If You Have Lyme Disease There is a High Probability You Have Mold Issues

Dr. Klinghardt believes environmental mold toxins can often be part of the health puzzle when dealing with both Lyme disease and autism.

Have you tested your home for mold yet? You can have mold spores that are making you ill or adding to your dis-ease state without seeing any signs of water damage or without ever having experienced any water damage.

The air we breathe indoors often contains harmful mold spores. Dr. Klinghardt says even new homes contain mold by the time they are finished being built because new homes are constructed like a cardboard box wrapped in plastic.

I was told that mold collects in the walls in a building that contain the most geo stress. Geographic stress can happen naturally. Some of the causes are underground running water, fault lines and certain mineral concentrations. Geo stress is often said to also be caused by electro-magnetic fields from computers, wiring and appliances. You can read more about geo stress at this link. http://thegeomancer.netfirms.com/geopathicstress.htm

My practitioner had me make mold samples on Home Depot mold testing plates which I sent to her along with 4 photos of the different walls of the outside of my home. She used the sample plates and photos to treat the mold in my apartment using remote Rife frequencies. I still need to buy some new testing plates to make sure the mold is gone and has not returned.

It sounds strange but we treated the geo stress in my home by putting aluminum foil down on the floor in various locations for several weeks before treating my apartment for mold.

Mold can cause a lot of symptoms that can be very similar to Lyme disease. Here is a rather complete list. You can find other lists online.

http://moldrecovery.blogspot.com/p/symptoms-of-biotoxin-illness.html

You do not have to have all these symptoms to have mold issues.

Dr. Klinghart recommends diffusing propolis. You can purchase a propolis diffuser at this link Bee Healthy Farms. http://www.beehealthyfarms.com/

You might also want to pick up a diffuser for your car because 50% of cars are said to contain mold also.

My healthcare practitioner recommends using a Lightening Air Plus as an air purifier. Your MD or ND might prefer another one so ask. I like the Lightening Air Plus so when I leave home even for a couple of hours I can blast my home with ozone.

Most homes are going to take more than a diffuser and a good air purifier to make them livable if your have a bad mold issue in your home.

You can find a lot of information on mold by just googling the topic. I did try to read a copy of Mold Warriors by Richie Shoemaker but honestly became bored with it so I gave the book to a friend. The book seemed to repeat itself and of course the subject matter is rather dry.

I have heard from more than one person that if you hire a mold inspector they may not really be that good at detecting mold. Some are of course better than others.

There are different ways of testing your body and home for mold. If you do have Lyme disease or any persistent disease I urge you to test for mold. I have told more than one person I thought they had mold issues and months later when their practitioner finally has them test for it they realize that they do have a mold issue.

If you have been exposed to mold in the past and or present there are different ways you can treat yourself for mold. Some of the ways are with the use of Grapefruit Seed Extract, Peach Tree Extract or Cholestyramine. Personally I find Cholestyramine a bit to harsh. My Tibetan MD warned me against using it. I wish I had listened to him. In Tibetan Medicine they believe in nurturing the bile not dumping it. My Tibetan MD warned me I would be cold for months after using CSM and he was correct. I don’t know if it really helped my mold issues or not. I do know that my MD wrote me an Rx for CSM which contained  sucrose which was truly moronic. Had I checked and known it contained sucrose at the time I would have refused it. The sucrose it contained caused my candida count to shoot up and actually made me feel sicker in the long run and was counter productive. You can find CSM that does not contain sucrose. Currently I am taking GSE capsules to help with past mold exposure. At some point I will probably try taking Peach Tree Extract.

Many people including myself go into denial over mold – it is a difficult subject to deal with and hard to wrap your mind around the fact your home, school or car could be making you ill.

Links to further reading on the subject of Lyme disease and mold. The first link contains helpful testing information on how to test your body for mold exposure.

http://biotoxin.info/docs/GordonMD_ILADS_Biotoxins_RS_9_5_08.pdf

http://www.biotoxin.info/biotoxinsources

http://betterhealthguy.com/joomla/topics/mold

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My Chanca Piedra Babesia Update

I recently found this link about Chanca Piedra. It mentions it might be a promising herb to take for Lyme disease.

http://www.herballegacy.com/Thomas_Medicinal.html

"Researchers have suggested that another promising area for future study would be the use of Chanca Piedra in treatment of Lyme’s Disease. Since syphilis is caused by a spirochete and Chanca Piedra has traditionally been used for this illness, it would be a good study for the epidemic of Lyme’s Disease, which we are experiencing the northeastern United States, since Lyme’s is also caused by a spirochete. Some herbalists have used Chanca Piedra traditionally for gonorrhea and syphilis."

