Now desperate Yolanda Foster heads to Mexico to try 'ancient medicine' in bid to cure Lyme disease

By Charlie Carballo For Mailonline

Published: 17:36 EST, 10 April 2015 | Updated: 18:17 EST, 10 April 2015

Ailing Yolanda Foster has said that it is her life mission to find a cure for Lyme disease. 

And in the 51-year-old's latest therapeutic pursuit, she has traveled to Tijuana, Mexico where she has turned to an unconventional 'ancient medicine' for treatment.

'RISE UP AND ATTACK each day with courage,' she captioned an image of the therapy on Friday, adding, 'Thank you Mexico for being open to ancient medicine #Ozone #TijuanaMexico #SearchingForACure #ChronicLymeDisease.'

Desperate: Yolanda Foster shared her latest effort to cure her Lyme disease condition on Friday in a new Instagram post

Her hashtag of 'ozone' could be referencing the alternative medicine treatment in which oxygen is pumped into the body, a purported therapy for cancer and HIV, some medical professionals have claimed.

The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills star is seen seated on a chair in a medical office with what appears to be an intravenous device in her forearm. A latex glove is by her side.

Dressed in a ribbed coral sweater, white capri trousers, the blonde looks away from the camera as the device does its work.

The beauty did not specify the nature of her 'ancient' remedy, but she has gone abroad in search of diverse treatment before.

Fighting: Yolanda's global trek to find alternative treatments has taken her to South Korea, Switzerland and Mexico; seen above she posed at an event for Topshop last year

In 2013 - a year after she was diagnosed with Lyme - she spent a month in Switzerland for natural remedies.

'One of the things was I did a whole month without any makeup, no creams, no hair products because I found out, which they taught me there, is there are so many heavy metals in all of these products,' she revealed to OK! magazine at the time.

'America is much more about pharmaceuticals because that's the biggest business in this country. In Europe they go back much more to the old-fashioned holistic ways. 

'Like this doctor said to me, "We’re going to put you in a sweatbox and create a 104 fever for four hours." I'm like, "Why? I haven’t had a fever in years?" He said, "That's why you're so sick. That's the body's natural way of fighting bacteria."

'In America when you get a fever it's medicine to knock it. I'm learning a lot of things as I go.'

Taking to social media in July last year, she made a similar voyage to Tijuana and compared her quest for a cure to that of Dallas Buyers Club - the biopic that won Matthew McConaughey an Oscar for his portrayal of Ron Woodroof, who in the 1980s smuggled antiretroviral drugs from Mexico to treat HIV when the disease was poorly understood by U.S. doctors at the time.

'Crossing all borders as the Quest for a CURE continues ‪#‎LymeDisease‬ ‪#‎Tijuana‬‪ #‎DallasBuyersClub‬,' she tweeted.

Yolanda has been battling the disease for the past three years, and suffered a relapse in December last year. The former model has said that it took American doctors nearly a year to properly diagnose her. 

'I have gone from the conventional long-term antibiotics to about every holistic protocol there is to offer,' she shared on her Bravo blog in January.

Noting that there is data on the disease as early as 1908, she continued: 'We still don't have proper diagnostic testing, a vaccine, or a cure for Lyme disease while we are living in the United States of America, the most extraordinary country in the world.

'Something doesn't add up here, and I will make it my life mission to figure this out, because nobody deserves to suffer this way in 2015.'

Last month while taping the RHOBH reunion, she spoke of her declining health and had to leave the gathering early.

'I need to go to bed,' she said. 'My brain just needs quiet and silence, and I just pray every day that maybe tomorrow is a better day.'

Yolanda's global trek also took her to Seoul, South Korea for two weeks of stem cell treatments 'with a doctor that believes that rebuilding the immune system and healthy cells are the key to my recovery,' she explained to DrOz.com.

'Right now my symptoms are severe loss of brain function, including loss of words, short-term memory loss and the inability to absorb information,' she added. 

'I'm also experiencing loss of eyesight, migraines, joint pain, numbness on part of my calves and chronic cough.' 

The TV personality recently revealed to Bravo that she has shared her knowledge on Lyme disease to help Avril Lavigne, who she quietly advised when the 30-year-old learned of her diagnosis.

'I took Avril under my wing when she first got sick and shared all I know,' Yolanda said, adding, 'I am so proud of her for going public.'

The pop star hinted last year that she was suffering from an illness, but opened up about the disease in a People magazine cover story this month.  

Yolanda credits her husband David Foster for being her 'guiding light,' and her children - supermodel daughters Gigi and Bella Hadid, and son Anwar Hadid - for acting as 'shining stars' during her hard times. 

'Sometimes I wonder how my spirit keeps going, but no matter how dark my days are, I always try to remember that there are people out there who have problems much bigger than mine and under much worse circumstances,' she shared on Dr. Oz's website.

InTouch magazine reports that her medical costs have so far exceeded $500,000, and her music mogul husband has spared no expense to support his wife's recovery. 

'Yolanda travels first class, and the medical care is very, very expensive,' an insider revealed to the weekly. 'David has spent more than a half million dollars on medical care for Yolanda.'

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