Health Rising’s Recovering/Recovery Story Series Continues
Geoff’s Narration
The GIST
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Melody had been on oxygen for two and a half years before she found help.
Health Rising’s recent Recovery/Recovering Series continues with our first chronic fatigue syndrome/ fibromyalgia plus long-COVID recovering story. Getting sick early in the pandemic, Melody, a physician’s assistant, was hit hard: barely able to breath, she was hospitalized with double pneumonia, and told that her lungs like looked like cracked glass.
Melody was on oxygen and either bedbound or homebound for the next 2 1/2 years. She found her answer outside of the traditional medical establishment and reports she is now living a near normal life. Hers is the first Zoom recovering/recovery story for Health Rising (see below).
- Check out Health Rising’s series of in-depth Recovery Stories here and the over 70 ME/CFS/FM/long-COVID recovering/recovering stories here.
Talking with Melody about her ME/CFS/FM and Long-COVID Recovering/Recovery Story
Please note that there are things in the talk that are not in the blog and vice versa!
THE GIST
- Melody was busy, busy just before she became ill. A physician assistant since the 90s, she was also a school board member of a large school district and had adopted 3 children, one of whom had a serious illness. She was busy indeed, and over time, her health started failing and the diagnoses started piling up in 2018 (Sjogren’s Syndrome, fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, hypertension, Vitamin D deficiency).
- Her fatigue, she said, was enormous, but then came the big blow – COVID-19. Infected early in the pandemic, with her pulse oximeter readings dropped into the 70s, she ended up in the hospital where she found that she has double pneumonia, and that her lungs look like “cracked glass”.
- She was diagnosed with POTS, hypoxia with oxygen dependence, serious brain fog, developed severe sleep apnea (2023), vertigo, multiple arthralgias (definitely COVID magnified x 1000), insomnia, heart palpitations, hand tremors, fractured ribs and spine, multiple herniated disks; headaches. Over time, her list of specialists grew to include regular visits to a pulmonologist, cardiologist, rheumatologist, and ophthalmologist. She was on 13 prescription drugs.
- They provided little help, and after being bedbound for six months and homebound for 2 1/2 years and still on oxygen, she struck out on her own. After watching Lorrie Livingston’s Online Summit, hearing that “every chronic disease has a hidden infection inside it”, she takes Lorrie’s course.
- She called a modified keto diet – which allows no fruit, no sugar (both of which she is told feed the parasites in her gut), no grains, nuts or seeds plus a product called “CellCore” (which requires a doctor to order it) to get at the parasites inside us the “rock stars” of Lorrie’s protocol. Within 4 days of being on the diet/CellCore protocol, evidence of a worm showed up in her poop. After that, they started pouring out. (The biggest one was 38 inches long.)
- Within 3 months, her heart issues disappeared, and she was off oxygen. By six months, she was reading 3-4 books at a time and had dropped all 13 of her prescriptions. Her pain is now down to a 1-2 (out of 10) most of the time, she now gets 7+ hours a sleep a night at least 5 nights a week.
- She also benefited from pacing (beditations – forced rest), nebulized hydrogen peroxide (infections), the ARC microcurrent device (healing), augmented NAC (oxidative stress), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) (calming), a grounding mat (sleep), vagus nerve stimulation with a tens unit (autonomic nervous and immune system regulation, red light therapy (mitochondrial enhancer), infrared sauna (detoxification, healing) and methylene blue (mitochondrial enhancer, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory). She suspects the methylene blue, in particular, may have helped her get off oxygen. (See the blog for links to blogs on some of these).
- Melody reports that she leads a near normal life, is walking a lot but cannot engage in intensive exercise, and is still slowly improving. She requested that people with these illnesses, “Please, please don’t give up. Fight for yourself. Find somebody. It may not be Lorrie. It may be somebody else, but find somebody that can help you, and will listen to you.“
- An interview with Lorrie on her story and approach is coming up.
Her fatigue, she said, was enormous, but the big blow came with COVID-19. Infected early in the pandemic, she ended up in the hospital with her pulse oximeter readings in the 70s, with double pneumonia, and her lungs looking like “cracked glass”.
Put on oxygen, she had a “respiratory code” triggered when she tried to stand up and walk around (but was never intubated). After three weeks, she went home on oxygen.
