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Posted 8/9/2013 3:18 PM (GMT 0)
Just stopping by to thank people from this forum for support and information when I needed it and to let you know that I am feeling so much better. (It's good to hear the progress as well as the struggles, yes?) I'm thrilled with my progress and my doc is too. It's so good to feel like I have my life back.

Turns out that I did have babesia as well as lyme. My babs symptoms were pretty subtle so it was hard to tell but I responded really well to the cryptolepis which answered that question. I don't know that there was any one thing that got me better - I really think it was the combination of things and patiently sticking with the treatments and working with a LLND who helped me unravel all the barriers that were interfering with my healing.

I am currently off all abx (since May 20th!) and taking a couple of herbals and chelating for heavy metals. My lead and cadmium levels are high and my doc is thinking that the lingering neurological stuff may be due to that (after being kicked off by the lyme & babs). Time will tell with this just like everything else over the past 1 1/2 years.
Posted 8/9/2013 3:31 PM (GMT 0)
YAY turn turn turn

Smashing news,I'm doing well,too.

Isn't it wonderful to have some of your old life back?

I really hope you continue to improve,I've read your blog with great delight over the past months.......love it.


Tickled
Posted 8/9/2013 3:58 PM (GMT 0)
I'm so happy for you! I hope you're doing some enjoyable things that you couldn't do before. Keep forging ahead.
Posted 8/9/2013 3:58 PM (GMT 0)
Hi that's great news. I was wondering if you could tell me what the subtle Babs symptoms you were dealing with. I'm trying to figure out if I have a mild case. Thanks.
Posted 8/9/2013 5:30 PM (GMT 0)
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Great news!!!!

I love the success story threads!!

Enjoy your new life! smilewinkgrin

Posted 8/9/2013 7:37 PM (GMT 0)
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORAY! This is wonderful! Almost everyday I'm reading great news! I too would like to know the subtle symptoms. Wow, I'm so happy for you and all of the healed folks! Make room for those who are coming right behind ya! Hearing about healing is...well..healing!

I need to check out your blog too! Thank you for sharing Garfield!
Posted 8/10/2013 10:33 AM (GMT 0)
Wonderful news!!! Thanks for sharing - it does encourage the rest of us yeah
Posted 8/10/2013 1:15 PM (GMT 0)
Garfield:
I just have to tell you how impressed I was with your blog. Your writing and photography is just wonderful. I actually bookmarked it because I could not read the entire thing all at once,but I definitely want to take it all in. Thanks so much for that. It is so great that you are feeling so much better. Best to you always!!!
Posted 8/10/2013 9:07 PM (GMT 0)
It's so wonderful to hear good news. I wish you the best in your treatment.
Posted 8/12/2013 12:01 AM (GMT 0)
Garfield, that is awesome news! It gives all of us hope of recovery. I myself want to get off ABX because of the side effects just waiting for the last remaining stubborn symptoms to leave! I hope to be like you soon.

Keep on feeling good!
Posted 8/12/2013 12:31 AM (GMT 0)
Wow! Thanks for all of the encouraging comments everyone. Thanks also for the compliments on my blog. If it wasn't for Lyme I probably wouldn't have a blog at all so it is one more good thing that has come from the experience.

As far as the subtle symptoms of babs - for me the biggest thing was night sweats 2-3 times a week as well as some sweating during the day here and there with a kind of weird smell - not armpit stinky but off smelling and not sweating because I was hot, often I was actually chilly. Because I am a 50 year old woman it is easy to blame this on age but with the cryptolepis all of that went away. I think some of my pain may have been due to the babs as well since I noticed pain decrease quite noticeably too. When I first got sick, I had a month of night sweats, sometimes waking me 2-3 times a night that was so intense it left me exhausted. That calmed down to what I described above but continued for a year & a half straight until I took the cryptolepis. The lyme treatment didn't effect it what-so-ever.
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