2023-06-15 15:03:54
“I had vague complaints for years, but I can still remember the moment when I got really severe complaints. My mother was seriously ill at the time. So we thought that my complaints were partly psychological and that this had an impact on my body. But it turned out there was more going on.”
“It was the first summer after my mother passed away. I was 20 years old and I worked as a sailing instructor at a sailing camp. At the end of a hard sailing day, my fingers swelled up completely. I didn’t know what I was experiencing. I put my hands in a bowl of cold water, but I couldn’t bend them anymore, couldn’t do anything at all. I suffered from it all week. That was the first moment I thought something strange was going on.
Then I just lay in my bed for 4 months. I couldn’t get out of it, I was so extremely tired. I was only awake for a few hours a day to eat something and then I would go back to sleep. At one point, the entire right side of my face seemed paralyzed. I lost feeling in that part of my face, it also started to droop. I jokingly compared myself to the Hunchback of Notre Dame. I didn’t recognize myself when I looked in the mirror. I had lost all energy. I couldn’t even open a jam jar or just walk to the toilet. It was obvious that something was wrong.
Then I went into the whole medical mill. My father was very worried and went with me every time. We had just been through a whole illness of my mother and then I suddenly ended up so sick at my father’s house. That was pretty intense.”
“My uncle knew someone with Lyme disease and a friend of my sister also had this disease, so we started to look into this more. At our request, the hospital investigated Lyme, but nothing was found.
They also examined me for rheumatism. In the end, they couldn’t find anything in the regular medical world. I was advised to only take ibuprofen if I suffered from the complaints. But that’s what they said to a young girl of 20. I had the feeling that I was not taken seriously. Because I really felt that something was not right.
I was quite afraid that the complaints would be permanent. What if I can’t do anything anymore? What am I going to do with my life then? Can I still do my work later? Can I still walk? Will my boyfriend still like me if this is permanent? All things that I found very important as a student and that were suddenly no longer self-evident.
I really thought the worst things at the time. I thought: I have cancer, I have rheumatism, I’m going completely crazy because maybe it’s psychological after all. If doctors keep telling you that it has to do with your mother’s death, then you really start to believe that you are crazy. And if nothing is clear from all the results, then you will become desperate. No one in the hospital could help.”
“Via via I ended up with an alternative doctor. There I was tested for Lyme disease and all meters hit. Everything fell into place. Lyme disease has a whole list of complaints and it differs per person how this is expressed. Every vague complaint I had (had) could have been caused by Lyme. Lyme causes a lot of inflammation in your body and makes you more susceptible to infections. It really felt like a relief to finally have a diagnosis.
With alternative medicine, you might think it’s quackery. But we already suspected that it was Lyme, so the result of the alternative doctor was a confirmation of what we already felt and thought. And if it doesn’t help, it won’t hurt.
It was decided to as treatment bioresonance to do. Fortunately, no drugs were involved here. During the treatment, electric waves were used to see where there were blockages in my body. They also looked at what my body reacts strongly to, such as certain foods.
I had to cut gluten from my diet for a while and then I was given small amounts of gluten through ampoules through a kind of exposure therapy. This way my body reacted much less violently to it. I also temporarily stopped birth control so that I no longer received hormones. I did this until I was done with the treatments.”
“I was treated for a year, first every week, later every month. It was quite an intense journey. After a treatment I was really broken and all I could do was sleep. It was difficult to combine with an internship, study and work. And as a student it wasn’t ideal that I wasn’t allowed gluten for a while and so couldn’t have beer or bread. There were no fancy gluten-free products back then.
When I told people I didn’t eat gluten because of Lyme disease, people thought it was crazy. Now there is more attention and appreciation for alternative medicine and gluten-free food and more is known about Lyme, but then they thought ‘oh that’s such a crazy goat wool socks type’.
Fortunately, the treatment worked and I got energy to do things again. I was finally able to pick up my social life a bit again and that’s how I finally came out of that downward spiral. I had control over my body back. And so I went from a greenhouse plant to a normal student again.”
“The treatment certainly couldn’t cure Lyme disease and my immune system has permanent damage, but because of the bioresonance they kind of put the Lyme to sleep. As a result, my body reacts much less violently and the disease is much more bearable.
What do I still notice most about my illness? When spring comes, my fingers get swollen again. If many people around me have a cold or the flu, there is a good chance that I will get sick. My immune system doesn’t work properly anymore, so I’m more sensitive to bacteria, viruses and inflammation. Lyme has done damage to my body and I can’t fix it. I also notice it in my joints. That’s why I try to exercise a lot because I have to build up muscle strength to compensate for my joints, because they can’t handle it otherwise.
I’m glad I know my body so well now. I know I shouldn’t do certain things because it triggers something in my body. For example, I never wear extremely high heels, I have a fixed sleep routine, I drink extra water and I try to be careful with sugar.
I’m here now at 32, I have a child, live my life and I’m completely okay. I am very happy with that. I want to say to everyone: be yourself check for ticks if you have been in nature. Because an accident is in a small corner.”
More information about bioresonance as a treatment for Lyme disease? On the site of Mecebi find more information.
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