She was diagnosed with POTS, hypoxia with oxygen dependence, and serious brain fog; she developed severe sleep apnea (2023), vertigo, multiple arthralgias (definitely COVID magnified x 1000), insomnia, heart palpitations, hand tremors, fractured ribs and spine, multiple herniated disks and headaches. Over time, her list of specialists grew to include regular visits to a pulmonologist, cardiologist, rheumatologist, and ophthalmologist.
The oxygen kept her alive, but little else provided much help. Two years of hydroxychloroquine produced nothing but headaches, Toradol helped with sleep but not with pain, and Temazepam didn’t help with sleep (but may have helped with pain).
She was mostly bedbound for the first six months after COVID-19, was in enormous pain, frequently fell into walls (vertigo), and slept most of the day. Improving a bit, she went from sleeping most of the time to sleeping little, and remained homebound for the next 2 1/2 years. On disability and still dragging her oxygen canister around the house, she still couldn’t read and was in significant pain. When her rheumatologist – whom she respected a lot – made it clear that he had nothing more for her, she was devastated.
Unable to find help from the traditional medical establishment she saw a functional medicine doctor who told her (she’s a long-time vegetarian) he’d never seen anyone recover who didn’t eat meat. Reluctantly, she started to eat meat (and grows to love bacon!) and her joint swelling and pain lessened, but she was still on oxygen.
Something said (“every chronic disease has a hidden infection inside it”) during Lorrie Livingston’s Online Summit struck her, and she took Lorrie’s course. (Lorrie how has an online version of her course.) Check out how Lorrie’s Online Summit helped another ME/CFS patient, Patrick, with his recovery journey.)
The first thing she does is go on a stricter diet – Lorrie’s version of a modified keto diet – which allows no fruit, no sugar (both of which she is told feed the parasites in her gut), no grains, nuts or seeds. Plus, she takes a product called “CellCore” to get at the parasites, which Lorrie believes play an important role in these illnesses (CellCore requires that a physician request it). Within 4 days of being on the diet/Cell Core protocol, evidence popped out, so to speak, that something was happening – a worm showed up in her poop. After that, they started pouring out. (The biggest one was 38 inches long.)
It took time, but the approach started to work. Within 3 months, her heart issues disappeared, and she was off oxygen. By six months, she was reading 3-4 books at a time and had dropped all 13 of her prescriptions. Ten months later or so, her pain is now down to a 1-2 (out of 10) most of the time, and she now gets 7+ hours a sleep a night at least 5 nights a week. Melody reported that she leads a near normal life, is walking a lot but cannot engage in intensive exercise, and is still slowly improving.
Melody feels that the diet and CellCore were the “rock stars” of the protocol for her. She also benefited from pacing (beditations – forced rest), nebulized hydrogen peroxide (infections), the ARC microcurrent device (healing), augmented NAC (oxidative stress), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) (calming), a grounding mat (sleep), vagus nerve stimulation with a tens unit (autonomic nervous and immune system regulation, red light therapy (mitochondrial enhancer), infrared sauna (detoxification, healing) and methylene blue (mitochondrial enhancer, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory). She suspects the methylene blue, in particular, may have helped her get off oxygen.
Check out some blogs on these topics. (A blog on red light therapy is coming up.)
Melody requested that people with these illnesses:
“Please, please don’t give up. Fight for yourself. Find somebody. It may not be Lorrie. It may be somebody else, but find somebody that can help you, and will listen to you.”
An interview with Lorrie on her story and approach is coming up.
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Great article! Melody’s story is inspiring and she seems like such a wonderfully empathetic person. Lots of ideas here for exploring different complimentary therapies.
I am so happy for Melody!! However one observation is that so many of the therapies she used to get well are not covered by insurance and are fairly costly. That is not possible for many people living in the U.S. who have already been bankrupted by becoming ill in the U.S.
So cheers to Melody and heres hoping these therapies someday become available to the rest of us.
Worm infestation doesn’t sound like Long Covid or ME. No wonder she felt better getting those out!
right! would also like read mor ME/cfs research, clinical trials, etc
like for excample the Nederlands has started there post mortem brain research, thought the US did that research to.But again no collaboration to get more llarger and robust data.
Cort, can you give them in the US a hint to collaborate?
