Nervous about next appointment..

Hi Xrunnerx,
Where are you having pain and pressure? All over or just in your head or somewhere else? If it's in your head, I can tell you with proper treatment my head pressure is sooo much better!! I used to have days where I couldn't think at all due to the head pressure, there was no way I could function outside my home! Now I rarely have enough head pressure to keep me from doing anything.

As far as tests go, remember they have limited value. They aren't all that accurate - hopefully your doc understands this.

As for what the doc will treat first, that seems to change with each doc and each situation. For some, their Lyme symptoms are so overwhelming that some treatment is required before the patient can handle any other treatments - I'm in that group.

For others, Babesia or Bartonella must be treated before any progress can be made with their Lyme infection. Most of the top Lyme Docs & Researchers agree that Bartonella and Babesia must be treated before Lyme infections can be resolved though.

Be sure to let us know how the appt goes!!

I know what you are talking about with that head pressure all too well!! Today is one of those days for me. I'd rate my pressure at a 6 right now - I'm hoping it doesn't go too high today though! I'm going through a liver detox that my doc wants me to do, and it's kinda kickin' my rear!! ACK!!

Hang in there. Detox, detox, detox - it helps for me! Be sure to talk with your LLMD about this though! It could be something s/he needs to know.

Hi Kale!
Welcome to the forum!! I'm so glad you found us!! Do you have Lyme or one of the other tick-borne infections? Are you in treatment?

I only used abx the first year of my treatment and it made me soooo much worse. There was a tremendous amount of head pressure for me during that time. From Dr. David Jernigan's work, we know that a by-product of the die off of bacteria is ammonia, which frequently resides in the brain.This causes a lot of head pressure and other things like brain fog and cognitive issues.

Because I continued to get more and more ill, I stopped the abx and after a time went with Traditional Chinese Medicine for my treatments. It was my herbal Lyme treatment that got rid of that horrible head pressure. My head felt like it was going to explode, and yet I was afraid it wouldn't! I couldn't think straight, couldn't see well, bad tinnitus and more - I was miserable.

Oops, I seem to have answered your other post here as well!! If you are interested in the herbal Lyme treatment that I used, of course I'd be happy to share it with you!!

If you haven't yet, I would like to encourage you to read through our "New to Lyme? Start Here!" thread that sits at the top of the forum. It's packed with important information, symptom lists (as Lyme rarely travels alone!!), informative links, helpful pdf's, and even a list of questions to ask any doctor that you are seeking treatment from!

Just the regular detoxing that is talked about in the "New to Lyme?" thread is how I reduced the ammonia in my whole body, including the brain.

Although, Dr. David Jernigan has developed some herbals that help the body to detox the ammonia as well though. It's his neuro anti-tox formulas on this site:
hansacenter.com/store/

For my brain fog and many more brain/nerve issues I used the herbal protocol for 'chronic tonic' that can be found on page 77 of the pdf titled "Lyme Disease: A Practitioner's Experience & Discovery" on this link:
www.mistymeadows.org/wendy.htm
Sorry, for some reason I can't get the link directly to the pdf to work today!