An update about my Babesia ~ Nov. 21, 2010. I wanted to add my health practitioner tested me more than once in the past 6 months for Babesia and she said it had cleared. Maybe that meant it was just hiding out in remission? I need to clarify if she tested me with the use of my DNA or just through energy testing. I suspect it was with the use of my DNA. Babesia tested that it was gone twice and then recently after a bout with the H1N1 flu which helped increase my load of Wild Nile Virus I tested positive again for Babesia. I also had stopped taking Chanca Piedra because I had not been muscle testing to take it anymore. I now want to start taking it again. I have switched to Raintree's Chanca Piedra capsules. 

You can find my original blog about taking Chanca Piedra for Babesia here:

http://lettherebeelight.blogspot.com/2010/06/slaying-babesia-beast-with-chanca.html

Using Reflexology & Massage to Assist in Healing

For a long time I have been wanting to write about different free or low cost things you can do at home to assist yourself in healing. Some of the suggestions I am going to make are very easy to do and only require a little bit of time, very little effort and the willingness to do them. Some of my recommendations feel so good while doing them they have become beneficial habits and routines. I am hoping some of my ideas will become enjoyable healing daily practices for you as well.

I think Lyme Literate MDs & NDs certainly have their place in helping one recover yet there are many things you can do at home to speed your own healing. From time to time I hope to give you some suggestions on just how one might go about making improvements on your own.

One beneficial practice I enjoy which feels wonderful while I am doing it as well as afterwards is using a small nubby looking hand reflexology massage ball on my hands and feet. The goal of reflexology and hand or foot massage is too stimulate one’s organs back into optimal health.

There are many free reflexology charts you can google so you can find out where different organs correlate to reflexology points or areas on your hands and feet. The charts are helpful when looking up sore points or when trying to stimulate different organs back into health.

Here is an excellent site for free interactive hand and foot charts.

http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/static/cs/uk/11/features/reflexology/extract.html

I usually spend 5 minutes rolling each foot over the nubby ball while sitting down. I place the ball on top of a small carpet and then roll my entire foot over the ball. It is more comfortable to keep my socks on while doing this.

You can give yourself a treatment while reading watching television or talking on the phone or to family. It feels fantastic and opens up the foot charkas so you can allow in more earth energy. When I am done with the nubby ball on each foot I then roll each foot over a wooden foot roller for about two additional minutes on each foot.

I then treat my hands for five minutes by rolling the ball between both hands/palms & fingers to give my hands a healing. All the organs of the body have reflexology points in your hands and feet so when you spend time using the ball you are stimulating and assisting all your organs into optimal health.

Five minutes may be too long for you to spend at first and overly stimulating so use your intuition and start off slowly.

I bought my nubby ball years ago at the health food store. You can purchase a similar ball online. You can find one for as little as $4.

The foot rollers can be found online as well.

If you would like to learn more about reflexology there are many books on the subject or articles you can find online. Mildred Carter has written easy to read books on both hand and foot reflexology. Her books and many reflexology tools such as foot rollers and nubby balls can also be found on her website.

Mildred Carter’s website.

http://www.mcreflexology.com/

Massaging your own hands and feet can feel very healing and delicious too or getting a spouse or friend to massage them can feel even better. I like to use olive oil or coconut oil with a few drops of lavender oil added to it for massaging hands or feet.

You can google many health issues along with the word reflexology and come up with some helpful instructions on what points or areas to treat. You can use reflexology for insomnia, colds, thyroid, more energy & many other issues.

Love The One You're With

Meaning you!

I just read the following statement yesterday online:

"Once you start to gravitate towards people who give you energy, you will no longer be susceptible to giving to those who "drain you"... Givers need to learn how to Take...and give to YOURSELF. Let me remind you how much you deserve to be loved Unconditionally!"

This quote was written by Chinhee Park her website is

http://www.twin-psychics.com/

Chinhee also has a facebook group with her sister Sunhee Park. Chinhee and Sunhee Park are Korean identical twins and are both psychics.

After reading that statement I had a light bulb moment. What I really need to do in order to get well is to stop being an out of control healer and giver and give more to myself and stop giving all my energy away. The shoemakers daughter does not need to prance around in bare feet any longer!!! I think as a child I thought trying to please everyone was the way to be loved more by my family or more popular with my friends and don't even get me started about how I still give my power away when I meet new people at times. I do not need to be a people pleaser any longer. It is a old boring worn out habit. I wonder how many other people with persistent dis-ease are out of control givers and healers?

