Did finding an infection via Armin Labs have a positive influence on your treatment & recovery
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- years, undiagnosed
- Published
- Jan 2019
Summary
Antibiotics for Borrelia found via Armin Labs testing gave her relief from "the unrelenting horror of Lyme disease pain and malaise," but she reports the years of undiagnosed infection left lasting autoimmune-type sequelae -- severe POTS, muscle weakness, ongoing fatigue -- that antibiotics did not reverse. So the improvement is real but partial and permanently capped by damage she believes earlier diagnosis would have prevented; in this same poll, 10 of 12 other respondents reported no benefit at all.
What they credit
Credits POTS medication, Antibiotics, Trauma & somatic work, Doxycycline and other antibiotics, Lyme / co-infection protocols.
Symptoms mentioned
Symptoms: Muscle weakness, POTS & dysautonomia, Pain & fibromyalgia.
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