“It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.”

Clergy Caleb Cotton 

 When the neurologist diagnosed me with Lyme Disease based on clinical manifestation, he explained that it’ an infectious disease and I needed to take a course of antibiotics. He warned me that I needed to be on Doxycycline for at least 90 days without any breaks. I got really concerned why would I need to be on antibiotics for such a long period of time, when standard course of antibiotics for infectious disease is 7-14 days? Little did I know that 90 days is nothing, usual Lyme treatment is  18 to 36 MONTH of IV + oral antibiotics with an odd chance of cure.Let me ask you something, how come an infectious disease like Pneumonia for example is treatable within 7-10 days of oral antibiotics, while infectious disease like Lyme requires up to 36 MONTHS of intravenous antibiotics without any guarantees?

Current recommendations call for 7 – 10 days of treatment for S. pneumoniae and 10 – 14 days for Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Chlamydia pneumoniae. However, some research suggests that patients with mild-to-moderate community-acquired pneumonia may be successfully treated with 7 days or less of antibiotics. The shorter treatment may increase patient tolerance, and improve the likelihood that patients will stick to the treatment regimen. It will also help limit the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.

If I was not ill with Lyme, I would never be able to understand how it really feels. When I am trying to explain, people think I am crazy. It is hard even explain to a doctor what hurts, because the pain migrates before you finish your sentence. Pains due to Lyme are UNBEARABLE! I have never experienced anything like that before. It felt like someone was twisting my arm out, pain was coming though my bones. Join pain was devastating. Headaches and migraines were terrifying!

But forget the physical pain! What was going on inside my brain was much worse! First off, I had constant muscle twitches, nerve shootings, I had weird sensations like bugs were crawling on me,  like rain was coming down and I felt wet drops on my body. And all of that was not as bad as de-realization! During really bad de-realization moments, I wanted to kill myself. That was so scary to see the whole world around you in a different dimension. That sensation was terrifying, I was praying to God to either stop it or take me.

Being an acupuncture student, I have seen all kind of patients in our New York City clinic. AIDS, cancer, MS, fibromyalgia, you name it –we got those patients. Trust me, none of them was as ill as Lyme patients. Even AIDS patients did not experience anything even close to de-realization and de-personalization.

I can go on and on, but no need.  What we are experiencing is not caused by some “natural” bug that the most patent herbs or antibiotics are able to kill. I have never heard of infectious disease that causes physical pain and agony, neurological dysfunction, paralysis, mental dysfunctions, and highest rate of suicide!

Just read a book “Lab 257” by Michael C. Carroll…