Fighting Lyme

You really have gone through the wars, what a lot to have to deal with. How long have you been fighting all this?

To some extent, I've been experiencing problems ALL OF MY LIFE, and given mine and other family member's health problems, and other families confirmed experiences, I believe borrelia (the spirochete bacteria responsible for lyme disease) is being passed around my family and that indeed I was born with it.

With that said, I had HUGE mold allergies in 1978, fatigue as soon as 1983, asthma and a dry cough in 86. In late 1998, early 1999, though, I had a HUGE collapse, complete with weight loss, heart palps, severe food allergies and accompanied joint pain, brain fog, MCS, etc.


How do you feel now compared to how you felt at your worst?

I'm now nearly recovered from ALL symptoms. I'm AGGRESSIVELY treating the borreliosis now, and am experiencing a LOT OF FATIGUE, as a result. I'm hopefull that in coming months the fatigue will start to lift significantly.


How is your diet now?

I currently follow and intend to follow for the rest of my life a Mercola-like, no-grain diet. I eat a ton of raw, organic veggies, raw grass-fed butter, a ton of good quality coconut oil, 2-4 cups fresh juice daily, fish oil daily, grass-fed red meat, and 24 hour yogurt daily.

I have had HUGE LUCK with free-range, pasture-fed, organic RAW eggs, which helps heavy metal toxicity TREMENDOUSLY!!

I eat a VERY low carb diet, and I avoid cooked oils and most nut/seed oils. I will avoid wheat/gluten for the REST OF MY LIFE.


How did you find out about the giardia?

A very good, although rare these days, lab found it in a stool analysis.


I have awfull MCS but the food intolerances are by far the worst to have to deal with, its awfull been thin and not been able to eat much, i have tried lots of exotic foods, but after i have eaten them a few times i am reacting. After seventeen months of constant nausea it is just starting to abate. This last couple of months things seem to have stablised to meat and four veg and recently the eggs.

I feel for you... this kind of thing SUCKS!! but you do learn a lot from going through such difficult times. You will appreciate this much more as you recover.


I did CDSA last year, it missed the candida that was later picked up on gut fermentation, so i wonder what else it missed.

CDSA sucks at picking up most pathogens in the stool. It appears to be effective at picking up a few bacteria, but nothing else. My CDSA had zero candida, zero parasites, but other labs picked up giardia, blastocystis hominus, and candida a few months later.


I just hope that all i am taking will deal with parasites or bacteria too.

In my experience, you need to go after the parasites with a WIDE variety of normal flora-safe antimicrobial modalities, and you need to remineralize aggressively.


I have been taking for the last five to six weeks Oxypro, Biocidin (GSE) Wormwood and Barberry, Oil of Oregano, Pau d arco and recently added Aloe vera, this last week i have just started to have very itchy lower legs, they itch untill they bleed, plus itchy eyes and ears, also i have had such intense sugar cravings i could climb up the wall, i have not had these symptoms since before i HAD TO stop eating grains sugar etc due to allergy/intolerance.

Be careful with oil of oregano (OOO), as it can kill off normal flora and it's pretty hard on the liver. With care, though, OOO can be amazing. I personally don't think it should be used until you sufficiently normalize normal flora, which may take years.
I suspect biocidin might kill off some normal flora as well.

I think wormwood has been the MOST important herb I've taken for parasites, but be aware that most wormwood products are CRAP. I was lucky to find some very effective wormwood supps early, and saw results early. Green-colored black walnut tincture is amazing also, but hard to find in the US.


I just cant decipher if i am reacting to antifungals or if this is die off, as long as its just sneezing, itching, etc i can put up with it, but i get worried when i get kidney pain and blood in urine (i think this is when metals are been released)

It's hard to figure all symptoms out. Over time, though, you gain enough knowledge to guide you along, but you never fully understand everything... at least noone has convinced me yet that they fully understand, and I certainly haven't.

Yes, I suspect metals are involved with your kidney/bladder issues as well.


I know i have a nickel/mercury problem and i am taking lots of IR saunas and Chlorella. Four months post removal red cell nickel should be less than 5 and it was 8.4.

This is SO COMMON. The metals will exacerbate the MCS big time.
You can get through this. Keep up your spirits and know that others have overcome these same challenges, and so will you!