Major Problems Coming Back

Have you had any of this done:
testing for heavy metals
testing for molds (this is bloodwork)
allergy testing
genetic testing for inability to detox molds properly
have you had some trauma happen in the past you have not been able to overcome? (death, divorce, serious relationship problems, natural disasters, war, accident, dysfunctional upbringing, etc.)

All of the above and more MAY contribute to your inability to get better. There is more, of course. But this is part of the picture.

I'm so sorry you're feeling so poorly. Are you doing anything for detox?

Hi lostman,

Sorry about the symptoms coming back :/. What specifically is giving you the most trouble?

It was really hard for me to keep weight on and I have had a lot of the skin issues as well and I had thin skin to begin with! Bone broths really helped that out for me, specifically beef and the fat I would drink too. I have almost no cellulite now and even though I lost a lot of the cushy skin its really coming back - though it is very slow progress.

Have you looked into alternative treatments?

~beth

Opugirl and Traveler - Tanks for your responses also. Couple of questions on points you brought up.

Opugirl - Was your weight loss form diet (drop in calories) or like a process in your skin. Looking back, mine began long before other symptoms and there are fine lines in my skin everywhere. A skin biopsy was performed that showed no Acrodermatitis Chronica Atrophicans (ACA) , but not sure what else it can be or if that tests is definitive.

Traveler - took a detox bath with epsom salt and peroxide this morning. With charcoal, should you avoid taking it with vitamins and antibiotics?

Thanks again.

For me, I tried to detox with lemon water and activated charcoal and I guess the level of toxin in me we was bad that I really didn't feel any better on those remedies or maybe with my body type they just didn't work that well.  I did try coffee enemas for the first time because I had all the symptoms you were having plus many more, and they were helpful to me.  They cut the depression nearly in half.  The funny thing was I would smell and ammonia smell when I did the enemas and thought that was really weird.  Later, I took a test that analyzined hundreds of metabolites within my body and I studied and looked up alot of the results - they all pointed to high ammonia levels in my body.  I continued to research this concept, and found that Dr. Jernigan and others find ammonia to be the primary neurotoxin in Lyme.  Up until that point, I had really never paid attention to trying to detox it. So it was really helpful for me to add in zeolite (I took it a couple of times a day for a month).  For me it was a marked turnaround. This is just my personal experience.  I am not saying that I know for sure ammonia is the primary neurotoxin (I haven't studied it THAT much! ) but for me it was a big deal.  Zeolite and I believe yucca root or Jernigan's antitox are all remedies that treat the removal of ammonia.  I drank alot of water with it too. 

As far as your mood symptoms being worse in the morning.  The morning is when our norepinephrine levels are higher than any other time of the day. If they are not high enough in you - that could be the cause of the depression.  Of course, neurotoxin, is getting in the way of your body being able to make normal levels or norepinephrine or other neurotransmitters because the toxins mess up the pathways to metabolically do so.  A little tyrosine in the morning or adrenal support could possibly help a bit.

Along this note, when I had organic acid done, it showed I had a bacteria that was creating a compound that interfered with my bodys pathway to make this norephinephrine/epinephrine. It made me wonder what that bacteria was - was it Lyme? was it Bartonella? 

I hope I didn't over complicate things for you by sharing with you all that information!  So to keep it simple - Perservere with your treatment and Detox!  You are killing the cyst form of Lyme and that is going to make you feel terrible until levels go down in your body!!  I am personally on a cyst buster all the time now and am doing so much better than I was when I was going through what you are experiencing now.

Oh - and on the painful toes - that could be an increase in neuro type symptoms from the Tinidazole/Tindamax or maybe it has something to do with decreased circulation because of the die-off.  So taking something to deal with thickened blood could help.  I personally take nattokinase for that as well as gingko biloba.  Gingko biloba is good for increasing circulation in the brain.  I know there are lots of things out there though for circulation.  These are just the things I have tried and continue to use for myself as needed.

 

Post Edited (SLML) : 2/22/2014 11:36:54 AM (GMT-7)

For me, diet could make things a lot worse if I wasn't careful to stick to what I knew I was supposed to be eating. If you mean eating fast food or fried foods and things like that, they can most definitely create even more toxins for your body to deal with.

As for what you are seeing with your toes, take a look at these pictures and see if you can see anything like it there./picasaweb.google.com/AfterTheBite/LymeTBDRashes

Thanks to you both for he follow-ups.

I try to be a positive person, despite my forum name, and during the 6-7 weeks I felt better, had hoped things were turning around. Perhaps too much confidence. Have found out their is a doctor in Atlanta who is an LLMD and uses a lot of Klinghardt's method to heal. Figure it's worth a try.

This time my knee also has been hurting and is swollen, which may be a completely separate issue. Part of my "dop" in good eating habits was because I just wanted to be normal for my youngest daughter's birthday. She is 15, and has never known me to be completely well (she's 15). So back on the better diet I will go, and thanks so much again.