First of all, hang in there, Charliebug!! You are NOT alone in this. We are all here to help you figure this out.
Like I said, it's very likely that your doc has your daughter on the candida treatments because that needs to be taken care of first (really, it does), because she will be going on to treatments that will raise the likelihood of her getting a yeast infection soon. If she were to start off with a yeast/fungal issue, it would derail her Lyme treatments. So, continue on with that.
Here are the links for Pirouette's threads.
goo.gl/9Ni4w9Take your time going through them - there's a lot of them. Scan the titles to get hints at what might be best to read first. Book mark this page so that you can give your poor Lyme brain a rest when needed. Pirouette isn't posting on here right now, I believe she has work commitments that are keeping her away currently, but we have a lot of really smart people here that can still be of help - Pirouette has done the hard work of posting a ton of information though!
All of you, your son too, should be detoxing a LOT and daily. Often times we have compromised detoxing pathways in our bodies, so when we start killing off the bacteria and candida, we herx because our bodies can't remove the toxins from our blood stream fast enough to keep us comfortable. So the more detoxing pathways you can help your body out with, the easier it will be to get through treatments.
A word about
the Epsom salt baths though. Not everyone can tolerate them as they are very effective at moving the toxins that are being stored in soft tissues (muscles, tendons, organs) moved into the blood stream. When our blood stream ends up with an overload of toxins, we can actually feel a LOT worse that if we hadn't detoxed. So do be careful with those.
www.tiredoflyme.com/4-reasons-why-you-still-feel-bad-despite-detoxing.htmlDon't panic over your son not being in treatment yet. How is he doing? How bad are his symptoms at this point?
Here is a kind of 'over view' of what it takes to heal from these infections. Hopefully it will put things in a bit of a perspective for you:
With the experience that I had personally, and what I've watched others go through, here is what I believe needs to happen for many of us to heal:
a)Detoxing - gene mutations, mold exposure and multiple tick-borne infections can all prevent us from detoxing well, but we must be able to get those toxins out of our bodies. I have not had any of the gene mutation testing done, although I do seem to have the same kind of issues as those that do - so I figured it was best for me to assume that I did and work to get my body to detox much better. It took a lot of diet changes as things with my body changed, I used a foot soak daily, dry skin brushing, making sure my bowels moved at least once a day (sorry if it's TMI!) pushing myself to drink at least 64 ounces of lemon water each and every day, liver/gall bladder flushes (all natural), oil pulling, taking activated charcoal and keeping the amount of stress in my life at a bare minimum. You can find some really good detoxing suggestions in the "New to Lyme?" thread that sits at the top of the forum:
www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=1606610and another really good one:
www.tiredoflyme.com/detox-methods.htmlb)Supporting the body functions/systems. We have to have the body working at it's peak performance to heal from something as devastating as these infections. Supporting any gland, organ, body system that is struggling will allow the body to switch it's 'concentration' from just trying to function over to healing.
c) Raise the immune function. Many legitimate Lyme researchers now believe that it's the lowered immune function that determines who gets chronic Lyme and who heals right away. We already know that Lyme lowers the immune function and when a person has Bartonella and/or Babesia, the immune function is further compromised, so to heal we must raise our immune function.
d) Oddly enough, are anti-infective treatments. Many of us have experienced treatment failures or set backs, so we can see that the treatments aren't the only thing we need to have - there has to be more to the equation, but anti-infective treatments are very important!! Lyme bacteria are one of the most complicated bacteria! Although it takes only hours or days for most bacteria to replicate, Lyme bacteria only replicates in the body every few weeks.
And lastly, never let any of this scare you too much. We are always right here, and you can feel free to email me any time. I may or may not know the answers to what you are asking, but I bet I can find someone who does!!
