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Posted 10/3/2011 3:43 AM (GMT 0)
So I can hardly remember where any of the information I head about Lyme comes from anymore...I spend so much time googling and reading books and coming on here and just brainstorming...but I remember something about bacteria not being able to survive in heat (and that's why we have fevers or something-or why to induce them-to create an inhospitable environment). Like I said not sure if this is true I just remember believing it for one reason or another.

So tonight I had a hot date with my heating pad, for hours (back hurt) and I started feeling extra lousy...like the way I do when I herx. I could feel the lymph glands swelling (my telltale sign) and I just felt weak and queasy. Not sure how much of this is due to just lying down for hours or latent drowsiness from pain meds but it just got me to thinking...could something so simple as heating pad therapy heal Lyme? Just a thought. Either way it relaxes my back but if it could be doing more.,.that'd be fantastic.
Posted 10/3/2011 4:00 AM (GMT 0)
I think the same thing when I use mine but I don't think it works that way for me.  It does feel good tho and helps my achy body. 

I did hear that as well tho but I heard that the temp has to be so high like maybe 106?  but also we can't safely get our bodies temp that high...I dont think.

I read that somewhere along the way but like you, I have read so much and can't remember.

But then there is the FIR sauna and that gets the body temp up as well.  So maybe that could be.

I am doubting that those little buggers would make our life that easy and die with our heating pads but that sure would be nice!

But if it seems to be killing them for you then I would lay those heating pads all over my body!

 

Posted 10/3/2011 6:28 AM (GMT 0)
OK, totally off the topic, but since you mentioned them borderlyme, how do you deal with the swollen lymph glands? Mine are so big right now in my neck, I don't know if I should ice them or what. They have been up for about five days. Sorry to drift off topic, I was just going to look for any previous posts on the swelling glands, and read yours.
Posted 10/3/2011 1:31 PM (GMT 0)
Heat does kill the Borellia bacteria but as scorp10 says, in order to kill them all you would have to be at a temp of 105F for something like five days. And that would probably kill you. This treatment is not encouraged!

However, generally keeping warm, using saunas and hot tubs and building heat in the muscles with exercise can make for an inhospitable environment. If this doesn't actively kill the bacteria, it slows down their proliferation. The weird thing about a Lyme infection is that it attacks your immune system and causes your body temp to lower thus creating its own favorite environment. Nasty things.

You could easily have had some die off from using your heating pad that long -- but I have had that kind of symptom increase from sitting around anyway! These bodies are so complicated, aren't they?
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