Evenings

It could be a couple weeks before you see a herx reaction. Or not! Some people don't every get them. Wouldn't that be nice?

You are on some good, strong medicine so that would account for your fatigue. Make sure to let your body rest and heal and let the medicine do its work.

Oh, and you probably get pain in the evenings because that is the time when inflammation is highest in the body.

Good luck!

Ive been on Zithro about a week (mainly to target babesia-soon to add doxy back in & mepron) but the zith has me sweating like crazy is what I have noticed. I have a t-shirt on that is wet under the arms right now. I am NOT at all a person who perspires much. Also, Ive never had the typical babesia night sweats. Idk, I'd like to think I am killing something and my body is detoxing accordingly and hence not experiencing the overwhelmed herx reaction! ....but who really knows. I just know Im taking it slowwwww this time ;-)

-Courtney

Girlie
Just started abx but have been detoxing and preparing gut for 6 weeks. I will keep you posted on the Zithromax.

Yes I guess I want to herx to prove I have lyme and not the other dreaded ick that they tried to pass my direction.

So sometimes it takes a while for you to start to herx? For me, I have been on abc for 2 months, and serrapeptase for 3 of those weeks and have yet to feel any herx.

The only time I feel a herx is after I take a really warm epsom salt and hydrogen peroxide bath, and that herx usually only lasts an hour or so afterwards.

Jimbo, that just means that your body is likely detoxing pretty well! Congrats on that! From what I understand, the Epsom Salt baths move the toxins from the tissues into the blood stream - which is why those that have bodies that don't detox well herx when they use them. My reaction to the full body soaks like that were so severe that I would rarely do one - I stuck to the foot soaks daily instead!

So that's good news!! Congrats!!

SailorKim
I know you do want to get better!! I meant that getting better, even without herxing, would also prove that it wasn't that other dastardly thing they were trying to diagnose you with! And your slight herx is a good sign that you really do have Lyme!! So hopefully, you too have a body that detoxes fine and you won't deal with any severe herxing!!

Sailor - Zithromax is the same as Azithromycin.

There's also Erythromycin.

Is it one of those two?

I haven't heard of arythromyacin.