Feel better with herbs but severe headaches have started back at night

It may be a herx of meningitis symptoms - the serious neck pain and headache would describe my basic symptoms of meningitis symptoms that I get once in a while.

What happens if you skip a dose? Have you tried experimenting with that at all? Or, what are you doing for detoxing? As these always hit you at night, it could be a daily accumulation of toxins or diet slip ups - but it may be just a symptom pattern for you. If so, I'm so sorry - those headaches are miserable.

I had horrible head pain. I never could call it headaches because, like you, it was so very different than any headache I had ever had.

I finally found a couple of things helped and I can't pinpoint ONE thing. I think it probably was the combo I was doing. 1. Japanese Knotweed for inflammation. 2. Red Root for the lymph system. 3. Lymph massage (super gently!!!) and 4. Benadryl (children's liquid so I could take a more definite dose, in my case very little).

It was certainly a challenge to find out what worked and my head pain was my huge big first symptom and was ultimately the last to go.

I too was given all kinds of drugs to try for the head pain, including narcotics. And all the brain scans and testing for tumors, etc.

Just stupid old lyme.

Here is the link to the lymph massage I did. As I said, I did it super slow and gentle. She says in the video do it 50 taps.... I do not suggest doing it that on the get go. Do 10 and see how you feel that day. I did 50 and felt horrible. It was too much, too fast for my lymph system.

/www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA-wi0d7-Ro

All good information and ways to look at all this.

The headaches are bad, but seeing improvements is good. And at least they do not happen at work or when I am with my kids. Funny how with this the perception of blessings change .

I detox with lemon water each day, dry skin brushing each day, exercise (but much wimpier than I used to), even getting body warmer with hot showers and going outside in heat walking around. Been trying activated charcoal, but it does not make me feel better, as many people have said. feel much worse.

Japanese Knotweed is in the Rawls mix, and I do try children's Benadryl, as Laker and PeteZa mentioned. I just try to limit it, but it does help me sleep when no headahce happens.

With the headaches has come some daytime dizziness. Not severe, but it is there. So I can tell something has changed. Most of all, a lot of the anxiety and depression seems to be going, though hand tingling and some feet are there.

I have read tingling and headaches are often the last to go, as mentioned.

Good news is night before last I watched "The Caine Mutiny" from 3:30-5:30 a.m. Great movie. And last night a bad episode of "Walker Texas Ranger." Then again, they're all so bad they are good.

PeteZa - I realized, years later, headaches were also the first sign for me waaay back in 2002. So you saw symptoms slowly leave off and on before feeling as you do now? I can tell you as bad as the headaches seem, I can take them in place of the severe anxiety/depresion anytime.

Traveler, I don't know what tests my doctor is proposing since I haven't seen her yet. I guess I thought I remembered reading somewhere that you could test to see if your Lyme was in remission. Apparently, I misread or maybe it was just wishful thinking.


Runningwild, I saw this on pinterest. I looked for the article but couldn't find it, but that's not unusual for pinterest. Just thought you'd like to see it.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/496803402627972617/