Just started the Buhner protocol

I just got Lyme bite last week and am on antibiotics and just started the Buhner protocol last night. I read his whole book yesterday. SO GOOD.

I had a rough day yesterday and I did feel the antibiotics were possibly not working so great because I started to have a stiff neck and headache last night. But I took the Japanese knotweed for first time around 8pm and then a few of the others in the protocol. By 10 I felt a lot of relief. This morning I took my chances and took every single herb in the core protocol except the cytokine inhibitors because I couldn't get them locally and had to order online (missing red sage and skullcap). My joint pain is completely gone today it seems, for the first time this week. I also feel more energy.

The japanese knotweed is great. I am so happy to have a book source like Healing Lyme to rely on and love that it's just been recently updated in 2015. I feel so, so much better today than yesterday. Still doing a full dozen or more detox protocols both morning and night. So thankful to God for wisdom and plants!

Wow are you brave! Most of us had to go slow in adding in herbs. You are super herber!!!

So glad it is working for you. I love buhner's and healed on his protocol.

Just don't stop. Well, until you are totally symptom free for a couple of months.

Yeah for good news!!!!

Going slow is probably less of an issue when you first get sick. Most of the autoimmunity that results in herxheimers doesn't kick in for a few weeks after the onset of illness. That's the time it takes to form antibodies. Unless there is a past exposure.

But good on you for going Buhners route. I wish more people would, especially early on when preventing dissemination is critical. I just don't trust a mere bacteriostatic like doxy to do what these plants can. At least not in isolation.

I have no idea if 11 months of abx have done anything for me--they don't seem to have hurt, though. However, the herbs have had an immediate effect--especially ashwagandha and J. Knotweed. Wish I had listened to my gut and started Buhner from the getgo. Im going to go on the full protocol very soon.

I've had no issues so far with the herbs. I'm swallowing a lot of pills 3x a day but otherwise I'm great. If I am late on taking them, I can feel it immediately. As in my joints hurt and I feel fatigue, it's so wierd.

If you click on my blog you can see a picture of ones I'm taking, I just posted for the first time about my Lyme. Also as I posted elsewhere if you see areas I should change something, let me know. I have two that were backorderd (the Chinese Sage is so hard to find, and so is the Chinese Skullcap) and so I haven't even taken those yet, sad to say.

Can't wait until they get here.

I got my Red Sage and Skullcap on Amazon and from hawaii pharm - but I got tinctures. I got tired of all those gelatin pill capsules 3 times a day on the protocol and all my supplements and vitamins...

Just toooo many pills for me.