1) Being an over giver does not work. In reality people you over give to can start to resent you and you can be taking their lessons away from them or worse yet they just use you and you turn into a shag carpet.

2) Balance is key in life. I would much rather learn to love myself more and next time I am in a romantic relationship hopefully manifest a better balance of give and take. The last situation I was in was totally lacking in romance and balance in the give and take department and it did not take long to start resenting the imbalance and the sponge and myself for being with someone who had very little desire to give if any. I sadly don't think they had a clue how to give to another person nor the desire to do so which I took personally. The situation was not healing for me but it certainly was full of lessons.

Self care and self love is so important for anyone with a persistent disease. The psychics I studied with use to refer to it as "Body being communication". What they were talking about was asking your body what it needs and not just once in awhile. Does it want more sleep for example or more fun, or more exercise, or perhaps something special or healthy to eat, or even more sex, or a trip out in nature or a good comedy to make you laugh? Amusement can be so healing at times.

Opening up the doors to better communication with your body has got to be healing so it is one of my new goals. I like most of us have some habits I want to break that do not serve my health or body.

I think I will give my body a badly needed break right now from the computer and follow up later with some suggestions one can do to give more to their body without having to leave home or spend a money.

Slaying the Babesia Beast with Chanca Piedra

I am dealing with a lingering case of pneumonia right now along with tularemia and environmental mold so I have been rather tired.

I plan to hit the mold in my home soon with remote frequencies once I mail a mold sample I made on a mold plate from Home Depot to my practitioner.

I am currently using homeopathic nosodes (vials) of Borrelia and tapping them into my skin/immune system the same way one would do EFT tapping. I checked with my awesome highly intuitive energy/muscle tester today and she said I still have Lyme disease. Luckily my Lyme load numbers are going down at the moment. I have had them jump back up again when I was recently dealing with a bad respiratory infection.

Today by phone my practitioner said I cleared Babesia. Here is a link to the California Lyme Disease Association’s information on Babesia if you would like more information on the disease.

http://www.lymedisease.org/lyme101/coinfections/babesia.html

My practitioner told me I had cleared babs another time recently so I thought I would have her recheck for me. One can’t be 100% certain with energy testing but she seems to think my babs has cleared. The first time she said it was gone I assumed it was due to the remote frequencies she sends me from her biofeedback machine which she utilizes like a Rife machine. Today she told me “No a herb you were taking made it go away and you have currently run out of the herb”.

This is the same practitioner who has called me up once and said “Look in the bag of supplements on the floor there is something in there you need to take”.

She lives on the opposite side of the country so there is no way she knew I had a bag of supplements on the floor so when this person tells me something I pay attention to what she says. She told one of my friends that she is not psychic just scientific. I think she is extremely tuned in and very psychic and also not someone to toot her own horn which is very refreshing to find in a health practitioner. Nor is she at all judgmental which is also refreshing!

Together we figured out that the herb I had been taking that made my babesia leave town was Chanca Piedra also sometimes referred to as Peruvian Breakstone. As most of you know Babesia is referred to as a co-infection. It often comes as a package deal with Lyme disease. Sort of a two for one gift or three for one or so on.

After you receive a tick bite or horse fly bite, or mosquito bite or fill in the blank bite.. when you come down with Lyme disease babesia very often comes along for the ride along with some other equally lovely cos. Some people believe some of the co-infections can actually be more detrimental than Lyme disease. Bartonella has wrecked havoc in my life so I would agree with that statement.

Someone today referred to babesia as a beast. Any disease that hangs on after thousands of dollars worth of malaria meds and makes you have miserable night sweats among other ghastly disgusting symptoms is a beast in my book.

One of my acupuncturists had started me on Chanca Piedra for general and liver support months ago. I had stopped taking it and then my current health practitioner told me to start taking it again one day when we were muscle testing my different supplements over the phone. I don’t think she is even that familiar with the herb but she said I tested positive to take it. Who knew it would also work on the Babesia Beast?

I had read in the past that some people take Chanca Piedra for Malaria and Babesia is suppose to be helped by Malaria meds or so we are often told. Chanca Piedra helps support the liver, kidneys and gallbladder and is often used for people dealing with Hep C.



I am taking Raintree's Chanca Piedra. I take the capsules but they also make a tincture as well. You can find it in capsule and tincture form. It is famous for helping with kidney and gallbladder stones.

