Day One of a new Lyme Treatment

Tonight is my first dose of a new treatment. It is called ViraPress and is low dose alpha interferon. (See www.virapress.com for more details) At last months Lyme Meeting, we had 2 gentlemen speak about its uses in all sorts of diseases and conditions - mostly focused on autoimmune and viral, however, it has proven to work with bacterial pathogens as well. In a nutshell, it is designed to boost your immune system up to the level where it can fight off the invaders inside your body - in my case that would be the Lyme spirochetes. I am keeping a journal for 30 days as part of a Health Benefit Study for the company and am crossing my fingers that I see some symptom relief. Right now my biggest problems are neurological, joint pain and fatigue. For some reason my fevers have gone down for the last 3 days which is a good sign, but it's done that before, so I won't get excited just yet.

I hope to have some kind of improvement within the next week and if so, I'll post more info on the low dose interferon. If you're curious about it in the meantime, just do a Google search and there are hundreds of articles and clinical trials about low and high dose (that's the kind you would receive by IV in a hospital) interferon.

Have had continuing muscle weakness in my legs and feel them "giving out slightly" pretty much every day (which is why I use a cane)

I've also had problems with some sort of sinus infection for a week (have also been REALLY dizzy all the time) and I never had a single allergy before I had Lyme. Last night I tried a version of the Neti Pot saline solution wash which is VERY weird if you've never done it before! You shoot the solution into your nostril and it comes out THE OTHER NOSTRIL! I have issues with putting things in my nose so I had to really get the courage up to do this! :) It still hasn't completely cleared up the sinus congestion so i may have to also use something stronger like a sinus decongestent? This is all so new to me since I've never had issues with my sinuses. I don't even know what products to get!