Transition from abx to herbals is harder than I thought.

How naive am I! I was looking forward to getting off the abx and moving onto herbs. I thought they would be easier on my system, I could finally turn that corner, I'll have more energy, etc. What the hell was I thinking? After a few days I was herxing, brain fog, headaches, joint pain, neck pain, back pain, fatigue. And it's only been a week and half!

My acupuncturist, who also batted Lyme with herbal treatments, said that I'm in a transition period. That the first month on a new protocol is always rough. Is that true? I'm trying to look at the bright side and say that herxing is good cause then it's killing whatever the abx couldn't get.

I'm trying to up my detox, doing the mustard/epsom salt foot baths, body brushing, alka seltzer gold, drinking plenty of water sometimes with lemon juice, and sometimes a detox tea. I'm trying to incorporate some light exercises and mediation into the day, but having a little trouble . I sometimes have a wet cupping treatment and acupuncture done.

Is there anything else I can do to detox? My tub sucks for a bath and looking for an infrared sauna I can afford to tough.

I'm right behind you, CJ.....my LLMD told me last week to select one of 3 herbal protocols (we confirmed those he had in mind along with my knowledge of them and willingness to research)

I'm excited but recently realized there's a good chance I'd be herxing for the exact reason you mentioned.

Of course, we want to do as much that is safely possible to eradicate the infection. It seems antibiotics can't always accomplish this.

I've chosen a protocol that includes several detox preparations and only they are taken for the first 4 days. Moving forward from there, the antimicrobials are slowly titrated...while continuing with the detox preparations and drinking lots of water.

Yep, there seems to be method behind the madness ;)

Hope you reap the benefits of your increased detox very soon!

Post Edited (cd3764) : 1/10/2015 5:37:41 PM (GMT-7)

Piroutte- That's exactly how I'm trying to view it. I was on abx (amox) for a little over 4 months. When I saw my LLMD, I told her I was tired of taking them. I thought of she didn't switch me to herbals, she would at least switch my abx to doxy or something. Never had doxy, can you believe it? But she said she okay to the herbals. Then she tested me for some, which is kinda funny when think about it and that's how we got the herbs we did. It's not a protocol like buhner or cowden, it's just a mix of stuff I tested positive for.

Vitamin D- 5000 ius a day cause mine was really low.
B12 spray- all my B vitamins were low.
Phyto multi-a very strong multivitamin
Betaine- for stomach acid and to help absorb everything better.
The brand new stuff:
Olive leaf extract- in pill form and is an antimicrobial.
Schizandra- in pill form that's suppose to help detox, anticoagulant, liver function, and brain function.
Boluoke-pill and very expensive that helps destroy the biofilms.
Tox- ease GL- tincture that suppose to help with detoxing bit can trigger a herx too.
Drainage Tone- tincture that's suppose to help lymph drainage
Transfer factor plasmyc- pill that's suppose to support my immune system

I'm also apart to be taking some called MC-BB2 from being balance that's suppose to help the mume system and fight off the borrelia. But they were out and are suppose to call when they get more in.

Honestly I haven't heard of most of the stuff but I was so glad to be off the abx. I guess the fact that I am reacting to it is good. I just wish it wasn't so rough.

CD- I hope the herbals are more kind to you than that are to me. What detox system did you use? And which protocol did you choose?

Going slow sounds good. To be honest I just started with the doses my LLMD told me to take. I was thinking of stopping everything and slowly take one at a time and add every few days. I've heard other people suggest that when starting, but like I said, I just jumped right in.