The Upside Down

 Earlier this year I was experiencing a feeling unlike anything I'd ever felt.
Only Lyme can do those things. 

It felt like for a split second my consciousness falls out from under me, and I'm not in my current reality, I'm somewhere else, and then just as quickly I come back. It's like being upside down. 

Anyway, it hasn't happened in months. I think I'm on the mend. 
I'm on month 2 of antibiotics and I haven't felt fatigued or foggy for atleast a month. My only lingering symptoms are my asleep hands and feet upon waking and that damn lump on my thumb.
So a big thanks to alternative medicine for hooking me up with the proper treatment. And a big fuck you to modern medicine for dismissing me and providing me no help. 

The vaccination conversation is heated online these days, and I can't help but participate. Ironically, I'm pro-vaccine despite knowing there are obvious conflicts of interest. Of course people are getting rich, but that's no reason to deny free, safe treatment from a life-threatening illness, killing the most vulnerable of our population. 

It reminds me of the Antitrust investigation into the 5 men that wrote the guidelines for treating Lyme (that don't treat lyme in most cases). These were the results of the investigation:

1. The investigation revealed panelists’ connections to insurance and vaccine companies in violation of antitrust principles, failure to review potential conflicts of interest such as financial interests in drug companies, Lyme disease diagnostic tests, patents and consulting arrangements with insurance companies. He found there was bias in the selection committee, and exclusion of dissenting panelists.

2. The attorney found misrepresentation of the guideline authors’ views as independent, and misrepresentation of the guidelines as voluntary. There were what they called ”improper links” between the IDSA’s and the American Academy of Neurology’s (AAN) Lyme panels. The two panels shared key members, and were working on both sets of guidelines at the same time, which is a violation of IDSA’s conflicts of interest policy. When the IDSA learned of the improper links, it aggressively sought AAN’s endorsement.” The investigation showed that their guidelines used ”strikingly similar language” to conclude that chronic Lyme didn’t exist and defined symptoms persisting after treatment as ”Post-Lyme Syndrome” also in the same way as the IDSA. Then the IDSA portrayed the AAN’s guidelines as independent corroboration and tried using them to defeat legislation supporting long-term Lyme treatment.

3. Failure to significantly evaluate contradictory evidence. Doctors were pressured to conform to the beliefs that Lyme was not chronic.

The guidelines reported conflicts of interests for five IDSA panelists:

1. Dr. Gary Wormser, the panel chair, received funds ”from Baxter and Immunetics, and is one of the founders of Diaspex. Eventually discovered also was that Wormser disclosed he was receiving grants related to Lyme disease from Bio-Rad, Biopeptides, Merck and AstraZeneca, owning equity in Abbott, and being retained in some medical-malpractice cases involving Lyme disease.”

2. R. J. Dattwyler, is a speaker for Pfizer and a part owner of Biopeptides. Later is was discovered that Dattwyler disclosed he had a financial connection to Baxter and serving as an expert witness in medical malpractice actions

3. J. J. Halperin, an expert witness on behalf of Lymerix (GlaxoSmithKline) the failed Lyme vaccine.

4. Allen C. Steere is a consultant for Baxter and P. J. Krause. This is a developer of a diagnostic procedure for a coinfection of Lyme. Later disclosed was that Steere has a financial connection to GlaxoSmithKline and Viramed.

5. Dattwyler elsewhere disclosed a financial connection to Baxter and serving as an expert witness in medical malpractice actions, and Steere disclosed a financial connection to GlaxoSmithKline and Viramed. (51) A sixth panelist, Eugene Shapiro, elsewhere admitted to receiving grants for Lyme vaccines, testifying in Lyme-related medical malpractice actions, and reviewing Lyme disability claims for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

Later discovered also was that another panelist, Eugene Shapiro, admitted to receiving grants for Lyme vaccines, testifying in Lyme-related medical malpractice actions, and reviewing Lyme disability claims for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

Thanks to https://borreliablogg.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/idsa-vs-ilads-why-there-is-a-chronic-lyme-conflict/?fbclid=IwAR0XZXCcFEPADrEOV9NNaXi0zypSSZhSQLh2mBUW59XEbzwObeP5olVV3-U for providing the above information.