Madison Area Lyme Support Group

In This Article:

1. Introduction
2. What is DMSO
3. DMSO and Cancer
4. DMSO and Tissue Healing
5. DMSO and Musculoskeletal Injuries
6. DMSO and Sports Injuries
7. DMSO’s Diverse Benefits (Summary)
8. DMSO Dosage in Humans
9. DMSO Side Effects and Safety
10. Find DMSO Providers
11. Conclusion

Introduction

In 2022, Erica Eyres, a vigorous fifty-six-year-old aerobics instructor who had struggled to breathe, was given “absolutely devastating” news: She might need a lung transplant. She had never smoked, ran cross-country track in high school, and was a personal trainer for years, but, by 2024, a transplant assessment was arranged. (1)

“I decided that I will make that decision,” she said, “only if it’s the last resort, and I’m on my deathbed.”

A few months before her consultation, however, Eyres, then fifty-eight, made an appointment with a new primary care doctor for routine prescription refills. She was about to be introduced, literally and figuratively, to a new kind of medicine. It would change everything.

Dr. James Miller, a former surgeon, liked to get to know his patients, so he asked Eyres for her history. She told him of her diagnosis, thirty years prior, with a serious but manageable case of scleroderma. In 2020, however, this auto-immune disorder, which can affect skin and organs, showed exactly what it could do.

Exhausted and tethered to an oxygen tank, Eyres spent months on her couch. She took medications that had awful side effects. Her lungs were “loaded with ground glass opacities in the lower lobes,” she said, which CT scans confirm. Eyres was diagnosed in 2021 with interstitial lung disease and pulmonary arterial hypertension. Her work in physical fitness was over.

When Eyres finished her history, she got two surprises. Miller agreed it was likely that the covid shots had made her condition, he later told me, “massively worse.” He then listened to her lungs to see how bad they sounded. “Don’t rush that,” he said of the transplant, a sure sign of a doctor who believed in other options.

Eyres was ecstatic. Miller, she said, was the “first doctor that actually hears me.” Miller then offered Eyres help in the form of three easy-to-find supplements for her vaccine injury: nattokinase, bromelain, and turmeric. She soon felt better.

It was on her second visit, a month later, that Miller suggested Eyres smear a gel supplement over her chest and lung area called DMSO to help her condition. This time, Eyres “kinda gave the eye roll,” she told me.

She was in for the biggest surprise yet.

Erica’s Turning Point

In December 2023, seven months before she saw Dr. Miller, Eyres’ second CT scan results were again ominous. They read in part, “Re-demonstrated diffuse centrilobular ground glass nodularity in the lungs, slightly more pronounced in the lower lobes … Expiratory images demonstrate air trapping throughout both lungs.” (Ground glass nodules, common in late-stage covid, are abnormal spots on the lungs. Air trapping is the inability to fully exhale, leading to shortness of breath.)

The diagnosis was given as interstitial lung disease or ILD.

In November 2024, Eyres went for another CT scan in preparation for a lung transplant consultation. She had been using DMSO for five months at that point, mostly topically and in the previous month, orally. The scan found, “No evidence of interstitial lung disease. No air-trapping.”

The subsequent transplant consultation was swift: The pulmonologist looked at her CT results and told her she was stable, she said. “Nothing more we need to do,” he said.

“We head over to the transplant center and the doctor comes in and sits down and tells me, ‘You do not have ILD, your lungs on CT scan are clear!!!!’” Eyres wrote in an email to me.

“Nobody can understand or explain this,” she wrote. “All I can say is, where did the ground glass go? It was there and now it’s not. DMSO.”

She had made her appointment with Miller only because her standing primary care doctor was not available. “BEST thing I ever did!!!!” she wrote. (1)  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

‘Must read’ article.  It exemplifies how DMSO can do so many things and no Lyme/MSIDS patient should be without it.