It's just so hard isn't it? for me herxing has always been a difficult thing to manage. Any effective med riles up my body and makes me herx with specific symptoms. Very frustrating. It can take me months to acclimate to a med. There is always a balancing act of pushing things along with the meds but also making sure I don't push things too hard where the herx gets unmanageable. I try to detox as much as possible, but sometimes the herxing is just something I have to deal with and I can only control it to a certain degree. Like you guys mentioned, sometimes you need to take a break and then reintroduce meds at lower levels.
The other thing that is super frustrating is that I am so much better from a year ago, I feel closer to recovering my health (and it has been a hard year as the treatments kick my butt but so worth it in the end) but it is annoying to feel so much closer but to still have to deal with herxing that can still be overwhelming and torturous where my body discomfort and neuro-cog stuff kills my ability to focus and distract myself with anything, and my sleep is very messed up when I go thru these periods. I feel like I should be past such difficult herxing and just want to reach the goal line so badly.
Grrrr. I just have to resign myself that this is going to take a while no matter what, and I can't rush things and shouldn't feel badly about
taking breaks and gathering my strength. Like you say, it is a marathon. Sometimes feeling much closer, well I just want to and think I can sprint to the finish, but I just can't do that, it's impossible for my body.
Post Edited (sebreg) : 8/27/2015 8:06:28 AM (GMT-6)