The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments: Defeat Lyme Disease with the Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicine Paperback – April 3, 2007

I thought my teenage daughter had chronic Lyme, despite negative tests. When I got this book and learned about Cell Wall Inhibitors (p80), I soon understood why the disease went so deep and was so hard to get rid of. It was due at least in part to a round of Keflex prescribed by a well-meaning dermatologist who was treating a strange breakout on half of my daughter's face.This book is worth the price just for the Cell Wall Inhibitor info and the antibiotic chart on p86 (tip: cephalosporins and penicillins are cell wall inhibitors). But there is more that is helfpul also. Excellent book!It was a long journey, but information is essential; you must become as educated as you possibly can about this challenging condition.(The other 2 books in my top 3 were Cure Unknown, Pamela Weintraub and Coping with Lyme Disease, Denise Lang)

There are some good features in this book-the author's explanation of antibiotics and the 3 types of Bb bacteria are things every Lyme patient needs to understand. On the other hand, many of the "cures" are controversial at best. The Marshall Protocol, for instance, requires lowering your Vitamin D to levels most doctors would consider dangerous. If you go to the Marshall forum website, you will find a place for "success stories", but none for failures. Other Lyme forums claim that anyone who questions Marshall's dictates are exorcised from the site by the webmaster (Marshall).Also: Rosner pushes Rifing heavily-that is, buying an expensive machine to give yourself micro-shocks that supposedly kill the spirochetes. Opinions on this range from pure quackery (never demonstrated to work in tests) to those who claim "it worked for me". In any case, his info on it is scant, he is upfront about wanting you to buy his $46 Rifing book to learn more. And if you want the specifics about the Salt/Vitamin C "cure", you need his $19.95 e-book.Another area of pure obscurity is the whole subject of "herxing". It seems that having a herxheimer reaction is pretty much identical to getting worse from the Lyme. How do you know if you are coming or going? There is potential for self deception; using a treatment with no proven effectiveness while your health deteriorates, and thinking you are just having a herx reaction.The author has an annoying penchant for excess verbiage, followed by repeating himself, and repeating yet again.There are virtually no footnotes, references, or backup for most of his statements, so you are left to just trust that he has done his research and arrived at the right conclusion.It's not a total wash; there are many ideas that are useful to educate oneself, and as the author clearly says, it's just his opinion, and each one of us must gather the puzzle pieces and figure out the best course of action. He claims to have cured himself of Lyme. I don't know how you quantify that with no test to prove it, but, if so, good for him. This book is another puzzle piece, not the holy grail. A good Lyme-literate doctor and time spent on the many Lyme forums is a good idea.

My wife has had Lyme disease for over 20 years. She was finally diagnosed a few years ago. In the beginning a book like this would have overwhelmed her... do to her "brain fog". With great treatment from a local naturopathic doctor she as recovered from being pretty much bed bound to 90% recovered. We have purchased several good books on Lyme disease over the last few years in order to have a better understanding of what we are dealing with. Plus, one must become their own knowledgeable advocate as you seek treatment. At first she wasn't interested in reading another "Lyme" book. However, as an RN she was very impressed with the amount of research she found here. Even after all of these years of learning she was amazed at the wealth of very helpful information she found in this book. She first chided me for spending the money and now she is making some changes in her approach to treatment (after consulting with her ND) based on what she has learned here.

There are so many books out there on Lyme and on the co-infections. I found this book and ESPECIALLY Lyme and Rife to be of immense help and guidance. There are NO quick fixes or bullets. You have to start somewhere and there is a lot of research that this book has already done for you. It is to me, a basic primer, the foundation, to get going on understanding a large picture. Other books that deal with oxygen therapies, that deal with specific lyme herbs are all part of this huge mix that is needed to get over lyme. I wish though I had purchased Lyme and Rife AT THE SAME TIME I bought this book, because it is Part Two. Both of these books have been like Bibles to me. I could not have gotten well with out either of these books. I found may answers outside of these books, but they were my absolutely foundational to help me. I highly recommend BOTH books. Lyme and Rife is also more than Rifing ... It goes into even more health alternatives, including antibiotics. I am so greateful for Bryan Rosner. Thank you for your work.

If only healthcare professionals would read this book--they'd learn something! A survey indicated only 59% of doctors know what the primary symptoms of Lyme disease are. Even fewer know understand chronic Lyme and/or know how to treat it. It is the fastest growing bacterial disease and there's huge denial surrounding it. SO--this is a very valuable read for anyone with a family member with a variety of seemingly unrelated symptoms that cross over between body systems.