My lyme update

Hello everyone, it was exactly one year ago that I started to experience some of the hardest times of my life aka the onset of my neurological lyme symptoms. My symptoms included Bell's palsy, allergic reactions, extremity numbness and tingle, severe cognitive deficits (anxiety, no focus, depression), complete exercise intolerance, debilitating fatigue, stiff neck, thyroid issues and the list goes on and on. Let me remind you before January 2013 I was a healthy, motivated and energetic 20 year old. I was an athlete since a young age and also a scholar. I was in my first trimester of graduate school at Palmer College of chiropractic the time my prominent symptoms hit me like a brick wall. The last year has been more difficult then I could ever imagine some of the issues I faced were passing classes, being social, maintaining relationships and also helping people understand what I've been going through. At times I thought I was going to die and quit but where I am now is incredible and I wanted to share some of the things I have done to start feeling better.

1. Keep your faith and don't give up, you can and will get better. With proper knowledge and help from doctors you can create health in your life again.
2. Establish relationships with people you love and can talk to about your experiences.
3. Create a vision board. Where do you want to be with your health? Make short term goals leading to long term goals. This will help you focusing on healing your body and the universe responds to persistent focus.
4. Diet.. Since I started my antibiotic therapy I have eaten an organic diet, if my food contains meat it is once a day. Proper nutrition is essential for fueling your body. We need to start looking at our bodies as machines not dumping grounds. Our body metabolizes everything we put into it, put FUEL in it. I call my morning smoothies rocket fuel :).

These are the things that have helped bring me back to health along with my treatment. My treatment is iv antibiotics 100mg doxycycline twice a day for 4-6 weeks and then we will reevaluate, probiotics, transfer lymfactor, a whole food concentrate multivitamin, and one of the most important parts of my healing process, my upper cervical chiropractic care (NUCCA). I want to give a brief explanation of NUCCA care since it has been so vital to my healing. Chiropractic is not a treatment for any condition, I repeat chiropractic is not a treatment. Chiropractic recognizes the body is intelligent, self healing and self maintaining. Thru this recognition chiropractors align the structural abnormalities within the spine so the body will experience and express PROPER FUNCTION. Proper spinal alignment brings normality to the nervous system and balances the body allowing it to do what god intended it to do, heal. I encourage all of my fellow lymies to get their spines checked to make sure their body is functioning at its greatest potential. To find a NUCCA doctor in your area you can go to www.nucca.com and search.

I am 3 weeks in my antibiotic therapy and I have started actually attending class again, being social with my friends again and I am generally happy!!! I cannot stop smiling if I tried. I hope this brings hope or useful information to someone! Have a good day.

Welcome Chiro CG! It's good you were diagnosed before your infection went on any longer. That aids in healing from it. I'm glad you've had successful treatments and that you're getting back to your life. Thank you for sharing your chiro knowledge.

Chiro CG. Thanks for your post. I feel your pain and am with you in the fight - just wish I was 21. I will be 50 this year and up until the middle of last year never had any health problems. Was bitten by a tick in March and thought nothing of it.

Three months later my world began to spiral down. After months of visiting doctors and running the gamut of conventional tests I finally decided that the only explanation had to be that tick. I have an appointment scheduled with a doctor that has a specific practice of treating people with lyme and would guess that Igenix testing and possibly SPECT scans are in my near future.

I'm with you on the Smoothies being Rocket Fuel. I don't think I am making them as good as you are but I carry one with me everywhere I go and take a gulp every 15 minutes or so to keep my energy level from crashing.

Keep up your posts and let us know what is working.

It's good that you understand the importance of a good diet at a young age. Not many do. That will benefit you the rest of your life. I think I'd be a lot worse if I was on the standard diet.

I learned about better diets when I was a little younger than you, but I didn't have the internet to glean a lot of information from like you do now.

Keep up the good work and good luck with your schooling.