trickthefox
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It has been in the past few days that my KDM results came back with a strong positive for lyme through arminlabs. I thought this was good news as it meant i have a direction to go in with treatment, however the more I read on Phenix Rising, the more it seems that the validity of the test is questionable, which again sends me right back to a place of doubt, I really don't want to do something that makes me worse.
Can people who have looked into this issue in depth help shed some light on this discussion? I am aware this is probably something that has been spoken about a lot
There are definitely other factors which make me feel like lyme is a possibility with me. The last time I had remission (back in 2011) the month before I was drenched in night sweats, and occasionally would get these strange pin prick rashes popping up. I get the weird tingling pain in both soles of my feet, that occasionally feels like my bones are going to grow out my feet. I have blurry vision/visual snow. Low white blood cells (lymphocytes) The last two times i took systemic antibiotics my symptoms got 100 times better, followed by a week of intense itching which I've never had before, but then when i took rifaximin (a antibiotic that stays in the gut) nothing happened which put an end to the suspicion that it was the fact that the antibiotics were killing a pathogen in the gut that was making me feel better. I suspected dysbiosis and did Fecal Transplants which did nothing. Ive never seen a bullseye rash on me, but I did grow up in a family that went camping every summer, and id also spent a lot of time in the woods growing up. I don't have viral symptoms as such, just debilitating mental fogginess, fatigue, lymph nodes always swollen, massive food intollerences, and now developing strange psychosis like symptoms. I really want to trust that if I'm doing IV ABX in a country abroad that I'm taking the right course of action
Would love to hear from some people who have either wrestled with the same predicament or know a bit more about this
Can people who have looked into this issue in depth help shed some light on this discussion? I am aware this is probably something that has been spoken about a lot
There are definitely other factors which make me feel like lyme is a possibility with me. The last time I had remission (back in 2011) the month before I was drenched in night sweats, and occasionally would get these strange pin prick rashes popping up. I get the weird tingling pain in both soles of my feet, that occasionally feels like my bones are going to grow out my feet. I have blurry vision/visual snow. Low white blood cells (lymphocytes) The last two times i took systemic antibiotics my symptoms got 100 times better, followed by a week of intense itching which I've never had before, but then when i took rifaximin (a antibiotic that stays in the gut) nothing happened which put an end to the suspicion that it was the fact that the antibiotics were killing a pathogen in the gut that was making me feel better. I suspected dysbiosis and did Fecal Transplants which did nothing. Ive never seen a bullseye rash on me, but I did grow up in a family that went camping every summer, and id also spent a lot of time in the woods growing up. I don't have viral symptoms as such, just debilitating mental fogginess, fatigue, lymph nodes always swollen, massive food intollerences, and now developing strange psychosis like symptoms. I really want to trust that if I'm doing IV ABX in a country abroad that I'm taking the right course of action
Would love to hear from some people who have either wrestled with the same predicament or know a bit more about this