Petzlover>Subject: THE ROAD OUT OF HELL: WHAT TO EXPECT, AND HOW OFTEN TO TREAT and why Herxs are good (This is one of the best articles for understanding how the Doug works and what to expect) > >The most important fact to note here is not why the treatment period is so long, but simply that it is long. You must come to terms with this fact before you can expect to get well – you must mentally prepare yourself for the “long haul.†> >I am eternally grateful to those who explained this to me before I began treatment with rife machines. If I hadn't had great faith in the therapy, there would have been many times when I would have threw up my arms, and said "forget it, this isn't working." What kept me going were the stories of the many people who told me it takes at least a year to get well. These stories served to keep me going - keep me heading toward the light at the end of the tunnel. I have compiled these stories for you in the appendix, in hopes that you will read them, and despite the roller coaster ride, put faith in this treatment. > >Now lets talk about the specifics of the process of getting well. > >THE ROAD OUT OF HELL: WHAT TO EXPECT, AND HOW OFTEN TO TREAT > >So, how do you know if you are going "backwards or forwards" in your treatment? What will it feel like along the road to wellness? There will be MANY times when you are on the roller coaster ride, up and down, and you'll say to yourself, "is this really working? I don't notice dramatic gains - how do I know whats really going on?" > >First of all, lets examine the nature of symptoms. As I see it, there are three categories of Lyme symptoms (yes, this is simplistic, but it should be a sufficient explanation): > >1. Active Lyme Disease itself. This can be different for each person. This is what you would feel like without taking any treatments – this is Lyme Disease itself. > >2. Herxheimer effect A: After killing spirochetes, your body will become flooded with toxins released by the dead bodies of the organism. This "toxic, gross" feeling is what most people are used to from “herxing†with antibiotics. However, there IS another type of herxheimer reaction: > >3. Herxheimer effect B: When using rife machines to treat Lyme Disease (as well as some antibiotics), you will sometimes experience the immune system’s acute reaction to a “de-cloaked†spirochete. Normally, the immune system cannot “see†the infection, as the spirochete is so clever in its ability to hide. Rife sessions sometimes disturb the spirochete - irritate it - and thus, its "cloaking device" (aka, its ability to remain invisible) will be destroyed. The delicate protein layers that the spirochete hides behind get disrupted, and all of a sudden your immune system can "see" multitudes of spirochetes infecting various locations of the body. When this happens, you begin to experience MAJOR immune system activation, just as you would if you just came down with a violent cold or the flu. These symptoms sometimes feel totally different than your normal lyme symptoms, and they feel different even from a normal, toxin-herxheimer reaction. You will usually experience chills, headache, sore throat, nausea, etc. And - it is very different for each person. Some people experience enlarged spleens, cold extremedies, extreme fatigue, just to name a few. > >During the first several months (or even a full year) of treatment, you are CONSTANTLY bouncing back and fourth between the above stated three "conditions," and you will be very confused about what is taking place in your body if you aren't aware of the battle. Once in a while you will feel 100% well, but these instances only last a few hours. As you progress further, these 100% times will be longer and more frequent. > >Why must you undergo such miserable reactions to get well? When you get the common cold, you have symptoms that represent your body fighting the infection. When you hurt your knee, you get inflammation around the injury. There is no way to have a cold without feeling sick, and no way to hurt your knee without having pain. > >In Lyme, (while on antiobiotics, etc.) when you have false "symptom free" periods, the body IS NOT EVEN AWARE THAT THERE IS A BATTLE TO BE FOUGHT. If you are very infected, yet feel good - don't be fooled - the spirochete actually has you quite defeated...it has succeeded in hiding from the immune system, and your body is not even fighting the battle. > >On the contrary, when you use a rife machine, you will note that there is ALWAYS A BATTLE TAKING PLACE, which is indeed a good sign. The "horrible" sensation you have after a rife session - whether it be the herxheimer A or B or both, is actually a BATTLE taking place. If you are not experiencing this battle - then you are not on the uphill road. These battles are never pleasant – they are, by nature, very taxing to your body, and require extra energy. This can result in fatigue and other unpleasant symptoms. > >As time goes on (months and months), the battles become more mild, the good times become better, and eventually, you can use the machines and not have reactions at all! This would indicate that the battle is over - you've won, and you are lyme-free. But in the meantime, you must be prepared for herxheimer reactions. > >I hope I’ve made it clear that I know of no way to treat Lyme Disease with the machines without experiencing herxheimer reactions. If you are unwilling to undergo herxheimers, then I don’t believe you can get well. Someone unwilling to undergo a herxheimer reaction would be similar to someone unwilling to undergo surgery for a broken back – you may just end up in an ongoing