Insights Into Lyme Disease Treatment: 13 Lyme-Literate Health Care Practitioners Share Their Healing Strategies
by Connie Strasheim
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Author: Connie StrasheimEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-09-05
ISBN: 0982513801
Number of pages: 444
Publisher: BioMed Publishing Group
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Book Review: Great resource
Summary: 5 Stars
First, a confession: I met Connie in a Lyme disease discussion group and we have since become friends. So feel free to factor that into your review of my review. :-)
I've been trying to get the Lyme spirochetes out of my system since I was bitten in 2001. They are very tenacious. It would have been a lot easier to figure out what to do about them if I had had access to this book back then. What I love about this book is the whole approach: Interview a bunch of doctors and health practitioners who have been treating Lyme. Find out what they've learned. Put it all together in a way that is easy to read and benefit from.
If you have Lyme, every page in this book will help you. For example, on page 53, Steven Harris, M.D., says it takes nine months to three years to be free of Lyme. On page 124, Ginger Savely, DNP, says "If there's one thing I have learned from treating Lyme patients for so many years, it is that the more antibiotics they are able to take and tolerate, the better off they will be. It's important to flood the system with antibiotics."
Both of these statements, by the way, fly in the face of the doctors who think two weeks of antibiotics after a bite is sufficient. As I learned doing my own research, the problem with Lyme is, when the tick first bites you, the spirochetes are in your blood - and therefore reachable via antibiotics, which is why some people are "cured" right away. But if some of those twisted worms (that's what they look like under a microscope) start boring into the "non-blood" areas of your body - your nerves, joints, heart, brain, cartiladge, and so on - they go beyond the reach of antibiotics. That's when life gets really challenging. Short term memory loss, numbness, tingling, pain, "brain fog," "brain creaks," joint inflammation...and that's just a few of the symptoms I've had to work through since 2001.
I tried just about everything - a lot of what is in this book - and am 95% well now.
I know how difficult it was for Connie to get this book written, given her own personal battle with Lyme. It's hard work writing a book when you're well, much less unable to stand up for more than 15 minutes at a time. But she pulled it off, and I think the result is an informative, useful resource for anyone who has Lyme or anyone who loves someone who has Lyme. Traditional and non-traditional treatments are covered, as are the nutritional and co-infection issues that "Lymies" must pay attention to, in order to help themselves recover.
And recovery is a wonderful thing. As Ginger Savely says on page 143: "While treating Lyme disease is a great challenge, for me, it's also so exciting to watch people get their lives back. There's nothing like it. Watching the transformation of those who once lost it all, were in the dumps, couldn't function and who felt like their lives were over, is wonderful and what makes my job worth the sacrifice."
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Summary of Insights Into Lyme Disease Treatment: 13 Lyme-Literate Health Care Practitioners Share Their Healing Strategies
PRAISE FROM LYME AUTHORS AND ACTIVISTS:"Insights Into Lyme Disease Treatment is tremendous. Imagine having a clear roadmap that explains even a single doctor's ideas on the treatment of Lyme disease. In this book, not one, but thirteen Lyme-literate practitioners clearly spell out their treatment approaches! It would take countless hours and significant dollars to gather the kind of information available in this single book." --SCOTT FORSGREN, Lyme Activist
"One of the most important books on Lyme disease treatment published in the past decade-an essential resource for both clinicians and those suffering from Lyme." --STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER, Author of "Healing Lyme: Natural Healing and Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis And Its Coinfections"
FROM THE PUBLISHER: If you traveled the country for appointments with thirteen Lyme-literate health care practitioners, you would discover many of the cutting-edge therapies used to combat chronic Lyme disease. You would also spend thousands of dollars on hotels, plane tickets, and medical appointment fees-not to mention the time that it would take to embark on such a journey. Even if you had the time and money to travel, would the physicians have enough time to answer all of your questions? Would you even know which questions to ask? In this long-awaited book, health care journalist Connie Strasheim has done all the work for you. She conducted intensive interviews with thirteen of the world's most competent Lyme disease healers, asking them thoughtful, important questions, and then spent months compiling their information into organized, user-friendly chapters that contain the core principles upon which they base their medical treatment of chronic Lyme disease. The specific practitioners interviewed represent a variety of medical disciplines, including allopathic, naturopathic, complementary, chiropractic, homeopathic, and energy medicine. Two European physicians were also interviewed.
PHYSICIANS INTERVIEWED: * Steven J. Harris, M.D., Redwood City, CA * Steven Bock, M.D., Rhinebeck, NY * Susan Marra, M.S., N.D., Seattle, WA * Ginger Savely, DNP, San Francisco, CA * W. Lee Cowden, M.D., M.D. (H), Panama City, Panama * Ingo D. E. Woitzel, M.D., Pforzheim, Germany * Ronald Whitmont, M.D., Rhinebeck, NY * Deborah Metzger, Ph.D., M.D., Los Altos, CA * Peter J. Muran, M.D., M.B.A., San Luis Obispo, CA * Nicola McFadzean, N.D., San Diego, CA * Marlene Kunold, HCP, Hamburg, Germany * Elizabeth Hesse-Sheehan, DC, CCN, Kirkland, WA * Jeffrey Morrison, M.D., New York, NY
WHAT IS IN THE BOOK? All aspects of treatment are covered, from anti-microbial remedies and immune system support, to hormonal restoration, detoxification, dietary and lifestyle choices. Furthermore, the book ponders patient and practitioner challenges of treating chronic Lyme disease, and offers helpful insights to the friends and families of those coping with chronic illness. Patients can use this book to get new treatment ideas and to educate their local physicians. Practitioners can use it to learn about and stay current on the latest therapies. Lyme disease treatment is complex and controversial, and this book puts the treatment information you need in the palm of your hand.
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