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Posted 1/9/2017 9:56 PM (GMT 0)
Okay so I have lyme and bart and have been in treatment about a month and a half, I am a little better but not much. How long before you all made real gains. Also can you herx even if your meds haven't changed?
Posted 1/9/2017 10:00 PM (GMT 0)
Are you on a spirochete and cyst buster ...are you doing herbal ...?
It wasnt till i added many modalities 9 months to a year but i have been infected anywhere from 15 to 30 years. Iv abx ,bvt herbs, rife ozone silver all have helped
Posted 1/9/2017 10:01 PM (GMT 0)
I'm sure you'll get a variety of answers. Here's DS'. It took DS about 6 months to start having more "well" days. Until then it was super random and he would be sick for 2-3 days at a time.

Summer came and things turned around, partly because he was able to rest and not worry about school and schoolwork. Sometimes I think he had flares, not herxes, when the meds hadn't changed-perhaps it had to do with the life cycles of the bugs?

He always detoxes but we can't tell at all if it is helping - it seems he just has to wait it out. The sick days are now farther apart and last 24-36 hours - usually 24-28.

Hope you start feeling better soon.
Posted 1/9/2017 10:05 PM (GMT 0)
It's definitely different for everyone. We each have different bacterial/viral loads, possible detox impairments, different protocols, etc. Even those with similar protocols have different rates of healing.

So, please don't begin to fret over not making as much gains as others because we are truly different. You really haven't treated long at all.
Posted 1/9/2017 10:27 PM (GMT 0)
right now im just on 1500 mg of tetracycline compounded with lox oral, nystatin and mc-bar which is a herbal
Posted 1/9/2017 11:23 PM (GMT 0)
took a year before i started feeling better and that's cause my primary symptoms were bart related and i wasn't taking much to address it.
Posted 1/9/2017 11:57 PM (GMT 0)
Rikky1 do you mind sharing what you took to address the bart?
Posted 1/10/2017 1:59 AM (GMT 0)
My twin three months
Posted 1/10/2017 2:49 AM (GMT 0)
basically everything ;)

rifampin/cipro
stopped cipro swapped in doxy then biaxin (around 4 months)

bactrim/biaxin/tinidazole (around 3 months)

currently on rifabutin / minocycline / bactrim 4 days on/3 days off (about 3 months)

for me the bactrim had the biggest effect early on. clawing and scratching slowly on the current regimen slow but steady
Posted 1/10/2017 3:42 AM (GMT 0)
How quickly did you start treating from the onset of symptoms? This is a big significant factor.

From my experience and speaking to others that started treating lyme soon after symptoms (meaning 1-2 months) the first leap of recover was rather quick (relatively speaking) and significant. Like 0% to 60-80% within the first few months.

But then a plateau where things just kind of linger around but it's not necessarily intense (like in the beginning). Just nagging and annoying (and frustrating). This stage seem to last people 1 to 2 additional years. But the upside is it's tolerable and one can continue to live life pretty normally.

It's not a one size fits all experience of course but this is a pattern (not a guarantee but a pattern) I've noticed for those that have caught it relatively early.

And then of course a lot falls on how you are treating it and all of the supportive things you can do to speed up the recovery process. There's a lot to recover that is our responsibility. Simply taking prescribed abx (and that's it) and sitting around waiting for your body to heal, doesn't necessarily create the best results. All kinds of effective supportive things you can do as well.
Posted 1/10/2017 2:37 PM (GMT 0)
My treatment focused on the babesia for the first 6 months. I started feeling better 2 months after starting on doxy, so at the end of the 8th month. I was misdiagnosed for 6 years, and my symptoms are neurological.
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