A teacher who feared she had dementia has told how she was diagnosed with Lyme disease after nearly 30 years.

She begged NHS doctors to take her symptoms seriously but they were repeatedly stumped for answers until she took matters into her own hands.

It wasn’t until Pauline sent blood samples to Armin labs in Germany in 2018 that she was finally given the diagnosis of Lyme disease, after being bitten by a tick in America in 1989.

The condition, a bacterial infection transmitted through ticks, can cause serious problems and attack the nervous system if left untreated.

Pauline had battled her illness for almost 30 years before getting antibiotics which cured all her agonising symptoms away in just four weeks.
She was prescribed 28 days of doxycycline which cleared her symptoms, but after treatment stopped they returned.

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**Comment**

Forty years after Lyme was “discovered” people still struggle with a similar fate: undiagnosis and stumped doctors.  Isn’t it about time for this to change?

The article states she was “cured” from all her ailments by using antibiotics in only 4 weeks, but when you read the article closely it states that after she relapsed she was treated for TWO YEARS with a combination of metronidazole and rife.  When I talk to Lyme old-timers they state metro used to be standard treatment but is completely forgotten or denied by mainstream medicine now.  This is unfortunate.  This article highlights Dr. Eva Sapi’s work showing:

Metronidazole led to reduction of spirochetal structures by ~90% and round body forms by ~80%. Tigecycline and tinidazole treatment reduced both spirochetal and round body forms by ~80%–90%.
In terms of qualitative effects, only tinidazole reduced viable organisms by ~90%. Following treatment with the other antibiotics, viable organisms were detected in 70%–85% of the biofilm-like colonies.

Metro is known for significant blow-back whereas tinidazole seems to be less prone to this.  It is what my husband and I pulsed for the ENTIRE DURATION OF TREATMENT of FIVE YEARS.  I scream that out so there is no doubt this sucker is hard to treat and takes far more than what is being given.  I ALWAYS herxed with tindy.  ALWAYS. 

A few points:

  • She felt she was losing her mind.  This is perhaps one of the toughest aspects of this illness but rarely talked about or acknowledged by corrupt mainstream medicine and public health ‘authorities.’
  • Unlike many, she actually had flu-like symptoms AND the bullseye rash. She should have been treated immediately as the rash is diagnostic for Lyme.  No testing required.
  • Some bone-head diagnosed her with ring-worm.  You seriously can’t make this stuff up.
  • Similarly to so many patients, she saw a slew of different doctors but nobody helped her.  This continues hows me three things:
  • She didn’t hear about Lyme until 2018 when she sent her own blood to Germany.  I’ve often heard this described as the “do it yourself disease.”  Mainstream medicine should be embarrassed.
  • She was prescribed 28 days of doxycycline which helped but symptoms returned once she went off the drug.  This is very, very common and only proves that the CDC monotherapy is rarely sufficient.
  • If she suffers a relapse she is given  antibiotics, but is currently enjoying remission and spends most of her days pain-free.  This also proves the point that many will manage this disease for life, and many will never be completely “cured.”  That’s not to say treatment doesn’t make all the difference in the world, but we need to be realistic about the fact this is a chronic/persistent disease for many.  If antibiotics didn’t still work for her, or the thousands of us in Lymeland, we wouldn’t take them – further proving that antibiotics can be extremely beneficial.  
  • Further proving this is a ‘do it yourself’ disease, this patient now treats herself – as so many do.

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