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Posted 1/8/2013 4:33 AM (GMT 0)
So a few good days and I think I'm in the clear. WRONG mad I started drinking Houyatunnia (spelling?) tea two days ago and then today I tried taking two doses of sida acuta tincture. I was a little more achy than usual but man oh man around 6pm my left shoulder started killing me. I couldn't even eat. I took two advil and an epsom salt bath. I feel a little bit better and am praying I wake up tomorrow on a good day. I haven't been supplementing as a lot have suggested on here. I drank a teeny bit of epsom salt dissolved in water (yuck - it tastes gross) so hopefully the magnesium will help. Are supplements really that important?

Please, please let this pain begone tomorrow!!

Could this be a herx from the acuta tincture or tea??
Posted 1/8/2013 7:52 AM (GMT 0)
Apart from suggesting the usual things like tumeric,rose hip and boswellia,here is a tip I got from my chiropractor.

Get a piece of rope or something similar,I use the belt from my bath robe,about 4 ft long and put it over or through a bath rail or a hook ,it has to be above shoulder level.

Hold the belt with both hands.
Pull the belt with the hand on your good side
Your bad side will automatically be pulled up,pull until your hand on your bad side is about
head level.
Let the good side slack so that the bad side comes down again.

Repeat this 10 times and do it every 2 hours.

Very simple but it really works.

You could also use magnesium spray directly on your shoulder.
Posted 1/8/2013 2:14 PM (GMT 0)
Ahh, yes, the Houttuynia tea!! Lovely stuff ...and very potent! I used Houttuynia for my Bart infection and it worked really well (as far as we can tell at this point anyway!)

When I was starting it, I was told to use 3 grams of the herb to 3 cups of boiling water and drink 1 cup three times a day. Well I started off by using 6 cups of water and couldn't even drink 1 cup without a horrible herx!!! shocked So I had to only drink 1/2 cup of the diluted tea for three weeks before my herxing would stop! LOL! That's when I learned how much my doc doesn't want me herxing!! LOL! She was kind of upset with me for allowing it to go on like I did!

I don't have any experience with the Sida Acuta though. From your description it does sound like a herx, but I would assume it's from the Sida Acuta from the timing of it.
Posted 1/9/2013 1:54 AM (GMT 0)
Like clockwork....so I started the Houttuynia tea, and the asida tincture and then I was very achy all day and in the pm a sharp pain underneath my left shoulder blade. Went to the dr. this morning who said it was a muscle spasm or pull. She prescribed me something even though I told her with a smile I wasn't going to take it unless it got really bad (I didn't even fill it).
So today, my shoulder still hurt, but less and it spread kind of to my neck/arm - but much less painful then yesterday. And now this evening...my throat is starting to get sore/ swollen lymph glands....hmm kind of sounds like clockwork, doesn't it?

The scientist in me is like well lets play this out and see how big your glands get and how long your glands are swollen for...and the other part of me (the baby) is like " GUUUUrrrrrUUL, are you craZy...you best take a detox bath and put that darn thieves oil on your feet and Maybe take that red root."

I have yet to use red root so I'm kind of scared with how I reacted (I think to the acuta or the h. tea)
Posted 1/10/2013 5:52 PM (GMT 0)
Blech. Still haven't felt great since. My throat was pretty sore for two days but is not so bad today. For the most part the shoulder pain has subsided as it spread and this morning a tendon from my neck was achy all the way up and my left earlobe was numb (weird right?) And then about an hour ago I got a fever and started feeling really weak.
I did take a detox bath last night but man, this blows. Anyone else have this type of pattern with a herx? (I didn't think they lasted for days...)
Posted 1/10/2013 6:24 PM (GMT 0)
opugirl,

Ii remember that Heather had ups and downs with her herxes. I would encourage you to stay warm, detox, and to be sure to have at least some gentle exercise every day to keep the blood and body fluids flowing. Eventually the herxes should become less intense.

Hang in there!

Don
Posted 1/17/2013 6:25 PM (GMT 0)
Last night my left shoulder started to ache,today it is torture!!!!!!!!!!

I can't raise it at all without experiencing the most horrendous stabbing pain that goes all down my arm.

What the heck is this?

The only thing I've changed in my protocol is the addition of Serrappeptase,surely this isn't the cause?

Does anyone know if it has such side effects?
Posted 1/17/2013 6:58 PM (GMT 0)
Yup that is the one. It was my subscapularis. I'm so sorry. I hope it gets better for you!
Posted 1/17/2013 7:02 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks for the kind words.

Are you feeling better?
Posted 1/17/2013 8:05 PM (GMT 0)
Sort of. I haven't been on anything except herbs and this week really started taking a toll. I couldn't sleep, I was nauseous. My muscles started whacking out - then my mind would go numb. The visit to the ER helped only b/c it showed a B12 deficiency so I knew I needed to get back on Doxycycline b/c I started going numb and getting really bad brain fog. (I had numbness in November and it went away with the doxycycline, slowly but it definitely went away). Man, oh man, the doctor today...O.M.G.Well I will go talk to ID doc on Monday and see what he has to say. And THEN I only have one more week to see LLMD THANK GOD!
Posted 1/18/2013 10:47 AM (GMT 0)
Sorry to hear you're not doing so well but it's good that you'll be seeing a doctor next week.Hopefully he will have some suggestions which will help.

Thankfully, I have never had many of the neuro issues,my problems have always been pain related.

Today my shoulder is much better,achey,but bearable.

It never ceases to amaze me the barrage of things that get thrown at us on a daily basis,it feels like you have to deal with tons of symptoms that don't seem to fit together.

That's Lyme,I suppose,everybody here has the disease but our complex symptoms are very individual.

Wishing you better times,hope the antibiotics help.

Tickled
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