Archive for the ‘Lyme’ Category

Here’s a quick video discussing the challenge for Lyme disease sufferers as well as the medical community’s ability to properly diagnose and treat this devastating disease.

Woman Heals From Morgellons, Lyme, and Hyper-toxicity

In a desperate and futile attempt to heal myself, I had done about 5 months of hit and miss strategies…many things that were suggested on the internet. Some of them were quite detrimental, and I even sustained a bad burn from a sulfur bath technique.

Finally, it was the Far-Infrared Sauna combined with detox and rebuilding protocols, as I tell in My Journey Back To Health, that was the key to my recovery.

How does Far Infrared really work?
It’s all in the infrared heaters, designed from carbon crystal fibers, that are able to emit the stable, pure far infrared bandwidth within the life stimulating range of 6-14 microns.

Studies done in the fields of biology, microbiology and biotechnology, discovered the far infrared frequency between 6-14 microns, within the electromagnetic spectrum of the sun, was responsible for the formation of cellular life.

The activation this frequency has on water molecules (we are about 70% water) creates the proper oscillation which in turn stimulates our metabolism.

The stronger our metabolism, the better our health, because it also strengthens our immune system.

The Healing Grapevine’s network of alternative practitioners agree, the issue we really face in recovering from Lyme, Morgellons, or any other immune depressing challenge is a build up of toxins, heavy metals, petro-chems, GMOs, etc.

The movie “Under Our Skin” is a gripping tale of microbes, medicine & money, exposing the hidden story of Lyme disease, one of the most serious and controversial epidemics of our time. Each year, thousands go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, often told that their symptoms are all in their head. Following the stories of patients and physicians fighting for their lives and livelihoods, the film brings into focus a haunting picture of the health care system and a medical establishment all too willing to put profits ahead of patients.

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The other day we got an email stating a woman’s doctors had concluded she had some kind of auto immune disorder, but they had no clue exactly which one.

She had been reading info on the internet and decided that maybe she had Morgellons.

Her question was, “How do I know?”

From the type of symptoms she described, it sounded more like Lyme Disease than Morgellons.

My response went as follows:

I actually think you may be dealing with Lyme. It behaves much like an auto immune disorder although not being categorized as such by the Medical community.

Now many in the community are saying there is a Lyme and Morgellons connection, and I do see this to be the case sometimes but not all the time.

You want to think of Morgellons as a hyper toxic condition rather than a certain pathogen causing it.

Morgellons is mostly a build up over your life time of all the heavy metals, medicines, immunizations, chemicals, etc you have been exposed to. (I am over simplifying for the moment)

The reason I think so many folks are first having Lyme and then a Morgellons break out is because of the amount of antibiotics and medicines that they get put on during their Lyme treatment. All of these are very toxic in their chemical make up, as well as having an adverse effect on the immune system.

Please go read the articles in our Lyme section:
http://healinggrapevine.com/health-hazards/lyme.html

There are 3 articles and my personal story of recovering from Lyme/Morgellons.

I am fully recovered. I do not have to manage the recurring Lyme episodes anymore. Haven’t for almost 2 years now.

I can hardly remember what it was like to feel that level of pain and fear of death sitting on my shoulder. (thank god)

Here is an at ‘home lyme test’ I would do immediately:

Go buy some Cats Claw at a health store (it doesn’t have to be the Samentos brand for the test) but get a capsule that has at least 400-600mg per cap serving. Or another oral is good too. We will talk more about Samentos if this test reveals what I think it will.

Please ‘Google up’ Cats Claw and do a little reading so you understand what you are taking. I always do this, even with Dr. Staninger’s protocol I looked everything up before taking it.

Today, my health depends on knowing what is going in my body!

Start your dose as recommended on bottle. Do this for 2 days.

Day 3, add another dose (if you start at 1 cap, go to 2, if you started at 2, go to 3 caps) Do this for 2 days.
Day 5, add another dose. Increase increments until you are at about 2400mg a day within the week.

I weigh 120 and this was my dosage. You will need to adjust and decide for yourself how much is correct over time but this is just for the home test.

