[Note: This post may be updated in the future if more information is available.]
Around a year later (still mid-thirties), my husband had some unresolved emotions from his childhood come to the surface. It was definitely the most difficult time in our marriage up until that point, and it was certainly a giant emotional stressor. To my husband’s credit, the same day he realized that he could use some professional assistance to work through the emotions and childhood trauma, he called, set up, and had his first phone appointment with the therapist. The very same day. The next day, he had his first in-person appointment. I offered to go with my husband to his therapy sessions, but the therapist wanted to work with my husband individually. With the help of this wonderful therapist, my husband was able to dig deep and do a lot of healing over the next 6 months or so. I went to one of the sessions near the end in order to learn more and be the support person, and the therapist told me that my husband was in the top 1% of all of the clients he had ever treated in terms of work ethic and determination to heal. I wasn’t surprised by this information, but I was definitely proud of him and glad for the choice I made to marry him. Even though it was an emotionally challenging time, the entire situation ended up bringing us even closer together.
Physically, I was struggling. I still had the white coating on my tongue from the year in my moldy classroom in my early 20s, so our Naturopath decided to continue to treat me for what was presumed to be candida overgrowth even though test results were inconclusive. I was also still having unusual upper respiratory symptoms, so he decided to run a specific in-depth test (not covered by insurance, of course) that detects pathogens. The results indicated that I had the Chicken Pox virus (duh!) and the Epstein-Barr virus (new info) in my body, but that neither virus was currently activated. I also had been exposed to Lyme Disease and other co-infections, but the medical director of the lab told my ND that my body had fought them off, and they were of no concern. I also tested positive for H. pylori and possibly mycoplasma pneumonia (too complicated to explain), and I was treated for H. pylori. I had hoped that H. pylori was the root cause of my some of my symptoms, but I wasn’t sure if that was the case. I wondered how much stress any or all of this had put on my body.
I had been tested for Epstein-Barr Virus, Lyme Disease, and other co-infections in my early twenties, but nothing came back positive at that time. Was this new and improved testing? Was this the standard version of testing and results vs. a separate private lab’s version of testing and results? Were these things missed before? And, why weren’t conventional doctors able to find any of these things prior to this point and with testing that was covered by insurance?
I was wary of the interpretation of the Lyme and other co-infections results, but I am not a medical care provider, so I let it go and kept moving forward.
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