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Balanced Health Is Offering FREE Lyme Disease Assessment & Treatment - May 30 Deadline!

5/13/2016

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Balanced Health - Living With Lyme Fund

Lyme Disease is confusing, expensive, and painful. An innovative company is doing it’s best to give back to the community in which it was founded upon. In honor of Lyme Disease Awareness Month, Balanced Health is awarding $2000 worth of services to those in need! This national company specializing in scanning and holistic services is searching for one new client to take on free of charge for three months.

Balanced Health has helped numerous chronically ill clients feel better and now they’d like to take it one step further by helping with the cost. The Living with Lyme Fund is a program established by Balanced Health that awards one individual three months of services, products, and consults.

Owner, Samantha Stupak, lived through the expensive battle of Lyme Disease. She spent over $100,000 on trying to figure out what was wrong with her and the treatments to help get her life back. She knows first hand how debilitating and expensive chronic illness can be. When she was able to help herself get well, she founded Balanced Health, with a hope to help others around the world.

Apply NOW through May 30th, 2016 to have the chance to be chosen to win 3 months of scans, consults, and products from Balanced Health at no cost! This is roughly a $2000 value! What Balanced Health is looking for is someone who physically needs help and is willing to share their story.

Every U.S. Resident is eligible and encouraged to apply. All of Balanced Health’s scanning is done by mailing hair and saliva samples using a provided kit. All consults are done over the phone or via Skype. This makes it possible for anyone in the U.S. to be a client. There are two ways to apply:

Video record yourself and email it to info@creatingbalancedhealth.com or post it to their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/creatingbalancedhealth

OR

Write a 500 word essay and send to info@creatingbalancedhealth.com

In the video or essay please share your story, why you need the help, and what you are looking forward to doing once you feel well again. Don’t delay in sending your story as a winner will be picked and announced May 31st, the last day of Lyme Disease Awareness Month!


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Lyme Disease Co-Infections Poll 2016

5/8/2016

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For Lyme Disease awareness month I wanted to do something a bit different, and hold some polls that patients can answer and give input on. These polls are about co-infections, to see which of them are most prevalent for those with Lyme disease. I'm also doing these polls on twitter, but a bit differently (because of how it runs), and there I am putting a new poll out daily and giving my followers 3 days to respond. But on my blog they will be all available at once; I will have this poll open here (with all questions) from now until the end of May. So please do share this post!

These polls are anonymous, so I won't know who voted or how anyone voted. It will simply just give an idea of which co-infections and issues are most common. When all the votes are in at the end of May I will have a post sharing the results with all of you, so you can see what is most common in other patients. I will also have some guests post coming up in June about some of the less well known co-infections from patients/practitioners who can explain & speak about them. What I am noticing is that not all infections are equal in prevalence, however there is a large gap in much needed info about the lesser known ones. I hope this poll will be an outlet to recruit knowledgeable individuals to share about different co-infections so we can all learn more about them together. Thank you for everyone's help and input on this project!

POLLS ARE NOW CLOSED AS OF JUNE 1, 2016

    Co-Infections Poll

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Adventures In Tachychardia

5/5/2016

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Hello hello, and happy Lyme Disease Awareness Month! I love this month for many reasons, one of which is getting to see all the awareness campaigns and projects all across the community. It's such a great thing to see everyone come together and find ways to share and spread information to help others protect themselves from Lyme as spring time descends. 

I am currently in what I lovingly call, "Test Result Purgatory." During the month of April I had many different tests ran and done, and right now I am patiently waiting to get all of the results, mark things on or off my list, then make sense of it all with my Doctor and formulate a plan.

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I have yet to receive the official paperwork from my Holter monitor, but boy was it an adventure to wear it during those 2 weeks! When I first got it put on I thought it would be like the scenario with an umbrella, where if you take on it won't rain. I thought that once I finally got the monitor placed I would stop having my episodes and end up with no useful data. Full disclosure, that has actually happened to me countless times in the past, although it was with the short term 24-48 hour monitors. This time we went for the long haul, and I can tell you who didn't love it... my skin. I had sores and bumps each time I put an electrode pad on (allergy to the adhesive) & even though I alternated locations daily, by the time the two weeks were up I had open sores everywhere. My skin was pretty much beyond frustrated with me for pestering it, and every night I apologized and put hydro-cortisone cream on, silently counting down the days. This however, was my only real complaint.

Outside of the skin irritation it all went smoothly and I managed to actually record quite a lot of heart events. It monitored me 24/7 and could pick up an event on its own (say, during sleep), but I also sent over events myself if I felt my heart was being particularly strange; fast, slow, skipping beats, etc.

In terms of symptoms being scary, I think I place heart symptoms right at the top (tied with neurological episodes). The sensations can be down right terrifying & although they're never necessarily painful they are very uncomfortable. Lyme disease & co-infections can cause a variety of symptoms, and some of them are just "sensations," as in, they aren't directly dangerous like a heart blockage or valve issue, but it can still strain the heart so the goal is to minimize it as much as possible. One strange feeling that I used to get constantly (now much less) is air hunger. It's a sensation of not getting enough air & almost paralyzing, like something is sitting on your chest, but in truth the lungs get enough air. It's just a sensation. I could go on for days discussing all these random sensations, but basically it is my hope that all the strange stuff happening with my heart will come back as something benign but still helpable (that's not really a word, but you get it...). Basically I hope there can be a solution or answer for the issues at hand, so if things flare up again I can calm it down in some way.

So for now I am just keeping my fingers and toes crossed for the test results to come, and essentially I'm just trying to have peace with whatever they say. It's worrisome to feel 'stuck' or uncertain about the future. I've been in this rut lately where things feel very consuming & bigger than me. It is during these times especially that I need a reminder that my life in this moment is part of a bigger plan...

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope & a future." - Jeremiah 29:11

-xoxo,
Christina


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