Carol’s Story
I have been asked so many times about my story, so thought I would write it down. It is a lot to absorb for someone with brain fog, and a lot to keep repeating. This is pretty detailed, so please ask if you have any questions. My contact information is below.
I was first infected in 1993 when I lived in Texas. The doctors said it couldn't possibly be Lyme since we didn't have ticks in Texas (101). I was in bed for almost a month with no energy and no appetite and horrible headaches, body aches, etc. Eventually I got better and could manage as long as I took really good care of myself. But if I got the least bit run down, the symptoms would come back and I would be sick again for 3 weeks. This cycle played out for 13 years, during which I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, post-herpetic neuralgia, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, various viruses and "it's all in your head." I managed to function for that 13 years, but never really felt good.
During that time I moved to Virginia. In 2006 1 was bitten again, and reinfected with Lyme and got really really sick that time. At first I thought it was Fall allergies, and when it didn't get better, I thought it might be a virus of some kind, but it just kept getting worse. After a couple of months, I went for a massage hoping that would make me feel better. The massage therapist asked what the funny bruise was on the back of my leg. I hadn't felt good enough to do anything to get a bruise, so when I got home I looked in the mirror and saw a bull's eye rash. The next day I went to the doctor and he diagnosed Lyme from the rash and my clinical symptoms he had seen me for over the previous two months. They were all the same ones I had suffered with my initial bite in 1993, but much worse.
The doctor gave me 3 weeks of doxycycline, which is all he could give me where I live. At the end of the 3 weeks I was just beginning to feel like I might live. After being off it for 2 weeks and getting sicker, he decided he could give me another 2 weeks, but it didn't help. I started on colloidal silver and that helped some. (l had taken it before for pneumonia that 3 different antibiotics didn't touch and I got well, so i am a believer in using CS.) I was now able to go to work and sit at my desk but really couldn't function much. I had to ride with someone else. The brain fog was terrible — I had observed myself running through a red light and somehow couldn't get my foot to the brake even though I knew I had to, so I was afraid to drive after that. Every day I just came home and fell into bed with no energy to even eat. The headaches and stiff neck and sore joints were all much worse than what I'd had from a car accident where I was sandwiched between a truck and a pickup a few years before. I almost wanted to die so I would feel better, and most days didn't really care if I lived or died. I often felt like it would have been easier to just not take the next breath than to go on like that.
Jim Meissner and I were good friends at the time, and he had been helping Bryan Rosner and a few other people who had Lyme disease with electronics on their devices that weren't working. Because of this, he was very familiar with the devices that were available, and offered to build a Doug coil* for me. I didn't know what that was, so he had someone send a photo of theirs. I got such a horrible headache just looking at the switches and charts that I started crying immediately. My brain fog was so bad that I knew I would never be able to work it. I told him if I had to figure out how to use that and remember what frequency I had used and what part of my body I had treated, I might as well just curl up and die. There was no way I could do it.
Jim asked what it would take for me to be able to use some type of Rife device. He was an electrical engineer and an inventor and loved to solve problems like that one. I was leery — I still have scars from sticking things in an electric outlet when I was a kid. I don't like electrical things, but I trusted him and knew he wouldn't do anything that was going to hurt me, so I said I would give it a try.
I told him it had to be dummy proof - basically something that would cover all the frequencies I needed at one time so I didn't have to know exactly what I had or figure out which frequency to use. And it had to cover my whole body at one time because I would never be able to remember if I had done the other arm or other leg or whatever, or remember to write it down so I could check and see if I had. And it had to be very easy to use - just an on and off switch - and hopefully I would remember to turn it on and off. (There were a few times I didn't.) In trying to figure out what frequencies to include, he referred to the Consolidated Annotated Frequency List (CAFL) on the internet A huge majority of those frequencies fell in the range less than 5,000 Hz. After some prototypes, he came up with the DPIOO that is now available. It covers the frequency range of about 100 - 5,000 Hz.
The theory at the time was that you would use the Doug coil and that would cause such a Herx** reaction that it would take 3 weeks to recover. Then you would do another session and wait 3 weeks and repeat. At that rate it took about 3 years to be symptom free. People did it because they were getting well, and the alternative at the time was taking antibiotics forever with all the associated issues from that. I didn't have the luxury of being able to do that since I was single and had to support myself and couldn't afford the antibiotics. If I wasn't at work I didn't get paid. So I started with 2 seconds, because I was a little afraid of it, and because I couldn't afford to put myself in bed for days.
