My 6 year old has been complaining for months of tiredness and achy joints. We blew this off as childhood ailments and didn't really consider them being related, but our chiropractor thinks it might be Lyme. It makes a lot is sense, as we are constantly out in the woods, pulling ticks off, and her sister had acute Lyme last year. I just was never aware of chronic Lyme, and since it didn't hit hard and fast like her sister, I never connected the dots.
The chiropractor made two recommendations for in-town specialists who have a lot of experience in Lyme. One is a doctor and the other is in Chinese medicine. She prefers the Chinese medicine guy, and says he has had more success with his course of treatment.
Does anyone have an opinion here? I really don't like the idea of bombarding her system with rounds of antibiotics. I'm all for Chinese medicine if that is a viable option with success rates. We are going to the doctor tomorrow to just rules out any other childhood illness, then we have to decide what course of treatment to do from there.
Any advice?
Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
Both can work. Many have done Chinese herbs for Lyme treatment. You can private message me about it if you want.
Posted by Catgirl (Member # 31149) on :
If I had it to do over again I would have done Chinese medicine. Antibiotics destroyed my gut big time after just 2 weeks of treatment. I'm not alone, lots of lyme patients have gut issues from abx, even IV abx (but much worse with oral abx). Go for the Chinese guy.
Posted by bluelyme (Member # 47170) on :
Ya i herxed hardest from tcm herbs and bvt and rife ..iv abx are trashing my gut ..was a nice relief but only pallative
Posted by lookup (Member # 44574) on :