This is an excerpt from my book Surviving Lyme:
I would find the best, most qualified Lyme doctor using natural treatments I can find. I would then find a local doctor of natural bent that could support this long distance treatment and that I could use for quick short term checkups. Building this team is crucial. Absolutely crucial. Both these doctors need to understand detoxification and how Lyme works. If they don’t know about neurotoxins and ammonia damage and Post Lyme Syndrome and herxing then RUN FOR THE DOOR.
Interview different doctors and have them lay out their protocol recommendation for you or your loved one. Compare and contrast their protocols then go back and ask questions about the discrepancies to fully understand where they are coming from. Be sure about their comprehension of the human body and the Lyme. Ask them for testimonials and success rate. When you are in the lobby of each doctor’s office (every time) make friends. I introduce myself to everyone who comes into the lobby of my doctor and I talk to them, really talk to them. You don’t know me so you don’t know how hard this is for me because I’m not a “love talking to strangers” kind of person. It is critical for you to know the success rate and treatment protocol of other patients and if they are feeling better. Later, I realized I must keep up the “talking to everybody phenomenon” because the newbies, like I was, need to hear about success and that they picked the right place. It is incredibly encouraging to hear from patients “this place is healing me”. We are on this journey to encourage one another.
The husband of a friend of mine has some horrible form of cancer that I cannot pronounce and she said the other patients in the traditional cancer program where they are in Arkansas are depressing. No one in the program is getting better and she sees death everywhere they go and every time they are there. SCARY! I would run for the hills. Every program is not for everyone, but the wellness numbers should safely be in the 80% and 90% to be sure the doctors know what they are doing.
The bad news I have to break to you before we even get into this fight, is that you will not find cooperation from your health insurance carrier in the battle. Finding even a traditional MD that insurance will cover all the treatments and services is rare. It sucks, but I have to be honest with you so you are not caught off balance and surprised. Almost all of us are paying cash or going in debt to get through this things. To the insurance company’s defense (I have no idea why I’m defending their position) most of these treatments against Lyme are ground breaking and have only been used for a few years. Anything that new, they are scared to death over providing funding for.
Just accept this fact and be delightfully surprised if yours will pay anything: Insurance will not cover this. Insurance will not cover most of these treatments. Insurance is built around traditional medicine and unless you find an M.D. who can code things in a gray area, your insurance is going to buck. If it’s not a pill and it’s not administered in a hospital, then good luck.
My best recommendation would be to find a doctor using muscle testing, kinesiology, or bio-resonance scanning to test for Lyme and other pathogens. (see resource list) It is the only fail proof method for determining what you have and what is going on. See if there is a local Lyme support group in your area or go to chat rooms online and see who is talking about what and who. I got 4 positive and 1 negative about the doctors I chose from local testimonials. Ask around but use your discernment in what you read online. One poison apple can ruin the whole bushel. Don’t forget that. I would also not be afraid to take that one negative testimonial in to the doctor and ask them to explain it.
If someone has a bad experience with a natural doctor, it is 100 times worse than with a regular doctor. Our culture has higher expectations of a doctor healing outside the box. When it does not fit or work as fast as a duct tape pharmaceutical, then we label them a failure and tell the whole world and never give anyone else in natural medicine a chance. Watch out for the ‘cry wolf’ testimonies and for joining in with them or listening too closely. Twelve doctors in traditional medicine failed me and were letting me die, yet, if my child breaks his arm, where am I going to go? To the ER or Emergency Clinic to get it set and cast. Those 12 doctors have not hindered my ability to discern within the industry.
I know people who have been fighting “mystery” illnesses for decades and have tried dozens of doctors and dozens of treatments yet they don’t berate each of the doctors for failing. They are frustrated with the illness that none of them can find, but don’t blame any of those doctors for failing. They keep going back and going back to traditional medicine to keep trying. Equally, we should allow natural medicine an opportunity. If you find one naturally trained or out of the box doctor that doesn’t float your boat. Look for another. Do not write off the entire industry because of an ego, lack of knowledge or not a good fit. We all sin and fall short. Everyone you find is not going to be perfect and they will make mistakes.
