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Monday, November 18, 2013

How Long Until I Get Better?

Will I be one of the ones that gets rid of this disease completely and fully without ever having to treat it again?  Or will I fight low levels of it the rest of my life?  To be honest, I have been swallowing vitamins for years (like 35 of them a day) before I knew I had lyme.  I just knew something was terribly, terribly wrong with my incredibly fantastic body that had served me well all my life.  Everything was falling apart.  And vitamins did help.  A lot.  But the anxiety was so dominant and still there with moodiness.  The 5htp and Tyrosine really did help ALOT but the anxiety would still come on then and again...albeit nothing like when it first came on!  However, it was incredibly strong when I began treating with herbs.  In fact, the depression was so strong too.  I felt like I would NEVER get better.  That was the resounding thought and feeling.  I would ask my husband "Do you think I will get better?  Do you think I will ever get better?"  He would say "Yes, I think you will get better".  Just having another's vote of confidence meant something to me.  It helped keep the faith.  The fact that all hell broke loose when I started taking the herbs that targeted Lyme and Bartonella was most likely proof that I was killing something and eventually get better.  And I have.  So much better.  But still today, I ask, how long until I get better?  I am on the tinidazole pulse...this is my 4th pulse so basically when I have finished it I will have completed about 2 months of tinidazole (58 days at 1000mg a day).  So maybe I am herxing right now.  Maybe this feeling is just the tinidazole killing off the Lyme and the feeling and thought process I have in my heart is a shadow of the storm that once overtook my heart when first starting to treat the Lyme Disease with the herbs.  Last night, I had a bit of insomnia...had a hard time getting comfortable and to sleep and then I awoke for an hour between 3 and 4 with a RLS-y feeling in my joints and the need to get up, cool down (I felt hot) and so I went and slept downstairs on the couch (after staying up for about 45 minutes and writing).  Anyways.  So right now.  This is probably a herx.  And happy to say.  A lot better of one that I have had in the past.  But still, I am bored taking these dang pills everyday.  Nice, I know.  They are helping me but it just gets monotonous and I want it to be over.  I want to be better.  I want to be healed.  Forever.  But I carry on, taking my medicine.  It has been about 7 years since I got ill.  How I hate the sound of that.  I wish it was just 1 year, and I was where I am today and it hadn't taken me that long to figure out what was going on (or see what God was trying to tell me when he sent a friend next door who had Lyme and kept telling me about it....or when I went to a doctor and she mentioned Lyme Disease and it took me a YEAR to take the test because I just couldn't believe I had it!  A year because I don't remember a bulls-eye rash and that is all I knew Lyme to do.  Ugh.  Me and my thick head!  Makes me wonder what else I am being so blind to that God is trying to show me.  It is all right there, but it takes getting through our thick head, and our blind eyes, to finally see...at least it does for me!)  So I am praying that He guides me with treatments and of course, if it never does go away...gives me the contentment to walk through it.  But...BUT...I am still believing for complete eradication! 

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