I think the ME/CFS, long COVID, Lyme, POTS, GWI, etc. disease communities are really starting to get that we must work together to solve these diseases. Long COVID has funding for now but the rest of them don’t.
The push for a Center at the NIH for all these diseases is a manifestation of that as is David Putrino’s grant to study Lyme and ME/CFS together.
A genetic consortium for ME/CFS and a clinical trials working group came out of the Intramural study as well and hopefully we’ll see more of these efforts to bring everything together.
Hi Cort, sorry, my brain, do you mean with: “the ME/CFS, long COVID, Lyme, POTS, GWI, etc. disease communities are really starting to get that we must work together” worlwide or just US an maybe UK?
in the Netherlands they do also genetic study for ME/cfs. Then you have the big UK DecodeME study and precisiionlife but i do not know of any collaboration. thought that solve is also doing some GWA, but thought also no collaboration.For LC, the genetic part i could see, they are working worldwide! If they can do it, others should also be able to do it even with language, country border issues, privacy issues of participants in every study. I mean not only genetics for LC.
yes the funding is allways a problem exept for or less for LC, that is why globally working together is so importent to get larger groups of patients and controls. so that things finally move on…
what do you mean with: “The push for a Center at the NIH for all these diseases is a manifestation of that as is David Putrino’s grant to study Lyme and ME/CFS together.” ? Is it only US?
and: ” A genetic consortium for ME/CFS and a clinical trials working group came out of the Intramural study as well and hopefully we’ll see more of these efforts to bring everything together. ” is it only US to?
sorry for my many questions but what happens in the US or UK is not heard here. Even not what is happening in Belgiums neighbourcoutry with the same language, the Netherlands. I read that Germany, Switserland and an other german speaking country would work together.
but in every country, ME/cfs for excample is different and then we still have the problems at least here for still cfs, the criteria definitions. i got ill in ’94 so got the Fukuda. could short time later not go back anymore (it was and is mostly get and cbt) and they are here even not bussy with criteria. In the Netherlands they have “now”, ME, cfs and SOLK for excample.
it is all such a mess. Are you able to see how on the different deseases like with LC, they could work globally together? if they even want?
some money in the different countrys or parts of the world would make much more possible then each one trying to do it on there own…
what has happened in fact with those who are so for decades long term ill who got also the fukuda criteria in the US and are way to bedbound and ill for new criteria?
thanks a lot!!!
Fascinating and complex story. Regarding the worm infestation, does Melody have any sense as to how she became infested / what cautionary piece of information she might add regarding this?
Parasites might not sound like these diseases because we’re not used to hearing about them. If EBV reactivation is common why not parasite infestations? We are all exposed to parasites after all. Why wouldn’t the same immune disruption that allows something like EBV to reactivate do the same with parasites?
Yes sure, I hear you Cort. But if you have great long worms in your gut and your symptoms clear up as soon as they’re gone, the problem was probably worms not ME.
We just don’t what is causing these diseases. What if we find that the way to get rid of long COVID is to fully eradicate the virus?
In the end I think the problem with infectious onset must be something to do either with an inability to control the infection or the pathogen tweaks the immune and other systems – so yes, the problem is not the pathogen per se.
That said, if you get rid of the pathogen maybe your system can reset – as pathogens do alter our immune functioning. (???)
Curious what Cell Core products she used. There’s an entire line. Anyone know which products or protocol? Thx!
A big hole in the blog! I will try and find out – if not for this blog surely for the interview with Lorrie. There’s a “para” line – I wonder if that’s it?
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Hi Cort ! I really enjoyed finally “meeting” you by watching this video.
I also read your synopsis, which is even better… and I have some supportive comments of some of the points, rather than refutation with redirection, which is my habitual way:
One reader said that worm infestation doesn’t sound like long covid or ME. I would say that ‘it does SO !…..’ because we are looking at the symptoms. Possibly the reason that there are so many SUBSETS of CFS/ME is that –HERE IT COMES AGAIN, EXCEPT BETTER:
CFS could also be named “HUMANITY.” Being a homo sapiens, and what that kind of a body will do when infection persists instead of being healed…. such as dauer… IOW (in other words), while many many *acquired diseases such as bacterial infections or HIV can be blamed squarely on one virus or bacterium, I do not think that CFS/ME should be.
