The State of my Health

In July I did 30 days of Lyme Herbs from the book Healing Lyme by Buhner. As you heard in my last post, I had 10 wonderful days of LIFE where my chronic fatigue was banished and I had energy and vitality again!! 

But, alas, this was followed by 4 or 5 (I cannot directly recall) days of severe fatigue, pain, and brain fog, the return of all my symptoms and the loss of my independence and life. I figured a little of it out-- my blood pressure was too low, for one. Taking less of some herbs helped a lot, and the slow climb back to "normal" began.  It wasn't instant like first 10 days--I just slowly got better day by day until around day 24 when I felt okay again. However, two symptoms have lingered--my gut bloat, and brain fog. I am not healed. 

I hired a naturalistic doctor. She doesn't take insurance and she is $75 an hour, but I was desperate. She does have two degrees, but is not actually a doctor as in the normal sense. (She went to Trinity School of Natural Health and is a certified natural health professional and has a doctor of naturopathy) I could have seen another mainstream doctor, but I am done with them. I don't want to throw the lot out with one or two bad experiences, but after a lifetime of bad experiences, I am done. I am grateful they help so many others in the world, but for me--I think I am going to switch to a naturopathic practice overall! My hour phone consultation and subsequent 90 minute visit to their farm was wonderful. I am on a host of supplements. She diagnosed me with candida and perhaps some parasites and put me on the supplements for the next 60 days. I will see how I feel after 60 days and report back.

Right now my chronic fatigue is a lot better. I am very tired after lunch, but I am taking a nap and wake up refreshed and energized where before, when I was suffering, I would rise more tired than I had gone to bed! I am a lot better. My chronic fatigue is only marginally effecting my life where a month ago I had no life besides fighting my extreme feelings of perpetual weary unrest. 

We have started homeschooling. I am trying to be enough to a household where I will never be enough. God will have to sustain me and the children, and isn't it wonderful that he does! God and his rich mercies and solidness is everything. 

One more thing-- something is wrong with my eyes. Whenever I try to read or look at a screen for long period of time, they itch and burn and I get terrible headaches. I don't know what is wrong. I have gone to the eye doctor, and they don't know. Well, on their recommendation I ordered some reading glasses and they do help a lot--but it still hurts after awhile. This new malady is keeping me off computers and away from screens. I can't even knit. Something about looking at things that are close to my face is irritating my sight. It makes me feel old and on top of all the other health issues I have going on, is upsetting me more than I would like to admit. I am mourning this. I love to knit. I feel like I have lost a part of myself. I wish I knew what was wrong, but I do not--leave a comment if you have ever heard of such a thing. 

I have a lot of things to post. Reuben's birthday pictures (where I horrendously cut my toe) and I did some sewing for the first time in years. Hopefully I will be able to post them soon as my eyes allow. Hopefully I will be able to edit the last of the vlogs and finish writing my book. A lot of what I do uses the computer, and I have not been able to get on it in weeks. I wanted to take a break from the internet for awhile, but I also want to use the wealth of knowledge when I need it! Oh, well.

How are you?

covid 19 vlogs (week 17)

An awesome week. That is all I can remember about it. We did stuff!

 

10 days

10 days. That is all I had. 10 days where I felt normal. Where I had a life again. I remember sweeping the floor, tidying the kitchen on day 8 and the joy I experienced at being able to do such a small task and not needing to lay down afterwards. 

The herbs started working right away. I did scale it back a lot from what I posted in my PDF (taking less of each herb) because I ended up taking too much too fast. I didn't make a new pdf I just ended up writing over top of the numbers with new drop ratios. 

But on day 11 everything changed. My symptoms all came back.

Here are my symptoms:

1) gut bloating

2) headache (front forehead mostly)

3) extreme fatigue

4) on and off sore throat

5) feel weak

6) blurry vision

7) extreme light and touch sensitivity

8) brain fog

Many of these symptoms slowly came on since my miscarriage on in early May. (I've always had glut bloating and light and touch sensitivity)

I am devastated. 10 days of normal and now I am back to having to lay down after lunch and almost unable to get up. And I still don't know what is wrong with me. Do I have lyme (still on herbs) or EBV? Or maybe ME/CFS?  My plan is to finish out the lyme herbs (30 days) and take a two week break. After two weeks I will do a parasite cleanse, then another break and do the herbs for chronic fatigue mentioned in Healing Lyme. After that, I hope I am okay. I don't know. I can only hope and pray.

Anyway. The lyme herbs are not cheap. I know I've said this before. We had about $500 of herbs already, but I spent about $300 more on other ones I needed/ doubles for after I used them. I also bought some that I ended up not being able to take (tryptophan, nattokinase). I had to stop the nattokinase because it lowered my blood pressure too much. It says it does this, but I was hoping it wouldn't. On it my bp is measuring around 80/56. I also backed off on the cats claw as it also can lower your blood pressure. And I decided not to take the tryptophan yet as I read more about it and it can mess with your sleep and I need sleep.

But something else happened. My husband developed a bulls eye rash randomly one day! We never even saw a tick, but he did have some bug bites. The rash was around a bug bite, on his knee. The picture isn't really good--the rash was actually a lot darker. He is starting with 2 weeks of doxycycline and will move to herbs if that does not work.

July has been rough. Not only does he now have lyme, but he had to work all weekend! We didn't even get a break. This is tough and now that my symptoms are back, I am having a hard time clinging to hope. Please continue to pray for me and our family.