Addicted to herxs

I think many of us (I know I have) felt this way too. Please continue to resist the temptation to go so fast as to cause a herx though. As you said, you already know that it does you no good.

Besides, why would we want to feel worse all the time? I was one that had horrible, horrible herxes on Houttuynia. I had to cut the dose by 1/2 for three weeks to get past them. I did have my doc on my rear though about not allowing herxes!! LOL! Or I probably would have been more inclined to push it. It took 6 months of taking the Houttuynia for me - I had quite the pathogen load! So I knew I had to settle in for the 'long haul'.

It's funny though -when we have bronchitis or something like that and take abx for it, we look for feeling better, not looking for the herx. I realized this when I was taking the Houttuynia myself. I had to quit relying on feeling worse to know that I was on the right track and allowing my body to heal well. That doesn't happen quickly.

The good news is that if you aren't herxing, then you are doing a good job on detoxing! So congrats on that!!! Just watch what happens over the next few weeks. Are your symptoms easing up? Are you having any improvements? That's how you really know if something's working - not just if it makes you herx. I was in one continual herx the whole year that I used abx and it did me no good at all - except to send me backwards even more. I ended up bed ridden, having seizures.

Hang in there, Prairie girl!!

I herx like a mad woman. Some say "don't you'll damage" some say just "get it out" as you'll get more damage with the infection active.

Even doctors have both opinions on herxing.

So herxing resonates for me. I know treatment is working, and for me what is worse?

Causing damage from the active infection or causing damage from getting the infection out?

It's like "pick your poison". I met a woman who herxed like me, she's healed and doing great. So I think that it is a personal thing AFTER you gather your facts.

Individually we know what we can handle.

If LLMD's didn't have differences of opinions on herxing it would be one thing but on herxing they do differ with opinion too.

If you want to go slow like you said, well then that resonates for you and go slow.

I detox like crazy as well. My body just doesn't detox well, plus I'm hit hard in head and eyeballs. So I brain head herx hard daily, but it's coming out. It's coming out. That's the main thing LOL !!! xoxo:)

Heather was shut off from all of the discussion and philosophies about herxes when she was sick. She didn't go on the Internet like I did. I was somewhat in control of her herxes. Of course she had her basic herx with the LLMD prescribed antibiotics, but I added herbs that made them even worse. She was very sick before her treatment even started, but she was completely debilitated once the treatment started. There was a 6 month period when it was hell-on-earth for her. I deeply regret my philosophy at that time of "nuking" the bugs. And this was before I got up to speed on detoxing. Detoxing was more of a controversial issue 5 years ago. Whereas LLMD's back then didn't really push it, now most of them encourage their patients to detox to various degrees.

I agree with the philosophy that each person has to make up their own mind. None of us sit in judgement of others that choose to take a different approach. My only point is that if someone is really suffering a lot, and would like to alleviate their suffering, but they aren't already detoxing, that there are ways to reduce the herx level.

After a 6 year illness journey, she has come out of it very well. We (and she) cannot discern any permanent effects from her illness, other than pituitary/hypothalamus that are slowly recovering, and a still present but reduced sensitivity to glutens and dairy. Her long term low body temperature of 96 degress has risen to an average of 98.2. It seems that we have repaired everthing else. Her Dental restoration work will be completed just before she goes to college in August. There is almost nothing left to do other than to pay off the loans that were required to make her well.

The herxes are but a memory for her, and will soon also be for many of you!

Don

We need to remember what herxing really is - an overload of toxins in the body and the body not being able to deal with it. This is not a good thing, so we should not be watching for it to tell us we are healing - we should be upset if we are herxing - too many toxins for our body to handle!

We need to concentrate on symptom relief, not on whether or not we herx. There are many people who won't herx because their detox pathways are working just fine - this is no way means that they aren't healing - just that they aren't being overloaded with toxins!!