Beyond Balance products

I am wondering if anyone has experience with the products from Beyond Balance. My LLMD suggested that I add in the MC BAB-1 and the MC BB-1. I am already taking all of the Zhang herbs (I have decided NOT to use any antibiotics (although my Dr. wants me to...)I prefer to go all herbal.

Tks for any info on these products (or others from this company...)

I am using Beyond Balance products. These are the only products I have used so I don't know if I will be much help. One of them is MC-Bab 2. I am also doing only herbals. What exactly were you wondering about the products?

My LLMD recently added Beyond Balance MC-BB-1 to my protocol. I am taking it along with ABX and other supports. I am quite sensitive and have felt fogginess and ear ringing and that heady feeling since starting. He said to increase slowly and that he has seen patients that have had a strong reaction to the drops. To complicate things a bit, I suddenly had elevated liver enzymes for the first time ever and I have been in treatment for a long time. So he added NAC and R-Lipoic Acid to support my liver. I started the drops and the next day the additional supplements. (never a good move for me as then I don't know what is making feel like I do, never learn as I just want to reach the finish line). Now I am wondering if they (NAC and RLA) are stirring things up as well as they do pull metals which I have. Note: I stopped a prescription pain killer as shortly after starting that up, my numbers went up. I have been off them 3 weeks and will know if numbers are back in range later today. Probably too much info, but I am just wondering how others are doing on the drops and if they have felt poorly before feeling better. I tried increasing and had to back down. I am always hopeful when starting another protocol and learned a lot about these drops on Lyme Lite radio. FYI: You can go to their site and pull show from the archives. It was a few weeks back and the guest was Susan McCamish. Any input would be appreciated.

Nosila,

Thank you for your reply. It helps to hear that you also experienced fogginess and greater fatigue when starting up the drops. Those were my 2 biggest issues since adding in the new supplements and drops. So perhaps, the drops are the culprit. I am only 3 weeks in. I will keep at them! Glad to hear your good days are outnumbering your bad. Yes, I agree with you on titrating your son's dosage. I am sorry he is sick too. I wish you both the best during your recovery!
Elaina

PS I know we all respond differently to treatment, but if you have the time to respond and wouldn't mind sharing with me how frequently you increased your dose and how many drops you are up to a couple of months in?? Just curious and again hopeful that these will bring me gains.

Nosila,

is your son only on the Beyond Balance or is he taking them with antibiotics?

anyone else on just these, no abx? I think you said you were Summersun?

I'm seriously considering switching my son from abx to herbals soon. abx have served him well, and he's doing great (although not quite done with treatment yet, not symptom free) so that's one reason I'm thinking about it now. His llmd uses these with some her patients and so that's why I consider these.

thanks!

Elaina,

I'm up to my maximum does of 19 drops, twice daily. I added a drop every 3 or 4 days.

thanks for replying Summersun and Nosila.
I've been gathering as much info as I can and trying to get opinions where I can to help with decisions.
I appreciate it!

Thanks Elaina! I noticed late Friday, that I was running low on my MC-BB-1. I don't live near enough to my dr to just go pick it up, so I placed an order to have some mailed to me. I don't expect to have it delivered until Wednesday, so I've been lowering my dose to ration it. With the lower dose, my symptoms have really flared up! Night sweats, joint pain, congestion... It made me realize how effective the stuff really is!

Thanks Nosila and Summersun for sharing. I think it's fair to say that these drops ARE powerful. I am having a very hard time with them. I am reacting much like you Summersun. Not so much dizziness, but clearly experiencing a heady feeling that I don't like. My ears are ringing too and I am also very weak, fatigued and clearly not liking it. I too increased after the first 5 days and 3 days in, I had to back right off. So we will see. I am glad that we can compare notes. I would like to see this thread continue as we share our experience and progress with this protocol.

Best,
Elaina

Hi Summersun,

I am glad that you want to continue this thread as well. I will post as I move ahead with increasing the drops and update as I go along!!

Thank you!!
Elaina

Nosila,

Thank you for the update! I am happy to hear that you are seeing such improvement and your son is having an easier time with the drops. He is an inspiration to me and please tell him that he makes me feel like a wimp! :) I seem to have reached a comfort level with 1 drop a day and am considering ramping it up a drop. I recently started pulsing my ABX and am on the off cycle now and have been nervous about changing anything. But I do think it is time for me to push ahead as I would like very much to move away from the ABX and let the herbals finish the job!

I will continue to update as I move ahead. Thanks again!!

Elaina

Hi Sue1981,

my son who is four is using Beyond Balance. He did 14 weeks of antibiotics and then a month of an anti-fungal and those both got him really close to symptom free; I always say about 95%.
We switched to herbs this past Sept., using Beyond Balance. I personally think they do a good job at finding and getting lyme, b/c when we upped the dose just a bit, he herxed pretty badly. Then with lots of detoxing the herxing has been better.

Have you been using Beyond Balance yet at all or are you just considering? I have read that Dr. Ann C. (a lyme dr. who speaks at ILADS conferences) likes Beyond Balance and uses them with some of her patients (she happens to be a pediatrician, but of course they are for anyone as I'm sure you know).

Once my son herxed a lot from them, I was asking around and reading and it seems that they can be strong for many people, so taking it slow is what we're doing now.

I will say that after the month on the herbs, with the herxing and then detoxing (and taking time off of the herbs too to detox; he's little and they threw him for a loop in a way, so I backed off a lot, again b/c he's so little, just 4), but anyway, according to my charting he's complained less of joint pain the last several weeks, so I'm thinking that they're working and paying off.
(wow, what a run-on sentence I just wrote!)

Hello Sue 1981

I found the Beyond Balance drops to be very potent for me. I am very sensitive and have had to go very slowly. I was on the BB-1, but my LLMD has changed direction with me. I am no longer taking the BB-1 but I am taking the Beyond Balance IMNR for detox and immune support and have had to go slowly with these too!

So I have to agree with Nosila and Spacestar to go proceed slowly!

Be Well,
Elaina