I am coming off antibiotics in 6 weeks!!!

So I went for my LLMD visit this past week. I have pretty much been stabilized for the past couple of weeks. I have been on Bactrim plus Zithromax for 2 months and 2 weeks now (been on treatment since February). As some of you already know, I am back to doing everything I was before - taking care of my kids to the fullest potential, lifting weights, playing tennis, getting plenty of cardio in, sleeping beautifully. I really don't feel sick anymore. However, I still have a few remaining things going on - muscle twitches which are now few and far between, muscle fatigue and soreness more than it should be, and occasionally my left toe gets numb, but that just about sums it up.

So - my doctor decided its time to wean me off the antibiotics. The remaining toe numbness and twitches could just be damaged nerves that can take time to heal, and the muscle fatigue and soreness may quite possibly be due to the antibiotics. What happened was, about a month ago, I literally had no symptoms for about a two week period, except for headaches, which I haven't had to deal with for most of my lyme days thus far. I was getting them every day out of nowhere, after I was taking my morning antibiotic doses. I changed my schedule around, and the headaches went away. She said that I really may not need the antibiotics anymore, which may have been the reason why I was getting the headaches. She really believes that once I am off the antibiotics, that the herbs plus my immune system will be enough to fight off any remaining active germs in me. She is confident with my immune system, because I got really sick on my vacation, but beat the virus in only 5 days!

So, here is the plan:
I already took myself off magnesium, because it wasn't helping, and if anything, if you take too much magnesium that can cause twitches as well
I no longer have to take vitamin B12 injections
I am no longer taking Vitamin D bc I am in the sun all of the time
I am no longer taking AL complex - didn't seem to be doing anything for me.
I have discontinued diflucan

I will remain on Bactrim Ds twice a day for two weeks and then discontinue.
Tomorrow, I will be adding A-Bart (I have lyme and bartonella)
I will be taking Zithromax 250mg twice a day, five days on, two days off. On the two days off I will be taking Grapefruit seed extract. I will do this for six weeks.

Once the 6 weeks are up, I will remain on the A-Bart, the Grapefruit seed extract, Teasel root and Serrazymes (which I have been taking for months now) and


alkaseltzer gold (to keep my body alkaline)
Vitamin C 100mg
Vitamin B12 1000mcg
Phosphatidyl Choline - 4 caps a day
I will also remain on nystatin until I am finished with the antibiotics.
And she wants to add Anginox (nitrous oxide powder) to my regimen, which is supposed to help with healing my nerves.


Please keep your fingers crossed for me!! I hope I will be ok on just the herbs!! I am very excited about the treatment change and I feel closer to recovery than ever before!

She may be right, or she may be wrong, in which case, I will have to go back on antibiotic treatment. But I am being optimistic here!!!

toxicity is definitely a possibility with anything. She thinks the antibiotics were getting too toxic which is why I was getting the headaches.

I tried the nutribioitcs brand of GSE - and I am totally fine with it - no headaches, no anxiety (explained the estrogenic effects of the other brand I was using as Toddpaul described). Just if you use this brand, Follow the instructions!! I took too much in one shot and felt like I drank a cup of coffee - heart was palpitating and felt very hyper!! That only happened once, because I then broke up the dose three times a day as per instructions.

yes, the anginox sure is interesting, I didn't know about it until now either!

Congrats Chapelle!!

Yay, Chapelle! How exciting for you!!

Awesome. I have 6-8 months to go probably...can't wait.

Chapelle,
this is great! It's nice to see the light at the end of the tunnel, isn't it?!
I think your llmd is right, that your body will be able to take care of the rest now with the herbs.

This is what I'm doing with my little guy now too, actually.
He's been off antibiotics for 6 weeks (took him off when he started fluconazole for a month back in June, and then we've been on vacation for a couple of weeks and I didn't want to start the herbs while on vacation, so he went without anything for just about three weeks now.
And, he's feeling really good, the best he has since this all began last fall; 95-99% symptom free.

So, the plan is to start the herbs now and let them and his immune system take care of the rest.

Ever since I considered switching my son over (started seriously thinking about it mid June) I've read from a lot of others who switched and they were all happy with the decision and said the herbs brought them to symptom free.
Now, I definitely give credit to the antibiotics too for my son's doing so well. They got him to nearly symptom free, but I'm excited to have him do the herbs now too.

I'm so happy for you that you're making this next step! I think you'll do great on the herbs!

Good to hear you're going in the right direction Chapelle. As someone who has studied NO in depth, I have a few thoughts on it. Feel free to email me if you would like to discuss the good and the bad of NO.

Not only does NO relax vascular smooth muscle but it also inhibits platelet aggregation and leukocyte adhesion to the endothelium.

Congratulations Chapelle :) I hope to get off them soon as well.. but I'm wondering what your post ABX plan is, to prevent relapse? Is it just that stuff you mentioned in the first post?