Feeling awful

Shaky, nauseous, dry heaving, dizzy, watery diarrhea, weak, can't eat normal amounts of food...feeling awful.

Day 2 of artemisia. Still at 1 capsule.

This is babesia herx, right?

Took some activated charcoal last night. No effect on diarrhea.

As long as it's far enough away from my herbs and supplements, can I take activated charcoal during the day, too?

Any natural/herbal ways to deal with diarrhea? This is day 3 of watery diarrhea. Can't take stuff like kaopectate....

Arrrrrrg!

Thanks cd3764!

I had some toast....bad idea. Major dry heaving..so not cool.

And my usual homeopathics for this kind of thing didn't touch it.

Maybe I'll just stick to fluids and a couple grapes to push supplements down. Can't swallow pills without food to push them down.

Thanks!

And to make things worse, my stupid sister is majorly holding up baby's feeding schedule. She's had 2 hours to do her job...more than enough time....and it looks like she's decided to take her own sweet time and turn it into 3 hours.

Seriously don't need this stress on top of everything else.

I really wish this weren't happening...first since it's really hard on this sweet little baby, second because it's the last thing I need. More physical and emotional stress on top of what was already going on.

I'm trying to work in more adrenal support herbs, but that's all I'm changing now. I think I have a milk thistle supplement to get me through for now.

I was on 1 capsule of artemisia 3 days a week before all this happened. Quite honestly....things were worse in some ways before the artemisia, so I'm a little reluctant to drop it completely. Before....I had ridiculous lightheaded, greying out episodes during exertion. Now, it seems to vary. The three days I take it are pretty bad....the four days I'm off are better.

I'm not sure I want to drop it completely. I thought about switching to tincture...but I'm not 100% sure I should do that. Would going from 500mg of artemisia to maybe 5 drops be too confusing for my body?

It's kinda a no win....

No artemisia = greying out and adrenal stress from trouble breathing

Artemisia = bad GI issues and adrenal stress from not being able to eat


I know part of the problem is I'm not taking detox baths...but I haven't felt steady enough and I don't have time. Trying to fit that in would be too much stress.

But how do I figure out the tincture dose that's equivalent to the capsule? There's probably a way.....but just thinking about it makes my brain explode a little......

I drink a ton of water with lemon/apple cider vinegar, drink detox tea, take some activated charcoal before bed (sometimes with vitamin C if it's a large dose to help push things through)..... Not sure if I'm doing anything else detox wise. I take a liver supplement and a milk thistle supplement too.

Hmm....that sounds a little like Reeds ginger brew. Sparkling water, honey, pineapple juice, fresh ginger root, lemon and lime juice, and spices. 17g ginger per bottle and 25% juice.


And I think the whole running out of raw milk thing was a bigger deal than I thought. I just had some raw milk kefir, and I feel amazingly better. And I might need to stick to a more liquid diet on my artemisia days (water, aloe juice, kefir, herbal tea). The licorice/holy basil tea from Organic India is quite nice.

Sayyadina, I've also had a bad response to artemisia this week at only one capsule. It's rough!!! Not sure this will be a good treatment for me if I can't even tolerate one capsule.

Well, my understanding is that a 1:4 ratio is 250 mg of herb per ml. - so 2 ml of this any artemisia tincture would be equivalent to the 500 mgs of dried herb. So this product would work, and it's made with organic grain alcohol!
/www.herb-pharm.com/products/product-detail/artemisia-annua-sweet-annie

So....I actually got to sleep last night! 11:30-5 then 6:30-9:40. I had a similar episode this morning (nausea, dry heaving, diarrhea and head pressure and a dry cough too).

Keeping a mostly liquid diet seems to help, since solid food really sets off the dry heaving and gagging.

Any suggestions on liquids? I've been using water w/ lemon juice & acv, aloe juice, and herbal teas. I managed some sweet potato and rice for dinner last night. This morning, I just managed some raw milk and pretzels to help get my supplements down.

Traveler said...
Well, my understanding is that a 1:4 ratio is 250 mg of herb per ml. - so 2 ml of this any artemisia tincture would be equivalent to the 500 mgs of dried herb. So this product would work, and it's made with organic grain alcohol!
/www.herb-pharm.com/products/product-detail/artemisia-annua-sweet-annie

Thanks so much for this useful information, Trav!

I won't deny I'm apprehensive about starting arteminisin and really like the idea of starting with the tincture.

If I wanted to take the product you linked, how many drops would you estimate to be equivalent to 100mg of dried herb?

I just can't wrap my head around the math....

And, sorry for hijacking the post a bit.

So far I've had water, raw milk and raw milk yogurt/organic corn puffs/raw honey. And the yogurt stuff seems to be helping.

I'm still waiting to hear back from them. I'll post when they reply.

It's kinda annoying....whenever I eat anything I wind up with diarrhea. Doesn't matter what. Chocolate raw milk and pretzels......raw milk yogurt, raw honey, corn puff.....oatmeal, maple syrup and salt.

Good call PeteZa, bone broth REALLY helped us, especially my son, when his stomach was so upset.....

And ginger helps a ton.....my go-to quick remedy:

Green tea
Tsp ground ginger-unless you have raw, go w/that
Lemon
Stevia
Add hot water, sip and enjoy

Always helps take that herxing edge off

Is there a protein shake that you can use? That would at least make sure that you are getting some good nutrition. You can mix it in with anything that you fancy - I've even added it to almond butter for a super protein snack/meal with lots of vitamins!

What about smoothies? You can throw in veggies and berries to help keep that kind of nutrition going too. I'm doing a lot of smoothies lately since I still am without bottom teeth ()

Can you tolerate eggs? If so you can put one in your smoothies (you won't taste it!) and you can hard boil them to add to other things if you can tolerate them.

What about quinoa? They sell quinoa flakes that cooks up like cream of wheat - smooth and you can make it kind of watery - or just add some quinoa flakes to you smoothies to give you some more "substance" to your food.

Hmm, that's all I can come up with for now.

And I had a question - are you sure it's Lyme that is causing the reaction to meats? I was under the impression that that was due to RMSF???