Please Help!

I do get pressure in my head...and it's a lot worse when I take the Mepron.

Especially this time around as I'm on 2 tsp twice daily (on the days I take it)

I HATE the head pressure. But in my eyes, nothing is worse than the anxiety and depression! I am feeling SO much better today! Could it really be this quick? I just skipped last night and this morning's antibiotics dosages, took the eleuthro, the Kudzu and the Herx formula. Seriously--SO much better. I don't want to die, and I'm not crying at work. Still bone-tired, have the aches and pains in my knees and other places. Maybe a tiny twinge of anxiety. But so much better! Four different church congregations are supposed to be praying for me. Maybe that's it. LOL But do ya'll think I could clear the toxicity enough to improve that much so quickly?

Walking--I don't think I've had my hormones tested. My naturopath ran about 10 vials of tests in March, but I can't remember which tests she ran. I know my inflammation levels had supposedly decreased. That's all I remember. Re research--don't bet me started. This is an epidemic, and they should be dedicated BUCKETS of money to figure out how to combat it!

I'm very glad you're feeling better today. Also glad to hear you have so many folks praying for you. What a blessing!

If I were you, I'd keep taking the stuff you took last night and see if it continues to help.

You can try taking nothing for a few days and see what happens. I'll tell you what happened to me.

I got sick in December and took Augmentin for 7 days for a sinus infection. I lost the little progress I'd made with my joint and foot stiffness. Then I started getting awful tissue pain and feeling inflamed all over. My head symptoms diminished in the weeks following while my body pain and weakness got exponentially worse. I continued with my Buhner herbs and kept trying to increase doses. Nothing relieved my symptoms.

about 2-3 weeks ago after experiencing some alarming new symptoms of sudden onset of weakness, slight dizziness, and headaches that came and went, I got really sick one Tuesday with diarrhea and vomiting. Doctor thought it was as a stomach virus even though I told him it didn't feel like one. I stopped all my herbs and supplements that day and went on a liquid diet for 2 days followed by a soft diet for a couple days. Four days after the diarrhea, it happened again with just diarrhea that time.

While my gut was whacked out, I briefly stopped all treatment except berberine, licorice, and Bidens to keep hitting the gut bug. Symptoms got worse. I slowly added back reduced doses of knotweed and IHA formula and started feeling better. This was the first improvement I'd had since before I got sick in December.

I honestly don't know exactly what happened. I feel like the diarrhea/vomiting thing was getting rid of some kind of pathogen in my gut, but what exactly I don't know. After the second episode of diarrhea, I felt relief from the abdominal discomfort I'd had for months.

Now I'm back on most but not all my herbs, still at reduced dosages and still at only 2x day instead of 3. I feel like I'm herxing less but still have bad days mixed in with some good ones. Better than weeks/months of all bad days!!

You said earlier you went back on abx because you were not improving on the herbal protocol you were doing. Do you think you might have been doing too much too fast with the herbs and weren't improving because you were herxing?

I've been sick for years and not much of anything makes me feel better. I also have mold illness and HLA-DR genetic susceptibility to Lyme and multiple biotoxins. Maybe that's why I don't improve noticeably like others do. Maybe I have less tolerance for pain and can't handle the herxes. Hard to know. I just know I seem to respond differently than others and differently now than I did months ago.

Quitting isn't an option for me. I can't do nothing. Not after years of suffering not even knowing what was wrong with me. Now that I know at least some of what I'm dealing with, I am compelled to do something.

Your body is different now than it was the last time you treated. So what worked before may or may not work now. What your body tolerated before, it may not tolerate now. Don't feel discouraged about it, though. It's treatable. It just may take a different approach and a lighter (or heavier) hand. You might have to experiment a bit to figure out how to move forward, but you'll get there.

"I suppose I could have been herxing on the herbs. It kind of felt like I was just getting worse, though. Or not getting any better, at least. Didn't feel like a herx, but I can't be sure."

That's exactly how I felt until things changed after those diarrhea episodes.

Thank you so much for sharing about having diarrhea for 20 years and it went away after treatment. I have the opposite - lifelong constipation and then IBS-C with constipation that only responded to increasingly higher doses of magnesium citrate for 2.5 years up until this diarrhea happened. After the diarrhea, my bowels moved on their own for a number of days without magnesium. I have hope now that if I keep treating the infections that eventually, the constipation will be permanently fixed. I did have to get back on magnesium after eating more, but now I know it's fixable.

"I have found, too, that there is a direct correlation between how bad my bowels feel and how bad my head feels. If I have rumbling bowels and diarrhea, I will most likely have anxiety, depression, and difficulty concentrating, too. When my stomach feels good and my bowels are normal, my head feels clear and the sun is out in my brain. Have you noticed any correlation?"

Yes, I have. When my head or other parts of my body feel toxic or inflamed, I often feel inflammation in my intestines and wonder if it is toxins. Sometimes I have some slight burning when I have a bowel movement and suspect it's from toxins in the stool burning my skin.