I used the frequency generator on a Friday night at about 4 intensity
with the recommended frequencies in the book.
The next morning I used some settings that were further in the book.
All for lyme.
After program 208 which was in the 900 frequency range. My bowels let
loose and I had a major heart arrythmia.
Then for the next week plus I have had major heart problems. Just not
in sync or something.
I will NEVER use a rife again.
Anyone else ever have this problem.????
I am very concerned I did permanent damage.

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My response:

When I was my sickest, I had heart herxheimer reactions that made my heart pound so hard people could hear it in the room, and I had horrible pain, and arrythmias, and even passed out once after a rife treatment. In my opinion these are herx reactions not side effects. It makes no sense that they would be side effects. It just so happens that Lyme is very common in the heart and other people do not experience any heart side effects to any rife machines. Of course I am not a doctor so I cannot tell anyone what to do or not do. But I am very convinced these are herx reactions.

Nonetheless as herx reactions they can STILL be dangerous!

Bryan Rosner

Learn more about rife therapy for lyme disease in this book:

First, we need to talk about pH as it relates to the body and chronically sick person. Healthy bodies remain relatively alkaline, while sick peoples’ bodies are more acidic. pH can be used as a measuring stick for how healthy you are.

It just so happens that Lyme disease bacteria, as their waste byproduct (produced daily and also when they are killed), release a neurotoxin that is highly acidic. After a rife treatment or other type of antibacterial therapy, these neurotoxins flood the body and cause even greater acidity.

Acidity in the body makes you feel bad…really bad. Depression, brain fog, confusion, short term memory loss, muscle soreness, are just a few of the symptoms of acidity. 

There are many things you can do to combat the acidity, such as getting rid of the toxins (detoxing with saunas, cleanses, lymphatic treatments) and eating alkalizing foods (fruits and vegetables, minerals such as magnesium and molybdenum, drinking lemon water), etc. Read the book Alkalize or Die for more information. 

Although this post is intended to help you deal with the problem of acidity and feel better, the real purpose of the post is to introduce to to pH test strips and explain how they can prove rife therapy works. pH test strips are useful…you can take some saliva or urine and put it on a strip and get an instant pH reading. If you are very acidic, it means you should work on alkalizing to feel better.

Where the rife aspect comes in is this…after your next rife treatment, test your pH. You will see that it is more acidic as you feel worse from the herx reaction. The dying spirochetes cause this acidity. Several rife users have reported this. Of course this alone does not stand by itself to prove that rife therapy kills bacteria, but it is one piece of the puzzle.

This is one place to get pH test strips:

Understanding Lyme Disease symptoms

The first step to understanding the recovery process is reviewing the herx reaction. To appreciate the herx reaction, it is necessary to first examine regular, ongoing Lyme Disease symptoms.

Consider what happens when you get the flu: You get body aches, chills, fever, nausea, lack of appetite, fatigue, lethargy, and sometimes additional symptoms. What you may not know is that these flu symptoms are not caused simply by the presence of a flu infection in the body. Symptoms experienced are actually a result of your body’s immune system responding to the flu infection via inflammation.

These unpleasant symptoms of inflammation are essential to getting over the flu. Chills are your body’s way of telling you to bundle up and get warmer, and the actual shaking involved with the chills is your body’s way of increasing core body temperature through motion. After you’ve bundled up and had the chills for a while, a fever results and your body uses the fever to activate the immune system. A fever triggers a cascade of immune system activities necessary to fight infection. Lack of appetite is your body telling you that there isn’t enough energy to process food – all available energy is fighting the infection. Muscle aches, soreness and inflammation are the result of your immune system responding to the infection and your body fighting back.

Without these symptoms present during the flu, your body would not be fighting and you would not get over the common flu.

Because Lyme Disease is an infection, as the flu is, most symptoms experienced by a Lyme Disease sufferer are the body’s response to the infection. The spirochetes themselves (their physical presence in the body) are not responsible for the majority of symptoms in Lyme Disease.

As with the flu, symptoms of Lyme Disease are an indication that the body is responding and fighting. Yet, curiously, even in some of the worst Lyme Disease infections, symptoms can wax and wane, even with occasional symptom-free periods. Some people report that when they were first infected with Lyme Disease they were plagued with flu-like symptoms and even bedridden for a while … and then things seem to get better, and their symptoms became less intense. For example, many people with Lyme Disease are still able to walk around, go to the movies, even work full or part time – all this while they have a raging, active infection which is much more dangerous than the flu. Lyme Disease sufferers often do not get fevers – sometimes are even incapable of getting a fever. Considering that a fever is the body’s most useful tool in fighting infection, this observation is also peculiar. The flu involves intense, continual symptoms. Lyme Disease often does not.

Lack of debilitating symptoms, absence of fevers, and presence of symptom-free periods may convince a person infected with Lyme Disease that they aren’t really that sick. This is an understandable assumption because in most illnesses lack of symptoms does indicate that you are on the mend.

The truth as it pertains to Lyme Disease is shocking. Lack of expected symptoms indicates that the infection is actually winning – it is not gone! The body fighting is what causes symptoms. So, if there are no symptoms, there is no fight. The infection has free reign and the immune system is not doing its job. Why does the human immune system fight the common flu but not Lyme Disease?

What separates Lyme Disease from the flu is that the Lyme spirochete tricks the immune system into living in harmony with the infection. The immune system’s ability to identify Lyme Disease as a foreign invader is jammed and disabled by the advanced infective activities of the bacteria.

The infection acclimatizes to the immune system.

