IV C

This morning 
Im spending the morning getting an IV of vitamin C, magnesium, and amino acids. In hopes that this will make me feel better. In the past the IV's have helped a lot, my practitioner has been unable to get the glutathione due to company backorder. Which is surprising to me that months later that it is still on back order, but anyway, here we are.
Yesterday at work i used the cold laser on my head for a few minutes to see if that would help, and it did. In the past when anxiety and ocd were severe the laser seemed like it would reduce the severity every time. It works by decreasing inflammation and increasing circulation, which apparently my brain needs.
PANDAS and lyme both cause inflammation in the brain, for one lyme insomnia can be inflammation related. Im wondering if maybe I am going through a PANDAS flair, judging by my symptoms I have been having it wouldnt shock me if the stress from school was causing me to have a flair.
I havent really had any full blown anxiety, but I have noticed I have had a lot of thought fixation, heart racing, fatigue, food tastes bad, low appetite, my stomach has been making weird noises, and I havent felt just right.

Yesterday morning I was feeling terrible, and I was dragging and didnt really want to work or do anything. In the afternoon I did the laser, and by that evening I was feeling much much better and I was able to have fun with some friends. Total flip. Back when I had full on PANDAS I did the laser therapy frequently, I think it may be time to get back to that, at least for the duration of the school year.

I tested myself on the biofeedback machine yesterday, its a machine that can find stresses in the body electronically, my body had stresses towards strep, lyme, chronic inflammation, respiratory virus, and a few other nasty things.
I have been around a bunch of sick people lately, who were diagnosed with a respiratory virus. All over the last two weeks, I partly wonder if maybe my exposure to the virus, could have flipped out my immune system. Instead of me getting a respiratory cough like they did, maybe maybe immune system response made me feel poorly and I ended up with inflammation in my brain instead.
I know in the past when I have had minor symptom flairs, usually it can be traced back to some sick people around me. I dont *normally* get regular sick, like a cold or anything like that. It does happen but not all that often.

I am going Monday to get some blood drawn, its been a while since I have had everything checked out.

Therapies Explained:Part Two

A month ago I wrote an explanation to some of the therapies they used on me at the Hansa Center. The first part of this post included the more major therapies like the infrared sauna and the ST8. This post will discuss the more minor (yet still vital) therapies.

PowerPlate-The powerplate is a vibrating device used for exercise. The high vibrations stimulate the muscles and increase circulation throughout the body. It is great for exercise purposes, the vibration is a workout. The short time I would have to do this was more so for opening up the cold stagnant muscle tissue, not for building muscle.
This was one of the lower priority treatments, I did it every other day for five minutes.

Bemer-This is specifically used for circulation and oxygenation. It is used to speed healing in the cells. While laying on the mat they would have us drink an electrolyte drink for hydration.
I'll be honest, I do not know much about this one. We all typically do it twice a day here for 8 minutes.
Here is the website for more info

Q-Laser-The Q-laser is used to stimulate healing and reduce inflammation. I would use this daily and on a different place each treatment (I.e heart, liver, gallbladder, kidney, ears). The laser can penetrate deep in the skin to reduce the inflammation and speed the healing process. Those of us Lyme patients have severly stressed out detox organs, so this device is good for providing an extra boost.
Here is the website for Q-Laser(not the same as Q switching laser)


I know this post isn't as exciting as the original, that's why it took a month to write it. I would like to stress that all of the treatments are important and play a role with eachother by boosting a specific part of the body.

Enjoy! Next on my to-do list is explaining my supplements.

The Injury that Changed my Life

In my first post I told that my illness skyrocketed  after I was injured. In this post, I will explain my injury.

In 2011 I severed my elbow and broke my wrist. I lost all feeling in that arm. It became swollen to about 3 times it's normal size.
The injury happened at 1pm. I went to a clinic nearby, the doctor there told me I needed to find a neurosurgeon because of possible nerve damage. Since that doctor decided he wasn't qualified to treat my injury, all he could give me for the pain was extra strong Tylenol. A severed bone and a broken wrist...yea that Tylenol was a joke.

I was admitted to the hospital later that afternoon. A doctor checked out my X-Rays and told me  for sure he couldn't just set the bone. It would take surgery...
It was so late in the day already, surgery had to wait until the morning. I was finally given morphine at 10 pm that night. Nine hours I was in pain with no end. I was knocked out when the pain was finally under control. Falling asleep after this was great, especially considering I am a chronic insomniac and usually sleep is not that easy to accomplish.

The next morning I was woken up for surgery. They told me it would be short and I would be back soon. Easy right? I was just glad they were about to let me go back to sleep.

Next I was taken to the operating room. The anesthesiologist started her job and told me to count back from 100. I made it to 92 fine, kinda started waffling... and then she told me to keep counting. I ended at 89 when I finally went out. This was about 7-7:30 am. I couldn't wake up until 4:30 in the afternoon. When I did finally wake up, it was sudden. I was wide awake.

     This was odd for me. I normally only slept a few hours a night...I had just slept through the night(not well but I did) and then again through half the day. Where did this come from?! I was supposed to be knocked out half an hour.

I had the cast on for 9 weeks. The cast started a few inches past my shoulder all the way down to cover half of my hand.
A few weeks after getting the cast off I started physical therapy. 9 weeks in a cast, I could hardly use my arm. No strength at all, couldn't even hold a pen. I still had pins and needles in my hands and fingers. My elbow could hardly move, my wrist bent downward somewhat, and my thumb and pointer finger were paralyzed. (even today I have not regained 100% of the feeling in my hand)

I hated it. I have never hated something this much ever before. It was so painful. It hurt more than the injury itself most sessions.
I followed their regime for six months. I gained some mobility back in my elbow and I could bend my wrist downward.
I went back to the doctor for him to check my progress. He looked at my arm and said "You can feed yourself now with that arm. You don't need anymore physical therapy. Good luck"
I was absolutely floored. I was 13, my arm after six months moved enough for me to feed myself so good enough.
My wrist didn't even move upward. I could flex my hand down, the highest I could move it was even with my arm. My elbow wasn't much better. I could not even come close to fully extend it or touch my shoulder, though I could now bend all of my fingers.

13 years old and less than half of my normal arm function was "Good enough"

I moved on and spoke to my ND. To my surprise they had answers for me. They use a device that emits far infrared laser, it is used to speed healing.

I would go to the ND twice weekly and they would use the laser coupled with massage and another device called a "precusor" from my shoulder to the tip of my fingers. In two months my arm was 95% normal and my strength was returning to normal. It wasn't painful and the results were astounding, after each visit I could see that my arm had improved.

After these two months with the ND with laser therapy were up, I was officially done with anymore treatment on my arm. This whole deal with my broken arm is what caused my LD to go out of control and land me where I am today.