Insight is very much appreciated

There are literally TONS of dietary suggestions floating around online,, in fact it seems there are more dietary suggestions online for lyme than medication suggestions. Most often people advise avoiding gluten and sugar and eating cleanly as possible, some will say to avoid fruits. However it can get extremely confusing as many people suggest low fat diets while others will insist you need a lot of healthy fats and saturated fats. There are people who suggest drinking gallons of stevia lemonade. Bone broths seem to be another popular suggestion. Others will suggest lots of juicing and very obscure and ridiculously complex 'lyme smoothies' like dr klinghardt suggests with all sorts of strange ingredients like prickly pear cactus juice and herbs that no one has really ever heard of.

There is one site I came across under the title how to cure lyme and any other infection through diet. I personally don't put as much stock as others do into diet alone. There are a lot of people involved in lyme websites that talk about curing yourself with the healing power of food and I just don't buy it. This is a serious infection that requires genuine medical intervention. You can't diet your way out of it anymore than you could diet your way out of aids or syphilis.

That being said, as I mentioned there are thousands of diets people suggest for lyme all the way from a water fast, to raw milk, to high fat high carb, and low fat low carb with everything in between. I say keep it simple. Lyme diets can get ridiculously complex and for every suggestion you find, there are others that contradict. As long as you are eating a balanced diet that is relatively clean, you can probably just focus on your preferred treatment whatever that may be. Some people develop new food sensitivities with the disease, so obviously if you get queasy after eating a particular food or have a noticeable reaction, you can adjust. For some their diet is the treatment.

There's a dr. named terry wahls who designed the wahls diet which she claims can cure MS. Again there are multiple suggestions online if you google lyme diet.

Hi Crates, welcome!

Are methotrexate and humira immune suppressing medications? If so, hopefully just 'mildly' - as we don't want to suppress our immune system if we're battling lyme disease.

Having said that...Plaquenil is prescribed for lyme and I have read that it is a mild immunosuppressant...

So, are you seeing a LLND?

I am in BC, Canada...and we do have LLND's here. Two (maybe three) in the Vancouver area, and several in the Victoria area.

Even if you're not in BC, there are options to be treated by them...send me an email if you're interested in information on them.

As for treatment. I saw a doctor in BC last year and was put on minocycline. He said that eventually we would cut out the methotrexate and humira (hopefully) it's just so hard having a doctor so far away. We talk on the phone occasionally but that it. As for detoxing....aside from Epsom salt baths and massages, I'm not sure where to start.

I want to thank all of you for replying to my post! I haven't had anyone to talk to that understands this tricky illness and sometimes I feel like there's no way out of this. I feel less alone so thank you so much!

Yes, his name is Dr.C. He's super nice and helpful but it's just so hard staying on track and figuring everything out with him out of the province.

I apologize I didn't know that. Thanks for letting me now.

I think my biggest issue is not having that face to face, I find myself having great difficulty sticking to the antibiotics.(minocycline) I'm not sure if it's my diet, lack of detox methods or the disease itself but I constantly find myself fearing death and experience extreme cases of anxiety and then I'm left not taking my pills. I'm hoping to find like minded people or people that have had the same experience that may have some suggestions for me to help me get over this hump.

So many of us here have adrenal issues, so I just wanted to point out that if a person has adrenal issues, fasting is one of the worst things you can do for them. Fasting puts stress on the body, and that stress on the body translates to stress on the adrenals. For those with adrenal issues, it's recommended that a person eat several small meals a day instead of 3 larger ones, and no fasting.

Diet can be extremely important for some, especially if they are dealing with ANY yeast or fungal issues, dietary allergies or other things. What works best for one person though, may not be the best choice for another. We can't simply say 'screw diets' as that's how our bodies are fueled - poor fuel, means poor energy and more to detox out. Eating a healthy and clean diet (as vague as that may sound) is really the only choice if you wish to heal as quickly as possible for your body and to provide a way to avoid yeast and fungal issues - as well as a way to need less supplements since the diet would be lacking in important nutrients.

A clean diet can mean no dairy, or no soy, if you have a need to avoid those things, but we do try to explain that organics mean less of a need to detox, simply because you aren't going to get the pesticide residue that's on "regular" foods.

Some do better on a low carb diet, we have one member that is on a high fat diet, and others do best when everything is balanced, with lots of green vegetables.

That's why we try to say a 'clean' diet - just like with treatments, not everyone will do good on just one method.

Thanks bluelyme. I'm working on getting off the methotrexate and humira. It's funny that before I knew I had Lyme I would go to my rheumatologist and tell him of all the crazy symptoms I was having that did not coincide with RA and he would pretty much just ignore me and keep me on the medication and would not look any deeper. If it weren't for my own intuition and going to a naturopath who finally believed in my symptoms, I would still be thinking I had RA!

Thanks so much Traveler!