Feeling Awesome, not sure if remaining symptoms are due to Lyme?

Ok, so here I am, having as much energy and almost as much strength as I did before I got sick. I was clinically diagnosed with Lyme and Bartonella and have been treating with antibiotics, herbs, and nutritionals for five months. I went from barely being able to walk, having severe nerve pain, cystitis, nausea, muscle weakness, numbness and tingling, joint pain, muscle twitching, to almost back to my old self. I am even playing tennis and lifting weights again. I feel great, I am sleeping like a baby, but just a few "little" things are still lingering.

My LLMD was right in that I would be better by the summer. I even got extremely sick two weeks ago - horrible headcold. I thought I was going to be under the weather for weeks, but I got over it in just 5 days!

I see her next week, but I will be overdue by two weeks because I am away on vacation. So I will see what she has to say, but in the meantime, I just wanted to know your thoughts on this -

This is what I have left - sometimes my left toe gets numb, sometimes I get a cold spot on my face, I still have muscle twitches (taking magnesium and vit b 12 injection already - nothing seems to be able to make these go away), and my muscles are more sore and fatigued than usual from doing every day things

I am wondering - is the lyme still doing this, or could these things be like residual symptoms? Could the numbness and muscle twitches just be due to nerve damage that will just take time to heal? Could the muscle fatigue be due to overload of antibiotics or Candida? The cold spot on my face, I have no clue -

Please share your opinions, thanks!!!

Hello Chapelle!

Congratulations on feeling so good and making it to recovery! I'm also 5 months into treatment, but just found out a month ago that I also have Bartonella (clinical diagnosis). I have just treating Bartonella a couple of weeks ago, so my progress is slow.

If you don't mind, please could I ask which herbs you used for lyme and Bart? I now want to combine the antibiotics with herbs, because I'm not seeing the progress that I should by now...I think Bart is holding me back.

If you could please point me to some herbs, I'd be extremely grateful.

Many thanks!

thanks all for your input thus far.

well, toddpaul, I believe you are right, because I herxed today for the first time like this in a few weeks, which means the critters are still lingering - I read that muscle twitches could be due to Bart as well - did you have bart or no? I think I herxed because I switched Teasel Root Brands. I am on vacation and we visited Jim thorpe, where there is a nice little nutrional store, and the lady there recommended the herbalist and alchemist brand. Must be better than Spironil! I can't figure what else would have made me herx like this.

Unlucky - my favorite of all herbs is Teasel Root - it works really well for lyme. I am also taking AL complex which never seemed to do anything for me, so I may ask my Dr next week if she will switch it to A-Bart, which targets only Bartonella. The third herb I have been "toying" with is Grapefruit seed extract (GSE). I chose to go the herbal route vs taking flagyl or tindamax as a cystbuster because I would never in a million years take a chance with those meds. The problem with the GSE is that I just never seem to feel well when I take it, and it is not because I am herxing. Thanks to Toddpaul, he filled us in on the fact that there are some issues with certain brands of GSE, so I already ordered the nutribiotics brand and will give that one a try in a few days. How are you feeling? what are your symptoms of bart?