Flumetasone/Clioquinol Anti Biotic and Steroid Ear Drops

Hi Suzee,
Welcome to our community officially!! I'm so glad you chose to join us!

Are you in any other treatment for your infection(s)? Are you detoxing? If so, would you mind telling us what you are doing to detox? We might be able to be of some help.

I would encourage you to use either the pharma abx or find a good herbalist to treat your ear infection, just don't use the steroid ear drops. They will reduce the swelling and possible pain, but that's about all they are used for. You can use some natural pain relief for that if you aren't in excruciating pain. As you said, the steroids will lower your immune function should you use them, although if the steroids are in drops to put in your ear, they shouldn't affect your entire body too badly if you do really need them.

You can also do things to strengthen your immune function if you aren't already!

Hi Traveler
Thank you so much for your reply and official welcome !
I am taking Neem supplements, oregano oil, boswellia and turmeric. I try to stick to a diet that excludes dairy and sugar and no processed foods. I drink lots of green tea and find if I do lapse in my diet, i.e. over Christmas I really suffer for it. I have taken Quercetin as well for eye problems I had for a while. My main symptoms that really never leave are round the ear, nose, eyes - I had the most awful jaw pain for the first year and head pain that still comes and goes and feels like I am wearing a steel helmet that gets tightened round my head from time to time. I was diagnosed clindamycin while living in Germany and had some dental treatment that I thought may help relieve the problems but it had no effect, in fact seemed to make things worse for some time. I would be extremely grateful for any advice on detox or further natural supplements that may be beneficial.

I prefer to recommend full protocols rather than individual herbs - people a LOT smarter than me created those protocols and there are a few that really seem to work well for most people. If they don't work for a person, there are the lesser known protocols (like the one that I used), but those are really a 'hit or miss' a lot of times.

The most common herbal protocols used with good success have been
Buhner's: buhnerhealinglyme.com/the-protocols/

Cowden's: www.nutramedix.ec/ns/lyme-protocol/292-condensed-cowden-support-program-summary

If you are still currently living in Germany, you will need to check to see what you can get delivered there or if there are local resources that you could use to get the herbs used in these protocols.

If you are in the US, there is also the Byron White protocols - although there is one practitioner in Australia and one in Canada that use these as well. So maybe you could convince a practitioner to order it?
www.byronwhiteformulas.com/191-2/

After the Clindaymycin use started, you were likely herxing. We talk about herxing extensively on here - so you've likely read quite a bit about that. Please let us know if you have any questions about it though - or anything else!!

Having Lyme creates an incredibly steep learning curve - it's best to lean on those you can trust until you can kind of get caught up.

Detoxing is almost as important as treatment for many of us - as a matter of fact, there are some of us that detoxing is more important, because without detoxing we can't handle any of the treatments. We have a great list of detoxing suggestions in the "New to Lyme?" thread and there are some really great suggestions on this page as well: www.tiredoflyme.com/detox-methods.html

After taking a look at those things, start asking questions of us about them!! Do some reading on the stories of those that have used those protocols here and in other places.

We've had several members have good success with Buhner's protocols. Please do be sure to post any questions you may have - and his books are great!