Don, thank you so much for your kind words, but you accused me of overdoing it and now there you go!!
Giggle!!
I look forward to what you have to share - as always. I too have finally put to words, not only the basics of my journey (link in signature line), but the 4 main things I had to concentrate on in order to heal.
With the experience that I had personally, and what I've watched others go through, here is what I believe needs to happen for many of us to heal:
a)Detoxing - gene mutations can prevent us from detoxing well, but we must be able to get those toxins out of our bodies. I have not had any of the gene mutation testing done, although I do seem to have the same kind of issues as those that do - so I figured it was best for me to assume that I did and work to get my body to detox much better. It took a lot of diet changes as things with my body changed, I had to use a foot soak about
4 or 5 times a week - anything else seemed to be too much too fast for my body - dry skin brushing, making sure I was having a BM at least once a day (sorry if it's TMI!) pushing myself to drink at least 64 ounces of lemon water each and every day, liver/gall bladder flushes (all natural) and keeping the amount of stress in my life at a bare minimum.
b)Supporting the body functions/systems. We have to have the body working at it's peak performance to heal from something as devastating as these infections. Supporting any gland, organ, body system that is struggling will allow the body to switch it's 'concentration' from just trying to function over to healing.
c) Raise the immune function. Many legitimate Lyme researchers now believe that it's the lowered immune function that determines who gets chronic Lyme and who heals right away. We already know that Lyme lowers the immune function and when a person has Bartonella and/or Babesia, the immune function is further compromised, so to heal we must raise our immune function.
d) Lastly, oddly enough, are anti-infective treatments. Many of us have experienced treatment failures as you have, so we can see that the treatments aren't the only thing we need to have - there has to be more to the equation, but anti-infective treatments are very important!! Lyme bacteria are one of the most complicated bacteria!
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all who have donated time to this site! Without your time and efforts, many would still be searching for answers! Collectively we have created quite a knowledge base!
