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Normally I'd be afraid to stop antibiotics, as I'm pretty sure my symptoms will worsen within a few weeks (and keep worsening) if there's nothing to combat the lyme as it blooms out of the cysts.
But I have hope. Hope in the form of my new torture devic-- Um, Rife machine. The GB-4000 causes massive herx reactions, pretty much on demand. So far, any time I Rife, within a day or two (or sometimes immediately) I have an unmistakable herx, which lasts anywhere from half a day to a few days.
My thinking is this:
- I know I have lyme
- I believe that when lyme is attacked and/or killed, it releases neurotoxins, causing a Herxheimer reaction.
- So far in my treatment, all progress has been measured clinically, by noting Herxheimer reactions, and general well-being
- Given that, let's say it's true that any progress against this disease will cause a herx.
- So, let's also assume the reverse: that anything that causes a herx must be attacking the lyme.
- Rife definitely causes herx reactions.
- Therefore, Rife must be attacking the lyme.
It's a leap to conclude that because Rife causes herxes, Rife will cure the lyme, even eventually. But the same can be said for antibiotics. All we know is that we're annoying the lyme to some extent. Bryan Rosner talks about this in his book When Antibiotics Fail. He (and others) believe that antibiotics encourage lyme's defense mechanism, sending it back to cystic form, where it can't be attacked (by antibiotics or Rife). This may also cause symptoms to lessen temporarily, but it's a false victory, because instead of killing the lyme, it has just been driven to harder-to-reach places for blood-borne antibiotics.
Rosner says the main edge that we have with Rife machines is that lyme has no defense against it. Rifing apparently does NOT cause lyme to go cystic. So, whatever spirochetes are out-and-about get zapped (vibrated actually). Not all die necessarily, but they're not forced into hiding either. The idea is that repeated treatment over time will eventually reduce the bacterial load, where with antibiotics it may become (has become for me) a stalemate.
There is another edge Rife has over antibiotics. Lyme doesn't like the bloodstream. Unlike most bacteria, it doesn't have a tail, and doesn't swim freely in the blood. Being a corkscrew-shaped spirochete, it drills. Through brain, eyes, bone, skin, joints. Antibiotics primarily only reach blood-rich areas. But Rife -- EMF -- can get everywhere in the body. This may be one of the reasons for huge herxes. I'm getting at lyme that's never been reached before.
A side effect of Rife treatment is the personal freedom. For two years now I've been at the mercy of the medical system. Now, and with my LLMD's understanding, and suggestions after the fact, I'm able to treat myself. At home. On my own schedule. No traveling and waiting in doctors' offices. No insurance submittals and denials. No out of pocket expense. Okay, that one's a lie. I'm still reeling from the $2500 I paid for the machine. But at least that's a one-time cost.
I'll still see my LLMD, and perhaps I'll go back on antibiotics. In fact I suggested to him that I try Mepron, by itself, with Rife taking the place of the usual Zithromax companion. Mepron, as a cyst-buster, will pull the lyme out where the machine can kill it. That's an option under consideration for the next few months, depending on how this first cycle goes.
The herxes this past month have been legendary. This afternoon I had a session on the machine. I hadn't been feeling very well for the past few days, but it wasn't a herx either. Just lyme. Perhaps settling in to the feeling of what it would be like off antibiotics. Before sitting down for the hour or so of treatment, I mentally balked. I wasn't feeling good, but I didn't want to feel worse. Tomorrow, I thought. Put it off. This is very uncharacteristic for me. Usually I'll plow through because I know it's helping. I think it just means that I've overdone the herxes a bit lately. Hopefully my routine will settle down a bit.