It think is PERFECTLY REASONABLE, and perhaps more effectual, to say “CFS/ME/SEID… come join our group! We do not discriminate by cause. We only move forward by symptoms and effective recovery.”
I am encouraging us to look at a hypothesis like that of the doctor, Lorrie, below. I’m not sure how he could justify this statement, but that was the upshot of his specialization and improved alertness, over and above the mainstream MD system.
He is not the only Functional Medicine doctor whose literature I have read. (See: Dr. David Lam, Dr. Amy Myers, and if I am not mistaken, Dr. Fasano of Italy, leaky gut and Autism researcher) Melody said herself, and I have watched and read many more accounts of this: “studying medicine just does not train you to understand diet” (paraphrase)
What this means is: NUTRITION IS NOT SEEN AS A MEDICINE, maintainer, OR HEALER. Since March 2020 my entire search has been based on NUTRITION AS A HEALER. WHY?? Because at least this way I can treat myself before things escalate into a problem.
Q: WHAT CAN I DO FOR MYSELF WITH READILY AVAILABLE vitamins and minerals, or increased/decreased specific foods consumption, to improve my health or to alleviate my dis-ease in my health? The strategy: TRUST THE IMMUNE SYSTEM TO BE BETTER THAN A DOCTOR,
PROVIDED, that the proper nutrition has been PROVIDED !!!
What Lorrie, the Functional Medicine Doctor for Melody said was: “Behind every autoimmune disease there is a hidden infection.”
While a worm would be called a parasite, I would say that the RESULTS of parasite are : INFECTION. Owing to what they take away from our digestion, or to what TOXINS their excretion ADDS to our intestinal toxin load.
In fact, isn’t there a medical term “parasitic infection” ? This tells me, by extension, that good nutrients can be fabulous to cure, but that EXCESS OF CERTAIN NUTRIENTS (Sugar, carbs, fats, and even proteins) can be fabulous to DERAIL our body chemistry and our gut biome.
To back up the quote, let’s look back on causes or triggers, none of them CONCLUSIVE as the one and only direct CAUSE of CFS:
paraphrase: [most patients diagnosed with CFS/ME seem to have experienced the onset of CFS/ME after a major bacterial infection
or after a viral infection such as influenza] or after a prolonged stay in hospital (sepsis??)
You make a good point. All of these little understood conditions are the result of some type of systemic disruption that started from some type of noxious exposure : viral, bacterial, chemical, parasitic or even emotional We are complex interconnected beings. The result of the disruption is a cascade of biological events that lead to CFS/ME, FM, long Covid,GWS (Gulf War), or even Lyme disease. The impact is similar, but not exactly the same.
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Très intéressant Cort, Je comprends pourquoi je me sens mieux après une “purge”, comme lors d’une coloscopie ou d’une fibroscopie. Il est évident que la nutrition est un facteur très important dans ce genre de maladie. Mon immunologue spécialiste en SFC dit toujours qu’on ne peut pas aller mieux si on ne traite pas les parasites des intestins, comme les candidas albicans, les staphylocoques, etc.
Je serais ravie que Mélody nous parle un peu plus en détail de son traitement avec SellCore. Si elle a eu des effets secondaires, la posologie, quels produits de SellCore…
Very interesting Cort, I understand why I feel better after a ‘purge’, like during a colonoscopy or endoscopy. It is obvious that nutrition is a very important factor in this type of disease. My CFS immunologist always says that you can’t get better if you don’t treat intestinal parasites, such as candida albicans, staphylococci, etc.
I would be delighted if Mélody could tell us in a little more detail about her treatment with SellCore. If she had side effects, the dosage, which SellCore products…
Yes I too am very curious about Cellcore! My husband tested positive for Babesia (tick infection) and his MD has him on Meth Blue and an array of herbal tinctures. Hoping this will eliminate his ME/CFS symptoms.
Can anyone point me to reliable info on using an ear clip and TENS unit for vagus nerve stimulation?
There are videos on Youtube from doctors explaining how to set the Tens device. You have to buy a flexible unit so you can set the time and wave length. The Tens 7000 is an affordable option available on Amazon that costs under $35.
