Research and study this past week has led me to the conclusion that i might have Lyme's Disease - plus a nutritionist I was talking to suggested it.

I am in shock but not surprised.

It is hard to find a doctor in the UK who understand it, so I may not get that sort of help but I might get one of the few who do to refer me to the lab in the US who will run blood tests.

The diet suggested for Lyme's is funnily enough the one I am on now.

The treatment is normally anti-biotics but they have made me very ill in the past so i stopped using them.

It is a good job I found this out before I started on ACE etc as with Lyme's you must not take a steroid. I did use a topical one a few years ago and remember it made me ill.

Getting the amalgams out is part of treatment but I will go ahead only if I am sure that my adrenals can take it, and until then I can only use things such as liquorice to build them up but if my thyroid is really down, then I am not sure what to do. Time will tell.