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How I Cured Morgellons
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| Original 6/8/2019 Post | |||||||
Karen 6/8/2019 1:32:31 AM |
Hello Everybody, I haven’t really been posting as much as usual until recently. That’s because this last two months of my life have been challenging to say the least. It’s been the busiest time of year at my job, and...I had surgery on April 18th. I haven’t mentioned much about the surgery, but after considering some pretty compelling factors, I’ve decided to share because if someone else has had a similar experience, my story may help. But first...the backstory. Of course...I can’t write a post (or anything else) without the details. Basic facts: I first got bitten by “something” in May of 2014. I got Morgellons symptoms in October of 2015 and immediately went spiraling downhill to acute illness. I found a doctor who diagnosed me with Lyme and Morgellons in January of 2016, and I started various prescriptions. They helped some...but then I’d just go backward. I actually ordered my first protocol from Logos in March of 2016...but I really didn’t do much with it...I took the supplements sporadically until December of 2017 when I finally decided that Mel’s site was the way to go. I’ve been on the protocol since. That’s two and a half years...I’m kind of the opposite of my buddy “Sneakers”...I’m in the slow boat to China club. I’ve been dragging around the 90% club forever...sometimes getting a bit better and sometimes going backwards a little. The going backwards was always a result of my dropping the ball on implementing the protocol in some ways...and the ways were always some kind of cheat on the food…”forgetting” to take supplements...and outright exhaustion. Actually...the exhaustion from the pace of my life is what always kick started the spiral down to losing ground...but...I'd always get back up on the horse and move forward. Still...even after having months in a row of being the protocol police on myself, I just couldn’t get to the finish line. Of course, I’ve wondered why...but life just kept moving forward, and I’d keep at it. It was / is obvious to me that I feel SO much better when I do the sum of the parts...so quitting has never been a option...but I really wanted to get well. So...about a year ago...or a year and a half ago...I don’t remember, there was a conference call with a past community member named Thomas. Thomas was talking about his progress at the six month mark. It was a great conference call...but then...as if by the hand of God...it got even better. A past member named James decided to “drop by” after being well for some years. James got completely well with Mel’s protocol. The timing of it was the most amazing thing. We all needed to hear about someone who had gotten well and stayed well. James kindly gave us his story, and it was so encouraging. One of the things that James mentioned that stood out in my mind was that he had the metal fillings in his teeth removed. He said he felt that really helped him move forward to getting well. I’d thought about that over the last year or so many times and had started connecting some dots. One big dot is...foreign stuff in your body related to having a toxic illness. Easy enough to see that wouldn’t be a good thing. I too, have metal fillings...and I’d wondered about having them removed...but...I also had something else. I had a lap band, which is a silicone device that goes around the top part of the stomach to keep a person from eating much. I had the lap band “installed” in 2004. I really wasn’t severely overweight...but after a friend told me about her husband getting one, it seemed like a fast and easy way to get some weight off and not have to really knock myself out to do it, so I found a way to get one for myself. Well..guess what...it really worked. I had a wonderful and conservative doctor who would only fill it (which is what tightens it) a little at a time, and I lost the weight very gradually, and I never had any trouble with it like others I know of had. It was great! I wasn’t that hungry either, and I couldn’t eat a lot at once...so...for the first time in my life, I could eat anything I wanted and keep my weight down. I mean the choices were so much fun...I never ate all that much, but I could have a Snicker’s bar for lunch and wash it down with a Diet Dr. Pepper...and the day continued with even worse choices. My life has always been busy and I loved being able to grab anything I wanted to eat and go at top speed. Sugar and caffeine fueled me, and I could just get SO much done. I had always been healthy and thought I’d go on forever being able to do what I wanted. I didn’t worry much about nutrition, even though I certainly knew better. I was going full speed ahead and living my life to get things done. I assumed I’d be healthy forever. Silly assumption. Fast forward to my getting sick. Obviously I stopped the bad eating and got careful pretty quickly after I got sick...but I didn’t really think much about still having the lap band. For a little more clarification, a lap band is a laproscopically installed doughnut shaped “band” around the top of your stomach that keeps you from eating very much. The “doughnut” is fillable...a saline solution is injected into a port right under the skin to either make the band tighter or to pull some of the fluid out and make it looser depending on the circumstances. There’s a tube that goes from the band itself about eight inches to the right and that’s what connects to an egg shaped “port” that I could actually feel under my skin. That was the injection site for the saline solution. By the way...this was not an intestinal bypass...it was a very low invasion procedure. As a matter of fact, there was no pain at all involved in having it put in. I just had to get over the general anesthetic and then learn to eat differently. It was a real no