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Mara Williams

Lyme disease

Acute and Chronic Lyme Disease

Acute Lyme Disease is an infection of less than a year. Optimal conditions for treatment are a swift diagnosis and the best possible protocol plan set forth by a Lyme-literate Provider. Even then the destruction of the disease is dependent upon an individual's response to treatment, which is different in each case, showcasing the need for an accurate and thorough evaluation. This is where awareness enters the picture. If Non Lyme-literate providers understood this and the average person understood the need for quick intervention, then Chronic Lyme Disease could be prevented in most if not all cases.

Borrelia Burgdorferi, the Lyme bacteria, is a Spirochete bacteria typically shaped like a cork screw, but can also change into a cystic and intracellular form. It can create a biofilm that covers it, allowing it to hide more efficiently. It loves to burrow into many different tissues in the body, including nervous tissue, joint tissue, connective tissue, muscles, the heart, and the brain. 

Lyme Disease is a complex of multiple co-infections resulting from the bite of it's most well known vector, the Tick. There is also evidence that other vectors carrying these diseases are Mosquitos, lice, biting flies, fleas, mites, and sand flies. Lyme can be transmitted from a person who has been bitten by an infected tick through blood transfusions, organ donation, across the placental barrier to a fetus, sexually, through body fluids, and probably through breast milk.

Chronic Lyme disease (CLD) is a world-wide epedemic. It is the fastest growing and most prevalent insect borne infection in the United States. It is defined as being ill with Lyme greater than a year. The longer a person is sick, the more secondary damage and dysregulation will occur, and the more difficult it is to control the infection. This means that other systems in the body, like the immune system, hormonal system, and autonomic nervous system stop functioning in a healthy way. The immune system becomes hypersensitive to the constant insult of the bugs, goes haywire, and reacts to everything, or responds to nothing. When this happens people with CLD become sensitive to everything, including chemical sensitivity and mold toxins. The liver stops working optimally, and the body has a hard time clearing toxins, increasing the intensity of symptoms. This creates systemic inflammation and other symptoms, making everything worse for the ill person, and treatment more complex and difficult.   


​Co-Infections

Multiple co-infections exist along with Borrelia that cause Chronic Lyme Disease. These are universal now as a single tick can carry numerous (seven plus) different infectious pathogens. Co-infections include bacteria, fungus, parasites, yeasts, and viruses. 

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Bacteria

  • Bartonella
  • Babesia
  • Ehrlichia/Anaplasma
  • Mycoplasma
  • Typhus
  • Chlamydia Pneumoniae

Parasites

  • Babesia
  • Piroplasms
  • Filariasis
  • Amoebas
  • Giardia

Viruses

  • Herpes 1,2,6,8
  • Cytomegalovirus
  • Epstein-Barr Virus
  • West Nile Virus
  • XMRV
  • Viral Encephalopathy


​Symptoms

With Lyme, there is usually a gradual onset of symptoms, which come and go in four-week cycles. These symptoms involve many systems and are migratory. There is joint involvement, afternoon fevers with flu-like symptoms, neurological symptoms that can mimic many other medical conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and ALS. Fatigue is profound. Muscle weakness, difficulty walking, and numbness and tingling in arms and legs are common, Mood and cognitive problems are usually moderate. Sleep can be mildly disruptive. Pain can be moderate to severe, unilateral or one-sided, or wandering, achy, and generalized. Lyme is usually slow growing, but there are a few aggressive forms.


