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Healing Lyme: Aly’s Story

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<h6>Aly</h6>
My name is Aly, and I have had Lyme for about nine years. When I say I am, I guess I'm using it as a catch-all term for tick-borne disease because I also have Babesia, Bartonella, and Ehrlichiosis. I'm probably forgetting some infections, but if you have it, I probably have it too. It took me two years to receive an accurate diagnosis of Lyme and tick-borne disease. By the time I finally found out what I had, it had just steeped into every muscle tissue and spot in my body. I was essentially bedridden. I have probably tried every treatment under the sun. If you name it, I have probably done it. I also have POTS. I have a specific antibody deficiency. I have adrenal dysfunction. A cocktail of things that resulted in exhaustion, severe brain fog, word loss or word block, and pain. All over my body, my muscles, and my joints. Tremors, sleeplessness, restlessness, and mood swings. I experienced a lot of different, typical Lyme symptoms, but also neurolyme and tick-borne disease symptoms. 

I found Dr. Horowitz about two years ago and have been doing Dapsone therapy. Both regular Dapsone, Double Dapsone, and Quad Dapsone over the last year. While I will say it's a tough protocol, I always tell patients that it's not the hardest thing that I've ever done. Not even close. Don't let the fear of Dapsone or not feeling well scare you because, Number one, I don't think that it's as bad as you think it is. Number two, I think it's worth it to get your life back in the end. I also want to tell people that I feel that Dapsone has helped me more in the last year than any therapy I have done in the last 8 to 9 years, combined. 

Dapsone was the first therapy for me where I feel, it's had a lasting impact where I can complete the treatment, wait and see the results, and then not have this massive backslide as I used to, where I would complete therapy and then ultimately, within a month or two, be unwell again. It's helped all of my symptoms across the board. When I first started seeing Dr. H, I would say I was operating at about 50% capacity, which was not good. Now I would say I'm closer to 80 to 85%, which is a massive leap. I have seen improvements in pretty much every symptom across the board now. Most days I can get through the day pretty successfully and be a pretty high-functioning individual. 

That is my story. I cannot recommend Dapsone Therapy enough. I recommend that everyone try it. and ask your practitioner about it. I am always here to be a resource for anyone who has questions, so thanks, Dr. H.

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<h6>Richard Horowitz, MD</h6>
This success story, which highlights the safety and efficacy of Dapsone Combination Therapy, and addresses MSIDS variables, is one of many that you'll hear during the free online Healing from Lyme Disease Summit, June 4th to 10th, 2024. You can learn more about these protocols in the MSIDS map in the Journal Health Care in 2018, in Precision Medicine Part 2, as well as in my New York Times bestseller, Why Can't I Get Better? Also, the National bestseller, How Can I Get Better? 

You can also read about 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, published in the Journal Microorganisms in September 2023. 

This success story, which highlights the safety and efficacy of Dapsone Combination Therapy, and addresses MSIDS variables, is among many that you'll hear during the free online Healing from Lyme Disease Summit, June 4th–10, 2024. Please join me at our summit so you can get the tools to get your life back. I hope to see you there.

<h6>Richard Horowitz, MD</h6>
Hello, my name is Dr. Richard Horowitz, and I am the co-host of The Free Online Healing from Lyme Disease Summit. June 4th to 10th, 2024. During our summit, you're going to learn about how to gather the tools to get your life back. As you hear from 40 to 50 of the world's experts in tick-borne diseases, I would like to share with you one of the 18 success stories of people who will be interviewed during the Healing from Lyme Disease Summit and who will highlight the safety and success of Dapsone Combination Therapy and the power of addressing all of the abnormalities on MSIDS map.

As you will hear from Aly, the three B’s: Borrelia, Babesia, and Bartonella, along with immune deficiency, adrenal dysfunction, and POTS, had her bedridden and sick for years with severe fatigue, pain, inability to sleep, and severe cognitive difficulties with mood swings. Yet Dapsone combination therapy has helped her in the past year, more than any of the other treatments she did in the last 8 to 10 years, and she has now had massive improvement without significant relapses. Let's hear Allie's story about the safety and efficacy of Dapsone combination therapy and the power of addressing abnormalities on the 16-point MSIDS map.

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Dr. Richard Horowitz is a board-certified internist and the medical director of the Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center, an integrative medical center which combines both classical and complementary approaches in the treatment of Lyme disease and other tick-borne disorders. 
He has treated over 13,000 Lyme and tick-borne disease patients in the last 30 years, with patients coming from all over the US, Canada, and Europe to his clinic. 
He is one of the founding members and past president elect of ILADS, the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, and Dr Horowitz was previously awarded the Humanitarian of the Year award by the Turn the Corner Foundation as well as awards from Project Lyme for his treatment of Lyme Disease. He has dedicated his life to helping those stricken with this devastating illness.
He is also the author of two best-selling books on Lyme disease, Why Can’t I Get Better? Solving the Mystery of Lyme and Chronic Disease (2013, St Martin’s Press, NY Times Best Seller), and How Can I Get Better? An Action Plan for Treating Resistant Lyme and Chronic Disease (2017, St Martin’s Press, National bestseller). 
These books incorporate recent scientific advances and explain in detail how healthcare providers can effectively diagnose and treat resistant chronic illness.
In addition, he has co-authored peer-reviewed Lyme guidelines, and Dr Horowitz was a member of the HHS Tick-borne Disease Working Group and Co-chair of the “Other Tick-borne Diseases and Coinfections” subcommittee from 2017-2019 which provided recommendations to Congress to help the US improve the care of those suffering with tick-borne disorders. He recently served as a member of the HHS Babesia and Tick-borne Pathogen Subcommittee and was elected to serve as a member of the NYS DOH Tick-borne disease Working Group in 2021.
Finally, Dr Horowitz recently published several scientific articles on classical and integrative solutions for COVID-19 which have been effective in helping those with acute and chronic illness (see www.cangetbetter.com), and he released his first novel, Starseed R/evolution, ‘The Awakening’ a cli-fi (science fiction/climate change) novel in March of 2022, which will provide novel solutions to our present climate crisis. For more information, please see https://starseed-revolution.com/

Healing Lyme: Aly’s Story

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