https://www.insider.com/woman-who-overdosed-on-lsd-said-it-cured-lyme-disease-2020-2
A woman who tripped for 34 hours on LSD after taking 550 times the normal dose said the drug cured her pain from chronic Lyme disease
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During the first 12 hours, the woman blacked out for most of it, but remembered vomiting a lot.
- A woman overdosed, but didn’t die, after consuming 550 times an average dose of the psychedelic drug LSD. She had mistaken it as cocaine and ended up tripping for 34 hours.
- Following her overdose, the woman microdosed LSD and found it eliminated her chronic pain, a symptom of her Lyme disease.
- Other psychedelics like DMT and psilocybin also have been shown to manage conditions, like anxiety and depression. (See link for article)
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Case report found here: https://www.jsad.com/doi/10.15288/jsad.2020.81.115
Important excerpt:
She’d stopped taking morphine for five days after her LSD experience, and then her chronic pain returned, so she decided to take the morphine again but at a lower dose, and to also microdose LSD, every three days. A microdose of LSD is about a quarter of the typical 10-milligram dose and doesn’t cause a hallucinogenic effect.
Three years later, the woman was able to completely stop using morphine to manage her pain and said she had no withdrawal symptoms.
The pain Lyme/MSIDS can cause is of a magnitude that makes life unbearable.
I remember the story of a woman with Lyme who went into the garage, took a hammer and broke all her fingers on one hand to get her mind off her shoulder pain.