Symptom Check List and Evaluation

General

  • Fever
  • Night Sweats
  • Fatigue
  • Lack Of Endurance
  • Weight Loss 
  • Weight Gain
  • Unprovoked Pain
  • Migratory Pain

Head, Face and Neck

  • Headaches
  • Facial Flushing
  • Pressure In Head
  • Jaw Pain/Stiffness
  • Unexplained Hair loss
  • Unexplained Dental Pain
  • Face Twitching

Gastrointestinal

  • Upset Stomach
  • Nausea/Pain
  • Diarrhea/Constipation
  • Irritable Bladder
  • Pelvic Pain
  • Testicular Pain
  • Decreased Libido

Respiratory 

  • Shortness Of Breathe
  • Heart Failure
  • Endocarditis
  • Myocarditis
  • Vascular Abnormalities
  • Rhythm Disturbances
  • Heart Block/Palpitations

Mental

  • Memory Loss
  • Wrong Place
  • Disorientation
  • Confusion
  • Difficulty Thinking
  • Forgetting Simple Tasks
  • Hard To Concentrate
  • Dementia


Muscular

  • Bone Pain
  • Joint Pain/Swelling
  • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
  • Back Stiffness
  • Joint Stiffness
  • Neck Stiffness
  • Muscle Spasms
  • Sore Soles

Psychological

  • Mood Swings
  • Irritability
  • Over-emotional
  • Crying Easily
  • Feelings Of Going Crazy
  • Depression
  • Bi-polar Disorder
  • Panic Attacks
  • Anxiety
  • OCD
  • Psychosis

Vision and Hearing

  • Double Vision
  • Blurry Vision
  • Floating Spots
  • Poor Night Vision
  • Eye Pain/Swelling
  • Light Sensitivity
  • Changed Color Vision
  • Hearing Loss
  • Ear Pain
  • Sensitive To Sound
  • Audio Hallucinations

Nervous System

  • Burning Sensations
  • Stabbing Sensations
  • Lightheaded/Fainting
  • Numbness/Tingling
  • Motion Sickness
  • Muscle Atrophy
  • Partial Paralysis
  • Slurred Speech
  • Poor Balance
  • Dizziness
  • Tremors
  • Seizures

Prevention

Personal prevention is the first defense from contracting Lyme Disease. Try to avoid tick-infested areas, such as leaf piles, long grass, stumps or fallen logs. Wear long pants tucked into socks, and always check yourself when returning from a possible exposure site. Download some more prevention resources below.

Downloadable Prevention Resources
  • Tick Facts
  • Tick Card
  • Tick BookMark
  • Managing Ticks
  • Lyme EBook
  • Prevent CLD Brochure
  • Prevention Poster
  • ABC's Of Lyme
  • Blood Supply


​Treatment

With such a variety of symptoms, it is easy to see why a provider who is unfamiliar and uneducated about these infections would believe that someone was making up their problems. To a Lyme-literate provider, these symptoms tell a story and lead to a diagnosis. If you are bitten by a tick and are aware of the bite, it is critical to seek advice from a Lyme-literate provider. Many go to the emergency room or their primary physician and are told there is no need for concern. A lyme-literate provider can better diagnose or rule out the possibility of Lyme. If you are experiencing symptoms, and suspect that you may have been infected, please contact Mara below.

Contact

Mara lives on Orcas Island in Washington State. She has an Integrative Practice at The Healing Arts Center in Eastsound,  on Orcas. Mara is available for advising and counseling for those facing the challenge of Chronic Illness and those who want to improve their quality of life. 

Learning to use an extensive number of pharmaceutical grade nutritional supplements, diet, herbal and homeopathic tinctures, as well as, bioidentical hormones, Frequency Specific Microcurrent, and Therapeutic Touch; Mara has a ‘tool kit’ that can help almost any condition and improve quality of life. She also offers her expertise as a lyme-literate, integrative practitioner to those who are looking for direction in how to progress to recovery. With over 9 years specializing in Vector-borne Disease and Biotoxin illness, Mara can help you navigate through your illness and peel back the layers of a very complex constellation of infections. 

An integrative approach will help support and heal the body by restoring the immune system, decreasing inflammation, rebuilding the hormonal system, detox pathways, the intestinal tract, and nervous system while lowering the population of infectious bugs.

Contact:
Phone: 707.721.2328
Email: info@marawilliams.net
Consulting Fees: $200.00 per hour with follow up appointments per 30 minutes for $125.00

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