I have booked a telephone consultation in two weeks time with one of the very few Lyme literate doctors in the UK ie Dr Andrew Wright in Bolton Lancashire. He will also do a blood microscopy examination if the clinical evaluation points to Lyme I am not sure how reliable this test is but i know that normal blood tests are highly unreliable and the NHS ones pretty useless so if you have had a NHS test jinx it has a high chance of being false negative.

Finding out about this disease is scary stuff. It manages to hide in the body to avoid detection from the immune system and even with long term anti-biotic treatment and I am talking about years - it can still remain to appear again later. I can't take abx so will have to use other means to try to get it into remission.

As things stand for me due to the possible heavy load and the definite mercury damage, my prognosis is not good from what i can gather. The outcome if it is not put into remission is wheelchair due to the knee problems which I already have and which have worsened a great deal this past few months and heart attack. I have pains in my heart area. For this I take Q10 and magnesium and for the liver problems I take milk thistle. There are some people who chose not to take abx and who are using different protocols including using machines to zap the bacteria. The herx from the death of the bacteria releases mercury into the system making recovery more complicated.

At present I am concentrating on my diet which is really excellent and I have been adding more raw foods like alfalfa powder mixed in with freshly squeezed veggie juice - at present carrot celery and dandelion leaves. I have maca powder and mesquite powder too, and goji berries. trying to fit it all in a day is a headache.:( I don't know whether to go vegan or not. I am on ACE and it feels better than the other glandular. Most of my time is spent in research and it is such a maze as there are so many conflicting views. I want to do some cleansing and hope to find one which will not be too taxing at present. Since I gave up gluten a few weeks ago, I have had the most amazing dream recall. i can only assume that my villi are healing so I am absorbing more B vitamins. Gluten is bad for everyone.

There are over known 700 cases in the UK every year and mark the known. I should imagine that the true figure is very much higher. There should be public warnings about going into wooded or shaded areas without some level of protection in wearing tucked in trousers and shoes instead of sandles. The bite is painless and the tick will often climb up into hairy areas before it embeds itself so detection can be nearly impossible.

I must say that here does seem to be something not quite right about the information available, the refusal of the NHS to acknowledge or treat it, and the huge long term cost of treating undiagnosed people with it, with plenty of profit to the pharma companies that it makes you wonder Elvis.