Sponaugle Wellness institute: Overview of last 3 weeks

Jan 14th 2014

I felt really decent from Jan 11th to about the 23rd. I still had all my symptoms, but they were much less severe. I wasn't able to go out or anything, but I was able to be at home comfortably and able to do things in the house like drawing, reading, and stuff like that. That is a major improvement!

I have been building up on the new medicine to target the protomyxzoa rheumatica to the full dose and so far I was not feeling any die off reaction.

I feel like this treatment has been like climbing up various platforms connected by a staircase. You go up the stairs to the first platform, then you go back down a few steps (herxing), then you climb up to the second platform, go down a few steps (herxing), and you continue climbing up the platforms. So I feel like I'm making the climb to much higher platforms than ever before.

I am so unbelievably grateful that I am getting treatment by Dr.Sponaugle and that he hasn't given up on me all this time. I am so grateful that I am making progress. I feel that if you have Lyme/co-infections/mold, then this is the place to be, so I am just floored that everything has worked out so I can get treatment here.



Around Jan 24th to today Jan 30th 2014

This is when the herxing began. I got up to the full drops, 60 drops, which is amazing because last time I couldn't even get up to 5. So this means that the IV kill drips must of cleared a lot of stuff. This also can be why I'm still having those symptoms lingering because there is still more bugs to kill. So that is encouraging to me.

This herx is actually slightly different than the one where they were targeting the bacterial stuff, which is interesting. It seems like the protomyxzoa rheumatica is causing all of my intense migraine/vertigo/head ear pressure stuff.

Today, Jan 30th, was not a good day for me. I almost had a full on panic attack at the center, so the nurses took me into a quiet room and added some things to my drips to calm me down. My entire body was shaking, but whatever they put in the drips made me feel a lot calmer about 20-25 minutes later. These bugs are dying and are causing a big stink as they go, which is expected. I'm handling this much better than last time!

I will continue the full dosage and continue detoxing at the center, as well as doing things at home and taking the supplements given by Dr. Sponaugle. This will help me get through all of this and I should feel pretty good when this is all said and done.
                                           
My wonderfully talented friend Lauren put together a video of me getting my weekly bandage change! We actually made the song in the video too :D:

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Back at Sponaugle Wellness Institute after two week break!

1/7/14

I started at the center again yesterday and I'm very happy to be back.  I herxed through the whole break, meaning my immune system was breaking open bio-film and killing bugs. So I felt pretty crappy and toxins were building up, since I didn't have any detox drips. I was slowly becoming more over-electrified and toxic. So yesterday was incredibly bad for me. I became VERY over-electrified from the toxins, I hit a tipping point with what my body could handle. My whole body was twitching, I didn't sleep a single second, the pain was excruciating. I was so over-electrified and wired that I couldn't sleep at all.  My blood pressure and pulse were high. Luckily the center opened that day (Monday).  30 minutes into the drip my bp and pulse went down, I stopped twitching, and I finally became tired. It made me feel MUCH better.


So today I am feeling a little better, but still have a lot of toxins. I'm feeling very nauseous and whenever I feel like this my mold tests pop up with a bunch of mold, so I know there's mold being released in my body. The drips do wonders though.

Before the break, I was still herxing but I also felt stronger in other ways. Pain was lessened as well.

This is one of those rare times in life where you are HAPPY to be sick because that means your body is kicking butt. When bio-film is being busted open and bacteria/protozans are being killed, its like releasing pandoras box. Tons of gunk, toxins, and mold will come out of the bio-film. Plus bacteria itself makes ammonia and toxic byproducts, THEN when you kill the bacteria it releases all types of toxins! This is what we call the herx-heimer reaction. So yes I'm going to be feeling crappy for a while, but its worth it. After ten years, my body is finally killing on its own. I've just been getting detox for months now, so my body truly is killing on its own thanks to Dr. Sponaugle.

