I think it's just a part of our flora now. Like I mentioned in another post, you can take an antibiotic targeting a specific strains of bacteria, but they never kill ALL of them, right? There's always a population that are resistant. It's been awhile since Body Structure and Function, and my memory is crap, which is nothing new here, but that sounds like a fair assumption.
Granted, if you catch it early enough, while the infections are still in their infancy in the body, you can lessen the bacterial load enough to where your immune system naturally rids the body of the rest.
These things have been living in my body since 2008. I feel like parasites, viruses, Bartonella, and Babesia may be different strokes, if you can find treatment modalities that impact them heavily, but... thinking about
it from a bacterial standpoint, they've just been growing and spreading, right?
I've been keeping things at bay with my alternative medicines, but I know I'm still significantly populated. I have to be. I haven't herxed anywhere near enough. I still feel a lot of things.
And, like has been said, there are so many factors that go into healing.
I think the best most can hope for is a lessened load, properly functioning detox pathways, lessened brain fog, inflammation, etc. Remission.
Honestly, I'm confident I was in something of a remission, until stress pulled crap back out again. The next day, my brain inflammation had returned, aches, etc. Personality changes. A very drastic, noticeable change in my level of functioning. I'd been feeling OKAY for about
four months. I wasn't out of the woods, but felt okay. That was like three weeks ago. The inflammation is still there.
I think we're always gonna be fragile, or at least me, unless you got a lot of money and access to good doctors, meds, supplements, and no obligations, like school, work, or family. It's hard to balance a "normal" life and your Lyme life. It's all I can do to keep breathing, honestly.
I hate to sound negative, but it's just not easy. Complete recovery. Being cured. I used to dream about
those things. Not anymore. I still long for it, of course, but there's a voice in my head, calling me a dumbass. I've been going through it lately about
having children in the future, getting my girlfriend sick, etc. We've been together for about
7 years, been through so much. She accepts me entirely. Won't leave, no matter how much I tell her to. Not every day is bad, but I know I'm the source of a lot of pain. I don't really show my true self to anyone else, not on a daily basis. She gets the full experience, no filter, and I know it hurts. She cares about
me. But, yeah. She had to move away a few years ago, but the years are going by fast, and a day is gonna come where we will be able to be together again, and we'd like a family. I don't want to get her sick. I don't want to have to worry about
the pregnancies. I've been trying hard to get better.
Though, things are progressing, and changes will come, bit by bit, considering the world doesn't fall into chaos... any more than it already has. Lyme's spreading. It'll be big news, someday. It has to be.
Until then, hang on, fight for an increased level of health, stay positive. Diet, gut function, detox. Get back up, when it knocks you down.
I don't know much about
the mechanisms of antibiotics, the percentage of targeted pathogens that are effected, etc. Just giving a guess.
edit: sorry to make it so personal, just felt it related... kind of. I kinda went on a bit too long.
Post Edited (NotQuiteAntonio) : 10/31/2017 6:38:27 PM (GMT-6)