Hi sregan,

Yeah I have thought about lyme, but I don't think I have it. The infection was caused by an infected eye cosmetic. It started with eye infection from there and spread throughout my system. I don't think lyme disease starts like that.

It was because I kept watering the mascara down to make it more moist, but this takes away the antibacterial agents (dilutes it) and allows any kind of organism to breed in there and I had done this before and gotten away with it, but oneday I did not. Perhaps because I was detoxing mercury strongly at the time and may have been vulnerable. But whatever got in, spread from eyes, to brain, to my entire body. The most bizzare condition I have ever endured and it's remained since.

I have tried salt and vitamin C (for lyme) but got no reactions. No die off, or improvements etc. I have tried a few herbal things, but no such luck. The only thing that controls things to a point is my diet. No supplement does very much. Just compliments things a bit. It's about building immunity too, but unfortunately this infection is there permanently and has devastated my immunity. worse than the mercury (even if mercury may have been the reason why I caught it).

Chelation doesn't work, detoxing hasn't worked. Cleanses haven't worked. Parasite cleansing hasn't worked and to be honest, I'm kind of through with it all. As negative as that may seem, I've found a point of "acceptance" (to a point) and understand my limits and do what I can under the circumstances, which isn't always easy, but it's better than me being bitter and angry daily, which I was.

It causes terrible symptoms, exercise intolerance, work intolerance and I constantly have to pace myself to be very very careful. Any exertion beyond a certain point causes me to become exhausted, feverish, sore throat, sore eyes, and unable to think straight. Everything gets much worse. SO I have to have rest and breaks inbetween exercising and/or work. If I do something daily, I'm in big trouble.

Again diet is essential and must be permanent. I cannot cheat, or things worsen and take ages to improve again. I also suspect cavitations, which I believe occured after this infection because I was more vulnerable and had a wisdom tooth removed. So that can cripple the immune system even on its own without such a viral infection.

Next on my agenda (oneday if/when I can), I may try and find an oral surgeon to open up and clean out every ex wisdom tooth site just in case. Diagnosis is very difficult and cavitations can be easily missed. Even a small one can contain potent bacteria and not be seen. It does not always show external symptoms.

I may also get myself some cat's claw at some point and see if that may help, but I'm wary as the stuff is potent and some react horribly to it and long term. So I'm in no hurry to make my situation worse long term in case there is such a reaction.

One eye cosmetic that I didn't throw away (stupidly) and was used during the active eye infection stage, whcih caused this systemtic ilness was used again a year or so later and all the symptoms returned in full. Just as severe as the first time and I got a double dose. So I warn people never to play with their eye cosmetics by watering them down or anything else. If you ever do get a bad enough bacterial invasion and that gets into the eyes, if your immunity is already down, you can wind up with something like this and it hasn't even got a diagnosis/name.