Introduction

It all happend late summer. My heart started beating fast and hard. Then once it was over i was out for the rest of the summer, couldent do anything. Just takin it slow. Next thing you know i got better... Only to get sick. One day i felt super faint, called the 911 for a paramedic to help me. I did not goto the hospitle but i was advised not to partake of caffine that night. Staying home, scared. Unsure of what was wrong with me, i flipped on mythbusters and tried to relax. Skipping forward to my first and worst herx, my hands locked, my legs unable to move, my neck numbing... I was rushed to a hospitle to recive Emergency treatment. But i was feeling better after a 6 hr all nighter for a doctor. I saw two, who diagnosed me with Hyperventilation-Syndrome. I had a follow up with my pediatrition a week after and the blood tests from the ER showed a low titer of 2 for Lyme Disease. I'm taking Doxy abx now. Unsure of my "light at the end of the tunnel". I have pains from time to time. This makes day 18 of 21 for treatment. My body feels wierd. Most of the time. I used to be a lazy boy soda drinker... Lyme has taken my weight down to 167 last i weighed myself at school. I fight every morning to go. I get weakness when i wake. Then i get up feeling okay enough to commence my routine then get on the bus for school. I have been herxing a lot latley. Sometimes it feels as though i have a heart problem. Anxiety is trough many roofs, on an on day i feel fine enough to get through my day till bedtime. A scary time untill i wake to start it all over again. I am considering detox methods like lemon water. I might have to ask the doctor next follow up after the doxy treatment. Ever seance the paramedic night ive stopped soda intake cold-turkey. Is there help for me? I'm unsure that my pediatrition is a LLMD and i live in mild poverty with my family. Who support me in my hardship and tell me "there is nothing to be scared of." This is my story so far. Am i in for hell? Will the abx cure me? After 18 days symptoms are lessend but persist in some way.

Hi Ponteo,
I'm glad you joined our community!!
You will need more than just 21 days of Doxy though. You doctor isn't an ILADS (International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society) trained LLMD or he/she would know this. You will need 2 - 3 months of Doxy at 400 - 600 mgs each day at minimum - or until 2 months past all symptoms. A dose lower than 400 mgs will only stop the bacteria from replicating, rather than killing the bacteria.

If treatment is stopped before all symptoms are resolved, the person most likely will go on with an ongoing infection and will only develop more serious issues later.

Have you had your heart checked out? Lyme disease CAN cause some pretty serious heart issues, it would be best for you to get your heart checked out unless you are only having some more minor palpitations.

As Louise said, please do read through the thread that sits at the top of the forum titled, "New to Lyme? Start here!" as it's packed full of really important treatment information, symptom lists, detoxing suggestions and more.

You will need to clean up your diet as best as you can - less processed foods and no sugar and very little carbs to help yourself heal from these infections. This is a very complex bacteria that causes a very complex infection so the body needs every advantage it can get to heal. Maybe you could offer to help out in the kitchen so that you can help direct more of what you eat?

The white tongue is from a candida infection - you need to either be on antifungals, or this will cause a lot of problems. It also means a special diet: altmedicine.about.com/od/popularhealthdiets/a/candidadiet.htm

So you are only taking 100 mgs of Doxy a day? If you are not taking at least 400 mgs of Doxy a day, you will end up with chronic Lyme disease which will cause damage to your body. You really must be on at least 400 mgs a day of Doxy.

Try to not do things that make your heart work so hard - walk up the stairs slower or use an elevator when you can. Your body is fighting a very serious infection, you need to treat it like it is.

And you really must start doing some detoxing, more than just drinking the lemon water - the candida(yeast causing the white tongue) will also create a die off effect and you will need to detox because of that as well.

200mg it would amount to. 100 mg 2 a day for 21days day 18

Oh my... What do i do?

Welcome to the Lyme community:) As you can already tell there are wonderful and helpful members on this site. You will learn a lot about Lyme.

Im feeling faint, im guessing that its b/c i have not eaten all day?

Yeah, even if you were healthy you would need to eat regularly. Please go eat something as healthy as you can find. The less processed foods you eat the less toxins you will have for your body to deal with.

You should be eating when you take your Doxy too. You only get one stomach and we take high doses of abx (antibiotics) - so you have to protect it. Those that say you should eat when you take the abx aren't the ones that will deal with stomach problems.

You also have to start drinking TONS of water to help flush those toxins out of your liver, kidneys and on out of your body - otherwise you will get even sicker.

Be sure you are taking this seriously - as this is about as serious as it gets. See if you can get your Mom to read this thread too.

Don't eat fast foods at all. No junk foods. Eat things that you have to actually prepare - not from a box. Chicken, beef, turkey, vegetables (tons of veggies!), sweet potatoes, salads, brown rice, beans......

H-hello?