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Posted 12/2/2015 2:20 PM (GMT 0)
Hi,

I'm suddenly (the past two weeks) experiencing what I think is gastroparesis. Nausea, occasional vomiting, no appetite, very slow feeling bowels (but they are still moving). I have always, all my life had hypermobility so this is really different. I get worse as the day goes on and so far have vomited always after dinner and doxy. I have POTS and am on blood pressure meds that dry me out and have lowered my doses as much as I can, increased magnesium and vitamin c. My llmd thinks this is because we are hitting the Lyme after 2 months on doxy. Does that make sense? Any ideas on what to eat, supplements to take, anything, welcome.
Posted 12/2/2015 3:50 PM (GMT 0)
What has your doc proposed for treating this? If you can't keep your last dose of Doxy down, how can you be treating much of anything???? That means you are only getting half of your dose each day.

The most basic thing you can do to improve digestion is fresh ginger tea, 3 times a day - sweetened with honey or stevia. It will help with nausea, vomiting, and digestion if done often enough. I've had to rely on this many times - and still do any time my digestion is off.

If your doc is right and it's all because you are hitting the infections, then this is your herx. So do increase your detoxing as much as you can.

Eat small, frequent meals - eating 4 - 6 times a day will keep the stomach from having "too much" food in it. Be sure to use ginger tea before eating and it will help your digestion from the start. Preparing your stomach to accept food, and in the digestive process as well.

Increase your magnesium to help keep your bowels moving. Remember, lots of toxins are removed that way - not "going" daily will mean that the body is reabsorbing toxins.
Posted 12/2/2015 4:12 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks, Trav. The vomiting is intermittent. The Dr didn't propose anything but extra magnesium citrate. The ginger tea sounds good as do small meals. I had a brief bout of this before my Lyme diagnosis. It ended up with severe stomach pain and TPN (IV) feeding for six weeks. I'm very scared.
Posted 12/2/2015 4:57 PM (GMT 0)
I had gastroparesis for a while, but it's 99% gone now. Liquid breakfast and low fiber meals helped me. I used to have an Orgain shake for breakfast, since I was the only organic meal replacement shake I could find. When I drank it, the chocolate was the best flavor. They have a milk version and a plant milk version.

I'd take the Whole Foods brand ginger capsules. I think it was 2 with meals. Veggie and fruit smoothies are good and helped things move. When things were really bad, I'd drink aloe juice (aloo brand) or have a big bowl of apple sauce.

At its worst I had to rely on colace and chocolate smooth move tea to get things moving. I only did that once a week, since too much of that can mess things up more.

Thorne makes a couple digestion supplements and one of them really helped, along with Lyme herbs. I can't remember which supplement it was. I think it starts with a "b"....biogest maybe?
Posted 12/3/2015 12:01 AM (GMT 0)
Doxy is very hard on the stomach, so you may wish to speak to your doctor about switching to minocycline or tetracycline, neither of which cause the stomach issues that doxycycline does, and both are equally as effective in combating Lyme/Bartonella as doxycycline.

If the digestive upset diminishes, then there's your answer.
Posted 12/3/2015 12:10 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you all for the helpful responses.
Posted 12/3/2015 10:52 AM (GMT 0)
Hello Lymie Lyme,
I am also taking Doxy and at the beginning I was throwing up all over the place in the beginning.I am taking now 2x/day Omeprazole(because of MCAD) and also taking small meals togheter with it .And never eat a during the day.That helped.
But, of course you can change to Minicycline, of course, after discussing it with your LLMD.
All the best to you.
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