I continued with the CS and began using the DPIOO for 2 seconds every night when I got home from work. That way I could sleep through most of the herx. had strong herxes but stuck with it, with Jim's encouragement. I had committed to him I would give it one month. After a while I could do a little but longer, and then a little longer.. A few days I was just too tired to do it, or felt too bad to do it, or just didnt want to feel bad for a meeting the next day, so I skipped a day. Then I realized I felt better by the end of the second day. After about four months I had worked up very gradually to 6 minutes a day. If I had a strong herx when I increased the time, I would go back to the previous time for a few more sessions then try increasing it again. As long as I was doing something, I was killing some of the critters and I was making progress. I figured at that rate it might take me 10 years to recover, if it had taken Doug 3 years really hitting it. I was okay with that, as long as I was making progress.
What I finally figured out worked best for me was 6 minutes every other day. My herx would appear within a half hour after doing the session and by the next day I would begin to feel better, and then even better the next day; so doing it every other day gave me a day of feeling good in between sessions. I was making progress! I had to start doing my sessions in the mornings. I got a subtle infusion of energy from using the DPI 00 that was keeping me awake at night. Others have reported that effect since then. It wasn't long before I felt good most of the time.
Six months after beginning to use the DPIOO I felt better than I had in 14 years and stopped doing anything. About 6 months later I had a mild relapse when I got run down from traveling a lot for work, and went back on CS and the DPI 00 for a couple of months and felt great again.
A year later I got bitten again and infected with ehrlichiosis. By that time Jim had borrowed a dark field microscope from a friend so we could watch my progress. It was fascinating to see the difference in my blood from week to week. Six months of the DPI 00 and CS took care of that.
A year later I got bitten again and was infected with babesia, bartonella and mycoplasma. A few months of the DPI 00 and CS took care of the babesia and mycoplasma, but the bartonella took about a year. It was the toughest one I had to deal with. That was in 2009, and I haven't done anything since then and have not relapsed. I did live in a place with mold and it took moving from there to feel really great, but I was over the symptoms of Lyme and the coinfections and felt better than I had in many years. I was back to living a full life, and very grateful to Jim for his role in getting me there.
I would occasionally run into people I knew who were really suffering with Lyme or coinfections. It reminded me of what I had been through. I felt guilty for being healthy again while so many people were still so sick, and if we had a way that really worked, then I wanted him to share it. He was retired and really didn't want to start selling things again, but also felt like if he could help people who were as ill as I had been, then he needed to do it.
Jim was still communicating with some of the Lyme people he knew and many of them were still very ill. We talked about it a lot, and I finally urged him to at least offer it for a few local people come try it. That way we could test it, so see if that was what had helped me get well. He put it out on a couple of Yahoo groups, and had several local people come to his house to use the DPI 00. All of them ended up buying one rather than driving to his house 3 times a week to use it. Most of them used CS for a period of time too, but not everyone did. And they all improved. A few of them held their dogs or cats with Lyme disease in their lap and they improved too. He even had someone with horses buy two of them to put in the horse's stall!
After that, I suggested Jim tell people on the Yahoo groups about the DPIOO in case anyone was interested, That unleashed a bit of a firestorm with people who believed the Doug coil was the only device to use. Since then
many people from all over the country have purchased a DP device and seen improvement. There is a 60-day return policy, but in the four years they have been available, only 2 people have returned thenm Many people who own them make them available to others in their communities. And a few people have purchased multiple units to have one for travel or at a vacation home or their office.
The DPI 00 was the original DP device. When I had to travel for work and was still not completely well, I was afraid to leave the DPI 00 for any length of time, but it was awkward and expensive to ship and would have been a nightmare trying to take with me on flights. Jim invented a smaller portable version for me for those trips. It is called the DP200 and covers the same frequencies that the DPI 00 does. It is a contact machine - you hold a copper cylinder in each hand and put your feet on metal plates, then turn the dial until you just begin to feel a buzz. Some people believe this one works better than the DPI 00; others believe the DPI 00 is better. I think it is just a matter of personal preference. For example, it is obviously easier to hold a child or cat on your lap with the DPI 00 than it is to get them to hold the handholds and put their feet on the footplates
Jim had studied Rife's work for many years, and wanted to research using the higher frequency ranges like Hulda
Clark used. This led to the addition of more electronics and the copper antenna plate to the DP200, making it a
DP300, that covers frequencies from 18,000 Hertz up to millions of Hertz. It made sense to combine the two devices into one machine since they share so much of the electronics, and then someone would only need to purchase one device to have the low range of frequencies and the high range of frequencies.