Within the week of doing this (many feel it within a few days) but maybe 2 weeks tops you should feel the pain, and other Lyme symptoms reduce if it is Lyme, but especially the pain.

I have several friends that swear by this test to determine if they are having a Lyme relapse or not.

This test is not officially documented but I think it should be.

When I first was diagnosed, they wanted to put me on 6-9 months of antibiotics.

I did this Cats Claw herb instead for 9 months and it was amazing, but it isn’t a cure.
This is a different subject, whether or not we are ever cured, and one that is still in great debate.

It is the expressed opinion of the team at the Healing Grapevine that we can recover from any debilitating health issue. And the road to recovery is paved with the desire for Self Knowledge, Self Empowerment, and Self Responsibility!

Because this is a very bold statement and may threaten the established community of medical care givers, the FDA, and all other government agencies, it is important to state here…

We, in no way, intend for the information on this site or blog to take the place of regular medical treatments or in any way represent all of our team to be licensed medical practitioners. Please don’t use this information to diagnose or develop a treatment plan for a health problem or disease without consulting a qualified health care provider. If you are in a life-threatening or emergency medical situation, seek medical assistance immediately.

However, we have the personal experience of regaining our health and vitality from 2 of the most bizarre and little known diseases on record.

We genuinely hope you find help from our resources and may the next Recovery story be yours.

Ramona and the Healing Grapevine Team

Have you seen the documentary, Under Our Skin?

In the 1970s, a mysterious and deadly illness began infecting children in a small town in Connecticut. Today it’s a global epidemic. What is the name of this epidemic? LYME disease.

In the month of May, this documentary is scheduled to air on our local PBS stations but there seems to be a snafu for some areas and there is the possibility that many stations will not air one of the most informative and fact finding films about this devastating disease.

“Tops my must-see documentaries!” ~ John Dodge, CBS Interactive
“Stirs the deepest emotions and reveals the most unsettling truth.” ~ Justin Berton, San Francisco Chronicle
“Eye-opening for medical consumers and health professionals of any stripe…makes a great case for health care reform.” ~ Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle

Once upon a time I was a Lyme disease sufferer. Today I am healthy and grateful.

I am now 18 months symptom free and according to an experiemental toxicology test that fingerprints the DNA sheddings for Bb (Borrelia burgdorferi) this nasty spirochete no longer dwells in my cells – ANYWHERE!

I did it without the use of antibiotics or prescriptive medicine. I did it with 100% non-toxic and safe alternative therapies that are available for anyone.

You can click here to read my story, Ramona’s Journey Back to Health.

Now back to the first point of this post – to be sure that this documentary will air across the nation for everyone to see.

There is only one few day left (April 26 is the deadline) to contact your local PBS station and formally request that the documentary, Under Our Skin, is aired.

Release and Recover, it is possible because I have done it.

Ramona and The Healing Grapevine Team

Every since starting this practice and recommending it to our readers, we have had lots of mail confirming the effectiveness of this detox technique.

100% of all those who have giving us feedback for using coconut pulling to relieving tooth pain and postponing an emergency visit to the dentist, say it was almost immediate.

More folks report that over time, it is definitely countering the tooth decay and complications that are associated with many chronic diseases.

At first, this idea may sound a bit…yucky, and in fact the very first moment of putting the oil in your mouth does feel, weird.
But as soon as you start swishing it around in your mouth, it begins to feel like a very gentle massage.

Studies are showing that it is effectively reducing the level of bacteria colonies that are hosted in the mouth. For the Lyme-suffering community, this may be a very cheap and simple detox principle to incorporate considering the Lyme Spirochete is prone to taking up residence in the gums and soft tissue of the mouth.

Click here to read more on Detoxing With Coconut Pulling

For the growing community of Lyme disease patients as well as the group that are not as fortunate and being misdiagnosed daily, the popular course of treatment is a deadly combo of up to 5 different antibiotics.

The trouble is, there is no guarantee it will work. At the end of the protocol many folks are left hosting the pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria, Bb, but now have an even further compromised immune system.

