Awaiting Western-blot results; started Biaxin--what else to do?

Hi worried,
So glad you are getting good treatment!

By all means start the baths -- they'll still do a lot of good. Yes, soak your whole body. You'll might want to limit how long you stay in at first, working up to 30 minutes.

A lot of us find taking a magnesium supplement and a Vit B complex to be very helpful. Taking the magnesium two hours away from the abx is usually recommended.

Rest and sleep are very important to healing as is stress reduction.

Happy healing!

Hi Worried!
Congrats on starting treatment!! I bet you are relieved to get started! As Springsjean has said - keep on learning about the infections you are fighting - it will be a benefit to you and your LLMD, as you will better understand the how's and why's of what your doc is having you do and you will be better able to explain to him/her what you are experiencing.

As for the supplements, like Achievinggrace said, most of us seem to be deficient in magnesium, and of course the B12 is good. You could also go through Dr. Joseph Burrascano's "Advanced Topics in Lyme Disease" - which can be found in our "New to Lyme?" thread or online - as he addresses what he believes those with Lyme Disease need for supplements. Of course, before starting any supplements, you should talk with your LLMD to be sure that none of them will interfere with your abx in any way! Also be sure that you are taking your probiotics at least 2 hours away from your abx as well.

You can most definitely start with the Epsom salt/peroxide baths!! Those are terrific! If you would like to only start with soaking your feet, that would be good, although the whole body soaks will detox you much better, as you are soaking a lot more skin that way. A word of caution though - As Achievinggrace warned, be sure to start slow! For me I had to start off with only staying in the bath for 10 minutes - if I stayed in any longer it was a guaranteed migraine, so it's best to start slow and see how you handle the bath.

For the dry skin brushing, yes you can start with just using a 'shower puff' to start. The brushes that we encourage members to use can be found in Walmart or other discount stores frequently.

A word of encouragement - stick to your treatment and detoxing - no matter how good you feel, until you and your LLMD decide together that you no longer need treatment. Plenty of people relapse and have to start 'all over' because they have felt better and stopped their treatments and stopped detoxing - you sure don't want to have to go through all of that unnecessarily!!!

So hang in there and stick to your treatments and detoxing and you will have a lot more 'good days'!!!