I was taking 2 capsules twice a day and now have been told to take one cap three times a day.

Chanca Piedra has many different exciting healing properties. Here is an article about it.

http://www.wholeworldbotanicals.com/herbal_breakstone

According to the article “These species of Phyllanthus have been proven in scientific research to have antihepatotoxic, antispasmodic, antiviral, bactericidal, febrifugal, and hypoglycemic activity.”

The article also states:

“The most recent research on Break-Stone reveals that its antiviral activity extends to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A Japanese research group discovered Phyllanthus niruri 's HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibition properties in 1992 with a simple water extract of the plant. Bristol-Myers Squibb's Pharmaceutical Research Institute isolated at least one of the constituents in the plant responsible for this activity--a novel compound which they named "niruside" and described in a 1996 study.”

Previously I did many months of Mepron and Malarone which are two costly malaria meds many Lyme literate MDs often prescribe for Babesia yet they did not help me leave babsville completely.

When I was leaving Germany after my infrared light treatment the doctor there energy tested me for Babesia and said I was still testing positive for it. It also showed up in DNA testing since then.

Not only is Chanca Piedra not hard on your liver like some other malaria drugs often prescribed for babs the herb actually supports and nurtures your liver. It is a fraction of the cost of both Mepron and Malarone and Alinia.

Dr. Harris mentions Chanca Piedra in Connie Strasheim’s book Insights into Lyme Disease.

I am hoping some other patients with Babesia will try using Chanca Piedra and will report back with their results.

I recently found this link about Chanca Piedra. It mentions it might be a promising herb to take for Lyme disease.

http://www.herballegacy.com/Thomas_Medicinal.html

"Researchers have suggested that another promising area for future study would be the use of Chanca Piedra in treatment of Lyme’s Disease. Since syphilis is caused by a spirochete and Chanca Piedra has traditionally been used for this illness, it would be a good study for the epidemic of Lyme’s Disease, which we are experiencing the northeastern United States, since Lyme’s is also caused by a spirochete. Some herbalists have used Chanca Piedra traditionally for gonorrhea and syphilis."

An update about my Babesia ~ Nov. 21, 2010. I wanted to add my health practitioner tested me more than once in the past 6 months for Babesia and she said it had cleared. Maybe that meant it was just hiding out in remission? I need to clarify if she tested me with the use of my DNA or just through energy testing. I suspect it was with the use of my DNA. Babesia tested that it was gone twice and then recently after a bout with the H1N1 flu which helped increase my load of Wild Nile Virus I tested positive again for Babesia. I also had stopped taking Chanca Piedra because I had not been muscle testing to take it anymore. I now want to start taking it again. I have switched to taking Raintree's Chanca Piedra capsules. I like Raintree's quality. 

The Hardest Part Of Being Sick..

Is when you get hit with something else on top of what you already have. The layers are the hard part. Right now I have what seems like a sinus infection, a sore throat, a fever, am spewing colorful mucus and I am coughing like a seal with a nice barking hack that wakes me up when I try and sleep and I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. How is that for a run on sentence?

Lyme disease and co-infections alone and chronic fatigue syndrome are bad enough but when you get hit with a bug you go down fast and don't get up easily... When you live alone you wonder who is going to save you when you run out of paper products and are too sick to cook. Luckily my kind friend who I met in our now defunct local small town Lyme disease support group is going to bring me some paper products tomorrow. Thank God or I really don't know what I would do. Paper towels really don't work for TP or Kleenex.

I really feel like death warmed over and for the last three days have been forced to spend 98% of my time in bed. I know I am living in a rental with a high mold count and am in the process of taking care of the mold not that my landlords are any help they have only been part of the problem by not taking care of links in a timely manner and excuse me if I am playing the victim care for a moment but I am really not feeling well and it is not that easy moving when you don't have an income due to ill health.

Today when I really thought things could not get any worse and was having thoughts about dying from this current virus my landlord started weed whacking - not exactly healing. When he got done with that he then rode around the property on some noisy mower that resembles a tractor making even more noise. We have a giant lawn here so it went on forever or for what seemed like it. Good thing I hate guns and don't keep one. I might have had a hard time deciding if I should shoot the tires out on the mower or myself. When I get super sick I always feel like I will never get well again and like the world is coming to an end.

This disease sucks and people who don't have don't understand. I know people mean well when they say you look good but it is not really that helpful. If you don't have Lyme disease you have no idea what people with Lyme disease go through on a daily basis and how each time we catch a nasty bug that might have you down for two days we go down for eight and wonder if this might be the bug that kills us. We don't have normal immune systems.

