Biofilms and 2.5 years of Lyme Disease

 "Spirochetes can live 8 months in their biofilm without food, and if they fed, they can live 2.5 years in their biofilm form. Just because they didn’t leave their biofilm home does not mean they are dead. They are just waiting for the perfect time to strike, which may be in 2 years".

Just read this. This explains to me why the success stories that I have read, that have encouraged me are of patients that treated their Lyme Disease for 2 years and 8 months.  That would be enough to kill all the lyme spirochetes that were hiding out in the biofilm.  Wow.  I guess it just gives me the faith to keep on keeping on for a few years.  That said, co-infections such as babesia, bartonella and protomyxzoa rheumatica would need to be treated concurrantly with the Lyme Treatment.  It is a long road.  A marathon not a sprint.

Speaking of marathons and not sprints - that is my ultimate goal if I conquer Lyme Disease.  I ran to keep in shape before I came down with Lyme Disease.  Exercise is such a luxury now.  I just can't do it without developing massive nervousness and anxiety that occurs 3.5 weeks after I start to exercise.  Which now I have figured out is probobly a herx.  That when my blood heats up and my circulation increases - the spirochetes are being killed.  The herx is so intense though I haven't been able to handle it so I just avoid that type of exercise (jogging).  It is unfortunate because I am way overweight but I have four kids and I need to take the long, slow and steady road to health so I can be there for them as well as get better.  I hope that if I kill off a good portion of the bacterial load that my herxing to exercise will be much less and over time I will be able to exercise more and more. 

Now just to clarify - I don't ever intend to run a real 26.2 mile marathon.  No way.  Back in the height of my health - the most I ever ran was 10 miles and I think stopping for orange juice half way super powered me up for the last 5 miles.  I think the most I would have ever ran in those days would be a half-marathon or 13.1 miles.  But today, I think that when I recover from Lyme Disease, or have it under control, I will only ever run a 10K out of respect for my body and everything it has ever gone through in fighting the disease.  That is my hope anyway.  I hope to run a 10K and not go into a major herx 3 weeks later!  I would hope to run a few miles every few days for the rest of my life.  And by using the word 'run' what I actually mean is 'jog'!