OMG, I will take 99 pills today

Oh, dear! I hope all these pills will at least make you feel better. Would you please share with us why are you taking so many and what they are for? Thnks!

Wow!!!!  Wow!!!! 

I just started taking Chlorella this week too but only have to work up to 12 pills a day.  I hope you got a schedule for when to take what and whether or not to take it with a meal or not....  it would blow my mind trying to figure that out myself!

I also just started taking Spirulina for arsenic detoxification - 6 pills a day.  I don't think I'm going to count my total daily pills!     But those new Spirulina pills.... they have an awful smell.  And I realized that I'd smelled that smell before - when I used to have fish.  It smells like the stinky fish food! 

I keep a notebook with a page for every day. I write all my to do list at the top and I start me meds list at the bottom. I usually make 3 columns - Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. But "Breakfast" also means the things I take on an empty stomache before breakfast and "Dinner" includes the things I take right before bed. I throw my one mid afternoon on the Lunch list.

When I first started out, I had to make the list and then highlight the pills as I took them. Now I just put them all in a Tupperware container the night before and write them down as I take them. I know them well enough now to know what I need to take when although I do sometimes mess up - especially on the weekends. So sometimes I sneak in a mini-meal after dinner to make up for it.

My np and llmd laid all the rules out as far as what to take when. LOL @ your stinky fish food Missy Joy - Artemesinin is bitter worms wood and I swear it tastes exactly like that. You are way better off to not count and/or smell any of the things you are taking, lol.

Lymiegirl - I think more chlorella would be good, my np asked me the other day if my poo was green and I said yep and she was like GREAT! So if yours isn't, I'd say you can up it. I have 200mg tablets and they recommend 5 before each meal. Do you have someone you can ask?

LOL LOL LOL!!! You all crack me up!!! I quit counting pills a looooonnggg time ago!!! Except when I'm doling them out - of course!! LOL!!
I'm not near the 100 mark, but I know I'm taking more than 50 each day, and I suppose the further I get into my treatment the more I will be taking as well - that's just part of having Lyme & co's, I guess.

One would think by taking so many pills each day we would all be skinny as sticks!!!! Sadly, not the case here!!!

Thanks for the help. I have heard about the dreaded artemesian supplement. I am on crypto plus, which tastes and smells like (if I could imagine...). Buffalo bum. It is a liquid AND nasty.....I have tried to hide it in everything....oh well. Fish smell would have me feeding the fish....

I have my LLMD appt next month. I have asked before with my NP about how to take the meds...what can be taken together, but did not get an answer. (for instance I know I am not supposed to take synthroid with vitamins...and on a empty stomach). With 98 other pills, how do I know I am taking them correctly... I will ask again next month.

Today, I just was too nauseated to take my pills. Will start fresh tomorrow......

You all make me laugh...what a fun feeling! I will check out that website. Since my memory is shot (I used to try and hide it cause of getting older, now I can blame Lyme..although it does get scary sometimes) I write everything down the instant I go to do it...I write the time and the pills taken. I have a notebook so no little papers to float around the kitchen counter. I still think I can remember and 9out of 10 times, I forget...some pills you don't want to double up on....

And I would think with all my moaning and groaning about all the pills and nausea I would be pencil thin...HA! Just not fair. I have an rx for zofran and it helps...just hate taking ONE more pill.

Has anyone tried the Epsom salts and peroxide bath? It sounds like a creepy combo, like you might sit an bubble all around..... One place said to stay in an hour and a half....wouldn't be able to get up after that long...


Glad I found you all!

I was in the same boat when I first got sick - I had about four different big pill organizers. It was insanity. I had a moment of clarity when I looked at my piles of pills, all different colors of the rainbow, and wondered, "Why am I taking all this medicine if I still feel terrible?" Today (most days) I take three pills a day. If they're helping you, that's great...I just don't understand all the people who are taking so much, yet still so sick... It seems like a vicious cycle in some ways.

LOL - I feel a little better knowing that others are in the same boat. It just seems crazy to me. I never counted, til my husband was taking some vitamins one morning, did a deep sigh and said "I'm taking as many pills as you." He had like 8 pills - multi vitamins, fish oil, B-Complex and Cranberry. So I counted. I think I had around 50 that day. He just said "Oh". **** - he always wants to be sicker or more tired than me - not sure why, but that's how he rolls.

I find myself playing little mind games to do all this and I've rarely missed a dose. Sometimes I "reward" myself by saying it'll be ok to not scoop the wet clay out of the bottom of the cup to take with a swig of water. That's such a treat, lol. I read some customer reviews once for the GI Revive (I think it is putrid and it looks like peach flavored diarreah) anyway - some of the customer reviews said "It tastes great! I could drink it all day!" so I (somewhat sarcastically) say this out loud when I drink it and it does help. I really had some trouble puking that on contact.

Nasalady - My LLMD and my ND work hand in hand too - we're so lucky with this situation I think! I put all my oils in empty capsules so I don't have to mix them with water. I think I drink enough ucky things.

I drank some apple cider vinegar last night as I had terrible heart burn. I'm trying to wean myself off of stomach meds, but sheesh! That was also pretty nasty!!! I had been drinking coconut milk and doing really well with stomach acid - need to go buy more as I've been out since the weekend. That helps with the Artemesinin after taste that was haunting me all day monday and Tuesday.

I LOVE the epsom salt/peroxide baths - they really make my tub sparkle too!

I wanted to "weigh in" on the weight issue, lol. I was packing on weight since I got sick really, but especially during treatment. If you have candida overgrowth especially, but also these little Lymie/Bartonella/Babesia/etc bugs - you CRAVE food to feed THEM. I just finished some hardcore candida treatment - did 4 weeks of Nystatin followed by 2 weeks of Diflucan. It is CRAZY how I don't crave food the same way!!! I used to NEVER be able to skip a meal or I'd feel like I was going to just die, literally. I also started the clay and later Chlorella which i think helped with the candida treatment. I also went gluten and dairy free. I did drop 8 lbs in 6 days after starting this and am still losing at a good rate - have lost 10 lbs in 2 weeks so far - wil keep you all posted. I do think a lot of the weight gain was due to eating too much - especially starchy things and of course not exercising like I used to due to the pain and fatigue. I forget if it's Klinghardt or Burrascana (sp?) who said "You will NOT get better if you don't exercise". Easier said than done, however, I've been doing interval training for literally less than 10 minutes a day - I think we can all tweak that to make it work for us. I almost always feel so much better after I exercise - i think sweating some of the toxins out gives my poor liver and kidneys a rest, lol.

My mother in law has had a cup (only a china tea cup) of warm water and cider vinegar-each day- her whole life. She is 90 and will probably outlive us all -she is healthy as a horse. Farm few eggs, whole milk, etc..go figure.