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Posted 6/15/2014 4:09 PM (GMT 0)
hi everyone I hope all is well :-) well the time has come to take the final victory lap. I was waiting for some of my withdrawal symptoms to calm down from lorazepam. its been like a rollercoaster in that regards. so after talking to my herbalist this week I'm going to restart my treatment but this time using Sida Acuta. Artemisia Annua just about killed me.

I'm not asking for advice. I'm asking for prayers and well wishes :-)

also I'm going to ramp up the detoxification process. Colonics & Aqua Chi footbaths.

so how am i doing otherwise? the good news is I do have energy! Between walks, and I do yoga and I started tai chi and I'm continuing my balance exercises. I also started acupuncture about 3 weeks ago. I wake up every morning and feel totally refreshed and that is a great feeling!

Honestly if it were not for the disequilibrium issue, some anxiety, heart palps and shortness of breath I would truly be running and back in African dance class by now.

Those symptoms are are the most disturbing symptoms and when I jumped from using the lorazepam they exasperated and I also gained a new symptom which is a rocky boat like sensation.

it's hard to tell what is withdrawal and what is babesia/Lyme. But I will keep fighting until the finish and I swear to God that will be very soon.

Be well everyone and I will check in once in awhile to let you know my progress.

God speed.
Posted 6/15/2014 5:20 PM (GMT 0)
Our daughter didn't show signs of babesia herxing with either malarone or higher doses of sida acuta. She tested negative for the babesias as well (through Igenex).

It wasn't until I added CSA to our bartonella protocol (I thought that was the only infection she was dealing with) that she developed babesia herx symptoms (sighing, dry cough, chest pressure, thigh muscle pain). At that point our LLMD clinically diagnosed a babesia-like-organism.

For the babs-like-organisms Buhner's associate suggested we continue the full bartonella protocol with the addition of CSA and now bidens. Sida alone wasn't as helpful as the CSA combination has been.

We are using the full bartonella protocol (minus l-arginine) which includes hawthorne. I have found hawthorne, mag citrate powder and taurine all helpful with palpitations. Buhner says hawthorne is cardio- as well as endothelial-protective.
Posted 6/15/2014 5:29 PM (GMT 0)
Twitter, sounds so hopeful for you. I started babesia treatments as well. I'm doing the sweet annie, which is the artemisia. What was your bad experience? The first night I took it, my whole body experienced a chills sensation and then feeling like I had a super fever - which I didn't. Hope you cross that finish line!!
Posted 6/15/2014 6:27 PM (GMT 0)
my experience was like my equilibrium is thrown off even more and I was getting to a point where I could not function and that's not an option :-(

I'm not doing CSA now. One thing at a time. if I can withstand the Sida Acuta then I will add Cryp to the mix...I don't know how to spell the whole word but ya'll know what I'm saying.

if I had an option to just stay home and not do anything then I would have stuck out the Artemisia but I have a young child and I have to go to work because I'm a single mother.
Posted 6/15/2014 9:51 PM (GMT 0)
We have found that we can't get to recommended dosages with anything other than Japanese knotweed.

My personal feeling is that a little bit of all Buhner's suggested herbs is better than a whole lot of one. His associate has told me this as well. And that low doses (so you can at least function) over a long period (we've just started our 2nd year) will work as well as high doses over a short period.

My daughter can now boot it up significant hills on her bike with no shin pain, no thigh pain, no head pain. This is a kid that couldn't make it half-way up the stairs without sitting down 3 years ago.

Just a head's up with sida. We didn't herx horribly with it and made it up to 1 dropper full (32 drops) 3x daily, but after a couple of months our hair started feeling greasy and falling out. We backed off to 15 drops (including what's in the CSA) and hair came back.
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