Crash after feeling good?

Hey there :)

So I'm just finishing up my fourth month of antibiotic treatment. My llmd has me on minocycline and ceftin daily. I just finished one week of flagyl daily and am building up to 2 weeks on 2 off.

Some days I feel really good and I try to do things, but it seems like I crash completely afterwards. This weekend I walked around with my girlfriend for a mile or so, went shopping, etc. Nothing too crazy, now this week my symptoms are terrible (burning pain in legs, anxiety, bad fatigue, burning tendons/knee pain.

My dr tells me to swim, which feels amazing, but my burning legs always come the next day.

Could this be a herx? Damaged nerves healing? Lesions under my skin?
Is herxing good? Should I just power through it? Should I exercise despite the pain?

I'm so confused and angry at this process!!

It does seem that after my worst days I feel better for a while but the cycle keeps repeating. Should I walk on eggshells and not do anything or just keep on trying and eventually I will be better?

Yeah can totally relate to that, a few good days followed by a fortnite of flare ups in the norm for me.

Thanks for the replies :)

Luckily, I snapped out of it later in the day and feel much better now. My anxiety definitely flares up when all my other symptoms do and I get e little crazy lol

I'm just gonna try and continue on with my life and deal with symptoms as they come. I do seem to have much better days following the really bad ones so here's hoping tomorrow is better :)

Gingeranne, we are similar in age and on some of the same meds and have a few symptoms in common. If you don't mind me asking, may I email you to talk directly?

You are herxing and need to detox as much as you can. Otherwise the toxins will get reabsorbed into your body and will cause more problems.