Ally Hilfiger’s Lyme Disease Story: Healing With Integrative Medicine After Landing in a Psych Ward
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- Опубликовано: 13 ноя 2017
- Inspiration Episode #8
Read more about her story here getwellbe.com/inspiration/all...
Imagine suffering from range of ailments that totally controlled your childhood and then having a psychotic breakdown at 18 that led to institutionalization. For Ally Hilfiger, now 32, that was the reality of the bulk of her childhood. When she was 7, Hilfiger was bitten by a tick, but not diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease until 19. For all those years in between, she had to deal with severe fatigue, joint pain, difficulty retaining information, fainting spells, shooting pains, migraines, and serious anxiety attacks. No one could figure out what was causing her physical and neurological complications.
When she was filming for her MTV reality show, “Rich Girls,” Hilfiger’s decreasing ability to process information and retrieve words increased her anxiety and led to a two-month psychotic episode. Desperate, her dad, fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger, had her taken to a mental institution. Hilfiger talked to WellBe about waking up in a psychiatric ward and the psychiatrist who saw through her symptoms and pointed her toward her eventual chronic Lyme diagnosis.
After being diagnosed, Hilfiger was on and off of antibiotics for seven years-“It really did a number on my body and my gut and no one told me,” she told WellBe. Her life turned into a vicious cycle of feeling better on powerful drugs, but then having symptoms flare up intensely. Hilfiger tried a number of different styles of medicine and therapies but ended up in the hospital with a 48-hour migraine, where doctors discovered she had a brain aneurysm. That was a defining moment for Hilfiger’s path to recovering from chronic Lyme- “I knew I had to make some major, major changes,” she told WellBe. She and her now-husband moved to the Caribbean for three months, with the focus on keeping her toxicity levels low by removing stress, eating clean, and focusing on positive energy.
In 2016, Hilfiger released her memoir, “Bite Me: How Lyme Disease Stole My Childhood, Made Me Crazy, and Almost Killed Me” and is now dedicated to educating the public on chronic Lyme disease.
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This talk was so helpful, Ally! You are a great person and I’m soo happy u feel much better! Thanks for encouraging people to keep fighting!
Hey there! Thanks for watching! You can subscribe to see more at getwellbe.com and our RUclips channel- we have a lot of information and stories on Lyme! WellBe is dedicated to informing, inspiring, and empowering you to take control of your health, and live an incredible life full of joyful experiences, and free of chronic health issues.
This suffering is horrible but I am very happy that Ally is much better. I have a similar Story. Was very ambitious and hardworking, studying. experiencing a relapse/reinfection now and need to change my life. Cannot live the stressful lifestyle I led. The problem is people don't really understand here in Vienna, Austria. So is my Impression. I thought of escaping and starting a new life. God bless everyone
@@getwellbe thank you very very much.
Wow!!! I feel as though you “plagiarized my Lyme Journey!”
thank you for sharing...I pray you continue to improve🙏🏼
Lyme Warrior here😌💪🏼
I was a huge fan of the show Rich Girls & loved how "quirky & fotzy" Ally was. It breaks my heart now knowing that the producers (although they didn't know) played on that/viewers thought she was just a "dumb rich teen" when in reality she was battling this "invisible" disease. :(
Art by CG broken for her as well💔💔💔😢😢😢
Wow..... you have me bawling in tears because I have lived this way for decades now..... you are spot on. Spot on. I cannot afford the treatments you had, so I will probably die with this. But I am glad... so glad.. that you are speaking out about this. God bless you. Ally.
@@getwellbe Thank you so much.
I believe I was infected around 1999 and I didn't find out until May 2017. The Western Blot came out 10 IgG positive. I had 4 more WB tests and also positive. I've been held for mental evaluation twice now. In Massachusetts, they are called section 12. I had my first panic attacks back in 2001. Ironically August 2001. I couldn't explain where the anxiety was coming from. I've been suffering joint pain since and it's only gotten worse. I turn 59 in 2 months.
@@getwellbe, I've been studying this for only the past 18 months but I have learned a great deal. I'm now involved with an ad-hoc research group. I've been thinking of this difference in the past month. I think this is a lot of illnesses. I do not think Aly is out of the woods on this disease. I've identified with her. My guess is she's about 30 years younger than me and I'm thinking how she will be in 30 years. She's a beautiful young woman and my heart bleeds for her. I played with editing this video and made something that's 59 seconds. It tells the story differently,
You are still relatively young, I am 72.5 yrs and have "arthritis" in joints but also anxiety and depression from ? pain in hands and neck make one depressed...I think you are young enough to get going with the clean food, positive environment, sunshine, fresh air, sea water or even walking every day if not near a coast. Anxiety also comes from not knowing when you will feel hurting all over again! Be easy on yourself, it is not in your head, get Ms. Hillfiger's book !
she didnt try dr morse !?! woah....