Kris Rossi, 63, was diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease in 2009. A nurse anesthetist from New Hampshire, she started therapy with an allopathic doctor who treated Lyme with antibiotics. She’d get better for a little while, but then all her symptoms would come back and she’d have to start the course of antibiotics all over again.
“I had chronic fatigue and some joint pain and numbness on the left side of my face,” says Rossi. “My hand would twitch, and my tongue and the left side of my lip would twitch. I had numbness in my feet and decreased sensation in my hands, and I had bad insomnia and a lot of cognitive difficulties.
“I would be driving to work—and I’ve worked in the same hospital for 20 years—and suddenly I wouldn’t recognize where I was. I knew if I just kept driving that it’d come back to me, and usually within half a block I’d know where I was.
