Why Can’t I Get Better: A Book Summary For Lymie Brain

I think Horowitz intends to confuse you by leaving cliff-hangers and putting information in the wrong chapters. I’ve heard that his consultations now cost well over $1000, and I just don’t understand why he would do that to desperate Lyme patients. I would LOVE for a Horowitz patient to come forward and tell me he helped, was worth every penny, and that now you are in remission and not dependent on an array of drugs. I think the problem with a lot of LLMD’s is that they make lots and lots of money on herbs and prescriptions that they give you. So while I am not saying that herbs and medications are unhelpful, I do think that we should all strive to be as independent as possible – independent from tens of dozens of ingested pills as a means of survival. I’ve done it (been a pill popper by necessity that is), I don’t regret being on a thorough protocol when times were dire, but I am also relieved to be quite functional WITHOUT all those pills after months and years of slowly weening myself into an independent women *queue Destiny’s Child.*

But I’m getting off topic.

If you have had a chronic infection for a long time, you may know of Dr. Horowitz as a bit of a “celebrity.”

His book Why Can’t I Get Better is extensive and full of insight but many people find it scattered and hard to get the most out of the info. This is the Lyme book that people seem to get their panties in a bundle over, so here it is in a nutshell:

The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) believes Lyme is easily diagnosable and treatable.

The International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) believes blood tests are unreliable and 30 day antibiotic regimens are insufficient. The Lyme Disease Association (LDA), The Lyme Disease Research Alliance, The Tick-Borne Disease Alliance (TBDA), And various Lyme support groups have joined the fight.



Horowitz, first an internist and now an LLMD, and belongs to the ILADS camp. He combines medical science with what he’s learned by listening to over 12,000 Lyme patients. He thinks modern medicine is wonderful for treating acute disease but not chronic diseases. He has allegedly seen antibiotics help patients regain pre-disease health but relapse when they come off, and so his treatment is not just to kill the bugs, but to heal the body.

According to Horowitz, chronically ill patients often have pathogens, immune dysfunction, environmental toxic loads, hormone imbalances, mitochondrial dysfunction, allergies, sleeping problems and psychological problems. His 16 point differential diagnostic map goes into more detail.

The 16 things to work on:

Diagnosing Lyme

We can use ELISA, Western Blot, DNA PCR testing, LTT, or cultures

Click for details.

Lyme has a preference for eyes, brain tissue, glial cells, heart, collagen, muscle fibers, and membranes around the joints.

My views do not align with Horowitz on the extensive use of pharmaceutical. I may be biased, but I have done fine without any pharmaceuticals. Educate yourself on the dangers of antibiotics before use. Regardless:

Horowitz claims:

Patients notice a decrease in pain when put on tetracyclines, quinolones, penicillins, or cephalosporin antibiotics for other infections. Or they may first experience a herx.

Many don’t improve with a month of doxycycline or Rocephin.

Keep patients on sugar-free diets and supplement with acidophilus and saccharomyces boullardii.

Take enzymes for biofilm, as antibiotics don’t work on biofilm.

Antibiotics don’t guarantee Lyme-free babies in utero.

Antibiotics for cell wall formation:

Penicillins Cephalosporins IV Vancomycin IV Primaxin

Antibiotics for cystic forms:

Plaquenil Grapefruit seed extract Flagyl Tindamax

Antibiotics for intracellular forms:

Macrolides Quinolones Tetracyclines

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(My Opinion About This Book)

Hey, if I hadn’t read and re-read it, I would be curious. So if you really want to check out this book, I have affiliate links on my website you can use to go to Amazon where you can get a used copy at a low cost – preferably one that’s already been highlighted by it’s previous user. But if you don’t want to go through the annoying, confusing hassle of reading this book, my notes are succinct and I leave my opinion out. And if I do impose my opinion within my Horowitz pages – I try to make it clear that it’s opinion time.

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