There is good news for this pandemic, after years of research from many professionals in the field, we know a great deal about this ‘master of disguises’ disease.

The latest evidence now states that:
Lyme can live dormant for years and years…maybe even an entire lifetime before it gets a signal (usually stress related) and pops out of cyst like shells and launches the attack.

Lyme is also being tracked in human body fluids (sexual fluids and breast milk) and other insect vectors besides the deer tick (mosquitoes and deer fly).

The downside – we are still in the dark ages for testing. The current tests that are routinely recognized by many health care practitioners as a basis for diagnosis, are grossly inaccurate.

Read more about the latest findings as presented by Ginger Savely, DNP to a group in the Phoenix AZ area back in June 2010.

Please read our full series of Lyme disease articles to educate yourself and help facilitate the awareness we desperately need to battle this 21st Century Health Condition.

Thank you,
The Healing Grapevine Team

Last month our team went to a presentation by Ginger Savely, DNP,  on one of most difficult diseases to both diagnosis and treat today; Lyme disease.

The focus of her topic were the challenges our medical community is facing in diagnosing this complex disease. Nearly the entire team of the Healing Grapevine has a story to tell about the debilitating episodes and long road to recovery that this dis-ease has so presented us. In my story published on the website, it was my friends that were able to help me recognize I was infected by the Borrelia burgdorferi bactierum. I had to convinced my clinic to give me the Western Blot test for confirmation.

We have just a published a new Lyme disease article titled ‘Lyme The Diagnostic Nightmare‘. Here is an excerpt:

Dr. Savely is one of the few experts on the front lines for both Lyme and Morgellons disease and she supports the idea there is a Lyme connection with Morgellons. To consider the less known and still widely debated information that Lyme is a genetically engineered organism (In the book ‘Lab 257′ by G. Enderlein, he suggest that Bb bacterium is an escaped man-made US military bio-warfare organism) combined with the data reported from Dr. Staninger stating the root cause of Morgellons is contamination from advanced nano materials, this makes an interesting case.

Please visit our site and read the article. She was informative and presented the information with humor. Even though I do not agree with her treatment protocols, I am glad she is actively communicating the facts about this chronic and infectious disease.

Have a great day,

Ramona and The Healing Grapevine Team

It’s May and summer is just around the corner. By now, no matter where you live in the US, you will have shaken off your winter slumber and begun to take some nice long walks in the outdoors.

It’s appropriate then that May is Lyme Awareness month. Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere. Borrelia is most commonly transmitted to humans by the bite of infected ticks belonging to a few species of the genus Ixodes. Early symptoms may include fever, headache, fatigue, depression, and a characteristic circular skin rash called erythema migrans. Left untreated, this disease brings on complications that may involve the joints, heart, and central nervous system.

The disease is often left untreated because of lack of awareness and/or misdiagnosis. Luckily we have a whole new group of alternative doctors helping the Lyme community to raise awareness and educate people to both protect themselves and get proper treatment as quickly as possible. It is vital to get educated so that you can recognize the early symptoms. Read this Lyme guide for the basics and then this read this article re-printed from David Williams MD on our Lyme disease page.

The symptoms of Lyme disease mimic so many other diseases and often go untreated until the symptoms move to a secondary and much more debilitating levels of dis ‘ease‘. For these people the ease is literally gone from their lives and for many there seems no light at the end of the tunnel.

If you, or someone you love, are one of the unlucky ones dealing with the nasty effects of the Borrelia bacteria, I can tell you that if you are reading this post there is good news on the horizon. Dr Staninger, after years of research with advanced nanomaterials (aka Morgellons), will be directing her focus to Lyme Disease. Her protocol, which has 100% success rate for those who successfully complete it, can be adapted to help the Lyme sufferer also.

Dr. Staninger plans to do a in-depth study to prove her findings. If you have Lyme and don’t want to wait for the outcome of the study, learn more about what you can do immediately for Lyme and for your overall health. Members of the Healing Grapevine Team have fully recovered from Lyme and have success stories to share and help you on your pathway to recovery.

