Thanks for the info, Wayne. I'm very intrigued yet also skeptical about Rife machines, although I have read that some people actually achieved full remission by using those things. Have you tried them? Any validity to those claims?
Hi Antares, yes I have used a Rife machine, with mostly positive results. I posted fairly extensively on my experiences
[Improving Using Rife and MMS for Lyme] back in 2011, and have been recently reviewing those posts as I prepare for my next round of Rife therapy. I wrote back then in somewhat of a diary form, and is proving to be helpful to review some of those details.
I initially got good results, but after a few months felt my progress had somewhat halted. This was about the time I met a man who claimed to have cured himself of Lyme using homeopathy. So I put all my efforts into what he had done, and put Rife aside so as not to complicate things. Another reason I stopped the Rife was because a prominent Lyme doctor, David Jernigan, strongly feels that any therapy initiating Herx reactions should be avoided. The homeopathy approach I was trying was my own attempt to avoid those Herx reactions.
But the beneficial homeopathy results started fading after a few months, similar to my Rife experience. I felt it was creating shifts, often leading to feeling better, but they didn't persist, and I finally gave up. Looking back, it may have worked out better if I had done the Rife and homeopathy simultaneously, and done a few more things that Bryan Rosner outlines in the book I mentioned in an earlier post.
I have that book checked out from the local library at this time, and was reading it last night. In the book is a story of a man with debilitating Lyme who tried antibiotics for seven years, having success at times, but falling into very deep down cycles as well. Feeling desperate, he decided to give Rife a try, and almost immediately began to feel better, and did not experience the horrendous down cycles brought on by long-term abx use. After his first Rife session, he never did another abx. Within a year, he felt fully functional, and is again working full time. So, just one example of somebody using Rife successfully.
With B. Rosner's book in hand, I feel I have a lot more information to work with, and can support my Rife therapy in ways I wasn't doing last time around. Now that my dreaded "winter blues" have given way to a normally easier to manage summer season, I expect to start the Rife again, and stay with it much longer than I did last time around--almost four years ago now. Unbelievable--where did those years go? I guess just slipped away in my constant Lyme brain fog.
I personally think it would be good for anybody with Lyme to consider Rife. In some cases abx can bring about great results, but those results often go away when abx are withdrawn, and a number of other complications from long-term abx use can set in. Bryan Rosner believes abx are important in Lyme treatment, but believes they should only be used for very brief periods of time and at very specific intervals.
I hope that helps some.
