Feel awful

Intense nausea, cold-like symptoms, hot waves but no sweats, itchy, but no fever, ***?? Started with the usual pre-cold and crash last night. Diarrhea yesterday. Just now, headache. Trying not to breathe too fast. Herx, Babs, Bart, virus, or what? Feel awful, awful. Tried Buhner's Gan Mao Ling for viruses but afraid to try more bc most of his stuff causes herxing. Lymph nodes like hard pebbles. Frequently have combo cold/stomach-virus-like combo (always w. hot flashes or sweats, but this is THE worst. Helpity help? M

Dunno. I would say maybe it was fr. eating popcorn, except this "thing" has happened before. I used to just get these small colds and hot sweats 3 or so times a month, but if it's the same thing, it's evolved into something awful.

Garden, I think it's Bart. bc of the streaky rash. Or partly Bart! The question is, is it JUST Bart, or a Bart herx, or a virus accompanied by Bart? I think cos give me cold symptoms, or vice versa. I hope I get answers too. I wonder if foods can trigger cos? M

Hi everyone,

Utah, I'm only taking Cryptolepsis and Azithromycin (baby liquid) for now. I read on Columbia's Lyme research page that you're supposed to add Rifampin to the Azithro. to treat Bart. Henselae. Is that correct? I have Rifampin, but haven't started taking it yet. I guess I'll add it this weekend.

I read that certain foods can trigger Bart. Is that correct? I'm starting to realize that both Babs and Bart flares start for me with colds, or cold symptoms, and then I get really sick, and it's like having the flu (plus diarrhea or a tummy ache), along with the rash, the hot stuff, et. al. I read somewhere that malaria flares can start with a runny nose, so I figure that's what my frequent "colds" are, i.e., not malaria, but one of the cos. These flares are really bad news. I tend to sleep and sleep ad infinitum, and I'm bed ridden and almost too weak to feed the dogs. Then, the cos symptoms linger a bit between actual flares. Does that make sense, or is it something else? I think the Tamiflu I took last time was a waste!

And Mike, no; I haven't changed anything, but I've added one day of treatment (was doing five days; am now doing six). I added the day last week, I think--or maybe it was two weeks ago; I don't remember.

Meanwhile, the corner of my mouth is going south (not just for the winter, but also for the spring, it looks like. Translation--a facial droop--kind of embarrassing. I guess that's the Borrelia. I've had Bell's Palsy before, but this is just the facial droop, minus the eye stuff and the difficulty chewing.

Mike, I sometimes think about you (and now also your wife) out there trekking around.

Ha ha, just realized--the Forum settings didn't like my three letter initials for some expletives! Didn't know it deleted initials too.

Margaret

Hi Trav.,

I'm partly pulling your leg, but you seem to say that everything is a herx!

Ok, last night, I detoxed a lot, and got better enough to get ready for bed and feed the dogs (as opposed to lying in bed nauseous and weak). But I still felt like rot-gut (you know the last word). I'm not sure if it was exclusively a herx. This strange phenomenon has been happening for several years, even when I wasn't on treatment (I think). It used to just be like a two-day cold though, and it wasn't as severe.

Who knows? My head is spinning. I've been trying to look up Babs, Bart, and cold symptoms. The only two things I've found is that Babs and Bart start with flu-like symptoms (acute or chronic, I don't know). So maybe Myco. is also joining the fun club.

I had popcorn and some sweets a few days ago. Does that enter into the equation?

M

Hey Trav.,

Yes, I know I need to detox.

The pattern I'm finding is that cos start with a cold; I don't know why. It might be that Myco. is joining the BABS/BART.

I just read articles by Dr. W.A. (Gordon Medical) that a BABS/BART combo can be extremely disabling, regarding.

And I guess the sweets (ok, it was coconut palm sugar, but STILL) along with popcorn, could have contributed, bc I had diarrhea bf the Russian Army came marching in.

M

Thx IHL.

btw fyi, Eleuthero helps me stay awake better than anything else.

Mister Mike, I'm only taking two drops of Crypto, and I've been doing it for a long time. The Azithro/Crypto combo probably makes things worse.

You are so bad (!), e.g. Trav's post.



M