How long is ok to reduce dosage due to herx?

Well, Mike, I'm not sure if it has helped much...I think it did bring out my bart symptoms. But, then maybe if I'm noticing bart symptoms more...maybe that means the lyme symptoms aren't as strong.

It's difficult for me...I have and always have had symptoms that fluctuate all day/evening and from day to day...even prior to treatment. I am logging it...again.

I actually felt the best in mid August, when I was on doxy and zithro and stopped doxy to go on a mini-vacation.

Maybe give it a whirl again...see how you feel? Hopefully, you can judge your symptom improvement better than I can.

Is there any way that you can raise your dose up more slowly? Increasing the amount of detoxing that you are doing also should help.

So are you doing any dry skin brushing, drinking lemon water or detox soaks on a regular basis? If not, I would really encourage you to do more. It will go a long way in helping you with your symptoms.

As you raise the amount of abx that you take, you are killing off larger amounts of bacteria. As the bacteria dies, it puts off the toxins that drive our symptoms, so if we can keep the toxin load in our bodies down, our symptoms aren't as severe.

Remember that these infections respond to a number of things, from the full moon and female monthly "issues", to stress whether physical, emotional or mental and to outside forces such as weather patterns for some. It's hard to say why you had one good day and then haven't had another yet in a while, but most will begin to see a pattern after a while of good and bad days.

Do you keep a journal of any type? You could go back over it and see if you can remember anything that you did or changed during the week prior to your really good day, and anything that changed afterwards.

Know that those good days will come back and will begin to come closer and closer to each other. about the time I wanted to just stay in bed and cry all day long (after 3 weeks of herxing), the herx finally 'broke', and it wasn't until a week later that I was feeling good enough to be excited to have a houseful of family! I even cooked the one big dinner by myself and wasn't so wiped out that I didn't even want to eat afterwards!!

It's a struggle, but if we keep at it, we will see improvements!

Patience is VERY hard to have when you feel like warmed over poo!! But yes - and I struggle with being patient again myself, so you are not alone!

I'm so glad that you had a nice Thanksgiving!! I surely couldn't do all that at this point - and our Thanksgiving here in the US isn't that far away. I'm still secretly hoping that someone else will say they will host the dinner!! LOL! If everyone come to my house, it's too far to travel (3 hours) with food, which means I'll be doing it all myself! Hopefully I will be up to this, but I have that fear that I won't.

And yes, I too dream about that 'one day soon' - believe me, after this long in treatment for one thing or another, I'm ready!!!