Help Britt Kick Lyme Disease's Butt!

Hello! My name is Brittany Hammerschmidt, need your help curing my Lyme disease.

Unbeknownst to me at the time, I contracted Lyme disease when I was a child, but as the disease had been dormant until recently, the minor, sporadic side effects I experienced growing up didn’t really cause me any alarm until they became unbearable the past year. As a child, I always felt tired, and as I grew older, the exhaustion started to become unbearable and was affecting my life to the point where I would turn down plans in order to sleep for hours, despite the fact that I was sleeping 9+ hours every night. After I got Covid in January 2022, my Lyme disease became fully active, and that’s when my body started detonating before my very eyes. I started experiencing numbness in my hands and legs to the point where I couldn’t even walk.

I was irritable and experienced daily migraines with constant nausea and vomiting. I was so scared and frustrated, and I sought help from countless doctors to the point where I always seemed to have a needle in my arm for different tests to figure out what was going on with me. In September of 2022, I finally got diagnosed with MS, but something in my gut told me to go get another opinion, so in December of 2022, I went to a functional doctor in The Woodlands, TX. Since they didn’t take insurance, I had to slowly but surely take new tests and go through the process all over again, but as I was paying out of pocket, I was not able to procure a definitive diagnosis for about three months since I could only afford so much at a time. In January of 2023, I started doing IV drip therapy to get some of the inflammation out of my system as the inflammation in my brain had become a hindrance to both my life and finding out what was really going on with me.

The doctor wasn’t convinced it was MS, so we were working on getting the inflammation in my brain down before running a new series of tests. We still weren’t sure what it was because I couldn’t afford to do the big blood test yet (the tick borne panel). Once I was able to get that done in February 2023, the results came back on March 15, and I was officially diagnosed with Lyme, Chronic Inflammation Response Syndrome, and Chronic Fatigue.

Since then, I have started Ozone Therapy (which is where they pull blood out, clean it up, and then put it back into my body) once a week and doing Ozone Insufflations in my ears and nose 3 times a week. It’s been costing tens of thousands of dollars a month, and I ultimately had to take medical leave from work because the fatigue and depression became so extreme that I was not even able to focus on my work. As this struggle is far from over, the thought of going back to work in two months gives me immeasurable anxiety.

I’ve been researching clinics all around the country and world to see if there is a solution out there to cure my Lyme disease faster since as of now, there’s not really an end date to my treatments. I’m taking roughly 20 supplements/pills daily, doing detox drops (which make me sick), and am pretty much bed ridden except when I get little bursts of energy. I haven’t really been able to do anything for more than a few hours at a time without needing to take a nap. It’s been a very lonely process, and I feel like I’m not able to be present as a good friend, daughter, sister, and dog mom since I don’t have a lot of energy to call or even respond to texts sometimes. Through all these treatments, my body has fluctuated so much and, along with the other symptoms, that has taken a great toll on me as well. Lately, I’ve been starting to give up, and I am feeling defeated am exhausted.

I finally found a clinic in Florida with a 94% success rate at curing Lyme disease within a few months, but sadly it’s about $40,000 out of pocket as this clinic does not accept insurance. I’ve spend countless hours crying and praying for a solution, and now that I’ve found one - my finances and the cost of the treatment are getting in the way. All I want is to feel like my old self again and to live my life like a normal person - work, spend time with friends, family and my sweet dog, go on trips, and make decisions that don’t revolve around my Lyme disease. Please help me reach my $40,000 goal, so I can go live my life again. My hope is dwindling by the minute, so any donations are appreciated, and God Bless everyone for your donations, love, and support.