Alpha Gal Treatment
Greetings, readers.
Two days ago I told you I had an appointment with Dr. Malisha Craney, N.D., of Clear Pathways to Health in Martinsville, Indiana, for Alpha-Gal Syndrome. Today that appointment happened. This is the first treatment update.
I still live without red meat and dairy. That part has not changed in one afternoon, and I am not going to pretend it has. What changed today is that I finally sat in the chair and started the auriculotherapy MAP program a lot of Alpha-Gal patients have been talking about.
For anyone new to this series: I was bitten by Lone Star ticks after leaving Florida. Within a couple of weeks I became severely ill after eating red meat and dairy. For about six months on The Great American Heartland Tour for BioChecked™, avoidance has been the whole plan. Avoidance keeps you alive. It does not give you your kitchen back.
The approach Dr. Craney uses is auriculotherapy — ear-point treatment, known as MAP. The idea is a very small, precise point on the ear that stays in place for weeks while the body is asked to stop treating the alpha-gal sugar as an emergency. A published case series in Medical Acupuncture reported that among patients with follow-up data, a large majority said their mammalian-product symptoms went into remission after this or a similar method. That paper is a case series, not a randomized trial. I am treating it as a reason to try, not as a guarantee.
Today was procedure one.
I am writing this the same day on purpose. First-day notes are the honest ones. The visit was straightforward. The treatment itself is small — not a hospital scene, not a long surgery, just focused work on the ear and a clear plan for how long the point stays in place. I left with instructions, not a steak dinner. That is how this is supposed to work. The correct placement of the seed is the treatment. Reintroduction, if it comes, comes later and carefully.
I will keep carrying the same caution I have carried since spring. Alpha-Gal is not a food preference. Hidden mammalian ingredients show up in capsules, broths, gravies, candies, and restaurant grease. Until I have weeks of follow-up and a clean trial under medical guidance, I am still an Alpha-Gal traveler. No red meat. No dairy. No shortcuts.
What I want this post to do
The first article was the appointment. This one is the start of treatment. The next one will be the three-week mark — whether the point stayed in, how I felt on the road, and whether anything in the reaction pattern has shifted.
If you found this because you or someone you love got sick after a tick bite and then got sick again after a hamburger, you are not imagining it. Lone Star ticks have moved the map. Alpha-Gal is showing up in people who never had a food allergy in their life. Graphic or not, that is the story: a bite, a delayed reaction, and a pantry that suddenly turns on you.
Special note: Andrea West is still planning to get trained and certified in auriculotherapy for Alpha-Gal so she can treat people in Florida, the Southeast, and on our travels. Today’s visit made that plan more real, not less.
Read Day Two – Alpha Gal Treatment with Aricular Therapy Day Two
Clinic: ClearPathwayToHealth.com
Dr. Malisha Craney, N.D. — Martinsville, Indiana
Start of this series: Cure For Alpha Gal Syndrome
Podcast that sent me here: God, Guns and Sawdust — Episode 45: Alpha-gal Syndrome
I will report back after the needle period. Until then, I am grateful the schedule opened, grateful we were passing through Indiana at the right time, and still eating like a man who respects what a tick can do.
— Scott