New Protocol Concerns

What are the anti-infective treatments?

What types of immune boosters?

You may be on too high of a dose - you can try back down slightly to see how you do, then slowly rebuild up to the level that you need to be on. Or it could mean that you don't need those specific probiotic strains, but need others. I used kefir since it has the most probiotic strains I could find, but not everyone wants to use kefir for different reasons.

Anti-infective treatments are the ones that we use to kill the bacteria - abx, herbs or whatever is best for you and your situation.

I used high quality bee pollen for an immune booster. I know that many here have used other things though.

I try to not tell people what product to use, only what they need in general, because like you said, the more we learn, the more we understand that there is sooo much more to healing!! I couldn't use abx at all when I was treating my first set of infections and have chosen to not even try them for this time and just go straight to what worked for me last time. What I used was only herbs, but this may not be what is right for others to use.

I know that many Lyme patients have had good results with LDN- Low dose Naltrexone : www.lowdosenaltrexone.org/

Uhmm, uhmmmm, sorry, it's getting late (for my brain) - once I get a little tired, my brain takes a nap! Ugh - darned Lyme brain!!

You can start a new post with the title something like "What do you use for immune boosting?" and you will likely get a bunch of replies- and/or you can use the search function on here - it's pretty good! Just be sure that you use the term Lyme in front of your other terms to keep your results from mainly the Lyme forum.
Example (in case I'm not making much sense! LOL!):
Lyme, immune boost

I'm so sorry my brain has already had a full day- but I wanted to answer your question!

Anti-infective treatments would be any of the Lyme treatments. I lean towards the natural side of things, so my mind goes to Buhner's protocol :buhnerhealinglyme.com/

Or

Cowden's Condensed protocol: www.lyme-disease-research-database.com/lyme_disease_blog_files/condensed-cowden-protocol.html

There are others, but these are the most popular & the most in use here.

Or a combination of herbs and antibiotics - which many here use.

Like has been said, make sure that your diet is very good, that you aren't dealing with mold or other conditions that should be treated first, and that you are detoxing plenty. There is so much to the equation on how to heal, it's hard to 'lay it out' for someone - these are just general things to follow.

Update: Bactrim DS was causing much GI Upset.
I was having many problems in my esophagus area & Delayed Emptying of the Stomach which was causing A LOT of problems, also.

I found much of the information here
https://www.healingwell.com/library/ibd/info8.asp

The VSL 3 probiotic caused abnormal stools for myself &
the same exact problem for my daughter (no lyme or tx of any kind of health issue, just took as a probiotic). I am going to try to return it.

People on picc lines often do have relapses and have a much increased chance of gallstones.

As for the stools, that just sounds like a die off. When a bacteria/protozoan is surrounded by a mucal/lipid layer and it dies, the stool is mushy and "not right." The probiotics should help combat that. I'm not familiar with that probiotic but lactiobacillus and bifidobacterium sure help normalize stools. And what is normal to you may not be normal to everyone else. We have become accustomed to non - healthy stools because of our diet.

Some people will feel better right away as the bacteria load is lowered quickly with a picc line. This doesn't mean that you won't herx though, so be sure to be doing a lot of detoxing and watch for infection at the picc line site.

And good luck!! I hope that you continue to feel better!