV was doinga ok but right now i am having lady yeast problems from the abx. Not sure what to do..hate to lose the progress i have made by stopping abx but hard to live with chronic infections ...
Posted 9/28/2012 2:22 AM (GMT 0)
How long have you been on Abx and
how heavy a dosage?
Posted 9/28/2012 12:40 PM (GMT 0)
Since July 2011 several combinations, last several months Mepron 2x day, 300mg Doxy. I have lost a lot of symptoms...but just recently legs/arms trembling a lot...so scary sometimes. Still managing to get to work, all though not the productive person I used to be. Looking for second opinion doctor that might treat with alternative not just abx. Got the name of another NE MD that I may try. So frustrated, and hard with no one to talk to who gets it...nobody knows except those who have been there like us!
Posted 9/28/2012 2:52 PM (GMT 0)
Flowergal,
Are you detoxing? Also are you taking large doses of probiotics? Lots of members have to take 3 times the recommended amount of probiotics. Personally, I like to use kefir - it has many different strains of the friendly bacteria rather than just one or two that a lot of probiotics have.

You may need to go on a Candida diet for a while to get things back under control as well.

Another thought, be sure you are taking the Methyl type of B-12, not the Cyano type. The Cyano type has to be converted to the Methyl type before the body can use it, which takes energy away from you.

Since you have muscle spasms, be sure to avoid lemon, pickled item and any fermented items. Do this for 2 or 3 weeks and see if you don't feel any better.To be honest, when I did this, I didn't notice much difference......until I added those things back in my diet, then I was saying things like Oh OUCH! Dang it!! Why did I eat that!!! Giggle!!

about the corisol, do you realize that it's a steroid? Steroids will reduce the body's immunity and allow the infections to carry on with less interference. Taking natural adrenal supplements (dissected adrenal & adrenal cortex) will supplement the adrenal glands without having the nasty side effect that steroids have on us.

The same thing for the Hypothyroidism. If you supplement with natural thyroid, the body won't have to work so hard just functioning and can dedicate more energy to healing.

Just some thoughts.....
Posted 9/28/2012 5:00 PM (GMT 0)
Flowergal,
You got bombed with lyme, but now its time to stop bombing your body with doxy. 6 weeks is all the body can take before you will start getting really ill from the damage your causing from the drugs that your taking.
If you keep taking the doxy you will soon not be able to think, drive, walk, and your depression will be scary and life threatening.
There is an alternative......
Its time to build. Build your immune system back up.
Posted 9/28/2012 5:12 PM (GMT 0)
While taking antibiotics for a prolonged period of time can certainly be taxing on the body - many of us do so for a long, long time without any adverse effects, so long as we're supplementing with a good probiotic and detox regimine.

I think it's always a good idea to seek out a second opinion if you're not satisfied with your treatment - too often as patients we forget that we're paying for a service, and that our doctors aren't automatically the authority on what treatment we get. If you're looking to supplement with alternative medicine, a couple of books I'd suggest are "Healing Lyme" by Stephen Harrod Buhner and "Beating Lyme Disease" by Dr. Jernigan.

Marthas Vineyard - could you please email me? I see your email address isn't enabled yet. Thanks!
Posted 9/28/2012 5:14 PM (GMT 0)
I remember how I was scared and from reading on these forums all of the different people telling you what to do and what not to do. What to take and not take. When I was sick there wasn't one person on this forum who had made the journey and got well.
I did not come on this site for a long time because the forum modulator was pushing heavy abx on everyone. It was like a abx pushing site. So I made some formal complaints and left. Now it is more about Chinese Medicine.

I am only back to help people that are sick and confused. Because I made it. I am 100% cured.
And when I first came back to this forum they said...well you are well now, but you will relapse!lol!
So almost 4 years now...and I am good.


Can you find a nutritionist?
Since you are feeling so awful I would suggest you get someone to put you on supplements and minerals and something easy like that. Lots of vitamin C. Probiotics big time.

Post Edited By Moderator (Traveler) : 9/28/2012 11:32:51 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 9/28/2012 5:34 PM (GMT 0)
Marth's Vineyard,
You must stop this abusive manner. I will have to edit your posts until you do or you get yourself banned from the site. I urge you to either just stop this or email me so we can discuss this in an appropriate manner.
Posted 9/28/2012 6:26 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks for the helpful ideas, Traveler thanks to you I detox,detox all the time, skin brush,baths, sauna and do acupuncture also thanks to you. Have been following a really strict diet and am now almost too thin. The ABX has helped a lot but now having to take diflucan along with everything else is problematic.

Am going to see another LLMD who treats the whole person to see what he says.

Traveler, my hormone specialist said my adrenals and thyroid were very very low. I did treat with herbs and supplements for several weeks but it did not help. That is why he put me on a low dose of hydrocortisone and armour thyroid. Perhaps the new LLMD will have advice on that as my present one had nothing to say about it.

I understand it is all a balancing act of what to take abx vs natural etc.. what supplements...exercise...no exercise...what to eat, what not to eat... so difficult to know what to do or think. But since taking the cortisol I can think most of the time! :)
Posted 9/28/2012 6:31 PM (GMT 0)
Oh and I take 2 VSL #3 at night and RAW womens 85 billion in the a.m. and p.m. Do you think that is enough?
Posted 9/28/2012 7:04 PM (GMT 0)
Martha's Vineyard and anyone else that wants to argue. It will not be tolerated. This forum is for support, not for arguing. If you wish to email me privately, I will do my best to clear things up - but it will not be tolerated here on the forum.
Posted 9/28/2012 7:14 PM (GMT 0)
Flowergal,
Thank you for your kind words!! I'm glad that you were able to use some of the suggestions that I put out there and that they were helpful to you!!

Sounds like you have a good plan in place!!

I hear you about how wonderful it is to be able to think!! From what I've experienced the best thing you can learn to do is to listen to your body. Once a person is no longer extremely ill with these infections, the body usually gives us little clues as to what's making us feel bad or is actually helping us. The rest is just determination to be healed I think!! LOL! :-)
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