Samento

Hello, I'm back after a year of trying to detox mercury because of amalgams. I took Dr. Klinghardts advice of cleaning the body of mercury before attacking the Lyme and maybe that still is necessary but the Lyme is getting to be too much.
I stayed on Samento to keep the Lyme at bay while detoxing metals but recently I went off of the Samento for a month to try Kyolic and between those two things I got knocked on my but. I only do Kyolic every other day for the die off is just too much. My point is that I can not be off of Samento or I am absolutely miserable. I'm going to be getting more aggressive with killing the Lyme, keeping it at bay just isn't enough for me but has anybody else experienced this, not being able to go off of an antimicrobial without disastrous results?
Dan

Actually quite a few experience that. Samento is a pretty safe herb though and you should be able to stay on it until you are ready to try another protocol for treating Lyme, or add to it. Please always double check when adding in new supplements, herbs or meds to make sure that there won't be a bad reaction.

You do realize that herbs don't encourage the bacteria to go into hiding, right? You could easily use Buhner's or one of the other herbal protocols to help you heal. It still take a multi herb approach. If there was a super simple cure, we would all know about it by now.

And I do agree that detoxing your body has to be high on your list if you wish to heal, but there is so much more to it. And garlic isn't a good way to detox like you need to with Lyme. You need to get the toxins created by the bacteria out of your body, that's why we have a list of really good means of detoxing the body when the person is dealing with these infections in our "New to Lyme?" thread that sits at the top of the forum.

Oh, okay! That I understand. I can't use many pharma meds any more. Sorry for my misunderstanding of what you said about the Kyolic too!

Yes, after I was an abx failure, I decided I had nothing to loose using herbs. Good thing I did too, as I healed using them!! Although I recognize that what to use is a very personal decision, so I don't push my preference of herbs on anyone.

Chances are you have a very high bacterial load, and a very high toxin load since I now know your story - you are like me in that we both have had this most of our lives - and neither of us is 20 any more!! LOL!

I had to do a ton of detoxing - really make a serious thing of it daily - in order to keep up with the toxin loads I was dealing with. Then I started off with low dose herbs and worked my way up with dose sizes. It's long and it's tedious, but it works and it's not like we want to stay this ill!! I was originally just trying to make it so I could tolerate life again, the healing that came surprised both myself and my doc!