I’ve read over and over that one of the symptoms of Lyme Disease is insomnia. That hasn’t been the case with me, although if you’d asked me this between 2008 and a few months ago, I would have thought it was. After coiling for separate tick borne illnesses, I’ve been able to parse out which infections cause which types of sleep problems for me. Lyme Disease: lots of sleep, too […]
With each infection I confront, I make a leap at some point, from treating it a little, whittling down the infection, to slamming it. Today is the day for Bartonella. I decided it is time. Over the past few days, I started adding in other sessions to clean my blood stream of active Bartonella. Rather than making the herxes more intense, it has actually reduced them. This is a relief. […]
Sauna Over the past few weeks, I’ve been going to the dry sauna less frequently. The reason for the decrease is diarrhea and a desire not to increase the risk of dehydration. But something else has happened in the time that I’ve been going to the sauna less often: my Lyme symptoms and herxes have gotten more intense. Even the nightsweats from Babesia coiling are getting more frequent (2 per […]
I’ve been in Watsonville, CA for exactly 4 weeks. I love it here. I love living with my partner. I love the town and the beach and the farmers market and the local gym with a dry sauna. It’s taking me a long time to settle in and find a routine. There turned out to be so many details involved in moving, and my activities are limited by how much […]
Now that I’m more mobile, as in I can walk a reasonable distance and still participate in the activity at the other end, I’m thinking about public transportation. Mostly, if I couldn’t walk somewhere during the past almost 5 years, my mother drove me. Lately, I’ve been able to drive myself around. But parking in NYC is no picnic. Back when I first got sick (but tried to convince myself […]
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 on the BioMat. I used a hot water bottle on my abdomen. I didn’t have much of an appetite most of the day, and my stomach was a little nauseated […]
The wedding I went to on Sunday took place under a large L-shaped tent in a sloped upstate New York backyard. Rain poured down audibly and consistently all day. Everyone looked a little washed out, and the curly hair on many heads (including mine) was extra frizzy. The grass was wet under the tent. I had on a semi-formal dress, but never changed out of my Tevas. This was my day […]
It’s summertime. Watermelon is in season. It’s juicy and delicious, especially when it’s just out of the refrigerator. So I cheated last night. Once I had the first piece, I figured I would have an allergic reaction later, so I ate more. I ate my summer’s allotment. I had a tiny piece of watermelon on Tuesday. It gave me gas and loose stools the next morning. No biggie. But twice […]
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 was here to pick up vegetables with my mom. If only I had known then that this place has a decent selection of “health” foods. Today we found the coconut […]
When I first got the coil machine, it was in the midst of a struggle with kidney stones. Everyone knows they hurt. Seriously, it’s true. At the time, I wasn’t sure if it had passed or was still stuck somewhere in my ureter. Well, I coiled and found out it was still stuck. Herxing is not a great idea when only one kidney can drain and you spend each day […]
Coiling for Lyme 