Mainly antibiotics or herbals? New Lymie, PLEASE help

Hi folks, Godspeed to your healing,

Please share with me about your treatments and opinions?

I am just discovering I have chronic lyme after several years or maybe more like 10 or more. 24 y.o. woman, and about to get married (of course, what timing). I am not nearly as bad as many people with Lyme...or yet at least.

My main symptoms are severe fatigue, brain fog, headaches, burning in the legs, joint pain, swollen throat. For the past year, though I did not know i had llyme yet, i knew enough to be taking high doses of oregano oil and lauracidin to try to fight the bugs in me (EBV etc). I take therapeutic levels of vitamins, probiotics, etc. It has greatly helped me and I am certainly stronger.

But in many ways I am getting worse and i worry...am i going down fast? I just saw a great doctor who is both MD and ND, who wants me to start with intense IV antibiotics, but i am so scared. I know herxing happens often no matter the road you take, die offs and all that.

I dono what to do. i really don't. i want to trust this wonderful doctor but i am leery of antibiotics. what should i do???

Thanks so much Girlie, that's helpful and encouraging.

Would you mind sharing what you're using/about to use?

Keep at it :)

I think doing both might be most helpful but not for everyone. People have gotten better on just antibiotics, doing both and just herbals. It all depends on the infection(s) you have and your body. I've been on antibiotics close to two years and have not getting better. The past few months I've added some herbs and m slowly increasing and will be adding more. With Dr. Horowitz experience in book "why can't I get better?", he sees the best results when antibiotics and full herbal protocols are used together. I have Lyme and Bartonella which causes more pain than just Lyme alone and the two infections together make them harder to treat. It's also possible that I have other infections, either that have not come up in tests or bacterial strain that has not been identified yet. The herbs have a more broad antimicrobial mechanism that possibly can work agains other microbes that you and your Dr. Might not realize you have. Some people have had great success with herbs alone. It's a lot of trial and error, which is party why it can take a long time to figure out what works for you. It's been close to 2 years of treatment for me and we still have not found what works for me. Hopefully you only have Lyme without any coinfections which should be a little easier to treat. I'm certainly no expert, but those are my thoughts based on what I learned in the past 2 years.