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Newest Drug – the battle with Lyme disease continues…

Newest Drug:  Disulfiram.  Yes, you know I’m a Lyme disease guinea pig!  If you or a loved one is fighting chronic Lyme, you know it’s a never ending battle.

I’ve not done a good job keeping the Lyme Files up-to-date, and am trying to change that. But it’s not easy keeping promises and getting things done when you have chronic Lyme disease.

The good news is, I haven’t been on antibiotics for over two years and haven’t crashed.  Prior to the injections I was on in the last round of antibiotics, I would start to crash within two weeks of going off them.  Dave Cottrell 2018

But nothing we have tried has been able to reboot my immune system.  I get everything that’s going around.  I’ve had a cold or flu continually since early November, 2018.  I just can’t get well.

I am told that this is what chronic Lyme disease does:  It compromises my immune system.

Before Lyme, I had a great immune system!  I almost never missed work.  I could go for years without missing a day.  But after this monster got me, I can’t get well.

This newest drug, disulfiram, is primarily used to fight alcoholism.  I am told that if you drink alcohol while taking it, you will get violently ill.  But it doesn’t matter, because I don’t drink, anyway.  Which is a good thing.

After years of being a guinea pig and taking who knows how many different meds, imagine what alcohol would do!

Anyway, it turns out there is a thing called, persistor cells. As I understand it, these are antibiotic-resistant bacteria that don’t get eliminated by all those other drugs.  The weird things is, they don’t seem to go all out like before, because I haven’t crashed.  But they can make a real mess of the immune system.

So… here I am.  One more day to go.  I feel lousy.  Is it a herx from this newest drug? Or is it the Lyme disease.  I guess we’ll have to see.

What about you?  Leave us a comment, okay?

See you next time.

 

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