Please Pray-Chronic Lymes-Bit Again Huge Bull's Eye on My Back-Very Rural-Need Help

I have chronic lyme disease with eptein bar. I just was attacked again by ticks and there is a bull's eye on my body and a huge bull's eye on my back. I live in western PA in a forest. The American Indian's who lived here called this place Otoxin. It took me five years and many doctors to get diagnosed. I just changed the flooring in my house to anti-microbial, "green" laminate. The only specialist that I know of is 100 miles away in near Youngtown, OH. I just am at my wit's end and feel very pathetic and hopeless right now. Anyone out there who believes in God's love and healing power; and I do, please pray for all of us who are suffering. Where two or three are gathered in his name, there he will be also.

HI Meishie, I am sorry you got bit again. The thing is, you really should get treated for this asap. I would drive the 100 miles and get on this right away.

Good luck

Hi Meishie,
I know just how you feel. I healed from 40 yrs of living with these infections in 2012 and last year (2014) I was reinfected again. I didn't handle it well, to say the least, but I did get back into treatment and I am now healed yet again. But - I learned that I would always be vulnerable to these infections - like a computer is vulnerable to viruses and malware online - so I had to protect myself (just like we protect our computers!).

Have you found any LLMD's or LLND's to treat you? If not start here:
For information on finding a​n ILADS ​(International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society)​ trained​ Lyme Literate Medical Doctor(LLMD) in your area, you will need to enable your email option in your profile in order to receive any recommendations, as we don't allow doctor's names and contact info to be posted on the forum for several reasons. You can enable your email option in your profile, under 'edit profile'. Be sure to click the submit button to actually save your preference.


​You can send me an email by clicking on my screen name or the small blue envelope under my screen name. I may have contact information for some LLMD's in your area as well.​ ​Please include your state and area that you would like to find a LLMD in and I will see how close I can get to your location.​


You can start a new thread titled something like "Looking for LLMD in the (insert the nearest larger city & state) area". Members can email you about the LLMD's that they see in that area if you have your email enabled. We don't allow doctors names to be posted though.


You can also email the Tick-Borne Disease Alliance at​[​​url]​[email protected]​ for LLMD referrals and you can go to ​tbdalliance.org​​ to learn more about these infections.


You can also go to The Lyme Disease Association and search for LLMD's 3 times in a month. You have to register first. Here is the link:
www.lymediseaseassociation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=277&Itemid=74​​


And ILADS has their own referral system:
ilads.org/ilads_media/physician-referral/


​ You will want to find an ILADS trained doctor, as ID Docs (Infectious Disease Doctors) believe Lyme is hard to catch and easy to treat, and don't believe in the reality of chronic Lyme. Go to the ILADS site to read the new (2014) Treatment guidelines to get you started on your healing journey:
http://www.ilads.org/lyme/treatment-guideline.php

Hi Meishie:

I BELIEVE in God's love and HIS healing power and yes prayer!!! I also believe He hears ALL prayers, but not all are answered "yes"!!! With that said, I STILL pray for healing because HIS word tells us to also have hope and to persevere!!!

Perhaps His way of healing us is by using people to help people-for example this forum.

Is there any way at all possible you could see an ND who specializes in Lyme? I'm treating mine with whole herbs=a Lyme tincture that is the same as antibiotics, but I believe waaaaay better than synthetic antibiotics.

Perhaps God put certain plants on this planet to be used for medicinal purposes, but mankind attempting to BE GOD, to play God's part, has perverted the natural antimicrobials and such?

It's food for thought, anyway!

I pray for The Lord to give you wisdom and discernment!

Hon,

It's not unusual to get bitten again and to get repeated Lyme infections. Our immune systems are down.

The same thing happened to me. I was bitten numerous times, mostly with small rashes, but in March of 2013, when the ground is still semi frozen, LOL, I had a massive bull's eye rash.

The good thing is that I took pictures of it this time, and I helped to convince a few of my doctors (though the other ones just figured it was acute).

I panicked, started driving to the ER, then realized that they weren't going to be able to help me anyway, bc I had c. diff., and could no longer take abx. I took 10 more days of the abx my LLMD had me on, and then I quit bc my diarrhea got so bad.

I'm unable to get to a full dose of abx bc of herxheimers, so I figure, if I get bitten, I get bitten; I have chronic lyme anyway.

Just make sure you get that camera out!! This is an opportune moment for you to prove that you have had Lyme at least once, even if your tests are negative.

Margaret