Will stopping ABX for a day hurt?

No, as long as It’s not a repeated pattern.

On that note, drs will have some take a month off after you’ve been on abx for five or more months. This is to help liver and trick the infection.

Good luck figuring out what is killing what as abx itself can make most feel crappy.

astroman you had a hard time differing from abx reactions and dieoff?

Yeah, I understand that multi abx are needed for pulsed therapy. I think clairithomycin is hitting something but anxiety, agitation, spaceness are all side effect symptoms or herx symptoms. I would like to opt for are a diffrent combo if it means it works better for me. Just curious. I been detoxing my tale off and no little change. Maybe I just need to be calm and carry on

I used the shotgun technique, 3 abx at a time and 5-6 total different ones. My dr believed in hitting it hard, take a break, then repeat. Plus I had herx type symptoms for five continuous months. And I have quite a few known gene detox issues., but liver tests were used for monitoring.

As one can see, the above can present confusion. Some things you just can’t accurately analyze.

I also used the herb “HH” , can’t spell it, which I made into tea which is mostly for Bart. That stuff hits hard after about 5 -7 days delayed reaction. I thought of doing it again just as s test, but don’t want mess up my good health I’ve had for a few years now.

Whatever the case, I feel better and that’s the goal. And my thyroid med need leveled after 20 years, which was prob more from gluten free though.

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Must be having a day! I know im only on one abx right now. Is it possible to have brain herx with in 4 hour of ingestion of clarithyomcin? Ever sInce I started this drug I only had minimal improvement and it feels like I been herxing to some degree for the entire month. Brains symptoms and inflammation. I know I need to be patient but these brain symptoms suck. I did feel alot better before starting Clarytho. I wanted to give it a month to see what would happen. I feel like I have been a detoxing machine. Maybe thats the problem I am detoxing two much.

Detox
100-200mg of coq10
chorella 1 tsp 2xday
3-5000mg of vitimanc with quticerne
lots of lime and lemon water
6-10 grams of inistol
NAC 1-3000 mg
Tri Fort Lipo glut 1- 3 servings a day
Braggs apple cider vinagar
dandelion root
milk thistle
Kudzu
activate charcoal at night
fish oil
Will calrytho kill any bart or lyme in the brain? I wonder if I should call my llmd and discuss Rampfin instead of Ceftin. Will Ceftin have any effect on bart or is it exclusively a Lyme treatment. Maybe I have mast cell going haywire in the brain or autoimmune encephalitis.

No just two pills right before I go to bed. I usually pass it in the morning.

I did take it for long periods of time before I started abx. I then stopped for a month and had a hellish few weeks on clairytho. I started using again because of the need to do anything I can to detox. I either in a month long herx or its the drug. I do have some H1 and two blockers I am going to take. I dont feel comfortable taking Mukolast I think it called because of the black box warning. When you have involved psych symptoms its hard to take things that potential make you worse. Christianwithlyme how are holding up on the ramfpin?

I'm holding up okay but do think I'm being affected by it and feel pretty rough right now. Not sure how long I'll stay on the 300mg Rifampin 1x day but would like to have some relief before I build to a higher dose. Having some worse head, neck, and brain symptoms right now.

isitlyme, Did you see progress with this method? I wanted to ask if it would be wise to titre up the Cefuroximne Maybe start with a half a pill? Is it a tough ABX that causes a lot of herxing? The reason I ask is because Clarithomycin was a doozey. The herx was tough on it. I know most of my symptoms are brain related and trying to avoid a monster herx. Or I roll the dice and dive in head first.
ChristianWithLyme did you have a lot nuero Bart?

Woodduck12 said...
isitlyme, Did you see progress with this method? I wanted to ask if it would be wise to titre up the Cefuroximne Maybe start with a half a pill?

I tolerated cefuroxime well, but everybody is differente, its wise to start low and slow. Pulse dosing allowed me to tolerate side effects and herx better, i herxed and continue to herx with the pulse method. But sometimes i have to stop when symptoms get to strong as i said before, for 3 days or more. I just listen to my body and dont push it to far. I also take valproate, acetaminophen, melatonin when things get worse. I am also taking gabapentin and Pregabalin as needed, would not handle the neuro herx without them.

i dont take them together i take gabapentin regularly and add lyrica when thing are worse. Altought gabapentin hits the calcium channels in the brain like lyrica, lyrica is more selective to the same channels than gabapentin and its more potent. In my case, Gabapentin takes more time to have an effect, but it calms down my nerve pain on the legs and feet, where lyrica does not, on the other side, Lyrica relieves the my neuro pain in my head faster and better. So, i use them both since they have different effect on different parts of my body. I use lyrca only on emergencies for neuro pain. I try to use the lowest dose possible tough. I also use valproate to blow all the panic backgound caused by the herx. I am well armed against the killers inside my body. But i use them wisely.