acupuncture

  • PMS and Bartonella

    One of my personal theories after I started learning about Lyme co-infections was that Bartonella was the culprit behind my reproductive hormone swings. I’ve read that Lyme can cause “unexplained menstrual irregularities.” Most of the antibiotics for Lyme didn’t do… Continue reading

  • Friends are worth their weight in gold

    I got to hang out with two different friends today, one from high school and one from my earliest childhood. With the first one we took stock of how much our lives have progressed over the past year. For both… Continue reading

  • After Vacation Work Begins Again

    I had a fun conversation with a friend this evening about my trip to California. The trip overlapped perfectly with the hiatus in Lyme symptoms. So now that I’m back…I feel like crap. In some ways, it’s even worse because… 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

  • Cheating without consequences

    In August, I learned about a few more food sensitivities and decided to get strict with myself. For the past several months, I’ve been doing a fair amount of detoxing and completely avoiding these foods. So on Tuesday night, I… Continue reading

  • Detoxing daily

    Any time my primary focus is off my health, everything goes awry. Coiling takes a fair amount of time and scheduling, both the actual time on the machine and the time in between when the coil needs to cool. Detoxing… Continue reading

  • Regular Menstrual Cramps

    I felt like a regular American woman today. My period came after two days of PMS cramps. The abdominal cramps were worse today than they usually are during the cycles when I’m not knocked out by my period. I napped… Continue reading

  • Getting Serious

    I don’t really want to do this. As my acupuncture headache turned into a Herx headache this afternoon, I realized that I just don’t want to do this. What is “this”? This is my stepped up coiling protocol. It is… Continue reading

  • Friends

    I have two beautiful friends with big things going on. Their joy is my joy as we accompany each other along the long road of life. Black & Kinky Amongst Brown Waves My friend Margaux is performing a one-woman show… Continue reading

  • Finding Kombucha

    My sister and I did some errands today. It was the usual stuff that a mother and homeowner needs to purchase. One of the stores we went to was a grocery store that I went to the first day I… Continue reading