Coughing?

So Monday I started taking artemisinin again. 500 mg twice a day. I've taken it before but I over did t. Because by my fourth dose Tuesday night I felt terrible then at 4 AM Wednesday morning I woke up from coughing and really, vivid dreams. I neve got back to sleep. I felt like I was going to puke or pass out all day. My muscles ached all over, (which I know is Babesia.) I got a bloodspot rash. (Anyone know what I'm talking about?)
I keep on coughing at night in my sleep though. My grandmother came in my room at 3 AM because she thought something was wrong last night. I was sweaty and having another weird dream.
Is this a new Babesia symptom?

I have those blood spots all over my body, they have broken out EVERYWHERE since about a month or less ago and they just keep coming. I've seen it related to Babs or Bart, but I thought the night sweats were specific to Babs perhaps? My spots only started when I started using OLE which is has antibacterial/antifungal/antiinflammatory, among other properties.

Mine are under the skin, bright red, don't itch or bother me at all and are about the size of pinpricks at first, but the ones on my torso, or close to the torso, are bigger. I think it's a herx reaction, and when I take the epsom salt/hydrogen peroxide baths they turn rusty red for a bit but then go back to the bright red if I don't do it every day.

Tickbite-
No, like someone poked me with a needle. Just tiny pin-prick size blood spots under my skin all together in a cluster. Sometimes they are more spread out, like down my arm. They never get any bigger.
Thanks mustard seed, people look at me like I'm crazy when something strange happens like nighttime coughing and vivid dreams and I say it's the diseases. They probably think I attribute everything to the diseases but I just remember that it causes coughing. It's just strange that it's really only at night.
My lungs are sore and my throat hurts. I stopped the Art for a while and I'll try some baths and detox tea and take it easy.

Post Edited (Violet Thomson) : 6/23/2016 7:36:03 AM (GMT-6)

Also remember to pulse the Art if you aren't already.

We know that after several days, your body is only absorbing a fraction of the herb you put into your body, because of enzymes we make against artemisinin. So best to only do 4-7 days at a time and then take 4-14 days off.

Per Buhner the counteraction does not occur with artemisia annua. Nor do you have to pulse the artemisia. Perhaps you may want to try this one instead.

Violet Thomson said...
Mustard seed- I stopped taking it for that reason. Something happens in your gut to counteract the Art. ? Anyway, I'll start pulsing. I think I'm going to do 3 days on and see how I feel and determine if I'll stay off for 4 days or more. But should start with 250mg the first day, 500 the second, and 750mg the third or soemthing like that? Or should I just go full dose for three days and grin and bear it and detox?. Is there a better option of the two?
Thanks!

Well I guess it depends on how severe you'd rate your initial reaction at 500mg BID.

Honestly, if it was me, I'd go straight back to 500mg for a 4-5 day pulse.
Herxes make me think I'm doing something productive.
Let's hit this stuff!

Detox lots too of course.

Then, for the next pulse, if my reaction wasn't too bad, I'd up it. I wouldn't go much higher than 750mg BID personally.

If you're initial reaction was unbearable, then start at half the dose for a pulse, and then next pulse bring it back up.

That's just what I'd do though, you have to listen to your body.

Violet - yes, our intestines can develop an enzyme that kills the Artemisinin if you stay on it for too long.

I just finished my 4th round of Art. I am doing 4 days on and 10 days off.

It must be pulsed...just different ideas on how many days you can stay on it.

I started my first round:
Day 1 - 2 caps twice daily
Day 2 - 3 caps twice daily
Day 3 and 4 - 4 caps twice daily (100 mg per cap)

Round two:
Day 1 - 3 caps twice daily
Day 2 & 3 - 4 caps twice daily
Day 4 - 5 daps twice day


Round three:
Day 1 - 4 caps twice day
Day 2,3,4 - 5 caps twice day

Round four:
Day 1,2,3,4- 5 caps twice daily

Round five - hasn't happened yet...but plan on doing 4 caps three x daily.

I herxed on Day 3 of the first round - in the middle of the night - shivering, and very emotional...woke up crying.

Lesser herxing on the following rounds....but am having a lot of pain the past few weeks...so maybe it's toxins building up.

*** LLMD MR - recommends starting low and increasing to 500 mg 3 X day.
From what I've read 1500 mg daily is a high dose. I am going to try the 1200 mg. next round.

Girlie- that sound like a good schedule. Have you see any improvement? The Babesia and Bart are seriously a pain.
Funny you mentioned the emotional herxing. On Mepron 2 years ago I would cry for hours or days on end over things that normally wouldn't upset me. I think it gives me some anxiety too. (Like I freak out that there's going to be an apocalypse or I'll never get better or everyone hates me and I hate them. It's stupid)
Taking the Art two days this week, I was emotional, crying, and despairing which is part of the reason I stopped. But it's so difficult to tell if it's the disease or you sometimes when other things are going on in my life. (Such as one person this week asked if I'd go on disability, two people bothered me about getting a job, and one person said "you're not sick.") (I hate being non-productive so it's like a punch in the gut when people accuse me of being lazy.) So I obviously had some things to be upset about. But the emotional herxing in my opinion is the WORST. I'd rather deal with feeling crappy than anything else.
Did anything help you with the emotional herx besides serious detoxing?