Thank you Karen:)
i had a few years ago, not long, bought a Tens and luckilly it was from a brand where a paper was with it that sais : do not use it with metal implantations. I have metal in my boddy from neck operation. a frien of mine wrote to an other compagny what they said about it. answer was ask who operated you as if he would know about tens. i still asked in the 25% ME group and someone serious answered her brother was operated at his knee and even did nt might to use it. i had a bit of hope on it so was sad…looked on the web and the real “tens”, the medical ones get implanted in the head. yhen i knew for me at least, it was moneymaking. but if you try, have no metal in your boddy, i wish you really good luck!!!
There’s lots of information and help re vagal nerve stimulation on Facebook group AVA a vagus adventure.
There is/was a tool called a pill cam that a patient swallows (from a gastroenteritis) that would clearly show worms/parasites.
For some ungodly reason up here in Canada the pill cam has been discontinued 🤷♂️
Now the question has to be asked…,why would such an important ,revealing tool be discontinued.
Could it be that the last thing they want to see is parasites. If the system could keep people sick and only treat the symptoms, that’s where the real big profits are…in the drugs that mask symptoms and prevent the patient from being cured….$$$$$$$$$$$
Follow the money train folks.
Also, the pill cam video is all done by computer so it would be very easy to edit out the findings of any parasites being found ,telling/showing the patient “you have no worms” when in fact the worm section of the patients intestines could easily be edited out.
Could it be that the system is this evil?
What do we see wrapped around the medical insignia A WORM
Well said!
The “caduceus” or symbol of medicine is not “a worm” but two snakes: representing the “serpent power” of Kundalini, that rises from the base of the spine to the crown of the head.
The staff that these serpents, Ida and Pingala, are coiled around represents both the spine and central channel, Susumna.
The two outer “serpent” subtle energy streams are aligned with the central nervous system, and rise respectively as Ida (Moon) to the more emotional & holistic right brain, and as Pingala (Sun) to the more analytical left brain — after crossing at the forehead or “third eye” chakra, known as Ajna or “Control” centre (prefrontal cortex where decisions are made).
The central energy stream is the goddess Shakti: “earth” energy which rises up a central channel, Susumna, to meet and “marry” the dancing god Siva at the crown of the head (pineal gland).
There Kundalini exits (if flowing freely) as a fountain feeding a torus-shaped energy field, to re-enter at the base of the spine.
The torus is the typical shape of an electromagnetic field around a bar magnet. All living creatures are electrical beings that exist in a quantum field: “subtle energy” is the bridge between them. You could say we exist as fluctuations in the quantum field.
One of my cats could obviously see “subtle” energy: she would gaze in fascination above the crown of my head after my practising Kundalini yoga meditation.
My daughter could see colors all around her upper body in many of her younger years,up until about the age of 10 or 12.
Cellcore looks like a brand name for a line of products…which ones did she find useful in particular?
I will find out – either for this blog or for an interview with Lorrie coming up.
In Maui Hawaii, parasites are a concern and treated by certain doctors with approved agents like ivermectin (its main and original use is as an antiparasitic) and other agents specific to the parasite of concern. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK544251/
These antiparasitic drugs are covered by insurance so if this is your diagnosis, I see no reason to pay out of pocket to use a line of products created by a group of chiropractors.
That said, our daughter who has ME/CFS went through nearly two years of treatment for parasites. This did not result in improvement and today, she is still very ill with symptoms of ME/CFS and can’t go out today to sell her work. She is an artist. http://www.mauihalia.com
I am glad that Melody feels better but I don’t think her protocol will do much for those of us who have had classic ME/CFS and/or Long Covid.
Thanks Betty.,
Do you know if your daughter combined the anti-parastic drugs with that very strict diet?
Yes, there was a special diet, but I am not sure if it was the same as the one Melody used.
I am glad you brought up diet, because if your ME/CFS was triggered by a toxin that is stored in your body, an extreme diet can be very dangerous.
If you lose a lot of body fat quickly, it releases toxins that can redistribute in other parts of the body…the kidney, the brain, the heart.
Red Stone Arsenal, a military facility, somehow lost 100 pounds of mercury into the surrounding environment. The medical officer there warned me that chelating mercury can be very serious and can make you sicker than you were and have deleterious effects on your heart, kidneys and even the brain that have led to suicide in some cases.
I believe this. I recently tried Hawain spurilina…wholly crap…it was like I Bagan to relive everything that had happened in the past
Fascinating and complex story. Regarding the worm infestation, does Melody have any sense as to how she became infested / what cautionary piece of information she might add regarding this?
