“I was riddled with debilitating pain and toxicity throughout my entire body,” the 26-year-old, from The Hill, said.
“I was relying on CBD [cannabidiol] oil for pain relief to get me through each day.”
She said the pain was indescribable.
“It’s something that could easily tear a person’s world apart if they fell victim to it.”
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Ms Herbert believes she has a Lyme-like disease, caused by a tick bite.
The federal government does not support the “diagnosis of locally-acquired Lyme disease in Australia”.
“Classical Lyme disease is an infectious disease that can be transmitted to humans if bitten by a tick carrying borrelia burgdorferi,” a government statement said.
