Thanks to both of you for recounting those experiences.  pj

Marshall Dudley wrote:
> 
> I know what you mean.  I was bitten by a a small deer tick in 1987 and in a
> couple of weeks came down with the full gamet of symptoms.  I told the doctor 
> I
> had lyme, but he would not test for it, and argued that every time an article
> comes out in a magazine he gets a bunch of people in the office claiming they
> have the disease, so he refused to believe it.  He refused to prescribe 
> anything
> for me, and in a year I could hardly walk, think or do anything.  I went to
> another doctor, who agreed that I had lyme and begun treating me for it.  It
> took over a year to almost get rid of with IV (and about $10,000), and I did 
> not
> fully recover until I started taking CS 1 1/2 years ago.  If the fist doc had
> simply giving me some pennicillian I probably would have recoved immediately.
> 
> Marshall
> 
> Marsha Hallett wrote:
> 
> > Dear Katie, Frances, and Dave, and anyone else who may be interested,
> > here`s my Lyme and CS story:
> >  I was living in rural Arkansas in 1990; we had deer on our property. I had
> > gotten several ticks, but they were big. About two weeks after reading an
> > article in a magazine about Lyme disease, I pulled a really tiny one off the
> > front of my leg.
> > Guess what??!!
> > Bullseye rash, flu, sore joints. I knew what it was, thanks to the article.
> > Went to a doctor who was the Dumbdoc of the World. He didn`t run a test,
> > just put me on doxy, 60 mg. for 10 days. Shoulda been 600 mg. for 3 months!
> > Next January I was having my gallbladder removed. Dumbdoc had said it was an
> > ulcer. (Same guy didn`t bother to xray my daughter`s hurt foot; she walked
> > for 2 years on a broken footbone. Grrr...)
> > Now I know that Lyme can destroy the GB.
> >  Well, I moved to Utah, then to Arizona in 1991. In 1992 I finally was
> > wondering if all these symptoms could still be Lyme Disease. Went to the
> > Phoenix Library, where I found 2 books on Lyme. Yes, Lyme can recur if
> > undertreated initially. I had 55 of the 60 symptoms listed!!
> > I found a doctor who did a blood test. Negative. She gave me some Zithromax,
> > I herxed. She didn`t even know what that was, or what it indicated. I had no
> > insurance, so no IV therapy, she put me back on doxy, as I could afford it.
> >  We moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1995. Still taking doxy to keep alive,
> > miserable as heck.
> > In Kenosha, I couldn`t find any LLDs, the docs refused to believe that LD
> > can recur. They refused to give me any more doxy. Now I really began to get
> > sick.
> > I spent the days in my chair, the nights in bed, doing little.
> > Finally, I did what I now realize I should`ve done first, I prayed for help!
> > In a week, an old buddy from high school sent me some info. she`d found on
> > papers used as packing in a box she`d gotten in the mail. It was the CS
> > info!
> > I read it, but was skeptical, I`d never heard of CS. With nothing else left
> > to try, my son helped me put together the generator, and look all over
> > Kenosha and Racine to find silver wire. I began taking CS in May of 1997. In
> > 3 days my joints stopped hurting and I could close my jaw shut. In a week my
> > mind was clear. Ladies at church noticed the difference, as they had never
> > seen me Lyme-free.
> >  It took 7 months or so for the damage to heal, in joints, and heart mainly.
> > It is now 4 years and change later, I still use CS as a preventive. No colds
> > or flu for the last 2 years, except for one last October, when my batteries
> > were dead! (Duh!)
> > CS has stopped two spider bites, possibly Brown Recluses, no skin grafts,
> > just two tiny pits which I can live with, and numerous UTIs which I get
> > easily, as a result of the GB loss. Also my asthma is gone. I`ll still get a
> > few sneezes and itchy eyes from allergens, so I swallow some more CS, and
> > put it in my eyes as well.
> > I have cured Giardia in my baby cockatiel, and my  two Pug dogs look great
> > now, no more goopy eyes, or face wrinkle infections.
> > I hope this proves helpful!
> > Marsha
> >
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