Help - lyme flu returned while on abx

My 8 year old daughter - had lyme flu on August 7th. We got her tested and she is positive for lyme. So, we started amoxacillin a little over a week ago. A few days ago, she got the same lyme flu symptoms. She has had a fever for four days now - 102 degrees. And a terrible headache. She keeps complaining of bee stings in her feet. We have an appointment with a LLMD on Monday. Is this normal? Are the abx not working? Should I switch to Doxy? Is this herxing?

Her Igenix labs are below - she tested positive for: Can you tell me what this means?
IGM
18
30
39
41
58
89-93

IGG
31
39 IND
41

Not sure how to interpret these results but any input or advice will be greatly appreciated. Her symptoms - she said that her legs feel like lead and jello. She complains of getting bee sting sensations, feeling dizzy. She currently has a fever, headache, weakness, and fever.

Thank u for responding. I don't know if she has been tested for other things. We got the igenix lab test for Lyme. I don't know if that includes coinfections. I'm having a hard time reading the lab results and so I can't even tell by looking at them.

Feels like a mt Everest learning curve.

Thank u again for responding.

The Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction is a reaction to endotoxins released by the death of harmful organisms within the body.
Presentation

It resembles bacterial sepsis and can occur after initiation of antibacterials, such as penicillin or tetracycline, for the treatment of louse-borne relapsing fever (80-90% of patients) and in tick-borne relapsing fever (30-40%). An association has been found between the release of heat-stable proteins from spirochetes and the reaction. Typically, the death of these bacteria and the associated release of endotoxins or lipoproteins occurs faster than the body can remove the substances. It usually manifests within a few hours of the first dose of antibiotic as fever, chills, rigor, hypotension, headache, tachycardia, hyperventilation, vasodilation with flushing, myalgia (muscle pain), exacerbation of skin lesions and anxiety. The intensity of the reaction indicates the severity of inflammation. Reaction commonly occurs within two hours of drug administration, but is usually self-limiting.

Treatments

Prophylaxis and treatment with an anti-inflammatory agent may stop progression of the reaction. Oral aspirin every four hours for 1–2 days, or 60 mg of prednisone orally or intravenously has been used as an adjunctive treatment[citation needed]. However, steroids are generally of no benefit. Patients must be closely monitored for the potential complications (collapse and shock) and may require i.v. fluids to maintain adequate blood pressure. If available, meptazinol, an opioid antagonist, should be administered to reduce the severity of the reaction. Anti TNF-a may also be effective.[citation needed]

It sounds like to me she is herxing. The detox teas in the supermarket really help. I hope your LLmD can make your little one feel better...only one more day for appointment, that is great!

Thinking of you!

Katwoman,

to me, it sounds like she is herxing. On top of the Lyme page, you can find the thread 'New to Lyme? .... Start here!'. You can find information there for detoxing that can help her feeling better (and there's lots of other info on there).

You can do dry skin brushing on her, give her epsom salt baths (like Barngurl suggested), make her drink lots of good water with lemon (no lemon when she's having muscles spasms or twitches, it makes it worse).

MarieLS