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I would like to start a discussion about treating lyme disease with heat. I would like your opinions, stories, facts, ect.
I ran across a site where it stated that lyme disease bacteria dies at 106 degrees F when left at that temp for 24 hours. (This would also kill the patient) I would like to find ways to use temperature to kill this bacteria that is resistant to just about everything!
I have heard that infrared saunas are really good for this and they help detox.
We purchased a spa two years ago, and I asked him if raising the body temp would help or hurt.
He told me that he had one Lyme patient who religiously used a sauna every day. Apparently he had the fastest recovery of all his patients. It might be coincidence... but it makes sense.
Now I set my hot tub to 105 and sit in it every night. I really try to get my body temp up to 100, but thats harder than you might think. At 100 degress, my heart is pounding and I feel like I'm cooking.
Nevertheless, it can't hurt to raise you body temp.
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Exactly, I can get my body temp up to around 100-100.5 for maybe half an hour in the tub. Hopefully it is killing the weaker ketes... and it also makes you sweat like a horse so it is good detox as well. I am going to talk to my Doctor of Oriental Medicine about this in the future... I heard that the infrared saunas do a really good job at getting core body temp up above 100 with ease!
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I have a far-infrared sauna and use it daily. I try to use it for an hour (I worked up to this), but at least squeeze in 30 minutes.
Some days I can only stay in for 30 minutes because it makes me feel dizzy, but others I feel fine for an hour.
I took my temperature one day an hour after getting out. It was 99 degrees, so I know that it does raise your body temp, and more comfortably than traditional saunas, steam rooms or hot tubs.
I've had Lyme for about 35 years, many of those years were asymptomatic, then remission after flare-ups. I've been really ill the past four years.
I started treatment Jan. 20th and had a huge breakthrough this month. My LLMD is very aggressive with treatment, so I'm on three different antibiotics plus meds for babesia.
Last week I had a bad herx and couldn't get out of bed. I couldn't even sauna for a day or two. Then I took a sauna for an hour, and felt good enough to move to the couch.
The next day I got up and have felt pretty good ever since. I used to lay around all the time, now I can do normal things, but not up to 100%. I'd say about 70% ... but I started out at 15% back in January.
There's no way to tell how much the sauna is contributing to this success, but the combination of the meds and the sauna is working very well for me.
I believe the sauna really takes the load off your liver and kidneys since you detox so much through the skin while using it. I think it's even more a detox issue than a heat issue, though the heat is an added bonus.
I would enourage any Lyme patient to get one if at all possible. I took a regular sauna a couple weeks ago and a steam room today ... they neither one do the same thing as a FIR, though I think the heat is still good, so when I'm away from home I take what I can get.
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where did you order your infrared sauna?
Is it the one where your body is covered but your head sticks out?
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robi
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Which brand of FIR do you have?
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groovy2
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Hi All
This is what I have done before--
Roll the windows up in your car and lay down on a blanket-
Now that summer is back I m going to do this again--Jay--
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