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I started treatment for Lyme disease with a comprehensive series of antibiotics for a couple of years. I imroved, but still remained quite impaired.
I decided that dental problems needed to be resolved. It cost about $15,000 to get all the mecury, root canals, and cavations cleaned out of my mouth. I experienced considerable improvement, but again was on a level and further improvement with detox was limited.
I needed to do something else. I left the US for South America. My health quickly improved with various treatments that were quite economical and sometimes unavailable in the US. I believe that toxins in the water, air, and food is considerably less in South America.
I lost about 65 pounds of weight in a year and worked on rehabilation from the devasating effects of Lyme disease. I am quite pleased with the progress.
I generally don't use antibiotics now, but do sometimes get ozone therapy or hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
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Thanks Pigwit,Hope you will share what treatments you have done. Thanks for the website also.
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re: conspiracy website...
Is it still "conspiracy" if it's true? We have to consider that Lyme is a bio-weapon, too. I'm sure alot of these illnesses we are experiencing are. How about that radiation from Japan? Why is the media making it seem as if nothing is happening? Any exposure to radiation is too much.
People are more worried about politician's sex lives than the real issues.
Glad you are feeling better, pigwit.
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The info presented there is done so in a vitriolic, doomsaying, panic inducing manner. Websites like this only serve to "awake" the already "awaken".
Also take note that this website is for a business that relocates people, gives them dual citizenship, hocks gold, puts your money in offshore accounts, among countless other endeavors that cater to frightened people. Would it stand to reason that this corporation stands to profit mightily from scaring the crap out of people?
I don't think anyone seeking truth about some very dicey issues would be well served to look for it there. - However, I don't discount the fact that we have been misled and poisoned to an extent, not only by our government, but by ourselves as well. The truth is beyond anger and panic. We'll never get it by fuming.
That's enough of that. I don't want to get to far into this, but I have to stand by my assertion that this website is the absolutely wrong place to go if you are a sick and suffering person. or IMO, anyone.
I apologize if I'm out of line here, but I must question the motives of someone who shares this link 1st and not their great treatment....
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Thank you for your reply lymeboy. I do appreciate your position. We have to keep positive to get out of this mess we are in. It is important to know what may be "the truth"...
It is scary but if we keep denying that this stuff is happening - how can we begin to fight it? There are agendas & decisions being made on the premise that we live in a democracy. Decisions that use our tax money...
These decisions are increasingly not in our favor whether it's in regards to healthcare, Lyme Disease or related illnesses, the environment, housing, food, water... These are all things we need to survive.
I believe our survival is at stake. How many more Plum Islands, BP disasters, GM foods, environmental disasters, wars in foreign lands, renditions, TARP, etc. do we have to live through before people get together to say we had enough?
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quote:Originally posted by seekhelp: Pigwit, it says you live in Kansas though.
- He's not in Kansas anymore.
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Looks like I agree with you on most things stated there, but I would rather not be sold said opinions from someone whose livelihood depends on my own anxieties...
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The responses to my post are interesting. I believe many of us are basically trapped in an environment and system that works against recovery from Lyme disease.
I apologize to those who are offended by link I listed. I am not trying to promote the website, but think there is some truth reflected in the specific page linked.
I feel very fortunate that I have been able to get effective treatment. My treatment in South America is in Ecuador. (I still consider Kansas home.)
I think the food in Ecuador is much more healthy for me. I initially lost weight rapidly without any dieting.
I went to a clinic in Cotacachi for various therapies for arthritis. Typically this involved laser therapy on various joints, hot parafin for my hands, electrical stimulation and a hot pack on my back, and magnetic therapy for my knees. Other therapies were available.
The clinic also provided ozone therapy. Blood was drawn, ozone added, and then the blood went back in my arm or hand. I also got vitamin C and homopathic meds by IV.
Four years after getting Bell's palsy, the doctor gave me tiny shots of bee venom on that side of my face. I regained some control of the muscle over my eyebrow for the first time in 4 years.
I decided to have a tummy tuck in Quito. I worried some about Lyme or infection complicating things. So I had a couple series of 10 sessions hyperbaric oxygen therapy before the surgery.
Generally the surgery went well. As soon as I could, I started lifting weights. I had been told in the past I had hernias, but they didn't bother me much. They were bothering me more, so I recently had bilateral hernia surgery.
I got prices several places in advance (with the help of a couple of Ecuadorian friends). Bids averaged about $1,600, but I got the hernia surgery done for less than $1,000 including doctors. I am pleased with the result.
I also see a Cuban doctor for a monthly injection of embronic stem cell therapy. The stem cells are from the unbilical cords of healthy new-borns without any fetus involved.
There is a chance of rejection of the stem cells, but I think it is helping. This includes my digestive system, probably leaky gut, etc. seeming improved.
I am now getting different ozone therapy in Quito. The ozone is injected directly in a knee joint that flared up. (I understand that ozone can lay down fibroblasts to rebuild cartiledge, even if the cartiledge is gone.)
When I get the injections, I also get ozone inserted in the rectum. Ozone is like oxygen, but has an extra molecule and stays available until needed. When inserted in the rectum, I understand it gets to the organs quickly.
Of course, this all would not have been possible without Dr. C in Missouri and getting the dental work completed.
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Thanks for sharing!
I always wanted to think that the US was progressive & had all the best for treating health problems. I was really out of the loop... Here in SC, it's even worse than the rest of the country. Natrupathic medicine is actually illegal here! Fine & a jail sentence...
It's just awful what has become of our country. We need to fight for the rights of getting appropriate healthcare not illness management at the benefits of the drug companies.
I didn't find that the website linked was overly hawking stuff. I thought it had alot of good information - some of which I never knew (& I study this stuff alot). Who knew there were RFIDs in auto tires? Not me...
Maybe it's time to consider learning Spanish?
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It is really sad what this country has come to. Universal healthcare would be really nice right about now, and a government that helps the poor and sick rather than help the already wealthy. They control their people by keeping them hopeless and in despair, all while keeping up appearances that they care about United States citizens and promoting the American spirit.
The American spirit of helping is alive in a lot of us, it's not dead, but it is absolutely dead in the people in power.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here. Just makes me upset enough to want to leave the country because it will take an act of God to turn things around here in the states. What's really sad is people think this is a highly "Free" country.
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A part of my recovery is being able to concentrate, remember, and to speak clearly. In the past I sometimes struggled even with speaking English. I would loose my train of thought in mid sentence, stammer, couldn't think of the word I wanted to use, etc.
That improved significantly when I got dental work completed. It improved a lot more in Ecuador.
I consider it theraputic for me to be learning Spanish. It is not easy for me, but is like mental excercise.
I also feel safer being a little south of the Ecuator due to air polution and radiation from Japan being primarily in the northern hemisphere. It takes a lot longer before it gets to the southern hemisphere.
In some ways, it is like we do create our own reality. Some of that is spiritual. That is another factor in my efforts toward recovery.
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