state of suffering. Unfortunately, the herxheimer reaction must occur. As spirochetes are killed, you will feel the effects of their toxins. There are various supplements which can help lessen this effect, but you will always feel worse when in a herxheimer reaction. > >Regarding treatment times: > >Kay said that she knew it was time to treat herself again when the herxheimer reactions began to dissipate and her symptom complex began to resemble regular Lyme symptoms again. The logic here would be that when the herxheimer is over, and Lyme begins its regular activities, it is time to treat again. For Kay, this happened about 7-10 days after her rife session, so she treated herself every 7-10 days. She said that as she got better, that time period began to lengthen, indicating a less frequent treatment pattern. > >For myself, this happened about every 3 or 4 days, so I treated myself accordingly. These variations between treatment times may be based on different strains of the infection, or possibly on differences between people, or both. In any case, you should use this model as a pattern by which you can plan your own treatments. It is extremely important for you to be “tuned in†to your own body, so you are able to tell the difference between the various symptoms. One should probably not treat more than every other day, and less than once a month. > >You need to exercise caution as you begin treatments – the heavy bacterial load in the early stages of treatment can cause more severe herxheimer reactions. Start with only a minute, and work your way up from there. I mentioned that my treatments were very 3 or 4 days. I began with a minute per treatment, then went up to 5 minutes, then 20 minutes, etc. As I got closer to being well, I found that I required longer treatments to achieve the same level of herxheimer. This was a good sign – indicating that the bacterial load was lowering. >In an email conversation between Marc and myself, I explained what my first experience with the powerful Doug-machine was like: > >I can tell I've improved so much since going to see Doug. That night in the hotel room before I saw Doug - that was terrible. I really thought I was going to die - or end it myself. > >My experience with the doug-machine has been extremely positive, and I attribute most of my success in healing to the doug-machine. I would recommend obtaining a Doug machine for optimum benefits. There was definitely a time when I “plateued†in using the EMEM machine, and use of the Doug machine immediately placed me in the fast lane toward recovery. > >However, if you find the above drawbacks to be insurmountable, then aquiring an EMEM type machine should provide you with some benefit. Kay in appendix one has been symptom free from Lyme disease for more than a year with just an EMEM-type device. Some achieve benefit with the EMEM, and some don’t. My guess is that Dan’s machine is capable of curing Lyme disease, but the treatment period would be significantly longer than the cure-period of the doug-device and B3. >My final comment about the EMEM: I have known people who have used the EMEM for months, without improvement. When such a person moves up to a B3 or a Doug-machine, they usually begin to see rapid improvement. Marc is a good example, he originally owned an EMEM3D with limited benefit, but upon moving up to a B3, he actually considered selling the EMEM3D. My story is similar. On the other hand, I have also known people who have been cured with an EMEM type device. Bottom line: Dan’s machine is a great machine, and does help Lyme sufferers, but the B3 and doug-device are probably a better bet. > > >THE LONG RECOVERY > >In an email to Marc, I used an analogy to describe the war against Lyme Disease: > > >Just like any war between two armies, a victory can never happen in one battle. There are always more battles on the horizon - more troops, tanks, and resources held back by the opposing force. If the opposing force is smart (Lyme is), it will allocate its resources intellegently and put up the best fight it can, based on what the opposition brings to the battlefield. Even when the soon-to-be victorious party is SIGNIFICANTLY SUPERIOR to the soon-to-be defeated party, it still takes a concerted effort, AND TIME, to do the job.. > >Bb MUST NECESSARILY have evolved this effective warfare tactic or Bb WOULD NEVER HAVE BECOME A REAL THREAT to the advanced defense systems of the human. Any real disease process in a human is necessarily a formidable opponent. > >Although quite simplistic, this description is accurate, as you will see. It takes a long time to get well. Some (usually younger people or those who have been infected for shorter periods of time) experience shorter healing periods. The average healing time I have encountered through my own experience as well as the experiences of others, is about 1-2 years of using the machines. > >Why does it take so long? I don’t think anyone really knows. There are numerous theories, most of which have some logical basis. The theory I ascribe to originated from Marc: when the spirochetes enter the body, they “seed†various locations with cysts (or eggs) that do not hatch for a period of time. As the disease progresses, the spirochetes continue to re-seed. If these cysts are not vulnerable to killing with rife machines (or antibiotics), then it would follow that, even during a successful treatment program, you would experience periodic worsening of the condition as these cysts “hatch†in stages. Then, as you continue to treat and as the body begins to recover, additional “seeding†would become more and more difficult, as