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  1. Rachel--24
    Susan...you are SO right...its only been suggested to me about 100 times but I shrug it off because it seems too complicated to set it up. I am going to make this my mission for the week...to get my mom to help me so that I dont get overwhelmed by the whole "set-up" process. I think this will be REALLY helpful if I can just get it all set up......once...
  2. Rachel--24
    An elevated IgG is least specific for Celiac....which is why most docs dont give an official Celiac diagnosis based on only the IgG being elevated. It can be elevated for other reasons...it doesnt have to mean Celiac and it doesnt have to mean Crohns...although both of these should be further investigated.
  3. Rachel--24
    Hi Debbie Yup....she was referring to you....we have no other Debbie's here. Where do we go from here? This is what we've been trying to figure out here for the past 7 months...how do we find and get on the right path to regain our health?? Rinne and I have just been diagnosed with Lyme this past month...now we are on the correct path. ...
  4. Rachel--24
    Yes....we are soulmates....destined to be the very best of friends. This is how its been since I was 20 years old. We look out for each other. Yeah...my mom flips out. Here they are trying to help me and I'm sitting back accumulating late charges. I NEED to force myself to not allow this to happen anymore. I noticed that alot of "symptom...
  5. Rachel--24
    WOOHOO!! Just to feel semi-normal would be the hugest gift of all....PARTAKING would be a bonus!! Donna....it actually sounds fun and relaxing. I LOVE singing....although I dont exactly have a "made for choir" voice. Is it church choir? When I was a kid I loved singing the church songs. I went to St. Martins...its that Catholic School...
  6. Rachel--24
    Patti....I'm the same except I wait till the creditors are calling me and I'm so annoyed that I HAVE to do something about it. I just dont get it because the money is there.....I'm just not writing out the checks. I end up having to pay all these late fees.....probably have spent thousands in late fees the past 4 years....and its totally unnecssary....
  7. Rachel--24
    I dont know if I'm emotionally ready for dealing with stuff yet...I think I'm just so focused on my health that I dont think about much else. Its actually gotten worse since I got diagnosed. I hope everyone is right about things being so different for me a year from now. I hope when the holidays roll around next year I can eat what everyone else is eating...
  8. Rachel--24
    OMG...she actually does think like this. She thinks if everything is running smoothly I'll feel alot better and not be so sick....and I will heal. She says she cant control whats going on with my health but she CAN control other things like making sure insurance paperwork is sent in, bills are getting paid, there is oil in my car, etc. Everything...
  9. Rachel--24
    Every time I took antibiotics I felt worse but I dont know if I was herxing or just reacting to something in the pills. Its hard to know because I've felt bad on various supplements and meds for different reasons. I reacted badly to my thyroid pill at one time because of the purple dye....so I dont know what was going on exactly with the antibiotics. Metronidazole...
  10. Rachel--24
    Carla that makes sense, I couldnt deal with everything going on cuz I was too sick at the time. The relationship was falling apart but I had no strength to really deal with it or try to make things better. I figured it was for the best anyway because I was sick and noone knew why. I could never really deal with it or put it behind me or move on because...
  11. Rachel--24
    What you wrote makes good sense.... If you were trying to micro-manage you would probably get stressed out to the max....which is how my mom gets. I dont call it micro-managing though....I call it NAGGING. Shes been doing it my whole life....says its part of being a mom. It wasnt too bad for the 10 years that I was on my own.....living my...
  12. Rachel--24
    Congrats Carrie! Good to see you're back.
  13. Rachel--24
    Yes...I've heard the Lyme binds with mercury as well. Maybe this is why the Lyme took off once I got exposed to mercury. Could this be why I felt like the walking dead when I started taking Metronidazole (generic Flagyl)?? I had to call in sick and I could barely walk.....I was totally dizzy and my heart was racing and all kinds of yuckiness going on when...
  14. Rachel--24
    Yeah....I'm sure that is the same look that I wore on my face for the first 3 years. A look of total astonishment...disbelief and despair. Eventually it all turned to fear...a fear like I've never felt before...a realization that the doctors were NOT gonna figure this thing out for me. I was wondering the same thing...will I find this film at...
  15. Rachel--24
    HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEVERLY!!! Bev, I hope you have a perfect birthday. You deserve it....hope you and hubby are doing something special for your day!
  16. Rachel--24
    I couldnt watch the trailer so instead I checked out everything else on the site...now I'm scared. I'm going to bed and I'm gonna pull the covers over my head and hopefully not have nightmares. There is alot of info. on the site and there are "The Faces of Lyme"...you can run your cursor over the faces of all these people and read something about...
  17. Rachel--24
    I dont know....I definately think that most Fibro and CFS cases are actually Lyme. I dont think those are real conditions. I think maybe MS and ALS are real but that Lyme is actually being mistaken for these diseases....people are being diagnosed with the wrong disease when it comes to Lyme because Lyme is the "Great Imitator" of all other diseases. OR.....
  18. Rachel--24
    Ok...so at my first treatment last week the Bioset lady was de-sensitizing the Methionine pathway. One of the key detoxification pathways. She de-sensitized the components that use methionine and L-methionine to improve detoxification. So this week it was the Sulfur Pathway that she worked on. Sooo...it says that after the de-sensitization...
  19. Rachel--24
    Welcome Hawkfire. I got diagnosed from Igenix lab. The Dr. who believed my symptoms could be Lyme Disease only uses Igenix for testing. The other labs are pretty unreliable. I just got diagnosed a few weeks ago....I had asked for Lyme tests a couple years back but noone would listen and I was refused testing. They told me I couldnt have it....that...
  20. Rachel--24
    Check this out! A documentary about Lyme. I havent got to see the trailer cuz I have to download quicktime first. Somebody let me know if its good. I just found this right now...I dont know if this has been released yet or not but I really wanna see it! Open Original Shared Link
  21. Rachel--24
    This is PRECISELY what the BioSET lady was telling me last night. She said that they have never been able to prove that Lyme can be completely erradicated from the body....evidence shows it will survive. Like you said....its one heck of a stealthy bug! Its stealthiness and ability to "hide" from our immune systems will keep it from being completely killed...
  22. Rachel--24
    Yeah....what she said! The people who are researching Lyme and the LLMD's (Lyme Literate Medical Dr.'s) are saying things about Lyme that is in GREAT contrast to what mainstream is saying. I dont think I have to tell you guys who I have the most faith in. Heck the mainstream Dr.'s are *still* thinking that 3-4 weeks of antibiotics will do the...
  23. Rachel--24
    I'm another one who never got D but still ended up losing 25 lbs. I gained a good part of it back and am maintaining it pretty well now that I've eliminated all the stuff causing the weight loss. Amazingly for me....it was all the "healthy" foods...my body just does NOT like them...I'm doing ALOT better after giving up on all the stuff like supplements and...
  24. Rachel--24
    When my symptoms came on I also became extremely sensitive to light...I had to wear sunglasses in the house (even at night), couldnt drive because of the lights and couldnt even go to the movies. It was actually painful. I had been under a great deal of stress when all of this started. The dr.s said it was related to my overactive thyroid so they nuked it...
  25. Rachel--24
    Chelsea...sorry about the news. It sucks but maybe you'll be one of the people who dont have alot of problems from it.....maybe it will turn out not to be Crohn's?? It doesnt sound like they know for sure yet?? I had read about Crohns before....I remember that alot of people with Crohns are actually on a gluten-free diet. Not that they are Celiac...
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