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improv in #naturalmedicine • 7 years ago

Which of these two patients has RA?
Maybe both and maybe neither. It's worth noting that, when I got Lyme disease and did research into it, I discovered that chronic Lyme, along with many other diseases, present symptoms so similar to RA, that they are often misdiagnosed as RA.

When you imagine your health own complaint, how do you characterise it, how do you represent it?
I don't understand this question.
Could you rephrase it?
When you are sick, do you believe you have an illness, or merely suffering from a number of symptoms?
Um, I guess it depends on what's useful. When, for example, I had the symptoms of Lyme disease, and was able to show the bullseye rash to doctors and say, "I think I have Lyme disease" that was useful, because catching Lyme early with antibiotics is the best way to prevent chronic Lyme. But when my back hurt, it wasn't useful to the physical therapist to figure out what had first caused the pain. We couldn't pinpoint it for sure anyways. Better to treat the symptoms so that I could get better. Of course if we later find out there's something deeper wrong, I'll wish we had identified the illness, but that seems unlikely.

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metametheus 7 years ago

Lyme Disease.... now there's a fascinating topic. I'd love it if you could share more about your experiences with it... what did you do for it, how have you fared subsequently, etc.

And yes, you're right about that... both weren't diagnosed with that, however Lyme's is also nothing not many doctors know about.

My interest in Lyme's was always courtesy of a CM Herbalist scholar named Heiner Fruehof, who has been doing a lot of work with it over in the US. He's researched a lot of old Chinese texts concerning Gu-zheng, which is described in detail in the Yellow Emperor's Classic. So even though this condition appears to be referring to gut parasites, the treatment formulas for it appear to work well on Lyme Disease patients!!!!

I got really interested in Gu-syndrome because I was doing a lot of work with people with various gut/digestive-related disorders, and nothing was working until we started approaching it as this 'parasitic' invasion. Started to look into what Naturopaths and nutritionists were doing in this field, and started to see some parallels, so I began to adapt the TCM stuff with known 'western' herbal interventions.... and voila! all of a sudden we had success. We then started getting patients to get stool sample testing, and sure enough: parasite invasion. Then we started to look at people coming in complaining of 'arthritic' conditions but were not getting the Arthritis diagnosis.... and sure enough stool samples showed the usual suspects (mostly Blastocystis hominis, sometimes Dientamoeba fragilis). I put together a tincture, and it was awesome!!! Killing the parasites!!

So yeah..... totally hear you on the Lyme/ arthritis connection!!

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improv 7 years ago (edited)

I got antibiotics for it. I've subsequently fared well. No Lyme nor Lyme symptoms. When caught early, there's usually a good prognosis. It's when people don't know they caught it that it can turn into chronic Lyme.

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