Last night, after writing out all my thoughts about my symptoms, I had insomnia. It gave me time to think things through in the quiet of my mind without any distractions. I have two new ideas, somewhat related to each other, that will help me going forward. Fanning the Flames As I looked at all my symptoms, or the fact that I’m having a big symptom flare–especially in my joints […]
With the ups and downs of the past week and a half, and a very sleepy woman writing this post, I want to focus on one small but significant breakthrough: red onions. Red onions aren’t something I eat everyday, nor were they high on the list of foods that I couldn’t eat but incessantly wished for. They are a pleasant treat, a crisp, biting, refreshing addition to a salad or […]
As I started coiling full body scans for two infections a day, totaling 3 hours on the coil machine, I started to think about how long a day is. Some days seem very long, like the day when daylight savings time ends, which seems much longer than an hour extra. Other days seem so short, like when traveling by plane and crossing time zones. With Lyme, there are other factors […]
I’ve been thinking about exercise these past few weeks. I want to go running or do yoga, but I find myself exhausted every day. I’m sure it is from waking up the Lyme infection, but it has me reflecting on my previously aborted exercise schemes. While I’m musing, I’m also taking a philosophical look at naps. I finally took one today. It was shorter than I needed, and thus less […]
These past few weeks, I’ve been feeling worse. For a while, I was confused. I thought things were getting better. I tried to trigger the Lyme infection using a series of vaccinations. Nothing happened at first. So I assumed that the vaccinations did not have a triggering effect and forgot about them. About two and a half weeks after the first vaccination, I started having heart problems. It seemed random. […]
Last year was a huge year for me. It was my third year of coiling and I made so much progress. There is much to review and learn from. The biggest thing that happened was that I got bolder and bolder in the way I coil and in reducing the other supplements and food restrictions, working my way towards the life of a healthy person, rather than a chronically ill […]
Over the past several weeks, I’ve been eating whatever I want, or rather, whatever I’ve wished I could eat for the past six years. It seems like a dream, and it seems like a nightmare. What I’ve learned so far is that eating many of the foods that I had “sensitivities” to triggers Lyme and Bartonella flares. I had clues that this was the case before I began this most […]
I moved to California just over a year ago. It’s been quite a year. A lot more happened during this past year, it seems, than in the previous five. That is what Lyme has been like. Back when I was severely disabled, everything went into a pile to deal with later. There are still some things in that pile that followed me across the country and are waiting to be […]
The week before Thanksgiving, I did three things that forced me to pay attention to my musculoskeletal system: a workout, a massage and a Rolfing session. Beyond being sore, I felt very present in my body. It started with the workout (Saturday Nov. 17). This is the third one I’ve done since I started out in October. I tried doing 2 in 2 weeks and knocked myself out so totally […]
It’s been quite a time these past 11 days. More and more, I can tell that the autumn Lyme flare is upon me. I’ve had to cut down my activity level and been forced to deal with more pain than I’d felt in several months. While I’m resting and aching, I’ve been increasing my Bartonella coiling, trying to get all the suffering over with at once. Pacing the exercise program […]
Coiling for Lyme 