Mainstream Medicine
Using the
mainstream medical approach for Lyme Disease, antibiotics and only
antibiotics are required to destroy and eradicate Borrelia
burgdorferi from the body.
The type of
antibiotics used for treatment are directly dependent on the stage
and manifestation of the disease. The following is taken directly
from Health Canada.
"Although Lyme
disease can have serious symptoms, several antibiotics are available
to treat the illness. Lyme disease is more effectively treated if
diagnosed early in the course of illness. Most cases of Lyme disease
can be cured with a 2-4 weeks of treatment with doxycycline,
amoxicillin, or ceftriaxone. Persons with certain neurological or
cardiac forms of illness may require intravenous treatment with
penicillin or ceftriaxone. Patients diagnosed in the later stages of
the disease can have persistent or recurrent symptoms requiring a
longer course of antibiotic treatment. Treatment failure has
been reported, requiring patients be retreated; the risk of
treatment failure is greater in patients with long-term Lyme
infection."
As the Health
Canada statement indicates, treatment failure is common. Some
research suggests that in the case of Chronic Lyme Disease, the
success rate to long-term treatment is as low as 1 in 3, meaning
over 65% of those treated with long-term antibiotics, end up having
the disease again. The problem is that the bacteria has the ability
to hide in areas known as bio-films where it is shielded from
antibiotic treatment and cannot be killed. The systemic problem of
low antibiotic success feeds the fire that too little is known about
this disease and that too little research is being done to solve the
mysteries that still exist.
Natural Medicine
In the summer of
2006, I finally came to my senses and gave up on my doctor.
Everything my doctor did to treat my symptoms made me worse. Round after
round of short-term antibiotics without ever referring me to a
specialist or ever trying to properly test for any sort of specific
bacterial or viral infection, my body was left with an enraged
bacterial infection that flourished throughout my body. The
more short-term antibiotics I received, the physically sicker that I
became. Furthermore, my doctor's outright persistence that the pain
I suffered from was all in my head, and that the problems I had were
directly related to a history of family mental illness that simply
did not even exist, was the most blatantly demoralizing period of my
life. I felt I had no choice but to introvert and hide from exposing
what I had been told. The power of my doctor telling me that I had
mental problems and that my physical pain was not real, was both
unbearable, and unforgivable.
I am living
proof that alternative medicine is safe and effective. My body
has first- hand knowledge that Naturopathic, Homeopathic, and Herbal
Remedies, not only work, but they do what they do without causing
damage to the body, in the way that the long-term use of harsh
pharmaceutical antibiotic drugs can. Even more so, I am living
proof that the alternative medicine way has the ability to restore
what two-decades of bacterial infection damage can do.
In my case,
the collateral damage done after almost two-decades of Lyme Disease,
has given me a clear understanding of what works. In the beginning, I was diagnosed with
and tested positive for a major fungal
infection. After 6 months of treatment from July of 2007 until
December of 2007, I test fungal free to this day.
What is
clear today is that the only reason that I ever contracted the fungal
infection was because my body was constantly fighting a major bacterial
infection, Lyme Disease, and because my immune system was under such
overwhelming stress, it lacked the ability to defend itself when exposed
to the fungus. In short, the infestation of Borrelia burgdorferi
inside my body resulted in major immune system deterioration and damage.
In the process of recovering from Lyme Disease, I have suffered from
significant Adrenal Gland and Thymus Gland pain and problems, that have
greatly effected my bodies ability to react from exposure to colds and
infections.
In my
case, solving all the collateral damage has been a more complex
and costly treatment process than dealing with the Lyme Disease
itself. I relate my situation to a small leak in a $10 engine
part, that results in $4,000 damage to the engine of a
car. If the part had been repaired when it failed, the engine damage would have never
occurred.
In the
hundreds, now thousands of hours I have spent
investigating alternative medicine products in order to facilitate
curing Lyme Disease as well as all the collateral damage done to my
body, the one thing I have not been able to find is a first hand
accounting of the experiences I had through my recovery. The
alternative treatments that are available for Lyme Disease are
both numerous and effective. I am living proof that
prescription antibiotics that can have side effects as debilitating
as the disease itself are not necessary for the treatment and cure
of Lyme Disease. I am living proof that natural herbs and
supplements, as well as effective homeopathic remedies really work
to eradicate Lyme Disease.
James
Christie, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.