Most importantly, make sure the doctor is listening, truly listening. Not just lumping you in with the masses and treating you like everyone else. Each body is different and unique and will fight the same pathogen completely different. Each of your symptoms is important and part of the code your body is using to ask for help.
If you are not familiar with these types of muscle testing doctors, you are not in the minority. The best way I can describe it is by using an analogy of “Divining for Water”. The reason in the old days that certain people could use a stick and divine for water, was they were picking up on a change in frequency in the stick. God made everything in creation with a particular energy setting. Science has confirmed this, so I’m not making this up. Colors have frequency, sound has frequency, objects omit frequency. Each of these frequencies is unique. But pinecones resonate the same frequency whether you are in the US or Australia (do they have pinecones there?) Water emits the same frequency. So the trained water diviners could tell when they got close to a shallow water table by “reading” the frequency of the stick.
Similarly, these types of doctors use frequency to “read” distress in your liver, heart, digestion, etc. A regular functioning liver should resonate a certain way. The pathogens that cause the problem also emit a particular frequency and can be found and eradicated.
Too many laboratories are failing in finding the critters in the bloodstream, urine or stool samples. If you read studies and believe in conspiracy theories, then you will understand why the labs are not “supposed” to find too many pathogens. Or why they do not do a thorough job testing the samples to find pathogens. The lab that do the best job is IGenX.
Another thing to research in your area is a testing technique called the Computerized Regulated Thermography (CRT), a German technology. CRT is an FDA approved, objective and non-invasive way of evaluating your body’s functions. It is the EKG of the natural physician. CRT represents one of several objective diagnostic evaluations in Integrative Medicine. It is a medical imaging method that supplies information as meaningful as MRI and X-ray, and is safe and non-invasive. Over 1500 physicians in Europe use CRT. Thermography has over 12,000 citations and studies held within current medical journals.
This particular device evaluates your body functions by a direct temperature measurement probe instead of measuring thermal radiation. The result is a scanning method that is much more precise than any other thermographic system. It maps out the complete autonomic nervous system as it projects to and from each organ or tissue. With this form of thermography, we can finally see what the body is doing long before it becomes dysfunctional enough to create an irreversible problem. This is not diagnosing disease, but rather identifying the patterns that lead to disease, so that these patterns can be successfully treated.
It actually detects breast cancer 7 years before a mammogram (in studies) because it detects the malfunction at the cellular level. It is instrumental in helping develop a proper healing protocol for anyone with a chronic illness. Many times, the organs in the most distress get the attention first and because the squeaky wheel gets the grease, other organs or systems go untreated just because they don’t redline on a blood test. The CRT will find it. To a well-trained physician in reading the test, it can also find CCSVI without a MRI.
If you are unable to find a doctor of this type that suits you I would definitely go with a Naturopath with experience in Lyme disease. NDs tend to look at the entire body as a whole and not treat the symptoms and chase rabbit trails. They are educated to understand nutrition, diet, acupuncture or acupressure and some even cross train into chiropractic because of how the structure of the body is so closely linked to disease.
In your doctor team arsenal should be also a Lyme Literate Medical Doctor (LLMD). There aren’t very many of these doctors across the country, but that number is growing. They are well versed at healing and treating Lyme and its co-infections. The only problem I have with this group is that they are still attacking Lyme with traditional methods of antibiotics. If you are like me and many others I have met that the antibiotics don’t work or nearly kill them, then what choice do you have? For those who can tolerate the antibiotics, insurance is more likely to pick up the tab for a portion of this treatment. If this is your route, then find a LLMD who uses non-traditional therapies to support the body with the antibiotics.
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Janice Fairbairn – They Lyme Evangelist
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