Probiotics and herb timing

When I first started treating lyme and co almost 4 months ago I didn't take any probiotics. I was ignorant to probiotics. This ignorance definitely did not help to say the least.

So for the first time I'm doing both. Taking herbs and taking multiple high quality, "live", natural (not synthetically made) probiotics.

How far a part should I be taking them to maximize the impact. I would hate to take these probiotics but then just cancel it out with herbs.

Thanks.

OK I guess now I need some clarification. I bought live cuters and my wife has begun growing them for me to drink a glass of LIVE probiotic "milks" I guess they are called since they grown from it, carbonated and all. I was under the impression I needed to take any herbs or medicine either 2 full hours before OR after probiotics. Is this wrong? It's really a pain for me to keep track of this given all the serious medication Needed on top of herbs I also need to take for chronic pain after 4 bullet & shrapnel wounds PLUS 6 spine fusions AND a Mastectomy all done in the same day....Oh and throw in the fact I am a male, AND turning 68 if God refuses to have mercy and let me die before February, and well, I guess you could say I confuse easily these DAZE (SP correctly in this case).

To be safe = even when I was on herbs only, I treated them like abx...and took the probiotics a couple hours away from them.

Just because they can also 'kill' bacteria...maybe I'm being overly cautious

Mike - I started a thread asking how you are doing....

I just read your post...and sorry to here no improvement...but you're not worse are you than prior to starting lyme treatment?

..and how long has it been 5 or 6 weeks?

It is sometimes very slow...hang in there.

I take mine directly after eating which is sometimes an hour or so away from my herbs.

I think 6 weeks now. 100% FULL dose now but only if you factor I take everything 3x per day. Some call for "up to" 6 times a day. I also now "roll my own"...oh wait, where am I....oh yeah, cap my own size 0 capsules for the herbs I added in which are now Houttuynia and Andrographis paniculata And today I also added in yet another but this time from a guy I met online who sells his tinctures on Etsy & eBay when his wife got sick and nothing he bought from (well I won't name names, but when nothing helped he began brewing his own tinctures and I now added Sida acuta tincture. NICE deal is, if you buy from his Etsy account it saves a bunch since he skips all those fees on Fleabay and passes the savings on.

Best prices I ever found and he seems very knowledgeable, spent a LOT of time guiding me on his opinion totally unlike the brush, RUDE responses to any simple question I ever asked Sage and after the 4th insult I bailed on them for good. When I spend over $300.00 in 3 weeks and get treated with arrogance and NO emails answered, well I refuse to support that. All they ever do is try to make me pay to get "private consultations" for HUNDREDS of dollars just to answer a simple question about an herb they sale? REALLY?

Anyway, this guy will make me up any custom stuff I need and go to 8 ounce bottles too so trying him for what I can't do otherwise on my own with my powders . I am 100% powders now and making capsules till my back gives out. Had a dumb idea actually. Thinking of mixing several of my powders in proper amounts of course, into ONE bown and then capping them into a single pill? Man I have to sometimes take 20+ pills 3 to 6 times a day and have more I want but have no money to buy?

In addition I also take
>>>Hawthorne
> >> Milk Thistle
> >> Houttuynia (Yu Xing Cao) (Powder)
> >> Source Naturals L-Arginine L-Citrulline Complex, 1000 MG pill
> >> Source Naturals EGCG 350mg from Green Tea pill

A few other things too I can't remeember
> >> Source Naturals L-Arginine L-Citrulline Complex, 1000 MG pill

Oh and thanks to YOU and Traveler I ordered 1TBSP Active Organic Milk Kefir Grains & Ebook: "Milk Kefir Unleashed" By Thomas Egbert from Fusion Teas at Amazon after reading his insane amount of 5 star reviews. Man they REALLY send you a TON of live culture! Now Trish has so much I am drinking this stuff all day but have to limit it to 1 or 2 cups their paperwork says. I think you ot Trav warned that too much can also mess me up. But hopefully those bacteria and doing the limbo with my bad bacteria?

So this is my deal currently as best I can remember What I STILL need but have no money for is:
>>Cryptolepis extract
> > Bidens pilosa extract
> > Uncaria Rhyncophylla extract
> > Sublingual B-12
> > B-5
> > Red Sage extract
> > Ashwagandha extract

You're welcome, grdner!


I hope we can help you along the way...please feel free to ask any questions you have...or if you need to vent - having a particularly bad day...or share when you're having a good day.

We lean on each other here...it's a great community.

Thanks again Girlie, it does feel like a great community and I do appreciate that. I have been sick a long time and to have company and support is awesome in the old sense of the word.

just to clarify - Florastor is a probiotic - and it's yeast based.

If you're fighting a yeast/fungal overgrowth you should take a different probiotic (not Florastor)

and - if you are taking antifungals as a preventative and don't have an overgrowth of yeast/fungal, make sure you take the anti fungal BEFORE the Florastor with a 2 hour buffer. (unless you're using Nystatin powder)