Anyone have experience with Rifing?

ive been looking at this too... ive been on abx for 6 months at least and not reaaly had improvement. i cant live like this!

I'm going to a "complementary medicine" place that does Rifing. I'm trying it out to see if it works. The thing that makes me suspicious about this practice is that they sell their own machines, with the understanding that they are going to teach you how to use them.

The practitioner, who is also an acupuncturist, told me the machine uses light waves, and indeed, the machine emitted some headache-inducing (for me, ha ha) light pulses.

I thought I had a herx, but now I'm not so sure, because I just feel plain old yucky since the one visit, and it could just be the downward spiral I was already on.

I doubt a church would collect funds for a Rife machine, though I understand your sarcasm. Yes, I think you're right that maybe we should all go with less gratuitous entities.

I've used a rife machine and it worked for me. I see a naturopath who has it all set up (her husband was a chiropractor who had Lyme and that's when they learned about riffing). I don't really know too much about the technicalities of the machine itself. Although, I will tell you the first time I went and saw her I would have walked right out as it sounded like a bunch of hocus pocus, but she was recommended by a neighbour of mine (a very strait laced, no nonsense, elderly farm woman), plus I was so desperate I was willing to try anything (and the price was cheap). I'm so glad I did. I was completely bed bound before (having a shower was the big event of the day. that and going to the bathroom were the only times i was out of bed). I still have a long way to go, but I'm up and about more: going for short walks, making simple meals, I even did the dishes and three loads of laundry and hung them on the clothes line today - things I couldn't have imagined doing before.
The one thing is the rife helped with my Lyme, but I'm still struggling with Bartonella, which I'm taking herbal supplements for. I've read mixed things, but apparently rife doesn't treat the confections like Bartonella

From what I have read, bartonella requires different frequencies than lyme. Try searching this site for them or try google.

Trav., when I looked at some of the posts on Rifing, I saw that there were many different opinions.

I really don't know exactly which way to turn, apart from herbs.

Margaret

Reports on rifing are like any other treatment approach used for dealing with this illness. You can kill all of the bugs that you want. If the person's body is not equipped to deal with the die-off, then you will become only more sick. Are the energetic and detoxification pathways optimized to handle the additional demands placed upon them? That is one of the main keys.

I agree that some people may be more sensitive to the EMF than others, hence may not be able to tolerate the rife at all.

Don

Yes, I think that's it!

I guess maybe I should hurry up and order the Desertbio supplements the rife-administering acupuncturist suggested I take. Although, and I don't mean to be overly cynical, maybe she suggests or orders the same supplements for all her patients, most of whom have Lyme disease.

It still seems a bit wacky to me--really, all of those machines seem a bit hocus pocus.

I'm willing to try some more appointments though, regardless.

Garden, you should try feverfew for the headaches. I've had migraines for years, and I used to try it for a few days, and found that it had no benefits. But when you take a fairly high dose every day for a month or so, the headaches go away. I still have a few migraines, but they're more like "ghost migraines," mere shadows of the horrible migraines I used to have.

so . . . are you going to do rifing? I don't know what a Bio Mat is.

I still think it's a bit outrageous (and weird) that my acupuncturist helps to sell a Rife that costs $6000. Assuming rifing does work, I'd rather just do it in her office.

Margaret

I haven't tried feverfew on her. Her headaches are pretty resistant to most things, but somehow she found out Barqs root beer can often give her relief. It loosens the muscles that are tight and contributing to her headaches. It's the caffeine in it. It doesn't work every time and she only uses it when her headache is bad. Not something she likes to drink, but it does help her. She tried green tea, but it didn't help. It's not something I'd suggest to anyone and I don't encourage her to use it, but she's 25, so it's her decision.

We haven't decided whether or not to give rifing a serious try. We'll try some out some more before we decide. I hope it will help her headaches again.

http://www.biomat.com/ This will explain the biomat. It's not soft to lay on, so it may not work for her, but at least we won't be spending much. Maybe I could prop it up against a wall by her bed so she could have her back against it without her weight on it.

That's a shame you're sensitive to EMFs. I've met a few Lyme patients that have that problem and it makes it tough for them to go to stores, etc.

I'd say whatever works is great! My daughter is bothered some in the big box stores. I suspect it's suttle flickering of all the fluorescent lights.

Garden, As a long-time sufferer of migraines, I know that caffeine is a temporary fix, and can actually cause more headaches in the long run. Migraines are caused by the dilation of blood vessels, and caffeine causes the blood vessels to constrict, which stops the headache. But what happens then, is that after the constriction, the blood vessels quickly react by dilating again, and it's a self-perpetuating cycle. I have found that caffeine actually makes my migraines worse and much more frequent.

Again, I recommend taking the feverfew 2 to 3 times a day for one or two months to see if there is any improvement. You'll only notice improvement after about a month, and she needs to keep taking the same dose every day, as if she were taking a medication.

Look up "caffeine and headaches" on the internet.

Margaret

My experiences with Rife machines has been very positive, but note that my husband and I have been exposed to different types at the wellness center so it's a different situation for us. It's like a smorgasborg, sampling the various types of Rife machines. It's tough to make a decision to buy one when you don't know if it will work for you or not. We are fortunate because the center is run by donation only so we don't have to fork out a lot of money each time we go there. Garden peace has been to it and I urge you Garden to try again when Scott and Liz are back from vacation...or at least call him and discuss rifing. Like I have said before, Toby and I believe it stopped the progression of my husband's ALS symptoms. He was using a type of Rife machine Scott put together that he called a "light bed". There are different radiowave frequencies used for different co-infections so one isn't limited to just a "Lyme frequency." Most people I have talked to had great success with using the machine while dealing with terminal cancer. They feel like the machines saved their lives. I highly recommend using them if possible. This is just my opinion based on my experience. Like everything else, it's experimental. I will say however that I would definitely urge anyone who is diagnosed with any form of cancer to try it. I have talked face to face with somany people who feel it healed them of cancer....and especially if the doctors say there isn't anything they can do to help. Toby's situation was terminal and this is why we went to the healing center once a week. You will try anything and everything to help save your life. Don is right. There are additional demands on the body even though it is safe used properly. Detoxification is very important. They use the ionic footbaths at the center. I really like using the various types of Rife machines so we will continue to go there when we can. I guess if i was in your situation and not making progress with other treatment, I would buy a machine. I don't know how to answer a person's question as to which machine to buy even though I have heard the GB4000 -which they have at the center - is a good one. If you want Teragram, you can write to me and I can give you Liz's e-mail address and you can go from there.