LLMD expense

Suggestion, find a doc who takes insurance, who will write you a prescription for 6-8 weeks of doxy. That should take care of the lyme if you caught it really early (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

Hi Bbpath,
I am so sorry to hear of your situation. The money thing stopped me from seeking out a second LLMD once I couldn't travel to the first one I used - once was all I could afford.

Considering that you went 3 years with symptoms of a LD infections, 2 or 3 months of abx are unlikely to be enough treatment. By the time symptoms show up (beyond the bulls eye rash) Dr. Burrascano and other well known researchers/LLMD's tell us that the infection has been able to infect many parts of our bodies by then and we will need longer treatment times. A Lyme Disease infection can actually go chronic in a matter of days for some. It all depends on the bacteria load.

I would suggest that you stay on the abx that you have and get more if you can until you can figure out what you are going to do next. Fortunately, you have all of us to bounce ideas off of to find a way to get some treatment!!

A few ideas, 'off the top of my head';

There are 'at-home' treatments that can be done, or if you are interested you could try a different form of medicine to treat your TBI's. Here is a link to some of the more popular 'at-home' treatments: www.lymediseaseresource.com/Protocols.html


If you are interested, why not make a few phone calls to a few Naturopathic Docs in your area to see if they either take insurance or if you can afford to see them without using the insurance.

It's easy enough to see that I have chosen to use Chinese Medicine/acupuncture/herbs to heal and I'm making good progress so far with it! That would be another idea if you were interested in trying it.

Whatever you do, don't give up!!! Keep on fighting to get the treatment you need to be able to live your life free of these insidious infections!! We're all here to help you through this!

Thanks for the advice traveler... by mistake I thanked someone else!!!! I'll blame it on BRAIN FOG!!! HAHAHA!!!

in my investigations...the initial diagnossis and first appt with LLMD's are super expensive and bank breaking...but i have recently found out that most infectious disease docs take insurance....and do try to keep up with current findings...so while trying to find a doc my for my seven yr old...i was going to go to an infectious disease doc who take insurance...get diagnosis and start on treatment and then u can later *transfer* to a LLMD if that infectious disease doc doesnt treat long enough..but the biggest expense would be over....i have found three in my area that take insurance and treat 2mths after symptoms have ceased.....so i think we might try one of those for my little one...have read their suggested treatments from other patients who described their visits....

I understand the frustration. I pay out of pocket for my naturopathic LLMD plus the herbs which are much more expensive than RX meds. Plus my step-son has autisum and is in full-time therapy. Insurance doesn't cover that either.

My husband and I pays thousands a month for medical. This includes the $1,300 copayment just to have insurance that does us no good basically. Just a vent b/c it's so frustrating.

I havent been on here in a couple of days herxing bad, stiil making an attempt to follow through on the advice given here though.

I need to get off the Comp. for now >>>> headachy....and my eyes get "flashy".....TBI's ????