
En attendant voici un message d'un lymé américain qui semble grandement apprécier cette voie et ses propres expériences sur ce sujet!
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Hello,
I have not posted here before, but I do lurk and read posts from time to time.
I wanted to write to say that I have been having some successes lately. I have had Lyme probably for about 17 years now, but didn't know it until last year. By then, I knew I could not possibly tolerate antibiotics and decided to go the herbal route.
I started out with the Cowden protocol and did it for 8 months with significant improvements. After 8 months, I thought I should continue with something else and the naturepath I was occasionally seeing suggested Silver. I did not tolerate that well at all and after trying and trying had to give up on it to let my digestive system recover.
I was feeling fairly OK and ended up stopping everything for about 5 months. In that time, I slowly relapsed. I do not have the privilege of being able to see or afford Lyme doctors, much less get to them. I live in a very remote place, days drive from any Lyme doctor.
So, out of frustration at feeling constantly in the dark about what was happening, I decided to purchase a scientific microscope, thinking it would save me lots of money on tests, etc. I was able to purchase a great older one (1000x objective) on eBay and got all the stains and other things I needed mostly from Amazon, believe it or not. It all cost me less than one Lyme specialist visit.
I started out looking at stool samples. (You can find much info on doing this on the web.) I discovered pretty quickly that I had several worm infections. This was a shock, since I had had stool tests a year earlier showing nothing like this. I did some research and discovered that Labs that run stool tests generally don't report worm infections. It is thought that they are not a problem for humans, even though we know that they can be very damaging to our pets and most people have pets and livestock wormed yearly.
I purchased worm medications from various sources online and was expecting to suffer from them, but amazingly suffered very little. The results for my digestive system were amazing. After years of suffering with IBS, etc, finally, I was almost normal.
Next, I decided to take a look at my blood and was shocked to find that I had a raging babesia infection. I had the most success seeing them using Wright's stain. I had used Artemisinin during the Cowden protocol and it appears that it did not get rid of it. Buhner has written that if Artemisinin did not work for people, they should use Cryptolepis. So, I have been on Cryptolepis for a little over a month now. Buhner recommends two months of it. Since worming myself, I was able to tolerate it fairly well and get up to full dose rather quickly.
I also went back slowly to some anti-Lyme herbs and colloidal silver. I am now able to take the full recommended dose of colloidal silver and am also taking homemade Cat's Claw tincture, purchased Teasel tincture, homemade ginseng tincture, and some other complementary herbs-- most of which are inexpensive home made tinctures.
While looking at my blood, I also discovered that I was infected with a Dog heart worm, a Strongyloide and a shistosoma. This led me to feel that Lyme's impact on the body leads people to become infected with a huge variety of things that normal people would probably fight off and to me, it meant that every Lyme person has a totally different story, different sets of pathogens that create a unique illness like no one else's. It all depends on what they are accidentally exposed to.
I am currently treating the strongyloides and shistosoma and won't know for sure if I've got rid of them for at least a couple of months after my last treatment.
The treatment I used for the strongyloides was a combination of Ivermectin and Albendazole, which had the amazing and unexpected side effect of killing Babesia. A week after my first treatment, I did a blood check under the microscope and was blown away at the change -- the noticeable lack of Babesia parasites. The cryptolepis was working slowly, but I had a huge drop in parasite levels after the Ivermectin/Albendazole treatment.
I started to feel well enough, that I decided to try once again to do some exercise and started out slowly running in the mornings. I have not been able to do this for at least 12 years now. I have read of a few cures where the Lymie had used cardiovascular type exercise. I had to force myself at first. It was difficult and miserable. To my amazement, over time, this also helped me feel better. I have been able to work up on my distance and now do about 30 minutes a day. I don't think I could have done this without first getting the Babesia load down and the worms addressed.
I recently read the book "Healing Lyme Disease Naturally: History, Analysis, and Treatments" by Wolf D. Storl and Matthew Wood, which changed my way of thinking about Lyme. I decided to add some traditional syphilis treatments and one of them is sauna. I made arrangements to use a sauna belonging to a local massage therapist. She wanted to help and gave me a good deal. Wolf Storl, who cured his Lyme with teasel, sauna and exercise, points out some flaws in modern thinking about Lyme treatment that lead to so many treatment failures and I recommend the book for a different perspective on the disease.
At first I Herxed after the sauna, but this last session caused me no problems and the next day, I felt better than I have in 17 years. I was so amazed--blessed, really.
Maybe I'll have setbacks again, but I feel hopeful now. Lady Barbara, who cured her Lyme with Teasel, grapefruit seed extract and belly dancing said that she never once thought she wasn't going to beat it. I think this is important. You can't get well without that inner unstoppable drive and strength.
Anyway, I am going to try to stick to the colloidal silver for 3 months (though it maybe isn't perfect) as the narurepath suggested along with as many herbs as seem helpful to me. I think I will also build or save up to buy some type of sauna for myself. I will keep up with whatever herbs I can, also.
Wolf Storl and Lady Barbara both suggest the key to beating Lyme is to change the body ecology so that it is no longer a suitable environment for Lyme. From my own experience, I think also that every person is different and that sometimes, you have to find and go after other infections first in order to get well enough to tolerate some Lyme treatments. Taking colloidal silver when you have worms actually worsens the worm situation. Killing off your gut bacteria opens the door to some other pathogens that were kept in check by healthy gut microbes (this is partly why silver is imperfect, but I seem allergic to grapefruit seed extract.)
I love my microscope and I don't know why I did not think of getting one before now. It is so empowering to look at this hidden world. I imagine most lab techs can only spend a minute or two looking at a patient's slide, but I can go over every millimeter of a blood smear and take as long as needed and be very thorough.
The web is also amazing, because all the information I needed to do this was there.
I just wanted to write this to give people hope.
Tish