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Healing Lyme: Sharon’s Story

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<h6>Sharon </h6>
I am thrilled to talk to you today because I feel so much better than I have for most of my adult life. I first started asking doctors about my symptoms in 1995. I was 35 years old, and Lyme disease didn't show up on any of my blood tests. I was told that I was working too hard. But of course, I had three children, and I was working too hard. Then I was pre-menopausal. Then I was menopausal. There was always a reason why I felt incredibly fatigued and had severe brain fog. Eventually, in 2014, I went to a neurologist who sent my bloodwork to Stony Brook, and they diagnosed me as having Lyme and, eventually, Bartonella, and Babesia. At the same time, I was also going to a clinic in New York that was treating people with early-onset Alzheimer's because that was my diagnosis at that time. With the neurologist, I did some antibiotic treatments. I was on an IVIG treatment, and I did that for about two or three years. with the same kind of results as other people said, feeling better for a while and then getting sick again. I had all of the symptoms that everyone else has talked about, except I didn't have to be in a wheelchair.

But I had a leaky gut, food allergies, mold, heavy metals, POTS, immune deficiency, low adrenals, anxiety, I had tinnitus, and joint pain, which included double frozen shoulders. But the worst was the brain fog and disorientation, at some points at the very end, not being able to, having trouble finding my way home, and the severe fatigue. I was thrilled when Dr. Horowitz started seeing patients again. I went straight there, and he did the same thing with me. We talked to her for two to six hours, and he explained the protocol. I went on the double dapsone and by the time I finished, I would say I was about 85 to 90% normal. Everything has been incredible. I've been in remission for two years. I am still working with Dr. Horowitz. After the protocol, we worked on a heavy metal detox and a mold detox. There are still a few symptoms that I have, which include tinnitus, tremors, still have brain fog. So, I spoke with him this week, and we're going to adopt some pulse to see if I can get to 100% better, which is what my goal is.

I'm not giving up until I get there. I will say that the Herxheimer works for me. The last month was quite bad. The last two weeks, I was on my back the entire time. If I tried to walk up and down the stairs, I had to stop every two or three steps and catch my breath. The last week, my lips turned blue, and everyone who knew me thought that I was out of my mind. I did glutathione. and I did the red-light sauna every day. That helped with my symptoms. It took me about three to six months to start feeling better. But what I noticed was that every month I felt better and better. After six months, I thought I was better then, at 12 months, I felt amazing.  It's just been an incredible experience. of rejuvenation and enjoying health. I think it's a miracle. I'm so grateful to Dr. Horowitz. Thank you so much.

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<h6>Richard Horowitz, MD</h6>
You just heard one more success story of dapsone combination therapy and the importance of addressing abnormalities on the 16-point-M map. During this free online Healing from Lyme Disease Summit, sponsored by DrTalks, which airs June 4th to 10th, 2024. You will hear from 40 to 50 of the world's experts who share with you the tools you need to help you get your life back. You will learn more about these protocols in the map, in the Journal of Health Care, published in 2018, and in the International Journal of General Medicine, 2019, in Precision Medicine, Parts 1 and 2. You can also learn about these protocols in my New York Times bestseller, Why Can't I Get Better?  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 published in the Journal of Microorganisms, September 2023, Please join me as our guest and tell everyone about this amazing healing from the Lyme Disease Summit, June 4th to 10th, 2024, sponsored by DrTalks. Please mark your calendar with these important dates. You're going to get a lot out of it, and I hope to see you there.

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<h6>Richard Horowitz, MD</h6>
Hello. My name is Dr. Richard Horowitz, and I'm the co-host of the free online Healing from Lyme Disease Summit, sponsored by DrTalks, from June 4th to 10th, 2024. During our summit, you're going to gather the tools that you need to get your life back. If you suffer from chronic tick-borne illnesses, In this next interview, you'll meet Sharon, a woman who has been sick most of her life. Before seeing me, she was diagnosed with early Alzheimer's disease. As you'll see, she had Lyme and associated co-infections that were keeping her ill, along with multiple MSIDS factors including immune deficiency, leaky gut, food allergies, mold toxicity with heavy metal toxins, POTS, and low adrenal function. All of these issues needed to be fixed before she was fully able to regain her health. She had all the major Lyme disease symptoms that most people suffer from. Except in her case, she was not in a wheelchair as many have been, but her severe fatigue and severe brain fog were ruining her life. The Sharon story is one you'll likely relate to, as it is a story of hope and illustrates the power of dapsone combination therapy while treating MSIDS factors that finally got her in remission during the last two years. We still need to work on heavy metals and mold. But every month, she's getting better and better. As you will see, the diagnosis of early Alzheimer's was just wrong. Here is Sharon's story.

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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/

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