Doug Coil

Hi garnet - welcome to our community!

Sorry it took 14 years to be diagnosed...

I don't have any knowledge on the Doug Coil...but I bet some people do...so keep checking back.

We suggest all new members to take a look through the 'New to Lyme?..Start Here!" thread at the top of the page.
It's got a lot of useful information.

Do you have a LLMD to treat you?

Yes, I have looked at posts through Search, but most of them are many years old already. I'm hoping to find people who are using it now. I often wonder if those who have used the Doug Coil have healed and moved on from discussion forums. I have requested to join the Rife Lyme facebook page, but it is still "pending".

I believe the doc who diagnosed me is lyme literate: he suspected Lyme based on some blood work that showed elevated fibrinogen, D-dimer and a very elevated C4a complement, then confirmed with a positive Western Blot from IgeneX. He started me on doxycycline and tinidiazole, and recommended I obtain a Doug Coil machine. He also recommended seeking out a physician who uses IV ozone with UBI, but I can't seem to find someone local for that.

I don't know if I have had Lyme that long--I was also recently diagnosed with POTS, and I wonder if it was POTS all along that was causing the fatigue. So hard to tell. I had a rotted root canal tooth removed in September and a week later I felt like a new person. I even started to exercise again. Then had radiation for breast cancer and by the 3rd week of treatment in December 2015 I was crashing with fatigue. Instead of gradually getting better I was feeling worse and worse and I saw this doc who diagnosed Lyme. He didn't pick up the POTS, I had to figure that one out myself and had it confirmed by tilt-table test.

I'm hoping to ask those who are using the Doug Coil presently some questions directly, as I start to use the machine.

Post Edited (garnet10) : 7/3/2016 3:43:57 PM (GMT-6)

Thank you, but I think if I had gotten those darn root canal teeth removed earlier, I would have never developed the breast cancer. The last one removed had blackened, rotted roots! Can't believe that was sitting in my maxillary bone for years, spewing endotoxins into my blood stream. No wonder I felt so bad.

Yes, I read that Lyme can be a cause of POTS, but I think I have always had POTS in a mild form, but the Lyme has made it much, much worse. And it's possible that I've had Lyme for years because I used to garden but stopped when I developed the fatigue. Perhaps the radiation therapy and the steroid injection for bursitis in December were enough to help the Lyme really flare.

I had a positive ELISA in the late '90's. I developed knee pain after we moved to our house where I was gardening for the first time but I thought the pain was knee strain from climbing into our new high bed. I was treated with 14 days of doxycycline "just in case" but for only 2 weeks. The Western Blot was negative and I wish I could find the result so I could check the bands myself. I requested records from the lab but they cannot locate it. And I can't even remember the name of the doctor I saw.

I'm still in shock about the Lyme diagnosis. I still find it hard to believe I have it--for so long I was taught it was "hard to catch, easy to treat". After my markedly elevated C4a test my doc sent me the IgeneX kit and I didn't do it for a few weeks. I thought perhaps it was elevated due to inflammation from the radiation and he said, no, when it was very elevated, that was Lyme.

My main concern now is I have to continue to work. A month of doxy and tinidazole and I feel no different--no better, no worse. I hope the midodrine works for the POTS because the shakiness/fatigue can be so debilitating.

You are in a fight for your life ..the plasma rife would be good for cancer too...watch anthony holland ted talks ...consider mhbot and bvt also

Spooky2 is garbage in my opinion. I know this will stir up some controversy.
I used it for 2 months with absolutely no indication it does anything at all except blink. I am returning it tomorrow.

Dave, Sorry to hear that Spooky isn't working for you. Have you tried a different machine and have it work instead?

Some people just don't seem to herx or get any effect from Rife. A woman in my support group has tried a few different machines and no reaction whatsoever. I don't know if it's just a different strain or what. Maybe some people have mainly fungal issues. I don't really understand it as it seems like it should be more consistent.

Blue I'm interested the results of your microscopy experiment. Do you herx at all from Spooky when using Borrelia frequencies normally? I wonder if the plasma would truly break up spiroketes or just damage them internally in some way that inhibits their functioning. The fact that I herx the most 4 days later makes me think that somehow the spiroketes are being disabled in some way that allows the immune system to kill them, rather than being immediately exploded.

When I started using Spooky even a few minutes of run time would make me herx for a week. From what it seems like gfields has the same reaction as I do. Some people notice very little its really quite odd.