What started to really scare me was the fact the practitioner who I am working with did not seem to be answering my desperate pleas for help. Thankfully she got back to me today. Not hearing from her was really adding to my stress level.

Thanks for listening to my whine and rant and I am now heading back to bed.

Lyme Disease Coinfections Anxiety & Panic Attacks - Oh My!!!

During my stay in Lymeville and my constant attempted journey out of Lymeville I have had varying degrees of anxiety at times from almost 5 months straight of horrific non stop panic attacks and living hell where I was afraid to leave my home and wanted to jump out of my skin and run down the block to just a slight uneasy feeling.

Before I found a bulls eye rash on my leg many moons ago I never had any major anxiety to speak of. Thanks to ticks and bioweapons that has all changed. Anyone who has Lyme disease co-infections and major neuro symptoms with anxiety and panic attacks knows unfortunately just the kind of horrendous anxiety I am talking about.

I was asked by other people dealing with Lyme disease what supplements have helped me deal with anxiety. To be honest with you at times in the past nothing I tried helped me. Perhaps because my body was so depleted at the time or my neuro symptoms so severe that there was no quick fix or if there was I did not know at the time what would help. I might have been too acidic at the time and did not know it. I was still undiagnosed with Lyme and cos when my anxiety first developed.

Some supplements at different times have helped me so I will list them in the hopes they can help others.

Stress X by Biogenesis. 


It comes in a blue plastic bottle. Another company makes something with the same name yet their product is different so look for the blue plastic bottle when purchasing. You can find it online. Taking one or two of these capsules sometimes works amazing well to just nip the feeling of anxiety in the bud. You can take it during the day and it won’t knock you out or make you feel sleepy yet two caps at night will help me sleep better often and if I have a cold sometimes I will wake up without the cold symptoms after taking 2 caps. This is the product that I first grab for when feeling the return of anxious feelings.

Ele-Max by Integrative Therapies, Inc. 


I was given this supplement by an amazing homeopath/MD. I feel this supplement can and does sometimes improve anxiety and depression. It helps me with improving brain chemistry. It may not work for you over night yet if taken every morning it may help you to improve your brain chemistry in the long run. A good supplement to discuss with your health care practitioner.

I also take various cell salts (mild homeopathic minerals that melt under the tongue in a 6x dosage). You can google biochemic cell salts and read more information about them. There are 12 different types of cells salts in all. Sometimes mag phos helps me with anxiety at other times ferrum phos and sometimes kali phos depending on what mineral my body is low on. Hylands sells a combo of all the soothing cells salts that end in the word phos together in a product called Nerve Tonic. You can also find the same combo of cell salts by Hylands under the name Biochemic Phosphates. I take six tabs of the Nerve Tonic at one time

There is a very good and easy to follow book on cell salts called Natures 12 Magic Healers. This book at times has been my life saver. I have had the same dog eared book for years. I refer to it often and it is like my health bible. My copy is heavily highlighted with many notes scribbled in the back. Weeks ago a fellow Lyme sufferer asked to borrow my copy along with some other books like Healing Lyme. So far have he has refused to return them. You might say he is on a bit of an obnoxious control trip which can’t be good for anyone’s healing. Talk about bad karma it is like stealing a medicine bag from a medicine woman so hey there Mr. Potato Head just keep hanging on to my cell salt book and see what that does for you. As Dr. Phil would say “How is that working out for you?” Of course being a Malibu-ddhist does not make one enlightened over night and Mr. Potato Head grew up in the land of confusion and seems to enjoy parking his arse in that state. Annoying - yep a little!

You might also try experimenting with Rescue Remedy by Bach or other flower essences and see what works for you.

Some people have reported good results by using Kava Kava.

If die off might be causing your anxiety. It can make your pH too acidic which in turn can cause anxiety. Adding six boxes of baking soda to a bath is said to be very helpful or taking a teaspoon of baking soda in a glass of water to alkalize or taking Alka-Seltzer Gold will do the same thing. Drinking lemon water is said to help with pH balance and a herx as well.

Binders might be helpful as well to try to bind the toxins from the die off out of your body which in turn might lesson your anxiety if it is due to the die off or being too acid rather than alkaline . 


Charcoal or green clay are just two of the different binders that might be helpful. You can ask your health care practitioner the best way to take binders and which ones to take for your body and situation. Always take binders at least 2 to 4 hours away from other meds or supplements.

I would love to hear from other people with Lyme & Cos what works for their anxiety.


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