the spirochetes would become less able to perform their life-cycle activities because they are being challenged constantly by a hostile environment (rife treatments). Thus, the slow recovery. > >An additional theory that I find to be likely is that rife machines (or antibiotics for that matter) do not actually kill spirochetes. Instead, they irritate, or disrupt the organism in such a way that the organism becomes weaker. This “weakness†may not be enough to cause an immediate halt in the disease condition, instead, it might take several reproductive cycles (or generations) to weaken the organism sufficiently for the human immune system to win the battle. Rife machines possibly disrupt the DNA of the spirochete, leading to future generations with inherited disabilities. > >Everything about the Lyme Disease organism is highly advanced and hearty. The spirochete can mutate to different forms depending on which part of the body resides in. This is an excerpt from an email I received from Marc regarding the advanced abilities of the spirochete: > >I think I'm coming down to more of an understanding the "why" behind the long cure cycle with Bb. > >Because of the corkscrew shape and pointed tip, they move much better through tissue and organs, than fluids like blood - like a jumper jumping from firm dirt as opposed to soft mud. Once disseminated, there are some astoundingly unique ways they elude immune action, from antigens being located on their inside (as opposed to outside like most pathogens); able to pierce white and B-cells, and "wear" the shell of the B-cell thus fooling immune cells; depositing packets of genes (called "klebs") into the host - acting as info "packets" to other Bb as well as an irritant to the host causing immune reaction, to changing antigen information on a regular basis so the immune system has to develop new programming for it, to antigens mimicking host's own cells and causing some auto-immune fake-out, changing to non-metablic state or into cyst form and not addressed by the immune until a later time when it activates, the mutation into slightly different strains...whew. > >So, the body is in a state of "what the...? What is it...? Where is it....? and the immune is working all the time and that's hyper-sensitivities (allergies) to all kinds of things occurs with lyme - the body is reacting to anything toxic or perceived as negative to it. > >The long cure cycle involves working to get them in all the "hiding" places and in their non-metabolic states. The abx (antiobiotics) only gets the available ones thus the high incident of "reseeding" and relapse. The Rifes get the available rather easily and then work at the hidden ones, which takes a little time, it appears. And lastly, the continuous parade of "emerging" from non-metabolic state forms desperately trying to reseed and divide before extinction of the specie occurs in the host. This includes even a heavy and effective attack by the Doug. However, there IS, besides the immediate oscillation kill, the "vaccinating" benefit for the immune to "program" from the kill in its various growth stages, mutation, etc. This is the only explanation for symptoms that DO go away in an infected area and then do not come back. The immune has gotten the handle for that aspect. > >Additonally, some Bb go intercellular in other cells, even immune cells themselves - b-cells, white cells and even macrophages > >Finally, Bb changes form into L-form and into cyst form. Studies show, when the coast is clear, fully formed spiros will come out of the cysts to re-seed. > >I've noted some of these aspects before but am listing them in a new unit of time to view that it all adds up to why antiobiotics, HBOT, and others tend to have limited success and why relapse (re-seed) is so likely. > >And, why, though there could be a yet-unknown ultra-range freq that could massively deactivate them, currently I see only a systematic, persistent approach of hitting all the key freqs (which represent the mutations and strains. And - this is key - actual cure evidence supports material I've read stating that treatment should involve going through at least all the seasons once, and likely twice (12-24 months). Because, a concerted effort to "re-emerge" or re-seed appears to occur at season change points. BUT the important thing is - this systematic approach DOES, by actual case evidence, result in un-relapsing cure. (Season for the lyme bacteria are several months in spring and several months in the fall)My final comment about the EMEM: I have known people who have used the EMEM for months, without improvement. When such a person moves up to a B3 or a Doug-machine, they usually begin to see rapid improvement. Marc is a good example, he originally owned an EMEM3D with limited benefit, but upon moving up to a B3, he actually considered selling the EMEM3D. My story is similar. On the other hand, I have also known people who have been cured with an EMEM type device. Bottom line: Dan’s machine is a great machine, and does help Lyme sufferers, but the B3 and doug-device are probably a better bet. >On why the treatment timeline and why total coverage. > >The entire must eventually be treated. Per Doug's write-up, and checked it with him, every inch must ultimately be covered. Now that I have knocked back the overall complex, it is much earlier for me to discern what the Bb is doing. It lines up with some university studies, doctor studies, and Dr Burrascaro's research. > > > >Adorable Yorkie/maltese puppies. Smart dog, hypoallergenic. Dew claws removed and tails docked. Wormed and Shots. Female $xxx xxx xxx 3xxx > >
