Detoxing

I am still unsure of what treatments to do for my chronic Lyme. I have been to rife machine 3 times and after 90 minutes last time, had a terrible reaction which lasted over a week. This is my question-- how many detox methods should I use together. If I do epsom salt baths with peroxide, should I also do alka seltzer gold with lemon, infrared sauna etc. can one do too much detoxing.. this is all just so confusing and scary...
Some tell me if I do antibiotics, I will get worse and have seizures, some say go very slow so herxing doesn't occur, others say, if no herxing occurs, I won't get well..
Also, can anyone recommend a medical grade infrared sauna?
Thanks so much and blessings to all

Are you working with a LLMD? Where do you live? Is your Lyme chronic?
Thanks for sharing and I am so happy you are doing well...(:

You do not have to herx to get well. I am one, and so is my husband, that did not herx. But, we eat super clean and organic. We detoxed way before we ever had lyme. Fermented foods are a daily in our home. We do lemon water and have for years before we ever got lyme.

Balance is the most important thing. You want to get your body in balance. So you are fighting the spirochetes and detoxing at a balance. If you do one too much, you will herx. You can actually make yourself sick by detoxing too much also.

Overdoing anything is not good.. whether it is too much sugar, too much fun or too much stress or too much carbs... balance is the key to healing.

Sorry-computer changed my words-Herx and Herxed

Cokie, I took herbs and I am healed or in remission. Hubby got lyme after I healed and he just quick taking anything yesterday. He says if symptoms come back he will start up again.

I am 66 and in super health. We both eat very good and mostly organic. We both are very active, like you.

Because I am so very healthy and active, I knew right away that something was "wrong" with my body. I went to my GP and he diagnosed me with a sinus infection. I did not argue, my head hurt so badly. But, I KNEW it was not a sinus infection. I asked him to give me a lyme test and he did. My Elisa test from Quest lab came back negative.

I researched and knew I needed a LLMD. I went to him and he gave me an Igenex lyme test and I was positive. He gave me antibiotics and I got sick to my stomach even with all the crackers and ginger ale drinks I could consume.

I had to find an alternative, so I went with Beyond Balance herbs suggested from my 2nd LLMD. And then I found Buhner's books and decided to add in his herbal protocol.

I have been symptom free for over a year now. But, it was a long slow process even though I was diagnosed rather quickly compared to others.

And thank you Traveler for your great advice and support. Your dedication to this group and your knowledge is greatly appreciated. I need to quit whining and worrying and decide on a plan. I have a phone conference with Dr Jay Davidson this afternoon..praying for some resolution in my mind....

Cokie, my Mom lives in SLO! what a co-inky dink. I was not satisfied with my first LLMD, so I went to another. He and I got along so much better. I think it was because he and his wife had lyme and so he could relate to my symptoms. When I said I had anxiety and depression all at the same time, he knew what I meant.

His wife could not take antibiotics and I told him I did not want to suffer taking them, so he had used Beyond Balance products to heal his wife, so I used those.

But, being a type A, driven personality, I did not think Beyond Balance was going fast enough, so I added in Buhner's protocol. I bought his books and did this all on my own.

How I got lyme -- I was at a Women's bible study group luncheon. We were on a huge concrete patio around a wonderful swimming pool. It was April 29th, 2015. We had long flowing white table cloths on all of the tables, about 10 tables - we are a huge group. There was a little dog and a cat running around in and out from under those table cloths. At the end of the luncheon I helped by gathering up all of those table cloths for the laundry room. I cradled them in my arms.

That evening I was taking a shower and saw a bite mark on my inside forearm. I live in the forest and bugs live here too. So I just shrugged it off. It did not itch, it was just there. But after 3 days, it was still there and circular. I never had seen a bull's eye before. I have never been bitten by a tick before.

After 3 weeks the bull's eye was still there but finally fading.

Then a month later or so I went over to a girlfriends house and we were drinking quite a bit and being goofy old women. I drank way too much for me and I was hung over the next day. My first symptom was my neck hurt. I thought I had slept wrong. I knew it would go away. It didn't. Then I got the headache. Then my ears were plugged up as if I were in a little Cessna airplane. I knew then that something extreme was happening to my body. Something I had never had before. It took me sometime before I related it all to the bite mark on my arm.

And that's how it happened. As for hubby, last November he got tinnitus. We both thought it was age related possibly. The minute his neck hurt and shoulder, I started him on lyme herbs. He would not go get a test. He said we could spend the $200 on herbs. He also knew that he had something weird and lyme was the only possibility. Either I gave it to him and it was dormant for awhile or he got bit doing yard work and had no bite mark.

He also did Buhner's herbs and just quit all herbs yesterday. He wants to see how his immune system takes over, since we both know we have to live with this forever. He wants to see if he can control it. If not, he says he will start all the herbs again. This is absolutely his choice. I even suggested a maintenance dosage. He will do what he wants to do. LOL

What a book I have written now.

For my stomach the best thing I did was bone broth. I got Pacific brand, organic turkey bone broth. I drank it warm, I put it as a soup base, hubby put it in his smoothies (yuck, but he liked it).

Best tummy fixer I know of. You can get it on Amazon ($13.95 for 32 oz) , but I found Vitacost ($5.79 for 32 oz) to be super less expensive. Walmart has bone broth also, but I have not priced it there. It is over an hour for me to go to Walmart.