What is hopeful is that when the disruption or in this case the infestation ended, she recovered. Perhaps the rest of us would get the same relief when the root cause of the problem is addressed and eradicated.
Yes. Her story is hopeful. I did though, have a question – Unless I missed something in the Zoom conversation, I did not hear whether Melody understood how she came to be infested, or whether Cort asked her. I ask as there might be some additional insight / information with regards to the origins of her infestation that might serve as helpful / cautionary to others.
I believe that Lorrie believes that hidden infections place a major role in ME/CFS and related diseases and so she came to it through her. Why they might be more prominent in ME/CFS I don’t know but I suppose immune problems could account for that.
Thank you for this, Cort. Yes, I understood the perspective of Lorrie. My question was specific to Melody’s worm infestation and whether Melody had any insight into what would have contributed to the presence / origins of that infestation in her body, not about the impact of such an infestation . I ask with the hope that such insight might provide some additional helpful information to others.
Happy that this lady got her health back. Disturbed in general by businesses which profit from required products and courses and management in order to get help. Buyer beware.
But Sunny, unless someone is independently wealthy, how do you expect anyone to put substantial time and resources into developing a course and interacting with participants unless they get paid?
Can you, for instance, afford to spend the majority of your time volunteering for non-profits? I imagine that very few people can.
There’s getting paid and there is getting $$$$ paid. I think that a first experience of someone who is cured is gratitude, and thereby follows the charity of wishing to help others be cured, knowing the suffering involved. But I truly don’t see that here. I see a familiar format instead. So, I agree that unless one is independently wealthy it might be hard to help, develop courses etc. Yet, this doesn’t look like charity at all. I am well familiar with the suffering involved, and if a cure occurred I would not show my thanks to God by creating a course with required supplements etc as my response. No it isn’t right.
Such a great interview with Melody. Very helpful. Cort – your comment about after time resignation sets in is so true. In my case, a case of MONO/Epstein Barr virus 22 years ago began my CFS journey. Diagnosed by Nancy Klimas MD in 2007, I have pushed through for years and also have had COVID – and looking for ways to feel better…. Thank you for pushing through and doing the Zoom CAll/recording it and sharing it with us. Warm regards from FLORIDA.
Thanks!
I don’t have a comment for the story, but I just came across this study which I find to interesting not to share. Maybe you find it interesting too.
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/25/8/4522
☝️it’s interesting to note that ritchie shoemaker uses a cholesterol drug for his so called mold illness recovery.this is all getting more interesting. When my immune system went haywire in 1993,one of the things that happened to me was it felt like my leaky gut spilled into my system. all in a period of a week my skin began to bleed in different locations on my body.about a week later the once bleeding spots turned into brown moles but what also happened was I ended up with my lymph system full of aprox. 2″inch and all other sized lumps all over my upper trunk. I had purchased dr raymond perrins book ” the perrin technique ” ….I’ve managed to massage my lumps down to almost gone…some days gone completely but then they come back
☝️just to add to the above….but the thing is….I’ve never felt well my entire life before all this above happened…failed gr. 7 and 9. For many years it felt like a dull pain at the base of my skull.thats why I keep wondering if my childhood vaccines did this to me.my 3rd covid vaccines produced a softball sized lump under my right armpit. These vaccines can’t be good for anyone IMHO
Cort, do you know if Melody took the anti-parasite product(s) upon a suspicion? Or did she actually test for parasites before that? I wonder if it is possible to test for worms?
Also the link to the Cellcore website displays various Cellcore products – would you know which one is the antiparasite one? Thank you!
Not sure what parasite infestation has to do with Long Covid, specially given that most long haulers have unsuccessfully trialled ivermectin. Anyways, it seems she was able to increase her envelope, but I would not call it a recovery.
If you accept that Epstein-Barr virus reactivation plays a role in long COVID, why would you not accept the possibility that COVID-19 could open the door to parasites that take hold or if they were already there – become a real problem? Bruce Patterson has found that COVID-19 is reactivating not only EBV but also Lyme disease.
These stories are called recovering/recovery stories for a reason – I believe that significant progress in these illness is worthy of being addressed. Going from being on oxygen for 2 1/2 years to not being on oxygen and being able to stop 13 prescription drugs, not having heart issues, being able to read for the first time in years – I think that’s notable and that’s why her story was presented.
