LYME DISEASE
I was bitten by a deer tick back in the year 1976 while working on the Mendocino National Forest. A bulls eye rash (Erythema migrans) developed at the site of the rash. I was soon very ill with flu like symptoms, followed with many symptoms too numerous to list in detail. The worst of the symptoms were mental confusion, severe burning and cramping in my gut, joint swelling, muscle pain, tendonitis etc. etc. The doctors told me that no one could have so many problems and symptoms. My blood tests were normal. My urine was normal, and my wife, a Medical Technician checked these regularly.I saw head shrinks and advisors. I was given different kinds of mood altering drugs. I could not do my work, and my job was in jeopardy.
Finally, Dr. Grant Hurley of Monte Vista, Colorado suspected Lyme disease, and with the help of Drs. Paul Lavoie and Joseph Burrascano, Dr. Hurley obtained positive urine antigen tests for Lyme disease from Igenix Lab. in CA.
Dr. Hurley began to treat me with the antibiotic Doxycyclene. My health improved, and I was able to work and support my family, but each time I went off from antibiotics, my symptoms returned.
In 1976, I contacted what my docter now calls Master’s disease or Borrelosis (a Borrelia infection something like Lyme disease). Now it is 2011. I am still having symptoms.
I have been taking Doxycyclene (an antibiotic) for nearly a year with a herbal remedy called Samento. I thought I was getting better, so I quit taking these remedies in the first week of April 2011, and soon I developed sore muscles in my legs and painful tendons. I experienced severe burning in my lower colon with awful cramping. My knees, hips, shoulders, and left elbow became painful, and I was getting crippled. My eyes burned. Sinus trouble developed. My head ached. Muscles in my neck tightened up and became painful etc. etc. I had to go back on antibiotics. Today, May 16, I am finally getting some energy and strength back and hope for the future.
The U.S. Center for Disease Control recommends treating Lyme Disease for only two our three weeks, saying there in no benefit from longer treatments. The State of Texas persecutes Lyme disease literate doctors, forcing these doctors to abandon those of us that are ill with Borrelosis. There are thousands of us, and we all have similar stories. If I do not have access to antibiotics, my life if pure hell. There are very few doctors that will treat us, and many of the Lyme Disease Doctors have been put out of business. Who did it? Big insurance companies and the government are trying to save money. Medicare does not cover my costs. Instead of treating us with low cost antibiotics, now they must treat all of our symptoms and perform unnecessary surgery, wasting money and forcing us to suffer needlessly. In Africa and much of Europe we could get help, but not in the USA.
For more information, read up on Relapsing fever, a disease similar to Lyme disease; search online for Lyme disease cysts, and search for Boroson and Boroson of Norway. Then you will get the real truth on Lyme Disease.
If you have Borrelosis, Zithromax with Minicycclene works for me. I trust that God will help you. Your government won't help..
By Eldon V. Guymon