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but it lives in your organ, joints and muscles. I read this on another board. If so, it make perfect sense why I am so miserable.
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yeah, that's what I've read too. It can hang out there but generally stays longer in tissue. It's very mobile- it can travel through tissue like a corkscrew.
Hope you feel a bit better soon!
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Yes, and that's one reason it's so hard to find in a regular blood test.
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It's too smart to hang out in the open like the blood stream. It goes as deep as it can and watches for any sign of the enemy. Then it turns your body against you. Well that's how I picture it in my mind. Evil spiroketes.
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Relapsing Fever spirochetes do though if I remember right-
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bottom line -- you do NOT want to donate:
blood organs tissue eyes anything from your LYME body !!
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It lives in both, but with treatment, the blood is probably the first place that you won't find it and it has gone deeper into the tissues, organs, etc. So it is there - that's how they do PCR testing and antigen based tests, but it may be that just because it is not showing in the blood, it is hiding deeper....
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Lyme bacteria because of its spiral shape travels better in tissue so it prefers it. But it does live in the blood, tissues, cels, organs, pretty much everywhere.
They say there are 3 steps to killing Ld. Kill with an abx that kills in the blood, abx that kills in the tissue and cels and then a cyst buster. That is exactly why LLMD's use more than one abx at a time, to cover all areas.
It is a "smart" bacteria that can actually change shape, invade a healthy cel and pass right by the immune system camouflaged and unnoticed, so it is never "attacked" by our immune system because it is not seen as a foreign invader.
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I thought it can be seen in blood, with darkfield microscopy. I believe there is someone in Texas doing work on this.
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