I agree with Vlad,
Ivermectin is a worm killer 😉
As I wrote in my comment, there is a whole Industry around making people believe they have worms/parasites and selling them expensive stuff for detoxing.
It’s medically unusual for individuals from 1st world countries to have undiscovered worms (firstly they noteably can alter blood work, secondly they and their parts and eggs do appear in stool samples, antibodies in stool can as well be tested and last but not least, they are pretty much never missed in stool samples, it’s possible to have worms.in other parts of the body, they are harder to discover (fox band worm), but they also do alter blood values once they produce damage and unless you eat unwashed wood fruits or pet wildlife and their poop, you are unlikely to catch them).
It’s absolute crazy to insist somebody can have worms / parasites and not show them in stool samples, but every person I’ve met, who fell for this industry, was convinced this was possible and testings of their practiocners were showing something parasitic they had to fight with said producta (yes, something, but certainly not parasites from a proper medical point of view).
Don’t fall for it.
I must have/had a parasite because one single dose changed the coarse of my illness….subsequent doses, did/do nothing
That’s a great success story for Melody. Independently, I’ve read a bit about red light devices. Cort – that would be a great topic to do a story on, specifically what type of devices might be good for home use and how to use them to improve mitochondrial energy.
It’s coming 🙂
There was no indication in the blood or stool before Melody went on keto-diet?
I wonder, if I should test too due to high IgE levels.
I wish I had the ability or willingness to try keto. or to change my diet at all for that matter.. I seem to be really stuck in a rut around food…
Glad she is getting better! it makes sense to me and like someone pointed out the toxins those buggers produce in our body and if the gut is ” leaky ” or damaged I image would cause sooo much disturbances especially with wonky immune systems.
Glad she had the stamina to make the changes she needed too and found that summit!
I remembee when covid first came around folks were talking about ivermectin becasue there was some “worm/parasite” issue happening.. thats all this brain fog can remember..
I also remember back in the “good days” on a small weekend camping trip and drinking from tap water in a state or some other camping area in Indiana.. I also remember getting sooo sick all night long running from my tent all through the night.
the other 2 people I was with didn’t drink from the tap. it was “supposed” to be safe. apparently not for me!
never had any bugs show up in any stool tests and to me that doesn’t mean anything .
My illness all began by living on a motel while going to community College at the age of 21.
That motel had well water only as it was far away from the small town where I went to school.
One night I became very ill.so sick I had to bang on my wall to have my fellow student take me to hospital.
Two weeks later I developed an ulcer…the ulcer healed on its own but I was left with weird vague symptoms for many years after and the symptoms continued to get worse until 1993….ALL HELL BROkE LOOSE!! I had no idea a person could become this ill….I think I almost died.im still in pretty bad shape but one single dose of ivermectin did wonders.i bet that we’ll water had Guardia or some other bug in it.
Incidentally, that fellow student is now also ill with me/cfs. This all happened in 1981 which is also if you listen to Maureen Hanson (researcher) talks about how in the early 80s many people got sick.
Cort, maybe this was disclosed and I just can’t find it but what type of “worm” was she infested with?
Great question. I wish I had thought to ask. I’m afraid I don’t know. 🙁
I wonder if Melody had a faecal sample for worms prior to taking the treatment?
Hello Cort, I didn’t watch the interview, but read the article. While it’s extremely nice that Mellody recovered, it’s a little bad and spare research you are offering (for the first time since I read your articles for one year at least).
There’s a whole alternative industry of practicioners telling people they have parasites and then selling them expensive “medications” letting them detox and so on. Those wrongly “diagnosed “people are INSISTING on having worms, or other parasites, whil they are clearly NEGATIVE according to any lab test (blood or fecies)
Mellodys list of possibilities that might have made things better, includes other drugs and changes of lifestyle that could have caused this (keto, methylene, iron deficiency and so on).
Unless Mellody was tested for worms and let those worms that came out be tested and documented by a lab, it’s very likely that the whole thing was a faux result.
Please do not feed those myths of parasites inside of humans. While plenty of people might actually have parasites, they usually do not occur in humans from 1st world countries, and if they did, you’d notice pretty soon, trust me I’ve had worms as a kid, you’ll know you have them, sooner or later.