JOURNEY LEADING TO STEM CELLS
Soon after being diagnosed with Lyme disease at the end of 2015, I had been seeing a very well known doctor in the Northeast for 2 years. I was overly excitedto get into see him, as it was coined in the Lyme community that it was practically impossible to become a patient of his. After getting in, he soon stopped taking patients due to capacity reasons.
He is very “Lyme Literate” and believes in Eastern and Western medicine, which I, amongst most other Lyme patients, believe that an Eastern approach must be included in a protocol for it to make any progress from a healing standpoint.
So I started on his protocol. I remember at the first appointment I got a glutathione push and I was so excited when it drasticallyhelped with my eyesight/light sensitivity – I was confident this was the place to be!
The program for me consisted of upwards of 30 supplements a day as well as 3-5 antibiotics. SO many pills– supplements were used for immune support, detox support, adrenals, along actual bacteria, viral and biofilm busters themselves. Antibiotics were used for, you guessed it, “killing the bugs.”
I took to antibiotics extremely well. My doctors kept saying that I had a strong constitution. At times I would feel at least 90%(of course this was most likely on an unconsciously sliding scale).
We kept rotating through meds and protocols to knock out all symptoms that were lingering or barely lingering. I was personally scared that Babesiawas possibly my real problem and it was going to persist no matter what I did. Those symptoms were the ones that lingered the most.
Then, in year 2, I wanted to move forward with my life. A part of this meant that I needed to get off of antibiotics because I knew the destruction they were eventually having on my body and gut. I started to try and get off. I was instructed to go cold turkey – just stop taking them all one day – even though I was sure this was not a good idea, I followed doctor’s orders!
In the past when I had got off my meds I had mini-relapses in symptoms. When I went cold turkey on ALL meds in Fall of 2017 I had a full on relapse. I didn’t want to leave my apartment, forget a dark room, because of my light and sound sensitivity as well as my headaches. I almost had an anxiety attack in the middle of Bleecker Street in the West Village one night after I had forced myself out of my apartment.
I internally gave up on my current status and protocol and knew I had to make a drastic change. But of course I couldn’t give up the meds quite yet because that was what was keeping me stable. I knew I needed to find the next step – a silver bullet I call it – which led me to the next leg of my journey….XXL
