daughter with positive Lyme test, in Canada

Hello. My daughter is 13 years old and was diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis in 2003 (she was 6 years old). After seeing rheumatologists, the medication only helped her symptoms somewhat. She also developed serious stomach issues with much pain. I then weaned her off of those meds and sought out about 18 different doctors that were naturopaths, blood analysts, environmentalists, functional neurologists, nutritionists, family MD, you name it! She changed her diet and took supplements. We bought an infared sauna and she uses it it alot. She did a heavy metal challenge test and mycotoxicology test, which both came back positive. We treated those naturally, but she still wasn't feeling right. We flew to Colorado and seen a doc (he is not an LLMD) and I asked for Lyme test. It came back with all of the markers highly positive, except the western blots were negative. The test was done by neuroscience labs. She was prescribed Artecin. She took 1 capsule a day for 4 days, and each day her joints felt just a little worse each day. On the 5th day every joint was aching. She was in agony. She couldn't walk, she couldn't lift her head off the pillow, irritable, warm and cold, headache sensitive to sound, stomach ache, very sleepy and lethargic with absolutely no energy. She is sleeping 15 hours a day and is still so tired she wants to stay in bed. She has been like this for 9 days now. She had only taken those 4 capsules and I stopped giving them to her. We have sent blood samples last week to Igenex and the results won't be back for another 12 days (seems like a lifetime to wait). We live in Alberta and the controversy regarding Lyme is ridiculous. There is no one willing to treat or prescribe. The doctors are worried to treat and be shunned out be the medical community and lose their licenses. THey say it is politics and economics. So, here I am trying to find help for her. After so much research and seeing her in so much agony, I feel like I need to take her somewhere that she can be treated and overlooked. I am afraid to take her somewhere and once she is prescribed the meds, be sent home. If she goes through a reaction like she is now, who do I turn to for help?? Has anyone been to Envita Centre? How was the care? I would appreciate as information on them as possible. Also has anyone taken their children to see Dr. Charles Ray Jones? Has anyone done tests with neuroscience (lyme comprehensive ITT)? I wish Dr. Murakami in BC was still treating, it would be my solution to everything. I am lost and overwhelmed. Please help.. There is nothing worse than seeing your child in so much pain and you want nothing more than to take it away, so they can enjoy their lives. I appreciate you all taking the time to read my post. Thanks very much.

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I just looked up Artecin and it is an herbal extract of artemisia (chinese wormwood) which I understand is an herb used in the us to treat lyme naturally. I would question why the dr. did not put her on antibiotics. Did you get a copy of her western blot YOURSELF to see if any bands showed up positive. They can tell you it is negative but it could still be positive if read by the right dr. Your daughter could be herxing which is getting worse because of lyme toxins being killed by the treatment. If so, she will need to detox. I myself go so bad on my first treatment that I too stopped but if I had known to detox it would have been better to keep going. Now after a year and a half on treatment, I am feeling much better. Research, research, research and find an LLMD. Do not waste your time with any other dr. They just don't know lyme!!!