Healing Lyme: Christi’s Story

Introduction to the Lyme Summit 0:00

Hello. My name is Dr. Richard Horowitz, and I'm the co-host of the free online Healing From Lyme Disease Summit. By DrTalks, sponsored June 10th, 4th to 10th, 2024. During our Summit, we are going to share with you the stories of 18 people who got their life back with Dapsone Combination Therapy. You're about to hear one of those stories, which for me is particularly wonderful since, according to Christi, I saved her life. Yet I never met her. She is a health care practitioner living in Georgia, a state which, according to her, supposedly has no Lyme disease.

And suddenly in 2020, she couldn't walk, she couldn't work and ended up in the hospital in a neuro ward. The best diagnosis she was given were migraines and a prescription for a wheelchair. As you'll hear, she did road seven and relapsed, needing a walker, and continued to have tremors, migraines and disorientation with severe brain fog.

Christi's Sudden Neurological Decline 1:12

She was in bed most of the day. And then October 20th, 20, after her doctor read my publication in the journal antibiotics in 2020, she decided to try Dapsone Combination Therapy. Her doctor followed the protocol that was published in the journal, and eventually she got better and went into remission. Despite all the number of pills she had to take, which helped support her system. During the protocol. Christi is now in full remission, so please listen to her story of hope and you can read her story and her book in Let Me Tell You a Secret...

She Makes It. So my story began in 2020. I had the summer flu in August, and of course it was Covid world. And so, you know, I didn't even think anything of it. I live on a farm. I've had tick bites, at least three over the years. My kids have all had tick bites and we don't have Lyme in Georgia. Dr. Horowitz. So, what happened though, after that summer flu is within 60 days, I lost the ability to walk. I needed a cane. And then on really bad days, I needed a walker. I could not work. I was have I was passing out, working, with my patients.

I'm a health care provider, and reluctantly wound up at the E.R. at Emory in Atlanta in October. I spent five days there in their neurology ward, and, they rolled out all the big scary stuff. They rolled out tumors, and all other forms of cancer. They rolled out MS, my migraines at that point were about an eight out of ten,

Misdiagnosis and Early Lyme Treatment 2:50

lumbar puncture. I had all of it. And after five days they said, here's some migraine medication and a prescription for a wheelchair and released me with no answers. And I'm fortunate enough because I'm in the health care world down here. I knew a functional medicine doctor. So I reached out to her and I said, nobody knows me, knows what's going on. And she goes, Christi, we do have Lyme in Georgia. Don't let anyone tell you we don't. And I think you have neurological Lyme. So she gave me a clinical diagnosis of neuro breathlessness and, and gave me 60 days of doxycycline to give it a go.

And within 60 days I was walking, the migraines. We went after those next. And I did the IV in two weeks of IV. reception and the migraines were better. So, kind of sat for a little bit with that. Well, by April, everything had returned. I was back with a walker. I was back with the migraines, and I started having tremors. My head would tremor, my hands would tremor. I got lost two miles from home, with the brain fog being as severe as it had gotten at this point. I had lost my practice and I was spending hours and hours in bed.

I was probably out of bed for two hours a day.

Dapsone Combination Therapy and Recovery 4:10

I reached back out to her and she said, this is we have to go after this. We're going to throw the kitchen sink at it. I want you to read the study. And she forwarded me your October 2020 double-dose Dapsone protocol, and it looked scary to be honest with you. And I said, let's do it. I got to save my life. We're going to save my life. And, what I loved about your protocol was that not only was it all of these medications and pills, but it also supported my system while I was going through there.

You know, when you get cancer treatment, they don't give you all the vitamins to help your body stay strong during the process you did with your protocol. So, you know, between the look of orange and the methylene blue and the three strains of probiotics, not one. what else? liposomal glutathione it helped. It helped my body process it all. I will, I will admit, at the three and a half week mark of the double-dose Dapsone protocol, I begged my husband to let me quit. I begged my doctor to let me quit.

I didn't think I could do it. It was. It was very hard. I had a lot of herbs in and, they wouldn't let me quit. Was halfway there, they said. So, fast forward, I finished. I did wind up with a lot of methylene blue, and I had an oxygen tank for two weeks. but I am in remission, so that was all. May and June of 2021. I am in remission. I am working again. I'm riding my horses again. I wrote a book. I wrote a book about my story and your treatment. Because I went through a period of time where there was no hope.

And I want the world. I want Georgia, the state of Georgia, and all the doctors here to know that we do have lyme and that we can treat it. So, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. And I'm so I feel so blessed to get to finally meet you and talk with you today because you saved my life. And thank you, Christi. Success story is just one of many you will hear about during the free online

Remission, Advocacy, and Summit Closing 6:10

Healing From Lyme Disease Summit sponsored by DrTalks, June 4th to 10th, 2024. The success story again highlights the safety and efficacy of Dapsone Combination Therapy and the importance of addressing MSIDS variables and Healing from Lyme and associated infections. Christi is in full remission, as you just heard, and you can read her full story in her book. Let Me Tell You a Secret...She Makes It.. You can also learn more about these protocols and the MSIDS map in the journals. Health care. In 2018, an International Journal of General Medicine and Precision Medicine, part 1 and part 2.

You can also learn about these protocols in my New York Times bestseller, Why Can't I Get Better, and national bestseller, How Can I Get Better? As well as all the recent improvements in the Dapsone protocol to make it safer, more tolerable, and even more efficacious in treating Bartonella? In our last publication in the journal microorganisms, September 2023. So please join me, Dr. Richard Horowitz, at the free online Healing From Lyme Disease Summit, June 4th to the 10th, 2024 and get the tools you need so you can get to the next level of health and get your life back.

I look forward to seeing you there.