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I cannot believe that your LLMD has no answers. You poor thing. I remember having pain in my foot. It felt like I had a piece of glass in there. Hurt like heck.

I sure would be on the phone again asking for an emergency appointment with him. Tell them you only need 5 minutes.

Roxy, there is no such thing as a false positive. Those bands cannot react positively unless there is something that positively makes them react. Nothing is the same as lyme for it to be a false positive. So sorry.

There are people that just do not do well with antibiotics. Other than GI problems, I noticed absolutely nothing from antibiotics. I switched to herbs and then I felt changes. First great thing was that stupid head pain went away. Glory to Heaven I finally quit crying in pain. The rest just slowly went away and they were so minor to the head pain that one day I just looked back at my journal and then realized my neck didn't hurt, I could swallow and my ears weren't plugged. This is why I encourage people to write a journal. The small daily changes can be huge someday.

cd, one of the mods here, is super knowledgeable about thyroid. Here you will find some posts discussed about thyroid. Sorry I am not of more help.

www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=3591881

www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=3570144

www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=3599158

Thanks for the replies. Im on minocycline, azythromycing, amoxicillin and grape seed. The nerve pain started before i new i had lyme august of 2014 after a flu vaccine. when i went to mayo clinic they did all kinds of testing and elisa positive with band igg 41 band positive. had h pylori treatment failure x2 than gave me prylera pack that has flagyl for 4 days and the neuropahty intesified. the neurologist blamed the exacerbation on the flagyl and said i went from an immune reaction from the flu vaccine to now a toxic neuropathy due to flaygyl.

I dont suffer from brain fog,no headaches, no fatigue. my main symptoms are burning pain to forearms, feet and legs, twitching, heat sensations and flushing to chest on occasions. i feel like i dont fit the lyme diagnosis even though im positive. and hence the reaction to the armour thyroid was obvious i feel maybe its hashimotos attacking my nerves. I really cant explain what went wrong neither my LLMD. He is from Wash. Dr. M.R.

How come i havent seen any improvements and now worsening after the armour thyroid. Im so depressed thinking i might have a wrong diagnosis and need to look at other things.

Oh and if I were you I would make sure that your medical records (and close loved ones) are very aware that you had a reaction to Metronidazole. And this drug can be in pylera or go by many other names like Metrogel, Flagyl, Noritate, MetroCream, Rosadan, and MetroLotion.

>>The burning feet etc are classic Bart symptoms. It's common for co infection symptoms to come to the forefront as we get 4-6 months in to treatment.

My Bart didn't manifest itself in my chest or lymph nodes until 1 year into treatment. What the heck were those nasty little ******s doing while I was flooding my system with antibiotics to go after Lyme and Babesia some of which are effective against Bart? Oy.

Yes, some LLMD's do prescribe a tetracycline with a macrolide to treat Bart sometimes (mino or doxy plus biaxin or Zithromax)...It is one of Dr. M.R. Protocols...BUT..many of us are on a combo like that when treating Lyme...and have to switch to something else to treat bart, as often it does not effectively treat Bart.

I know a couple people who were successful treating Bart with doxy and azithromicin..in both cases they had Lyme disease for less than a year..maybe that makes a difference?

Flagyl has my vote...hope you find relief. ..