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Mystery Illness

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Posted 9/4/2012 2:11 PM (GMT 0)

I posted a few days ago about really bad herxing. I'm still in rough shape. I can barely get out of bed I'm so sick. This is awful! I've been in this herx for 5 days. I'm detoxing as much as I can.
I'm on Keflex, Doxy, and Flagyl, big doses. I talked to my LLMD yesterday. He recommended stopping the Flagyl and Doxy for 5 days, staying on 1/2 the current dose of Keflex, adding 1/2 the current dose of Flagyl back in 5 days, and the 1/2 the current dose of Doxy in 5 days. He said that will give my body a rest and a chance to recover.
My question is this-if I do this, will I just be delaying an inevitable herx later? Will the Lyme build resistance to those antibiotics then? I have 2 young children-my husband took off work this week to help me through this. I will have babysitters here when he goes back to work, but I will still need to help more w/ the kids. I'm just wondering if I should stay on all meds. (but cut the dosage like my Dr. recommended) and try to get through this?

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Posted 9/4/2012 5:30 PM (GMT 0)

Definitely do as your doctor has suggested, as it will give your body a chance to catch back up with ridding itself of that toxin overload. It won't make the bacteria more resistant if it's not done all the time. Completely stopping and starting abx can build up the bacteria's tolerance, but that's not what you are doing and if you don't give your body a chance to catch up, your symptoms will get more and more severe.

Please continue detoxing as much as you can handle, without making your situation worse. Hopefully your body will be able to detox enough so that as you add those abx back into your routine, it won't be overwhelmed like that again.

Remember that a herx is a healing crisis - as the bacteria is killed off, it releases toxins that the body must get rid of. As the toxins back up in the body, the herx gets worse and the body can't heal while it's in crisis. So pushing through the herx -unless it's a very mild one - is never a good idea.

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