February 12, 2024 • bachelor insider
‘The Bachelor’s’ Daisy Opens Up About Lyme Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: ‘I Wasn’t Even Functioning’
Getting candid.
Bachelor Nation fans are getting to know Daisy on Joey’s season of “The Bachelor,” and on the show, Daisy opened up about her difficult medical history.
She shared with Joey that she became extremely ill from Lyme disease and eventually lost her hearing.
Thankfully, she was able to receive a special treatment in Germany that got her feeling better and recently was able to get a cochlear implant for her hearing loss.
Now, Daisy just took to TikTok, where she opened up more about her diagnosis of Lyme disease and the special treatments she received in Germany.
Daisy started off the video by saying, “I was diagnosed with Lyme disease when I was 21; however, they think that I have had it since I was really, really little. I started having seizures and other issues when I was around 11. They called them stroke-like seizures because I would lose my ability to move my body. Sometimes it was just half of my body that wouldn’t work and I wasn’t able to talk.”
She went on, explaining, “Doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me, and the issue with Lyme is that it goes so misdiagnosed for people for a long time. Right when I was diagnosed, I started doing different treatments. I went the herbal route and all of that. I was drinking a jug of this syrup stuff. It was a lot. I was taking a lot of herbal pills. I was going to acupuncturists and all those things.”
But things weren’t getting better for Daisy; in fact, they started to get worse.
She shared, “It was getting to the point where I would be having a conversation with someone and I would just completely lose my train of thought and have no idea what I said. Also, my body hurt all the time. It was everywhere, all my joints, and it got to the point where I physically would just lay in bed all day. I couldn’t get up. My head always hurt. My ears would ring so loud and I had vertigo all the time.”
She continued, “I was also losing my hearing and they couldn’t figure out anything with my hearing besides for Lyme, so then we started really trying to attack the Lyme. I started doing antibiotic infusions and taking 26 pills a day. I would go sit to get infusions and afterwards I would be so sick that I was dry heaving.”
The Bachelor Nation star said her health reached a breaking point and she knew she needed to do something different.
Daisy said, “It got so bad to the point where I wasn’t even functioning. From a few family friends and some people in my sorority, we heard about this place called Klinik St. Georg. We decided that I was going to go there. It’s an inpatient treatment center for Lyme and cancer. I was there for a little over a month. It’s completely out of pocket because it is overseas and insurance doesn’t really cover anything to do with Lyme disease.”
She said her sister created a GoFundMe page for her and raised almost all the money she needed for the treatment.
When she got to Klinik St. Georg in Germany, the treatment started right away. “The main thing they do there is whole-body hypothermia. They put you under and raise your body temperature up to 107.6 degrees. Your whole body, even your head. That kills off the Lyme. You do that twice and they also do plasmapheresis, where they take out your blood, clean your plasma, and put it back in. When they took out my blood, it was dirt brown, and when they put it back in, it was a bright yellow color. My mercury levels were through the roof.”
She shared that she also got an endoscopy and colonoscopy where they planted healthy bacteria in her stomach to help reset her microbiome from all the antibiotics she had been taking for Lyme.
There were lots of other treatments she underwent while there, including blue light therapy, ozone therapy, infusions, injections, detox baths, and enemas.
Daisy said their approach is a very East-meets-West combination when it comes to medicine.
And while it was a difficult journey, she is so grateful to have gone there and received the treatment she did.
Daisy said, “If I ever got sick again, I would go back there in a second. All of the doctors and everyone were amazing. You are in a different country, so there is a little bit of a language barrier, but about a month and a half after, I was feeling amazing. It was crazy. It was interesting how they looked at your whole entire body versus just one thing that’s going on.”
We are so glad Daisy is doing better and was able to receive the care she needed. Check out more in her video above.