This document provides information and recommendations from a patient's perspective on dealing with Lyme disease and co-infections. It recommends seeing a naturopath alongside a regular doctor, detoxing to reduce inflammation, and minimizing chemical exposure through cleaning products and personal care items. It also lists alternative supplements and therapies the patient uses to manage daily symptoms like fatigue, pain, cognitive issues, and more. Common dismissive comments heard from doctors are also noted.

1. Lyme and Co-infections
A Patients’ perspective

2. Books I recommend:

4. • I recommend seeing a Naturopath
or similar to work with you
alongside your regular MD

5. • DETOX
A lot of symptoms come from
inflammation & “die-off” (neuro-toxins,
endo-toxins) and other viruses, bacteria
that take advantage of your lowered
immune system due to the B burgdorferi
(and / or “co”) infection and
environmental issues (mold, unclean
water, de-mineralized water/food,
exposure to toxins) etc

6. • So, it is important to support your
cleansing organs: kidneys, gallbladder,
lymphatic, spleen, liver, adrenals etc
• It is important to reduce chemical
exposure:
cleaning products, personal care products
(shampoo, anti-perspirent, lotion,
toothpaste, perfume, hair colour)
pesticides (yard, garden, food) etc

7. • It is important to have clean drinking
water and air in your home
I personally recommend speaking to
Mario of “Purahome Inc.”, an
environmentally aware, science-based
company that provides you all the benefits
of healthier air and water -St. Catharines, ON
Telephone: 905-934-3168
www.purahome.com

8. My Supportive Alternative Options:
• Good pro-biotic (taken at night)
• Good digestive enzyme with protease
• Slippery elm
The largest part of our immune
system is in the gut (I make Kefir from
grains for my pro-biotic)
• Flax Seed
• Milk Thistle
• B-Complex - take with fats so the B12 is

9. • Vitamin C - 1000 to 4000 mg
• CoQ10
• Magnesium - "Natural Calm“ & Magnesium
oil (if irritation mix it with aloe vera gel)
• Fresh lemon squeezed in good water
• Glucosamine
• For pain – powdered MSM
Liquids and powdered forms of
supplements are more easily assimilated
by our bodies

10. • Chlorophyll – 1 tsp in a.m. water
• Try to have green salad once a day
• Take epsom salts baths
• Light excercise; lights bouncing moves
Lymphatic system
• Ionic foot baths
• Dandelion tea, burdock tea, red root
tincture
• Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide (as 35%
mixed to 3% with distilled water) – use as a

11. body spray after shower/ leave on for a few
minutes then rinse off
• Lugol’s Iodine – Skin test per Dr. Cowden –
8-10 drops on skin/rub on/if gone in 2 hrs-
profoundly deficient – to catch up apply to
skin each day until patch is present after 24
hrs you are caught up
• Stephen Harrod Buhner’s protocol’s
• RIFE
***Above everything else I juice***

12. The following slide is the table of
alternative/natural things that I do / take
(and some things the children take)
to cope with our disease each day.
This table was prepared for the Global
National News interview

14. Symptoms I deal with daily:
• Hair Loss
• Poor body temperature regulation;
Cold/Heat intolerance, sun intolerance
• Arthritic symptoms - large and small joints
• Sharp shooting pains that occur all over my
body
• Nausea
• Headaches, Head pressure

15. • Eye pain - Vision problems -Floaters in
vision - trouble driving at night - sun
sensitivity - *lesions on my eyes
• Dizziness, feeling off balance
• Jaw and face pain, tooth and gum pain
• Burning sensation & pain in my feet and
hands
• “Vibration like” feeling inside
• Neck pain and neck vein pressure
• Shortness of breath on exertion

16. • Chronic Fatigue
• Muscle soreness, muscle spasms and
twitches, muscle weakness, burning in my
muscles – even with minimal exertion
• Periodic fluid noises -like spurts - at the
base of my skull
• Heart palpitations, Chest pain

17. • Numbness and tingling in different areas
of both the right and left side of my body,
but right side is worse (my right pinkie
finger has been numb since 2009)
Constant numbness on right side includes
facial numbness, arm, hand and foot.
Constant left side includes facial numbness
and arm, hand, foot seems to come & go
more. Worse when driving & I’ve had
episodes of both feet being numb all day

18. • Ear ache and pain, hearing cuts in and
out - both ears but right side worse- e.g.
periods of 40 minutes have occurred,
Constant high pitch ringing in my ears
& short, buzzing noise in right ear (like a
bee or bug);
• Skin Broken blood vessels - or petichia(?),
Spontaneous bruising, Changing –
thinning skin, Prominent veins, weird
skin crawling sensations

19. • Periodic episodes of rage; Amped up
feeling at times
• Inability to sleep, disrupted sleep; Bouts
of insomnia
• Cognitive issues: affecting multi-tasking,
easily distracted, overly sensitive to
commotion, easily overwhelmed, mental
fatigue, stutter at times, if really tired have
trouble talking and forming words,
finding words, putting sentences together

20. - trouble processing spoken/written word
-re-read a sentence/par. a number of times;
eye doesn't follow the words in a sentence
properly - they skip words or read them
backwards, the page looks all jumbled up
- sometimes trouble finding places
-sometimes I will forget something I've
been told seconds later,
-sometimes I forget things I have started to
cook

21. • Inflammation, worsened with exertion
• Low libido
• Sore lymph nodes - left side is worse
• Chemical intolerance
• Bladder incontinence
• Bowel incontinence

22. Common comments that I have
heard from Dr’s, Specialists.......

23. “Well, Lyme disease is very
rare....... I don’t know anything
about it nor have I ever treated
anyone for it but....................
you don’t have it.”

24. “I don’t know anything about
Lyme disease but, that is not
what is causing these
problems.....
(when asked what is....)
......I don’t know”

25. “If you had come in here with a
diagnosis of MS or ALS, I would
know what to do for you.
I don’t know what to do for your
brain.”
(Neurologist)

26. I have also heard the following
from some Dr’s,
Specialists.........

27. “We don’t have all the answers...if
you have found something that
works for you............Run with it”
(Cardiologist)

28. “Don’t beat yourself up with this
guilt, you didn’t choose this...
The hardest person on you...... is
YOU”
“Remember the Serenity Prayer”

29. Remember:
You can help yourself......
.......there are options!
Take control of your healthcare.

30. Get copies of your own records, test
results, specialist’s reports, CT’s,
MRI’s etc
Dr’s are only required to keep your
records for 10 years – then they can
shred them

31. Best wishes – Be Aware –Stay Healthy