How does your body tell you when it's time to back off on medications?

This is such a complicated thing…

From everything I've read—from well-known LLMDs, researchers, NDs, and particularly from anecdotal conversations with other lymees, you have to consider the context for why you're feeling what you're feeling.
Treatment has to be comprehensive to be effective:

- You have to consider if your detox protocol is comprehensive enough and if you, yourself, are able to detox effectively (have you discovered and treated for methylation DNA mutations?), are you doing too little or too infrequently? or too much too fast?

- You need to address other drains on your immune system like viruses and fungal loads and have these under control (i.e. a significant change in sx)

- Are there co-infections that are dominating your sx? Should they be treated first before lyme?

- Are there other challenges like GI issues (leaky gut) challenging your immune system?

- Are there neurotransmitter imbalances that affect your moods and how you are feeling about how you are feeling… if that makes any sense. ;) Sometimes, these imbalances can make you feel more stressed out, which will exacerbate how you feel physiologically. Are these being addressed?

- Are there other system challenges that have been damaged due to lyme & co that need attention to help you feel better and also help reduce the stress on your body? Sleep is probably #1.

- Do you just need to slow down?

Hopefully, others who have been in lyme & co treatment longer than I have will chime in. I'll just share that my LLMD started my treatment out with the statement that if at anytime my instincts tell me the tx is too much, that I feel toxic, that I can back off and to talk to her about it. So, maybe that's a hint—feeling toxic, not just too tired or too achey but feeling like you're being poisoned…

-p

I did not mean to overwhelm you! But I totally understand feeling overwhelmed—and angry! My lyme rage is something I deal with daily.

Just take one idea at a time and spend the day thinking it over. And then write down what you decide about it so you won't forget and you can share this with your MD. Don't tackle it all in one thought.

I don't really know what would be best for you. But if you do decide to continue with the treatment I think you need to find a way to do more detoxing. Constipation is detox #1. There have been some really great ideas discussed here—so it's always a good thread topic. And it might also be a really good idea to implement a more effective detox program first, then wait until you feel better to get back on treatment. Just an idea… you're not going to feel really good until you get on the other side of all your treatment so it's a matter of degrees.

-p

OK… so "the more you detox the worse you feel" is a sign that your detox protocol might be fine, but your body has trouble keeping up. You might have issues detoxing due to methylation mutations. Have you looked into them?

-p

Post Edited (Pirouette) : 1/11/2015 12:54:51 PM (GMT-7)

LOL — those sound like excellent excuses to me. I did the 23andme testing over the summer and didn't bother to have it interpreted until a week or so ago. Why? I forgot. Crazy useless brain.

Don't worry about trying to understand it yet. I had to read 3 different reports and it took another months of reading about them before I finally got it. Takes awhile. But once you have your 23andme data, you can have it interpreted on another website (I recommend both NutraHacker and Amy Yasko's site) and they will figure it all out for you and the good ones will tell you exactly what to take.

-p

I got it ordered just now! YAY! I hope this is the missing link!