Planet Thrive

Lyme & Co-Infections

• Transitioning from lyme antibiotics to herbs
  Dear Stephen, My daughter has had eighteen months of antibiotics and has made much progress but I am concerned about candida and food allergies that have recently developed.
• Neuro lyme: severe brain fog and derealization
  Dear Stephen, My "primary" symptoms are SEVERE, 24 hour a day brain fog (derealization, cloudy head, novocaine brain), severe fatigue, anxiety, rage, blurry vision w/floaters, dizziness, vertigo, etc.
• Lyme and hormonal imbalances
  Dear Stephen, Lyme disease often affects the balance of stress and sexual hormones. Which herbs can you recommend to restore hormonal balance?
• My Lyme disease is not the IDSA Lyme disease
  One of the many touching stories written in response to the maddening Chicago Tribune article "Chronic Lyme disease: A dubious diagnosis" published on December 8, 2010.
• Lomatium dosage information
  Dear Stephen, What form, dosage and duration of Lomatium do you recommend to bring down an increased viral load associated with Lyme?
• Cryptolepis dose too low to be effective?
  Dear Stephen, I have been working up my dose of cryptolepsis for babesia. After two months I am only up to eight drops twice a day. Is it helpful at killing babesia at such a comparatively low dose?
• Treating viruses with lyme
  Dear Stephen, After a year of lyme treatment, I recently tested positive for several viruses including EBV, HHV6 and varicella. Are there any herbs that can lower my viral load and help keep these viruses at bay?
• Undilating pupil – symptom of neuro lyme?
  Dear Stephen, The last couple of days the pupil of my daughter's left eye has not been dilating, and dimming ambient light does not make it move. Have you seen this before as a presentation of neuro-lyme?
• Lyme and the flu vaccine
  Dear Stephen, Should someone with lyme disease get the annual flu shot? My son is a college student away from home and usually gets the flu shot each year.
• Boneset tea source
  Dear Stephen, I reviewed the Planet Thrive site but could not find a recommended source listed for boneset for making boneset tea. I am in Portland, Oregon. Where would you recommend I order boneset from?
• Lyme transmitted through ingested food?
  Dear Stephen, I stumbled across an article that got me wondering that if a cow with lyme disease was eaten medium-rare, perhaps it could infect the person eating it?
• Lyme presenting as Parkinson’s?
  Dear Stephen, My mother has Parkinson's, which I suspect might be lyme related, but she hasn't been tested yet. Her condition is atypical in it's very fast progression. Do you know of any useful herbs?
• Source Naturals’ resveratrol formula changed
  Dear Stephen, It appears that Source Naturals' resveratrol formula has changed. It now contains red wine extract. Can I use what they sent me and how much should I take, or should I get it elsewhere?
• Q fever with lyme
  Dear Stephen, I received a late report, following a lyme diagnosis this summer, that I've had chronic Q Fever. What herbs might you be aware of that will help eradicate this infection, in addition to the lyme protocol?
• Lyme disease and fear
  by Lady Barbara | Now, after MANY years of writing, and coaching and listening to others with Lyme, I’m still of the mind that FEAR is the greatest obstacle to healing.
• Treating co-infections first
  Dear Stephen, Do you suggest also treating bartonella before lyme? Should I stop the core protocol and treat the co-infections first or add herbs for treating the bartonella and babesia to the core protocol?
• Lyme disease: A history of chasing bugs
  by David Jernigan, D.C., D.N.M. | Bugs, bugs, bugs, and more bugs! What is next and when are we going to learn that killing bugs most often does not lead to a restoration of health?
• The Aquarium Shark
  by David Jernigan, D.C., D.N.M. | I was taught that if everything you have done has created a reality of illness/life-dysfunction, then if you want a new and better reality you must change everything you are doing.
• Living Within the Eye of the Tornado
  by David Jernigan, D.C., D.N.M. | From a condition of optimum health, all things become possible; disease falls away, and your ability to draw to you only those things you love and desire is maximized.
• Voices of lyme disease
  Join lyme patient-activists Kim Christensen and Jeanne Marie Bain this Sunday (tomorrow!) at 6pm CST, on a live radio broadcast. If you miss the show, you can download it online afterwards.
• She Speaks in Metaphors (I Understand)
  My doctor (one of them) says my entire left side is jammed. It's like shrink-wrapped plastic wrap, tight and brittle but it should be like one large, flowing, unified teardrop. It should have coherence and flexibility and it should breathe.