Coiling for Lyme

using the coil machine

  • Lyme treatment in two days a week

    This week, for the first time, I tried doing the Lyme treatment in two days. It’s only the beginning of the season, so the bacteria are still slowly waking up. I don’t think I had the full herx from it,… Continue reading

  • Short for a headache

    I have a really bad headache tonight. I can’t tell if I’m herxing from my double coiling session on Monday or if this is part of the menstrual drama. So tonight is just an entry into the lab notebook portion… Continue reading

  • The First Year of Coiling For Babesia

    Preface Yesterday I entered my coiling times for all the different infections I’ve been working on. This morning, having now learned how to use the program Numbers, the Apple alternative to MS Excel, I made graphs for the different infections.… Continue reading

  • One Year of Coiling for Lyme

    Today makes exactly one year that I started coiling for Lyme Disease. When I first got the coil machine, I was dealing with a kidney stone. So after one trial of 15 seconds, I had to give up for a… Continue reading

  • What is Lyme Coiling Season?

    Several people have asked me about the seasonal nature of Lyme Disease. Mostly, I read about it in various books before I finally experienced it in 2011. From the perspective of a person with Lyme Disease, the symptoms tend to… Continue reading

  • Take it lying down

    I crashed today. Fortunately, the only person I had planned on seeing caught a cold and cancelled. I spent the morning taking it slowly, coming up with things to do lying down (like coiling, reading). I got up for a… Continue reading

  • Second Lyme Coiling Season Begins

    As the aches in my joints started increasing today, I knew it was time to start coiling for Lyme again. The plan is the same as I did for my first Lyme coiling season this fall: 5 days a week,… Continue reading

  • The Pendulum Swings Back

    Now that I’m back in NYC from my lovely vacation to SF and Watsonville, I have the usual problems that crop up when I’m coiling. Yup, back in NY with the symptoms I wish I could leave behind. Since I… Continue reading

  • Coiling Break

    As I mentioned in my last post, I had a two week planned break from coiling (Jan 13-25). I did my best guess of when to take a break based on a few factors: I was expecting to be done… Continue reading

  • Baby got back

    Muscle atrophy is one of the long-term side effects of being partially immobilized for several years. Now that I’m starting to really walk again, and put effort into rebuilding my bones, the muscle tone is returning. Just before I got… Continue reading