Lyme Disease researchers have identified many specific strategies employed by the Lyme Disease bacteria to accomplish this. One of the most creative involves the spirochete concealing the part of its bacterial body containing a protein code that tells your immune system it is an invader. Not only can it hide this code, it can change it quickly enough to stay ahead of the immune system recognition process. This phenomenon is called antigen-shifting. The flu virus cannot do this. Other methods of immune system evasion are beyond the scope of this book but can easily be found in other Lyme Disease literature.

The result of the infection’s ability to evade the immune system is that the bacteria can proliferate and grow for years without challenge from the immune system.

Enter chronic Lyme Disease.

Although the bacteria are able to persist largely unchallenged, a person will still experience symptoms of disease. People with chronic Lyme Disease, although often not as acutely ill as people with the flu, are very sick. In “stealth mode” the Lyme Disease spirochete secretes a neurotoxin that is highly destructive to body functions and can result in stressed liver detoxification, lethargy and fatigue, muscle soreness, mental confusion, emotional instability, hypothalamus dysfunction, and much more. Hypothalamus dysfunction eventually throws off the thyroid and adrenal glands and other hormonal functions, which results in a cascade of dozens of other symptoms.

Additionally, because the spirochete’s evasion is not 100% successful, the immune system may sometimes “catch a glimpse” of the infection, resulting in symptoms of inflammation and immune system activation. A person can experience chills, headache, sore throat, nausea, fatigue, muscle aches, enlarged spleen, cold extremities, etc. The most notable symptoms are typically in the brain. The brain can become inflamed, as it would with any other bacterial infection. Encephalopathy or meningitis may occur, along with very scary brain symptoms including confusion, “Lyme rage,” depression, memory loss, etc.

Based on this information, we can establish that the two primary causes of symptoms in Lyme Disease are neurotoxin circulation (which persists despite immune system acclimatization) and inflammation (which decreases as the infection acclimatizes to the immune system). Let’s see how this relates to herx reactions.

Understanding the herx reaction

Most Lyme Disease sufferers know of the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction as a “herx,” or “getting worse before you get better,” or a “healing crisis.” The herx reaction is documented to take place in Syphilis, Lyme Disease, and a few other spirochetal illnesses, all capable of evading the immune system. The reaction is named after two scientists who discovered the phenomenon. Adolf Jarisch (1850-1902), was an Austrian dermatologist who published his description of the reaction in 1895. Karl Herxheimer (1861-1944) was a German dermatologist who published his description of the reaction in 1902.

The definition of a herx reaction is an increase in the symptoms of a spirochetal disease (such as Syphilis, Lyme Disease, or relapsing fever) occurring in some persons when treatment with spirocheticidal therapy is started. In the case of Lyme Disease the herx reaction is an increase in the symptoms caused by neurotoxin circulation and inflammation:

• Increased neurotoxin circulation. As you’ve seen, during normal lifecycle activities, the spirochete secretes neurotoxins. However, when the spirochete is killed, an intense release of neurotoxins from dying bacterial organisms floods the body. Increased neurotoxin circulation can last from a few hours to a few weeks, depending on the sufficiency of a person’s detoxification pathways as well as the extent of the kill-off.
• Increased inflammation. Whether using rife machines or antibiotics (or some other anti-Lyme activity), spirochetes will become irritated or killed during the attack. Their delicate, once-hidden antigens (protein codes which alert the immune system to the presence of an invader) will be exposed as spirochetes die and their bacterial proteins enter circulation. Suddenly the immune system will detect multitudes of spirochetes infecting various locations of the body. The immune system was unable to “see” the spirochetes before the kill off, but when the infection does become visible, major immune system activation begins. The body starts fighting during a herx reaction. So symptoms of inflammation increase as they would in the flu. The reaction can vary from person to person, depending on the extent of the infection, location of infected areas, and body constitution. Although the inflammatory portion of the herx response is unpleasant and involves greatly increased symptoms, it is a sign that therapy was successful because spirochetes are dying and the immune system is fighting. Lyme Disease cannot be eradicated if the immune system is not activated.

The combination of the above two events constitute a herx reaction.

After anti-Lyme therapy is stopped and time passes, the herx reaction slowly ends. The bacteria that were unaffected by treatment remain in the body, largely undetected. These bacteria were not affected because they did not happen to be in the spirochete portion of their lifecycle when the treatment took place.
The stalemate between Lyme Disease and the immune system will continue after a herx reaction. Only now, some progress has been made. The treatment, in combination with a temporarily activated immune system, has killed some bacteria. Bacterial load was reduced, and consequently the person will experience a decrease in ongoing symptoms of inflammation and neurotoxin circulation. The decrease in symptoms may be subtle because only a small percentage of the bacterial load was effected.

To read more about the herx reaction, order Lyme Disease and Rife Machines.

It turns out that the lemon is what does the trick. Lemon is very alkalizing. As you know if you’ve read my two Lyme disease books, alkalizing the body is necessary to combat the acidic condition created by the infection. Eating lots of breads, meats, and other acidic foods make the condition worse. Vegetables help, as do minerals such as molybdenum and magnesium.

Turns out, though, that lemon water is one of the most powerful substances for alkalizing. So powerful that if you take too much, it can throw you into a full blown alkalizing herx reaction.

An additional benefit of drinking lemon water is that it is tasty, cheap, pleasant, and completely non-invasive.

So, when you are feeling a herx reaction coming on – or when you are just feeling toxic from the daily grind of Lyme disease – reach for that glass of lemon water, whether it be carbonated seltzer or just regular tap (preferably filtered) water.

Pelligrino and Gehrolsteiner are two of my favorite carbonated mineral waters, carbonated naturally from the spring, not man-made carbonation…Although Gehronsteiner recently lost a bit of quality after their spring source lost potency and they switched, lamely, to plastic instead of glass bottles – a big no-no for sparkling water.

Enjoy your lemon water!