Articles on this site reflect the experiences of my wife, Angie.  The info below is the result of my interviewing her, and then posting the interview with the corresponding resources and links on this site.  We hope this helps you conduct your own research on your unique path to wellness.  Please enjoy!  Daniel.

Daniel: "Talk about the recent Lyme diagnosis you received.." See Lyme Resources Here See Angie's personal Lyme wellness plan below   Angie:  "Approximately 25 years ago I had a bad root canal that had instantly caused chronic fatigue, chronic Candida from over use of antibiotics, and allergies. About 19-20 years I got bit by a tick. I did not get the rash that indicates lyme disease, and my blood tests were negative.  I was told I was fine.   I started deteriorating a while after that, and I had some very strange problems that no one could diagnose.  These included severe chronic vertigo, joint pain, chronic laryngitis, and constant low grade fevers daily.  Over the years I was re-tested for Lyme disease over and over - and always negative.  A couple of years ago I learned that the standard tests are considered to be very unreliable, and have a huge percentage of false negatives.   I had read that Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia can actually be caused by Lyme disease.  I found a "Lyme literate" new doctor who told me that a new test came out that he felt was a much better test than anything else out there (Bowen Labs).  I had seen recommended it.  It came back positive for Lyme and Babesia, a co-infection in the same class as Malaria.    I found that that lyme disease is now considered by many to be an epidemic. It is now thought to be transferred not only by a tick bite, but by mosquito bites. It is all over the country and all over the world. It can look like over 300 diseases and is often falsely diagnosed. It can look like chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, ms, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) or Parkinson's disease, among many other diseases.  I strongly would tell anyone with these problems to get tested for lyme disease. I will include links to the labs that test for lyme disease with newer tests here.   I can't tell folks how many doctors I've been to and how many tests I've taken. For over 25 years I have been using natural protocols to try to achieve health, and to deal with the health problems which are common to the diseases I've fought.  Recently I invested several months doing research on what was being tried and used successfully, and even on what was being experimented with.   ANTIBIOTICS & LYME   I decided not to use the current protocol of long-term antibiotics. It appears to me that they only tended to kill a percentage of the bugs, leaving a percentage behind. From what I read, I believe that the bugs that are left appear to be only suppressed. When the antibiotics are stopped for many people all their symptoms return. The antibiotics themselves can have a devastating effect on the body. I'm not saying that no one should do this, but I felt that antibiotics were not for me.    It appears to me that antibiotics are the best choice if you take them shortly after being affected. However for me, I was probably infected 20 years ago. From what I understand, the bugs become embedded deep into all the tissues, organs, bones & brain.  Antibiotics don't appear to be very successful to me with late stage lyme.  However, some people are using the antibiotics in a different way through something called the Marshall Protocol.  This is written about in an outstanding new book by Bryan Rosner called The Top Ten Lyme Disease Treatments.   In researching, it seems to me that some progress  is being made out there.  I created a plan for myself, which I would like to share with you. I tried to replicate the effect of some of the drugs being used with natural methods, as I prefer to use as natural as possible a protocol.  I usually seem to have less side effects. This is what I came up with, and what I am currently implementing for myself.   I  will continue to change my plan as I move forward.  I will be changing things on this site as I change my own plan.  People reading this should keep in mind that what may be right for me, may not be right for them. My goal with this site is to make life easier for people by sharing info organized in a way that can help them do their own research. There may be additional or alternative things out there that will help you, but my hope is that this website may help folks to begin the task of choosing their own plans."    DETOXING - THE FIRST STEP   Daniel:  "Tell me about the plan you are following:   Angie:  "First I did the general plan described on My Current Wellness Plan page. This plan was designed to create an environment of health and healing in my body, and to allow me to handle the toxins that are expelled as I kill the lyme & babesia. This is ESSENTIAL and detoxing can not be passed over as the toxins will take a toll.  TAKE IT SLOW   I want to say that I do not add in more than one thing at a time.  I start everything slowly, and wait to make sure my body is ok with it.  I may start one thing every few days.  If  I start several things and one thing is not right for me, how can I know what the problem is?  I also believe it's important not to shock your system with a bunch of things unless there is an urgent situation and speed is necessary."    Please note that underlined items have links that will take you either directly to a website that sells the item, or to explanations of each item with more links to supporting information and resources.  I want to add links and articles about each item, but this will take some time to do a good job, and will be added to gradually, so please keep checking back for more links and info (This is Nov 2004).    Daniel

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