Coiling for Lyme

symptoms

Symptoms that occur during the coiling process.

  • Spitting out Mercury

    Over the past five years, I’ve read lots about mercury toxicity and dental amalgams. A few years ago, I got tested for heavy metals. I had a not-alarmingly-high amount of mercury in my urine, but enough that I could see… Continue reading

  • Spring Coiling Plan

    Over the past few days, I’ve had lots of social time: with my boyfriend, with my friends and with my parents. In the background, I was doing the necessary coiling and some thinking about what I need to do next.… Continue reading

  • Candida under control

    So far, I’ve been coiling for Candida only to the point that it doesn’t get worse and most of my related symptoms are under control. Unlike the tick borne illnesses, this one come from all the antibiotics. What reduced my… Continue reading

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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