suddenly come off byron white formulas

Since my lyme diagnosis 3 years ago (got lyme as child but didn't know), I've used one form of treatment, the Byron White formulas A-L, A-Bab, and A-Bart. Every time I went up one drop I got sick for weeks so it took all 3 years to get to 20 drops twice / day of each.

This process was so difficult and I've been so single-minded about it, I almost didn't notice that in all of this time, I don't think I've gotten any better. If anything, I'd say there are ways I'm worse.

I just went to a new doctor (homeopathic as opposed to my current integrative doctor). He did energy testing on me, which I feel skeptical about, but what he said felt true to me. He also knows one of Byron White's colleagues and had a meeting with him about my case. He feels that it's safe to say these three formulas have not worked and thinks that if anything I might be reacting poorly to them... He wants me to come off all of them right away. He wants to tackle one infection at a time, beginning with babesia, and has started to put together a list of herbs he wants me to take. He does want me on Byron White formulas, but only the detox ones.

This feels like a drastic change in treatment plan which is scary.. But also I think it might be time for a change. I went ahead and came off the Byron Whites a few days ago and started the first new anti-babesia herb, artemisinin. So far I can't say anything definitively.

I'd truly appreciate any ideas anyone has about my situation. Is is crazy to come off my hard-won dosages so quickly? Will I potentially lose ground with the infections?

I had crazy insomnia last night... Not sure if it could be from coming off the Byron Whites, starting the artemisinin, or is just Lyme Disease.

Artemisinin causes awful insomnia for me, so I take it very early in the morning.

Our daughter didn't do well with A-L (no response positive or negative) or A-Bart (severe herxing with no obvious improvement) either. I often wonder if it was because we weren't using the detox formulas. Our LLMD didn't prescribe them.

I just did 6 rounds of liposomal artemesinin. It is very strong stuff and caused, during the first 3 short rounds, terrible depression where I never had that before. And I was crying non-stop. Totally uncharacteristic and awful.

It did get better.

I highly rec you try some smilax/ sarsperella (30 drops in water twice a day) to help brain detox. Helped me a lot.

Also, i don't know whether you tried abx but it sounds like you have only done herbals so far. Would strongly recommend doing both, if you can.

Wishing you love and healing.

Hi marigold I was on artimisaie along with Zithro/Mepron for 3 months and it improved my babesia symptoms sightly before starting to lose effectiveness so I'd say I have a resistant strain (babesia duncani per lab results).

Recently I've been on ABAB and ABART for about 3.5 months. I started each with 15 drops 2x a day and upped it to 30 drops 2x a day and I can say it's had little to no effect on my symptoms. What has been most effective for me in dealing with babesia is the Omnicef/Tinidazole. The Tinidazole has broad spectrum affects against all 3 forms of Lyme and Babesia. I recently stopped the abx's due to a yeast overgrowth.

What's intriguing to me is Buhner's new babesia protocol that was just released in his new book a few months ago. There's a recent thread on this with Mister Mike where you can find the stuff. Might be worth bringing this up with your new LLMD to see their thoughts on it.

The ND who recommended the smilax calls it a neuro-cleanser. I have read it also has some effect on killing Lyme but it is really intended as a brain detox. This is also how I experienced it. I was able to buy it at my local health food store for around $10.