My lyme journey and hashimotos hell

Let me tell you a story about chronic illness. Most people don’t know that I have been ill with an autoimmune disease since 1998. I look healthy, I eat healthy, I exercise, so what could be wrong with me? Now that I am where I’m at and look back at the series of events, I can understand how it all happened.

I was stressed in college, left an abusive realationship from my ex fiancé, wasn’t eating well, smoked, drank, burned both candles and was a workaholic. I had 2 rear end collisions in 1998 with whiplash. I started to get chronically sick all the time with colds and sinus infections. Never thought I had gut issues because I thought gut issues consisted of diarrhea, constipation, bloating etc. Move through life, more stress, more bad eating, more stimulants since I was tired ALL THE TIME. I restricted my food intake to 1200 cals a day and was low carb and low fat.

Flash forward to where I found out I now had Hashimoto’s in 1998 and my hair was falling out, I put 20 pounds on in 1 month, despite eating 1200 cals a day and dragging myself into the gym. I was a mess, I wanted to die. Once on meds I felt better but it took a long time to feel normal again. Add in the depo shot and hormones were all over the place. Add more stress from work, life, blended family etc…I was getting worse, weird stuff happening like migraines, ups and downs with energy, strange viruses. This was my path for YEARS and for YEARS, my endocrinologist couldn’t do anything, because she didn’t know what else to do.

I was tested for Lyme 3 x and was negative 3 x. I was miserable, how do people live like this. Meanwhile I worked in healthcare and looked like a picture of health, but I was dying slowly inside and no one could help. I then started with asthma, allergies, migraines, colds from October to March, sinus Infections you name it, I was cold all the time, I hated winter and the cold. I hated life despite pushing on. No one knew any of this. I hid it well, I suffered alone and didn’t complain, because no one was coming to save me. I started CrossFit and really needed to get my diet under control because I was an athlete and was pretty good at it. I learned how my brain and thyroid actually needed fat and carbs(the devil). I started eating better and switched to Paleo and was feeling even better. The entire time my endocrinologist never mentioned going off gluten or dairy or how food can make inflammation worse. For once I had a glimmer of hope.

Then I met the man who saved me, who gave me hope, who helped me learn what I needed to do to help myself and my condition. Doc Steve, I will be forever grateful to have sat next to you in all of our BNI meetings and then finally connecting. You have taught me so much and this is what has lit a fire in me to do the same for others. I have completely abandoned conventional medicine as it did nothing for me but make me worse. I was never going to be healed by just taking synthroid.

Functional medicine is where its at. We look at the entire person and treat the cause. Healthcare is lacking this. They want to make money treating the disease and not get to the root cause, because lets be honest, if it fixed the cause, no one would need pills. I haven’t been sick since 2016, not a cold, nothing. All of my issues went away in 6 months of care. No more allergies, asthma, migraines, panic attacks, anxiety, colds, sinus infections. Nothing, my gut was finally healed and I could start moving forward by re introducing some foods. I went into remission. I finally had my life back! I was off of all my meds after over 20 years. I cleaned up my life, my diet, my household, everything to live a toxic free life(as much as one can). I went on to compete in the masters crossfit division and ended up in the top 200. I was training 2 hours 4 days a week and had my food requirements given to me and had a personal coach. I was on top of the world, but then I started feeling crappy again. I was tired, moody, intense brain fog, swollen, cold, I knew something was up.

Then Covid hits, my labs are way off, I was pissed that I did this to myself. All of the overtraining was taxing my nervous system as well as all of the carbs I was eating to have energy to compete. Enter Lyme flare up. I still to this day have no idea where, when and how I contracted lyme and all the co infections. I never had a bullseye rash, I never felt like I was sick, I was never on antibiotics. I still to this day am perplexed how people get lyme and not know it. Some people think it’s in our food sources now, and if you donate blood, they don’t test for lyme so there’s that. The lyme sets off a chain reaction and now my hashimotos is all out of control. Just think about all the people you know who have chronic autoimmune diseases that are most likely lyme. Lyme is the great imitator. It mimics most diseases, hides in your biofilms, hides in the cells of tissues, mimics other cells. It knows no limits.

So my diet slightly changed again, I started taking potent herbs, I made sure I took care of my lymph everyday, I made sure my detox pathways were open to keep the critters moving out of me. I did epsom salt soaks, infrared sauna, PEMF, zeolite, chlorella, tons of lemon water, bioenergetic scanning, more detox, frequency discs, gentle movement consisting of joint flossing drills(no crossfit until I healed) and learning how to dive into the emotional component of trauma. I had previously moved my office 3 times in one year and had some not so good things happen during that year with colleagues, so the hurt and betrayal ran deep. It also opened up some other wounds from when I was in the same situation previous in past years. What lessons was I to learn, what was I being taught?

Covid was a year of self reflection and exploring the subconscious world of my emotions. I’m still not done yet, but I’m moving through and the more I move through the lighter and better I feel. Now that I’m at the other side and feeling myself again, I can’t help but to reflect on how and why things happened in the past. Was the time in 9th grade really pneumonia or was it epstein barr? Did that whiplash trigger my thyroid issue? Did my concussion trigger my gut issues and stress the vagus nerve? What have all these health challenges brought to light that I’m to learn from? Did the years of working in the landscaping field contribute to lyme? What is going on in the air, water and food we eat and how does that contribute to gut issues? How is 5G damaging our cells and ability to detox and stimulate our mitochondria? How can we protect ourselves better from all of the external and internal toxins that wreck havoc on our ANS? People like me don’t detox well, we are already compromised. I find it funny that ignorant people thing detoxing is a farce. Maybe they would like to live in my body for a month! Your food and your environment really do have an impact on your direct health, as does your thoughts and emotions. All these years I thought medicine was going to save me. I just needed to find the right person to teach me to save myself. And now I am giving back by teaching all of you to save yourselves.