Healing Grapevine Team

I will do my best to be brief but I feel this is important for you to truly appreciate the place I was in when I met her…
I have been a health fanatic and competitive athlete most of my life. I recognized that this level of passion and thirst for knowledge on the subject wasn’t for everyone, it just made me feel so good and that was my motivation.

In the summer of 2006, I was heavily into my organic gardening in Wisconsin when I was bit twice on my leg by a deer fly. If you’ve ever been bitten, you know they have big teeth.

A day or so later, I woke up with an intense heat on the back of my knee joint and it was stiff and sore. I thought it was a spider bite, possibly a brown recluse because of the reaction I was having.  The swelling continued getting worse for days and finally red lines were tracking into my groin. Very weird and I had no real idea what it was. I went to the emergency room (I’ve not had much use for a doctor) they said I had some kind of infection of which the name eludes me now and they gave me antibiotics.
It worked.

A month later I woke up with a stiff knee, and over the next few days was experiencing the worse pain in my joints, especially in my neck and shoulders, that I had ever felt. I could not pull the covers up to make my bed; it simply hurt too much.

I was speaking to friends about this when two of them said – you have Lyme Disease.  They told me to go get the test immediately and I did. (I had to convince the clinic to give me the test because I had not been bitten by a tick).

I think it took three days to get back the results and so they had sent me home with painkillers and muscle relaxers.  One day later Toni, one of my dearest friends and part of this wellness team told me to start taking cat’s claw. Within 2 days I noticed the effects of this amazing herb…do your own research- it happens to be one of the only herbs that is recognized by the AMA as having medical benefits. (I know, who cares what they have to say- but it is interesting.)

FYI -Toni’s blog is www.springofwellness.com- she is a wealth of information.

When the test came back I had a top score! Meaning I was in a full blown stage 2 Lyme reaction. Their protocol was to put me on 60 days of antibiotics. I had already done some research and knew that the majority of Lyme sufferers continue to have it most of their life so this was not an option to me. From this day on, for me there was a noticeable decline in my vitality and overall strength. I have often wondered how anyone could make it through that didn’t have the health advantage I had to begin with.

Jumping forward:
Dr. Hildy has assured me that besides releasing the advanced nano materials  from the ‘super scabies’ encounter I had in January, her protocols would effectively eradicate the Lyme spirochete.  (FYI- she has the research that shows that Lyme also falls into the category of being genetically engineered.)

Her research over the past several decades is so extensive on biotechnology, what she calls advanced nano materials or toxins and beyond. How and why it was created and how we are being exposed to it from a multitude of sources makes her more interesting to listen to than any of the best science fiction writers past or present.

Up to this point, three years after contracting Lyme, I was still having to do occasional doses of cat’s claw to push the spirochete back. There are apparently several new trends to completely eradicating this bug but I had not yet done so. I cannot yet say I have succeeded with Lyme, I will honestly want a full year to pass without any returning symptoms. But I simply cannot imagine that any kind of GMO Genetically Modified Organism can survive the FIR sauna treatments.

In fact, after only two days in the sauna, I knew none of the scabies skin types were coming to bed with me that night!  It was actually this pest that brought me to Dr. Hildy, so for this I am ever grateful.

This bug had become an intimate intruder for about 3 months before meeting her. My friend that shared it with me (opps) had been running from it for almost 6 months before passing to me. I had done the pastes, essential oil baths, diatomaceous earth, enzymes, Permethrin, and the foil wrapped zapping technique. Some helped but none were killing the entire cycle. This is another GMO, they do not follow the same rules of engagement. We have another series on the level of hygiene it takes to get these bugs out of your environment.

I will share some of the conversations I had with Dr. Hildy in the up coming emails…she is a strong advocate for hope. Even though biotechnology continues to grow fast in many industries and our exposure is harder to control because they are now taking on the micro-organisms and insect models for delivery and distribution, she states that the number one solution for our health in the 21 century is Far Infrared Radiant heat therapy.

More to follow.
Have an absolutely fabulous day!
The Team at the Healing Grapevine