The DP880 came about because of the initial good reports from people using the Bionic 880. It is the DP300 with an 880LED light added. Some of those people are still ill and their results were not as good as they originally thought, so it may not be effective for Lyme or coinfections, but I really dont know. I was well before it was invented. I personally have used it for arthritis-type aches and pains and for tooth infections and assorted other things. The infrared light feels really good when my lower back issues from car accidents and osteopoenia flare up occasionally. I've recently read that it has been helpful for tremors as well.
Jim passed away from colorectal cancer in December 2011, and Dave, who had worked for him for several years, and I, will follow through on our promise to Jim to keep making the DP devices for people who want them to help them get healthy again. They are available through the website www.JimsLaboratory.com That's a photo of me in one of the earlier DPI 1Oos on the home page.
Note: Many people have asked if Jim used his own devices when he had cancer. He did finally decide to try them a couple of months before he died. He described feeling "sparks" around the edge of the tumor when he used the DP300, and had almost no pain. He didn't even take Advil until four days before he died. (gross alert Interestingly, the tumor broke through the skin on his buttocks and started coming out of his body and breaking off after he started using the DP300. I don't know if it was a direct result of that or not, but we found it very interesting.) Who knows what might have happened if he had not already lost so much weight and his body was so weakened that he didn't want to make the heroic effort if would take to bounce back.
Well, I got really long-winded on this so I'm going to stop for now. I just wanted to share what worked for me and how the devices came about. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.
Blessings,
Carol Monroe
Email: carolmonroe@earthlink.net
*Doug coil: Doug MacLean had Lyme disease so badly that he was in a wheelchair and getting worse. He had heard of Rife and decided to try using frequencies. He got some borrelia from the CDC and cultured them to have enough to experiment with, purchased a very expensive dark field microscope, set up a frequency chamber around the microscope near the slide, and observed the effects of different frequencies on the spirochetes. He did find some that had an effect, so started using the frequencies on himself and eventually became symptom free.
Doug's research with the microscope had confirmed Royal Rife's research that any given organism does not respond the same way to the same frequency all the time. They couldn't determine if it was temperature, time of day, phase of the moon, stage of the organism's life cycle, or what caused the difference in whether it reacted to the same frequency or didn't.
Jim consulted with Doug several times. As an engineer, he liked that Doug had actually done scientific testing to see what worked. Jim's design is based on Doug's research but is much simpler to use, doesn't overheat, and covers the frequencies needed automatically at one time.
Jim realized that covering the whole range of frequencies would be much more efficient than just using one particular frequency at a time. For example: If organism A reacted to frequency 450 one day but the next day the optimal frequency was 456 and I was using 450, then I wasn't affecting it that day. But if I was covering the whole range, then I had it covered. This is why Jim designed the machines to cover a whole range of frequencies — to be sure it covered all the ones I needed.
Jim sent Doug an early prototype and then a later one to test them out. Doug really liked the idea of making it simpler to use and not having to know the particular frequency to use. He called me every Saturday for a few months to see how I was doing and couldn't believe I was making progress so quickly. It had taken him 3 years with his Doug coil to get well. Our theory was that since my body didn't have to spend so much energy recovering from a really bad herx, it could use that energy to detox and heal. So by doing it in very small increments, I could heal faster. It was a pretty radical theory at the time but made sense to me. It has gradually gotten more accepted over the last several years.
**Herx reaction: A Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction is caused by the release of toxic chemicals released from the cell walls of dying bacteria due to effective treatment. It is named after two doctors who first described the reaction they were seeing in their patients. Often it is a worsening of the symptoms you have and it is challenging to know if it is a Herx reaction or if you are getting worse. Many times it will feel like flu-like symptoms. It will lessen as you get better.