So I want to start off by saying I have not seen a doctor nor am I a medical professional. I am however a big fan and true believer in the power of fasting.
Please don’t tell me to see a doctor immediately. Don’t care to hear it. You either believe in fasting or you just pretend you do.
Getting to my point. I have two tick bites that are about a week old. The one I am going to post pictures of is very red, radiates heat, and will not heal. A couple of days ago I started getting the following symptoms:
-fever that comes and goes with a high of 101 -terrible headache -numbness and tingling all over my body -major reduction in appetite
I put two and two together and determined there is a good chance I got a tickborne disease.
So what I have decided to do is put dry fasting to the test to see if I can knock this out. Starting this afternoon I’m going to start a dry fast and I’m going to log all my data. I will stop the dry fast if my symptoms completely disappear. I think this is a fantastic opportunity to test the healing powers of dry fasting and not just read about it on the internet. I will also be keeping this thread updated with my data everyday.
So if you have any experience with tick borne diseases and using fasting to treat them please let me know.
UPDATE #1 –Greetings all. Since this mornings things have happened. Overall I still feel the same. My temperature has gone down from its peak, ibuprofen is effective for giving me the illusion of feeling better for a while, and i started a dry fast at approximately 4pm today. I have made a deal with myself. If i don’t feel any better or I am worse by Monday I will go to the doctor. I tried to see if I could get some anti biotics over teledoc but they told me that tick related issues are tracked by the state and I would have to actually go in. So i asked for my 75 bucks back(Which i got). My weight this morning was 235.5 and my ending weight today was 236.1. I ate twice before I stopped. I also started getting the spots so I can confirm that I was right. It is spotted fever. I looked up the specific anti biotic i need for it and Its 250 bucks out of pocket. Fantastic….. I also read that humans CAN use animal anti biotics and they are MUUUUUUCH cheaper. I might go that route if I need to. But I am going to press on with the fast for science. I want to give you guys the good news.
Update 1.5
Greetings. I have great news. Fasting is winning the war. I woke up this morning feeling much better. I am not 100% as i know my body is still fighting the bacteria. I also had an orange pee. Further evidence that my body is fighting hard to expel that bacteria. The feeling of validation that my faith in fasting all these years was not misplaced makes me feel so much better. WE CAN BEAT 90% OF AILEMENTS OUT THERE JUST BY FASTING. I am getting ahead of myself as I have not won the war yet. This could just be halftime for all I know. Anyhow I will do another update this evening.
P.S. For some reason you can only see the pics of my tick bite on the phone app but not if you are using computer. IDK why. I am not a reddit wizard.
Update #2
Today was good for the first part. I felt really good. Not 100% good but much better than the previous days. The later part of the day is a different story. I had some other real life issues that caused me alot of stress. I hate to admit that it broke me. I stress eat when i stress too much. But i didnt pig out or anything. Even still i dont feel too bad. Sweating alot but i sweat alot anyway. I still think I am on the mend. Ending weight today was 234.2
Update #3
This will be my final update as its a happy ending. I am so stoked to report that I am 100% again. I no longer have any negative ailments. My bite is starting to get smaller. I feel FANTASTIC. I have realized that people are going about fasting the wrong way. Fasting’s power is in HEALING first and weight loss is just a nice bonus. I am so glad i didn’t waste my time going to a clinic and wasting my money on expensive anti biotics. I had all the tools I needed right here inside me. I hope my short journey to healing myself will help others. Just believe in the process people. My faith in it is even deeper now.
Oh dear that’s awful, dang ticks. I wish you success with your fast and I hope you will be clear of all your symptoms and heal! Indeed this would be fantastic to truly see the power of fasting and how it can heal our bodies. Sending positive healing energy your way. x
I was bitten by a tick when I was little. I hope it didn’t do any permanent damage.
We know it will help and reduce symptoms. but I don’t know if it will solve it completely.
Actually, if i were you, i would think you’d totally cure it. but I would be really sad for me if someone was disappointed.
also try cold showers and wim hof method too.
I’ve had lyme for 10 years and can’t emphasize enough how important it is to get on antibiotics immediately, doxycycline for at least 30 days. It will usually wipe it out, I had a crappy doctor and he only did a two week dose and now I’m suffering with it daily. I don’t doubt that dry fasting could potentially help, I did a 40 day water fast and it helped with my gut and energy issues but I wasn’t cured. I will be trying dry fasting in the near future to see if it helps but please for your own sake get on doxy, it does work if you start it early enough. Your gut can be healed afterwards. Trust me some candida after antibiotics is better than lifelong lyme, it will slowly kill you (if that’s what you have.)