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Lyme Disease is finally getting some much-needed attention!
From the potentially fatal meat allergy Alpha-Gal Syndrome (AGS) to the creepy bioethicists who argued in favor of letting AGS spread so people would “naturally” stop eating red meat — and the convenient timing of Bill Gates’ tick experiments alongside his lab-grown meat investments — it seems like everyone is talking about Lyme.
I’ve seen scores of tips on how to dress to minimize tick exposure, chemicals and essential oils that repel ticks, how to correctly remove ticks so they don’t empty their saliva and gut contents into your body, and what to do after a bite.
Some of the advice is genuinely helpful.
For instance, if you’re “lucky” enough to find the tick that bit you, definitely send it for testing. The Pennsylvania Tick Research Lab and TickCheck are excellent resources that provide fast results, so you at least know which pathogens you might have been exposed to.
But some of the advice circulating on social media is outright misinformation and needs to be corrected.
The worst piece right now is the claim that a single dose of doxycycline can successfully prevent Lyme disease. It absolutely cannot.
This fake news has been pushed by the original purveyor of questionable Lyme guidance — the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) — along with the CDC (which shouldn’t surprise anyone after their track record during COVID). Even prominent doctors like Peter McCullough have repeated it. He should know better, but he seems more focused on selling medical kits than digging into the truth about Lyme.
The main paper cited by doctors who argue in favor of the single dose of doxy, Prophylaxis with Single-Dose Doxycycline for the Prevention of Lyme Disease after an Ixodes scapularis Tick Bite, leaves a lot to be desired.
It was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial with 482 participants. It reported eight cases of erythema migrans in the placebo group versus one in the doxycycline group, for an estimated 87% efficacy (95% CI: 25%–98%).
Importantly, the primary outcome was only prevention of the EM rash at the bite site. The study did not evaluate whether a single dose could prevent more serious complications, such as:
Nor did it address prevention of co-infections like anaplasmosis, babesiosis, bartonellosis, or other Borrelia variants (e.g., Borrelia miyamotoi).
Making matters worse, Lyme symptoms can emerge slowly — sometimes taking years to appear. So if you take a single dose and think you’re safe, you may be in for a very rude awakening.
I know this from personal experience.
About 15 years ago, I had a fully engorged tick removed from my chest at a Connecticut hospital. The doctor gave me the “good news” that it had been attached for less than 72 hours, so I “definitely” didn’t have Lyme. I was given a single dose of doxycycline and sent home. At the time, I barely knew what Lyme was — yet I felt incredibly relieved.
Years later, symptoms crept in. I chalked them up to aging. Then, out of nowhere, I developed severe vertigo and crippling headaches. Doctors suspected meningitis (tests were negative). Flu-like symptoms, dizziness, and crushing fatigue followed. Suddenly, my body went into septic shock. I collapsed and nearly died.
I spent a week in the hospital being treated for “double pneumonia and various bacterial infections.” No one ever mentioned Lyme.
Over the next six months, I saw dozens of doctors. I was diagnosed with pleurisy, anorexia, ADHD, and Parkinsonian’s disorder. One doctor suggested it was “all in my head” — possibly bipolar or schizophrenia — and recommended psychiatric drugs.
Eventually, I asked my GP to test me for everything on the insurance form. Two days later, he called: all tests were clear except an equivocal Lyme result. He prescribed the standard CDC/IDSA treatment — one month of doxycycline.
I felt better immediately. After the month ended, he declared me “cured.” But as soon as I stopped the antibiotics, every symptom returned with a vengeance. When I asked for more medicine, he said I now had “medically unexplained symptoms” and there was nothing else he could do.
I went home, Googled "equivocal Lyme test" and realized I needed a Lyme-literate doctor.
That doctor found I still had active Lyme plus multiple co-infections. He noted visible signs: a babesia rash on my legs and cat-scratch-like striations across my torso (classic bartonella). He cycled me through multiple antibiotics (doxycycline, atovaquone, azithromycin, minocycline, rifampin), plus vitamins and probiotics, and told me to cut out sugar.
The treatment lasted over a year and got me to about 90%.
I felt better, but still hollow and drained.
That’s when I saw a highly recommended naturopath.
He identified lingering Lyme/co-infections, heavy metal toxicity, and vitamin deficiencies. His protocol — heavy metal detox, herbs, enzymes, tinctures, and therapies like Rife frequencies, lymphatic drainage, and hyperbaric oxygen — finally brought me back to my old self.
The only downside?
It cost thousands of dollars, and none of it was covered by insurance.
Living in a Lyme-endemic state means I still get bitten regularly. The last time I tested positive, I tried a different, far more affordable (and controversial) approach: chlorine dioxide (often called “God’s Universal Antidote”).
I started with the bath protocol for a few weeks, then moved to oral. Despite what you’ll read when you Google it, it didn’t kill me or land me in the ER. Instead, every single Lyme symptom disappeared — for just $45.
I even went back for testing, and my doctor confirmed I was clear.
More doctors are now openly embracing chlorine dioxide, including Dr. Robert Yoho and Dr. Pierre Kory, who recently published the book, The War on Chlorine Dioxide: The Medicine That Could End Medicine. I'm certainly pleased with the results, but I'm not a doctor. So you'll have to decide for yourself what the right approach is.
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