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  • Trade off

    I’m starting to think that all the fatigue over the years was from Babesia. I tried coiling extra last night. It worked like a charm. I’m setting a new course to coil daily for Babesia and to increase the length… Continue reading

  • Early to bed…

    One of the things I’ve been struggling with lately is fatigue. It’s killing me. The trick is to figure out what’s causing it, then see if I can manage it. Sometimes fatigue just has to be rested away. It got… Continue reading

  • Light Sensitivity

    One of my least favorite aspects of Lyme disease and Herxing is light sensitivity. Usually my eyeballs hurt a little as the light sensitivity starts. Then I accidentally expose myself to too much light, and BAM! a headache. These headaches… Continue reading

  • Skin Brushing

    One of the things I do almost every day to support my body’s detoxification process is skin brushing. Skin brushing is one of the cheap and easy ways to help release toxins through the skin. I first heard about it… Continue reading

  • Brief

    I had a lot of computer activity this evening. I wrote an extremely long email (or two) to some friends and now my hands are pretty much done until tomorrow. Coiling I’m coiling for Babesia every day now. Partly I… Continue reading

  • Dry Skin

    Back when I was 27, I was at a weekend retreat with a friend who had minor skin break-outs, the kind I was starting to get. This was just under 1 year after I think I contracted Lyme disease, babesiosis… Continue reading

  • Hungry

    Last week, I read an article in the New York Times Sunday Magazine about the low fat, high carbohydrate diet. In “Is Sugar Toxic?“, Gary Taubes looked critically at the evidence that was available in the 1980s when we all… Continue reading

  • Reading Tea Leaves

    My little experiment with coiling for Babesia to end a bout of fatigue was partially successful. I had enough energy to get moving this morning and go for a walk by 1pm. The success did not last the full day,… Continue reading

  • Constrained Liver

    My liver is showing signs of irritation. I spoke to my acupuncturist about the lump in my throat and she said that my Eastern/energetic liver is irritated, too. It’s a condition called “Constrained Liver Qi” and is a kind of… Continue reading

  • Getting Aggressive

    I’m lucky enough to have a bunch of friends who want to talk to me. I’m wishing for the part of the Herx where I just want to lie around and sleep ends so that I can call each one… Continue reading