I refuse to believe there is NO ONE that is helped by herbal medicine, and I know I use the Butterbur/Feverfew argument, but it’s true. There ARE people that get migraine relief from them. I’ve even had blood work normalize that was off for years while on herbal medicine. Symptoms that I’ve had for 11 years improve. They are not gone, but they are improved, and with how skeptical I am, I’m absolutely positive they are improved or I would never ever say they were. I’d be mad I wasted time and money on them and I’d be sure to let people know to steer clear. I don’t believe in homeopathy and watered down remedies, but true potent herbs, I do. And I’m sure I’m not the only one lol.
You can post all the articles you want, I go by what works for me. I spent all these years racking up 30 grand in medical bill debt trying Epley maneuvers, seeing an ENT for my supposed Meniere’s Disease, I almost had my ears destroyed with shots and brain surgery because they were positive I had Meniere’s Disease, paying for MRIs, every migraine medicine in the book multiple times, VNG testing twice, nothing EVER worked.
I have solid evidence on blood work more than once that I have Lyme Disease but more importantly and what is making me sicker are the other infections like the Babesia. It would be idiotic not to treat them, so that’s what I am doing. And I already stated if it does not work, I will try standard treatments for them, but I will not accept Post Lyme Treatment Syndrome when the CDC itself says they don’t know what it is or why some people get it and that it’s being looked into further. They also state Babesia is in the blood supply from donors, blood is not screened for it, and they don’t have any reliable tests to screen blood with it, so there’s probably an awful lot more people walking around with it than they ever realize. The Red Cross even states if you have “Chronic Lyme Disease” you cannot donate blood for the rest of your life and same if you’ve had any serious illnesses such as Babesia, but people could unknowingly have both and still donate and blood is not screened for it.
I know an awful lot of people that get sick once they stop treatment and then resume and feel better again. If it was not an active infection, how would that be? I’ve seen it with a family member twice. Until there is a test that shows the infection is one hundred percent eradicated and gone, and what is left is damage, I will keep treating it if it helps me. I’ve spent almost my whole adult life being sick from this and I want to feel better. Nothing I’ve done to this point has achieved that except for what I am doing now.
And about “LLMDs” I’m sure there are some out there that don’t know what they are doing and take advantage of people and misdiagnose. But so have traditional doctors by overdiagnosing people with things they don’t have like MAV and Meniere’s Disease. Some doctors are Lyme Literate and treat Lyme Disease longer term and they are infectious disease specialists or internists with many years of experience.
Couple of points from that article. “Lyme disease, when diagnosed early, is readily treatable with oral antibiotics.” Many people are not treated early, they are not diagnosed early, years and years go on like with me. It’s not so readily treatable at that point. I haven’t been specifically treated for Lyme Disease with antibiotics but three years ago I had pneumonia and was treated orally and on IV antibiotics for 6 weeks. The antibiotics should have covered Lyme Disease as well. It obviously did not.
Another point is that the article is about Lyme Disease and often people with Lyme have other tick borne illnesses that CAN be fatal that make them very sick and are worse than Lyme Disease. At this point, Lyme Disease is the least of my worries.
Lastly: “Many infectious agents can cause chronic infections or can be difficult to eradicate with standard antibiotic treatments. Unfortunately, it is often difficult to diagnose such infections and, in the case of Lyme disease, it is difficult to know what percent of cases persist in the form of chronic infections. Other possibilities for persistent symptoms include: autoimmune-like reactions in which the body attacks its own organs and tissues; physically damaged or scarred organs and tissues from an earlier infection; another tick-borne infection such as babesiosis or ehrlichiosis; and re-infection by B. burgdorferi [4].” Again, the study is about EARLY Lyme Disease. It’s another ball game when it’s late stage neurological Lyme Disease that’s been sitting there for 20 years.