During the holidays I gave up drinking my morning cup of cistus icannus tea, an aid to breaking up biofilms caused by Lyme Disease, because I couldn’t take another day of feeling nauseous. I also cut back on my Noni Microbial Defense but continued with reishi extract for extra autoimmune support during the day and added black cumin oil capsules at night.
My nausea and fatigue eased. My sleep improved, and the purple striations and nodes on my fingers caused by the bartonella bacteria began to disappear. I attribute the last two changes to black cumin oil.
After New Year’s I started up my Noni again without any herxing, and three days ago I returned to drinking cistus icannus. I haven’t experience any nausea at all. Again, I suspect that the black cumin oil is working wonders in conjunction with the low-dose naltrexone (LDN) I started last May when my doctor steered me toward building up my autoimmune system. Within four months of taking LDN, many of my symptoms associated with MS had disappeared.
Although all of us who have Lyme Disease have much in common, we also differ in how the disease expresses itself in our bodies, and many of us, with our health care professionals, are feeling our way through this process, the ever-changing treaments.
Because I grew tired of reading about the disease often rebounding in patients who’d taken antibiotics, I chose a LLD physician who’s a functional medicine advocate and honors my desire to take a homeopathic and bio-energetic approach. We work as a team, and when I come up with ancillary treatments, such as the tea, the Reiki and the black cumin oil, he goes along with me and tracks my progress. Or lack thereof. When he thinks I will benefit from various other treatments, I read about them and most often take his advice. For example, I hope to undergo electroaudiagnosis by Voll (EAV) in the next few months. When the time comes, I’ll write about that.
Also, in an earlier post, I mentioned a blog by a courageous young woman who has taken the opposite approach to what I have chosen. A couple of days ago, a friend told me that blog was no longer at the address I had listed. ( To tell the truth, I probably misremembered, which happens often with a Lyme mind.) To read about her day-to-day struggle, go to fightlymes.com. (Yes, it’s really there. I wrote down the address this time.)
For those of you who do not suffer from Lyme’s Disease and came here expecting a story, thank you for staying with me. Despite what you read in the media, many people believe that Lyme Disease is seldom cured with a month or two of antibiotics, except in cases of those freshly bitten. In fact, the jury is still out on whether it can be cured at all. But you do need to know that this is a disease with a stealth bacteria and a neurological component. Everyday people who were originally diagnosed as having MS, ALS, and Parkinson’s are learning that, instead, they actually have Lyme’s.
In the Middle of It All 