The plan:

According to Fry test (and a few other testing that I cant remember the names) have Lyme (spirochete and cyst form), bartonella, babesia (I had it and may still),  protomyxzoa rheumatica, rocky mountain spotted fever, and some weird unidentified bacterias. A lot of this has been killed, but my bio-film is so thick that there's still a bunch left over (according to my Fry months ago though, so who knows how much I have killed by now!). I was not able to tolerate the medicine for protomyxzoa rheumatica when I was getting my triple kills, so I still have tons of that!

Dr. Sponaugle believes that the bug protomyxzoa rheumatica is what is causing the most of my issues, which also creates a biofilm and causes complicated chronic illness. It is in the family of malaria and babesia (which I also have). It causes a lot of nasty neurological symptoms as well, which I have a bunch of those. He told me that in another patient who went through this treatment, his cd-57 stayed low (meaning there is still a lyme infection), but they took care of the protomyxzoa rheumatica and he felt significantly better. So he believes that in some people, the co-infections are causing worse symptoms than the Lyme bacteria. Also, the Lyme bacteria likes to work with other bacteria, so this could be a reason as well, its the cumulative effect of all these various bugs.

So the plan is to start on medicine that will kill protomyxzoa rheumatica. I couldn't tolerate it last time while on the triple kills, partly because I have a lot of protomyxzoa rheumatica so it was causing a really nasty herx and I couldn't handle that along with the triple kills.

I should have started it this week, but I am so filled with toxins from the break that I need a week of detox first. So next week I will start the protocol and go from there.

After this protomyxzoa rheumatica is killed, then I should start to feel relief from symptoms.

But why are you still sick?!
In the end, this really is a chronic illness because no one has the science or technology to eradicate such a complicated slew of bacterias and other complications (leaky gut, hormone problems, genetic glitches, mold toxicity, etc). Dr. Sponaugle is a pioneer in tackling something so complex in the way that he is. So what we have to realize is that I have been sick for TEN YEARS, with mass amounts of bio-film thickening up, sucking in and protecting all types of bacteria, protozoans, toxins, benzine s, molds. My immune system has been like an hiv patient for 10 years. So now Dr. Sponaugle got my immune system to wake up and now its kicking serious butt. So imagine these weird clotted lumps, filled with all types of terrible things, just floating around in the blood, THEN there is active bacteria in various forms (Lyme has a couple of forms: cyst, spirochete, flattened out, it also HIDES IN YOUR TISSUES when it wants), then there's bacteria in your brain and every organ and tissue you can think of.  Just think about the lyme, 8 co-infections, years of mold just layered in all the bio-film, all of that working together! Not to mention my damaged leaky gut from antibiotics and mold toxicity. Plus this ENTIRE time my immune system has been shut down completely (actually seen with testing). I don't make the antibodies to kill Lyme either. I also have the mthfr genetic glitch where I do not methylate properly so I do not detox well. More complex than you realized initially!

This is why this condition is typically chronic, but people successfully get it into remission and keep the left over bacteria at bay and not take over their body by keeping their immune system very strong. Some people seem to eradicate it completely, but the longer you have had it, the more likely it will be chronic. Specifically at the center, I have seen people completely clear mold, Lyme, and some co-infections. I have seen people get out of wheel chairs. But as I said, it's all really individual and dependent on what you have, how long, your genetics, if there is permanent damage, etc. Some may have it forever, some may clear, some may stay very sick, some may get it into remission. It's a very difficult thing and if you know anyone with these illnesses then give them a giant hug.

We can't force nature and if we did then it would probably kill me, so that's why I'm 'still sick'. The body has to kill this and clean this up and its going to take a while. The drips and supplements help with this whole process and its what got my body to do this in the first place! I'm extremely fortunate to be here. There isn't really much else out there for us, everything with Lyme is experimental and trying to find something that works. So to find Dr. Sponaugle gives me so much hope for myself and everyone with vector borne illness because it means we are moving in the right direction. He is a pioneer and he is helping very hopeless, sick people, that don't have many options because the treatment isn't there for us. Lyme and co-infections have become a political issue and we are suffering for it. So I'm just so glad he exists or I honestly don't know what I would do.

I'll continue updating! Thanks everyone.

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