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Posted 5/10/2016 12:03 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Everyone!

I’m a new member here and will give a short background to introduce myself before diving into my question.

3 Years ago I found a tick on me, but didn’t really think much about it. A year later I started having “Mystery” symptoms, and a month ago I was diagnosed with Lyme. Since then I have started treatment via antibiotics.

Sometimes I feel good, sometimes I feel worse, and only starting to learn now about the half of the fight against lyme :(

I found a lot of great resources and detoxing advice, however being very new to this I was wondering if anyone has any tips on where to begin? I read that doing too much can make you feel worse, so I’m trying to create schedule that will allow me to slowly detox.

This is what I was thinking:

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Morning:
-Wakeup and have some water with lemon
-Exercise
-Breaky / Medication / Vitamins

10:00am
Diatomaceous Earth - to suck up whatever toxins were removed during the morning ‘detox’ of lemon water and exercise

12:30: Lunch/Probiotics

3:30 Detox tea with Milk Thistle

6:00 Alternate Epsom Salt Bath, and Foot Bath every other day

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Would be really grateful to get some opinions.. for example if you feel this is too much and I should try one thing at a time? I’m also planning to drastically change my diet, so if anyone has done anything similar to this I would love to hear other’s thoughts and experiences when they first started the detox. Thanks for any help and insights in advance!
Posted 5/10/2016 1:52 PM (GMT 0)
A couple of other easy to do anytime detox methods are apple cider vinegar. As a salad dressing component or just a couple tablespoons alone or in water.

Another one I like is dry brushing. It feels so good before a bath.

One more is lymph massage. /www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA-wi0d7-Ro

On the massage she says do it 50 times. Start with only 10 and work up. I found 50 too much for me the first time. Too much drainage and I became woozie.

And welcome here!!! You have come to a great place for information.
Posted 5/10/2016 2:39 PM (GMT 0)
Just to mention - I love Diamataceous Earth, but it may interfere with medication, so should be taken at least 2 hours before or after. So your schedule, akreative, depends on what time breaky/meds is. Personally, I prefer to take my DE first thing, then breaky/meds etc 2 hours later.
Posted 5/10/2016 3:56 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Akreative!
Welcome to our community! I"m so glad you found us!

If you haven't ​yet​, it would be helpful for you to start with reading through the thread at the top of the forum titled,"New to Lyme?...Start here!!", as it is packed full of important information, symptom lists, helpful links and pdf's, how to detox when one has these infections, information on probiotics and much more. And this is another good list of possible detoxing routines: www.tiredoflyme.com/detox-methods.html Detoxing for us is an incredibly important part of our healing.

First I'd like to echo Celeste's warning about making sure you take any and all binders at least 2 hours away from anything you wish your body to absorb. Binders absorb everything they come into contact with, not just toxins.

I too like dry skin brushing, as it actually encourages two forms of detoxing - both through the skin and by moving the lymph more.

I also like the apple cider vinegar as it acts as a digestive aid as well as helps to detox pretty much everything in the body from what I can tell.

You are being smart in not overdoing the detoxing. I suggest that you give yourself at least 3 - 5 days in between adding in each detoxing routine - some people need a lot more time to allow their body to adjust to the extra detoxing, so take your time and go slow.
Posted 5/11/2016 2:38 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you guys for your responses, this is very helpful!
I'll definitely try the dry brushing before bath, and try each step with a few days in between :)

I felt pretty hopeless when I first started doing research on lyme, in fact I spent a whole day crying because I thought I would never feel normal again.. but being here and lurking around learning more has given me a lot of hope!
Posted 5/11/2016 3:23 PM (GMT 0)
As you help your body detox, help it get balanced again and start treatments, there will be bad days, but you will also begin to see improvements as well! Hang in there and do be sure to keep asking questions!!
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