I can't remember the times in my life where I was pain free and energetic. They seem like a lifetime ago or someone else's life. I look back before my body collapsed and I was a young woman with everything going for her. I had a top notch education, outgoing personality, a full force power that got things done, I was quite impressive when I look back. I was athletic, in shape and attractive. I traveled to exotic places and met wonderful people. I was adventurous.
Now I am a ghost of myself. I suffer daily and my life is tiny. So tiny it could fit on the tip of a needle. I have a wonderful 8 year old daughter who suffers beside me because she too has Lyme disease. Most likely passed to her in the womb. I have an ex husband who used my weakening health against me. It is easy to abuse someone incapable of taking care of themselves. The old me would have kicked him to the curb but the ghost was so foggy minded and sick with neurological symptoms that she did not see the warning signs.
I have been getting worse for 10 years and I crashed 3 years ago.
But,this is the uplifting part, I found an angel who opened my eyes. My ND is an amazing woman. Without her knowledge I would still be without hope wondering how much more I can take. I have been dismissed, told to take Prozac, told it was depression, I have been told to live with it or it was stress. My life had been taken over by the medical establishment!
It was by chance I found her. I was on the phone making a payment for something and I ended up chatting with the receptionist who told her story and I told her mine. When she said Lyme disease I was in disbelief. Isn't that some tick thing people in Connecticut get? But hey I was desperate at this point. I had been all over the country and spent well over 50,000 trying to find out what in the heck is wrong with me.
She sent me to this gentle sweet ND whose office is in her home so she can be with her children after school. It took this unassuming woman to do what doctors at the Mayo Clinic could not. She gave me an answer.
I tested high even by the CDC standards on the Western Blot. I found out that I had parasites draining me too.
She teamed up with a Lyme MD who uses integrative approaches. I take herbs, abx, anti yeast meds and supplements, sleep meds, thyroid meds and herbs, adrenal support herbs and a powerful multi. I did a food allergy test and refrain from gluten, dairy and processed foods. I stick to whole organic pure foods so that I don't stress an already stressed system.
I see small victories. I have 2 totally accessible compassionate professionals taking care of me for the first time.
Post edited by: Stardust73, at: 05/07/2008 05:06
