Jenna’s Lyme Blog

Antibiotics have been hailed as the super cure in their vaulted past, but over the years, as people have begun to die and suffer terrible side effects due to over-use, and still others who become sick from even a small amount of antibiotics, there is a new wave of bad publicity towards antibiotics, rightly so when taken casually.

But for those of us with chronic Lyme disease, the risks involved with taking antibiotics - for years even- are absolutely worth it. Many will admit to thinking that death is not a punishment compared to the hell we live with each day.

Posted on January 20th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Coping with Lyme Disease, Discussion, Treatment Protocols. Tags: antibiotics, Chronic Lyme disease, dangers of antibiotics, treatment for chronic Lyme. Comments: 1

Several years ago I admitted a patient with Lyme disease (LD) to a psychiatric unit. He was para­noid and assaulted five police officers in an episode of rage. During the hospital stay, the patient went to the river behind the hospital to watch the Fourth of July fireworks display. When the fireworks began, the patient jumped into the river. It appeared the loud noise was responsible for an acoustic startle reaction.

Posted on January 19th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Coping with Lyme Disease, Discussion, Neurological Lyme disease. Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, Violence and Rage from Lyme disease. Comments: None

Earlier this year, during an audit of the nation’s largest Level-4 Bio Safety Lab (BSL-4) at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, 9,220 vials of ebola, anthrax, botulinum, equine encephalitis virus, and other deadly germs were discovered in the proverbial dusty old storage area.

Posted on January 15th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Discussion, Lyme News. Tags: Biolab safety, Chronic Lyme disease, protecting the US from virulent and fatal diseases. Comments: 1

Unfortunately for those of us with chronic Lyme disease; all of our symptoms, the intense unbearable pain and the clear evidence of disease - the IDSA does not acknowledge the existence of chronic Lyme disease. The IDSA guidelines are clearly no longer appropriate for handling Lyme disease due to the mounting evidence of the morphic and antibiotic-resistant disease. Well, it took the medical community a long time to figure out Lyme’s cousin, syphilis, too.

Posted on January 15th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Discussion, Lyme News, Research and Development. Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, IDSA, IDSA Treatment Guidelines, Treatment for Lyme Disease. Comments: None

For example they recommend which are the most useful antibiotics and medicines to keep in each home for emergency purposes, also a list of the biological threats to be prepared for, and out of only 9 such diseases/pathogens, Lyme is number 8.

Posted on January 12th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Discussion, Lyme News. Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, germ warfare, invasion. Comments: None

For those of us who are eagerly waiting to see research breakthroughs that have immediate effect on the incredibly painful and medical “no-man’s-land” of chronic Lyme Disease, it is discouraging to see one of the most successful not-for-profit advocacy groups, “Time for Lyme” dole out $25,000 to better understand the ticks digestion system.

Posted on January 12th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Discussion, Lyme News, Research and Development. Tags: Add new tag, Chronic Lyme disease, grants, research. Comments: None

Aspartame may trigger, mimic, or cause the following illnesses:

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Epstein-Barr
Post-Polio Syndrome
Chronic and/or Neurological Lyme Disease
Grave’s Disease
Meniere’s Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease
ALS
Epilepsy
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
EMS
Hypothyroidism
Mercury sensitivity from Amalgam fillings
Fibromyalgia
Autism
CPN
Lupus
non-Hodgkins Lymphoma
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)

Posted on December 22nd, 2009 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Discussion, Great Imitator, Treatment Protocols. Tags: chemical poisons, Chronic Lyme disease. Comments: 9

I have seen far too many desperate people with Lyme trying the “latest” and disappointed by the lack of response and worse–permanently harmed by it.

Posted on December 8th, 2009 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Discussion, Personal stories. Tags: Finnette Russak, IVIG infusion for Lyme Disease, Neurologist. Comments: 2

Results from this 3-yr trial indicate that the use of fipronil passively applied to reservoir animals by bait boxes is an environmentally acceptable means to control ticks, interrupt the natural disease transmission cycle, and reduce the risk of Lyme disease for residents of treated properties.

Posted on December 2nd, 2009 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Co-infections, Discussion, Lyme News, Research and Development. Tags: Add new tag, Chronic Lyme disease, research on stopping Lyme infection. Comments: 4