big deal thing at the time. And so...after being on the protocol for a couple of years, I got to thinking. Why am I not getting “there” yet? I could certainly attribute the slow movement to some of my fall from the “sum of the parts” from time to time, but I wondered if there was something else. I didn’t even tell Mel about the lap band until I’d known him for a year or two. I just didn’t want the lecture...but I finally broke down and told him. He said I needed to get it out. I thought about it, but...my insurance is so crummy...and I knew it would cost me a bundle out of pocket even if the insurance decided to cover it. This rattled around in my mind for some time...but about ten months ago, I started having other problems with it. I’d get what I now know was acid reflux at night...and it was a really big problem because of swallowing all those night supplements. It was hard to stay awake and upright to allow the night supplements to get past the band, and I’d end up going to sleep and waking up later feeling like I was choking...or that some liquid had gone down the “wrong pipe.” I'd have to cough my head off to get a breath. It was scary. I just kept thinking about what James said about his improvement when he had his fillings removed...so I asked Mel about it. The question I posed to Mel was this…”if I had to choose between getting my metal fillings removed and having the lap band removed, which do you think would be the most important?” Mel didn’t even hesitate...he said...get the band removed. So...even though I was super busy at work...I finally got an appointment with the lap band doc and told him my story. He was so nice. He said...let’s just take it out. His office staff dealt with the insurance and I did get it covered because of the acid reflux...I guess that’s what “saved me” because if I’d have had to pay for this surgery out of pocket, it wouldn’t have happened. I really couldn’t take off much work because of the time of year, so...I just took off the Thursday before Good Friday, and had the surgery done on that day. It was an out-patient kind of deal, and the doc conceded to me going back to work after a week when I’d told him I really couldn’t miss much work. I read later that the recommendation is to miss two to four weeks of work, but that wouldn’t do it for me. I went back to work the following Monday...four days out of surgery. That seemed kind of like a week-ish to me. Actually...I didn’t think having it removed would be a big deal. Having the band put in didn’t hurt at all. I had no idea it would be so incredibly painful to get it out, but it was. Here’s why...I found out later that the whole silicone contraption can get wrapped around your organs and create scar tissue. My doc said mine was and was also really embedded in my abdominal wall. Judging from how much it all hurt and how long it took to get well (the surgery was on April 18th, and I just was able to start sleeping on my stomach again a few days ago), I guess mine was pretty embedded. A google search revealed some people saying that the silicone lap bands start to disintegrate after a while. Ok...embedded in organs...disintegrating silicone...a toxic disease that I can’t get completely well from...and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to connect the dots. Before I had the surgery, I'd asked Mel...how long do you think it’ll take for me to see an improvement in my symptoms after I have the surgery? He didn’t even hesitate...he immediately said…”about two months, you'll really notice a difference.” I just want to know...how does he KNOW this stuff? But he did. Epilogue… It’ll be two months since my surgery next week. I have made such a quantum leap forward in so many ways, I can’t even believe it... and here they are: 1. Increase in energy level...and good thing too because this last two months has required it. 2. Decrease in biofilm in problem area...a significant decrease...it’s still there, but improving every week. Those are huge...both of them. The decrease in biofilm is remarkable. I’d told Mel that I felt like I was purging what felt like white “plastic.” It’s now going away. Could it have been the disintegrating silicone leaching out into my system? Would that have purged out of my skin? I don’t have a definitive answer, but logic tells me that getting the band out has preceded one of the fastest leaps forward I’ve experienced since I started on my journey back to health. It kind of adds up, doesn’t it? In any case, I’m sharing all of this epistle in the hopes that it might help someone else with similar circumstances. A lap band and / or metal fillings aren’t the only “foreign” things that a person can have inside his or her body. There are any number of things. My thoughts are...if it’s something you can do without...get rid of it. Doing so has really helped me. I can now see the light at the end of the tunnel. It may take some more months to get to the finish line, but now I have no doubt that I’ll make it. The lap band removal has been a game changer. Mel had asked for some encouraging posts...and I’m as encouraged as I’ve ever been. As a matter of fact, I’m downright ecstatic! Getting well is just the best! Love, Karen | ||||||
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Leslie 6/21/2019 9:27:21 AM |
Hi Karen, What a story! Who knew “Mel”. Glad your feeling better and running to the finish line... I’ll meet you there soon! In The Master’s Hand | ||||||
Linda 6/18/2019 10:49:26 AM |
Hi Karen, I want to thank you again for the Monolaurin. It is very much appreciated. Also, again thank you for all the encouraging posts and the helpful information on the calls that you have given to all of us (great recipes too). Your knowledge and experience will go a long way toward helping those of us now and for future sufferers as well. I hope you have a great week. Love, Linda | ||||||
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