"Healing Crisis"

As I had mentioned, Dr. West upped my dosage quite a bit last time, seeing as how I have "healthy" blood, he felt I could handle a healing crisis.

"Ha! 'Healing Crisis'. Bring it on!" I thought. Last time all I dealt with was being tired. "I've dealt with worse." I thought "I can deal with being tired."

Well ... the story goes: On our way home after this last treatment, John and I stopped off at a gas station for a little restroom break. Coming out of the gas station, my legs were so weak I could barely walk. I repeatedly bent over leaning on my legs saying, "My legs don't want to work!" So John carried me to the car. We laughed about it. It's all so silly sometimes.

I crashed and slept a few hours after getting home. The next day wasn't too bad. Some weak leg issues. Fatigue - of course. But upon waking up the day after that, things changed a bit. The healing crisis occurred. It wasn't fun. And was so ... real.

To sum it up I dealt with the following:

Brain dizziness.
Twitching throughout my body.
Tingling hands and arms.
Shaking and trembling.
Heart pumping like mad even while doing nothing.
Double vision.
Legs weren't working.(One of the most unsettling symptoms.)
Extreme fatigue and weakness.
Fidgety.

I had a few emotional break downs. I worried I was dealing with things other than Lyme die-off. Things like MS or CCSVI. It's so easy to let complete and utter fear take hold of your being when going through such an ordeal. Over and over again I had to use every ounce of my self control to keep myself from completely losing myself to fear. My whole body would burn with intense worry and well, fear.

My husband gave me a couple of blessings during this daily ordeal which always helped to calm my nerves and help replace fear with hope. I also asked him if he would pray and ask if what I was dealing with was only a healing crisis and nothing more. After he prayed he said that he felt the answer was that it was only a healing crisis and that I'll make it through it.

These words gave me great hope and I'm still relying on them today! I have another round of treatments I'm doing only tomorrow and am a bit nervous, to say the least, about having the healing crisis be intensified.

But, all will be well in the end. It's good to see that this treatment is doing something.

Lyme die-off is never a pretty thing.