I have a friend who has lyme and he  gave me this bottle of nanotek chitosan. I have never taken it but I am curious about your thoughts or experience. it is made out of crab, shrimp and lobster which I find intersting because the crab and lobster help me with my pain if i eat it. It is suposed to support enhanced detoxification of Herxheimer's reactions also known as die off. Any exeprience with this? It sounds very soothing to me if there aren't any shellfish allergies?

i was wondering if anyone else on this site has no pain but still have other uncomfortable symptoms like pressure and urgency.  I luckily have no pain, but that still doesn't take away the fact that this dis-ease is ruining my life.  I have constant pressure on my bladder 24 hours a day.  Its worse when im standing or walking, it feels like im lugging around a 50 lb. weight around my waist.  I have no urethral burning, but at the end of my stream i have a strange feeling in my bladder (almost like cramps.

Just wondering how many of you had chicken pox when growing up?  And if it was a light or severe case?  I heard something really strange from a friend the other day about a link between childhood chicken pox and autoimmune diseases/liver 'weakening'.

I am not sure where this belongs but since I used to be a patient for Dr. BrizmanI am posting it here. I found Matia's program to work for a long time.

Hi all!

Hi everyone,

After a year of crying my eyes out, questioning God's existance, and feverishly surfing the web reading the horrors of this elusive "IC", Ive mustered the energy and found the time to write my story...............

Just wanted to offer  a little insight into something I was fighting for a while.  I have a super addictive personality which is the reason why I never tried drugs/smoked.  My big thing was coffee which having IC and coffee is really really hard.  I loved coffee so much that I would rather go coffee tasting than wine tasting.  When I went on Matia's diet, the first thing I begged to have back was coffee.  She said I could have it, and I did.  I drank a lot of it for the first 2 years I treated with Matia.  I would drink it and my bladder would burn after, but I didn't care because my brain

I was wondering if anyone has a cheaper option of ordering their probiotics other than using Natren.com and/or wholefoods.

I have used www.outletnutrition.com and really like thir prices. However they do not pack the parcel with enough ice and by the time it gets to me it is warm. I prefer to order from them only in the winter (I am in the midwest).

Natren.com does a great job about keeping the meds cool, but they are $10 more per bottle. Any suggestions will be most helpful.

Thanks!