Hi everyone, I realize that some of you may know me from other groups
but the questions that I have are specifically about IRT and any
reactions that you all may have had that has possibly been like mine
and how your out come has been if you have indeed been doing IRT for
long enough.

I just began class 17 and we have done 2 sessions so far. I have had
lyme for 20 years or longer so I fully realize this is going to take
some time to see large improvement. I also believe that with lyme, it
is so insidious; that I am going to aim the full arsenal at it at all
times and IRT is another big gun.

I am home bound but I can do minimal house work and bathe, however the
beauty days are over for me because there is no energy left to do any
of that. I use my energies to stay alive. Although I have been Rifing
for seven months and using MMS for 3 months I feel those thing (as good
as they are) are just keeping me alive.

To tell you the truth I don't want to do any of this stuff including
IRT because I am tired of how sick it all makes me feel (HERXING) but
on the other hand I am very great full they are out there because the
alternative is a dirt nap.

The first treatment put me on the couch for Wednesday and Thursday but
really I thought to myself well this is not going to be unbearable, I
can manage. That is until Thursday afternoon; my sister called me and
told me that her son has cancer. As I was crying over that I got the
most intense headache I have literally ever had in my life. I could
feel the vessels in the back of my head shooting pain through there
branches up through the top of my head.

I went and got an ice pack and wrapped it around my head and felt
crummy for the rest of the day. The next morning I got up and literally
had to shuffle around, my legs were so heavy it felt like I had rocks
in my pant legs. and the head ache was horrendous. I wore an ice pack
all morning. I sat on the couch for 2 hours and I started feeling a
little better. I got up to use the rest room 50 feet away and began to
cry by the time I got there, (any exertion made my head pain
excruciating). My heart started pounding and I began shaking all over
my entire body. If I did not know any better I would say I went into
shock.

Now I am no whine, never have been. Although I can tell you, that was
freaky, and the pain was unbelievable, I was strangely calm in a weird
sort of way. I really in all trueness with no exaggeration thought I
was going to die with in a few moments. I decided to call my husband
and say good bye. So I did. I told him this was the end of my fight
with lyme, I did not believe I was going to live through this and
please if he decided to come home not to drive fast cause I did not
want him to die in an accident. I went out on the porch, I wanted to
see the dogs and horses one last time, I stood there looking at the sky
and told myself it was ok there was nothing I could to do, I had fought
as long and hard as I could.

My eldest lives next door (his dad had called him and told him to come
over cause I was dieing) I am chuckling now as I am writing this down
cause I am kind of embraced but it was not even funny while it was
happening. My son got me some 02 and a coat because I was shaking all
over and he talked with me and distracted me from the pain as he made
me something to eat. I ate the little food and my hart quit pounding, I
quit shivering and I lay there all bundled up an exhausted. I was out
the rest of the day.

Next day I woke up with the rotten beginnings of the headache again and
wore an I pack all day around my neck. That went on till Monday
afternoon (I am amazed that I don't have frost bite).
On my symptom sheet I would have to say that my shoulder pain decreased
by one to one and a half on the pain level. But that is all. That
horrid headache is gone but my neck is still very stiff and my sinuses
drip constantly, and my legs are still very heavy.
I reported all this to Gary, he said that he would code for horror on
the next session (among other things). You know I had a horrid (smile)
child hood, so why did it surprise me that I would have emotional
issues that would need to be addressed before I would be well again. It
really is about treating the whole person isn't it?

Lisa S in Washington State.