Over the last two weeks, I have been surprised by the surge in those being seen by great healers and researchers, and yet who cannot keep improving a patient’s life. Please understand that if any patient comes to me with a single lab-diagnosed common tick, flea, pet-scratch infection, or another insect-bite infection, I am profoundly appreciative. The reasons why are too many to list, but it is like starting in high school vs. second grade.
But some waste time starting with a beginner-level healer for Bartonella and the rarer co-infections, Lyme disease, and Babesia. Do you think you could speed things up with someone else? Often.
CHECKLIST FOR EVALUATING LYME LITERATE DOCTORS
1. They only use antibiotics that kill active Lyme, e.g., doxycycline, minocycline, Augmentin, amoxicillin, azithromycin, clarithromycin, rifampin, Rocephin, ceftriaxone, Bicillin, and penicillin.
2. They never discuss their plan to kill Lyme (or TBRF) nut (cyst) forms, hibernating frozen persisting forms, or slime-covered biofilm forms. The way to treat each is totally different.
3. They do not pre-kill or pre-treat for Bartonella, Babesia, and Lyme, which all evade the immune system exceptionally, so you are told by one lab that you have 1-2 infections. Make a super stealth germ blow up into 100 dead particles and the immune system will see it.
4. They use one lab company when you can afford another. One lab catches what the other misses.
5. They have a narrow set of treatments that sound like faith and not science. They treat with one primary approach. I use at least ten.
6. Fatigue has over 200 causes. Do you feel like your doctor thinks there are a few causes?
7. Do their family, loved ones, or 25% of their patients have Lyme, Babesia, or Bartonella?
8. Do they publish or speak on these infections?
9. How long have they been treating these emerging infections?
10. How long have you been on the same treatment and the same dose?
11. Are you getting 8 1/2 hours of sleep? Having panic? Untreated depression? Untreated pain?
12. Is anything better in the last three months?
13. Do they say they know what you have based on their gut or experience? The problem is they can be wrong. I have guessed wrong for decades. Lab data from a lab with excellence in a test is more math than poetry. Do you really want a science diagnosis from a poet?