Worse from "treatment"? Supplements? Herx?

I'm in the diagnosing process but Lyme is likely. The NDs think so anyway enough to start treating me; I took two weeks of doxy and pretty sure I had terrible herxing, and felt better the day I stopped, but I'm still having days of horrible depression, and overall I'm worse than when I started. I don't even know much about what I'm taking, I assumed most of the supplements helped detox, not actually kill the bacteria?

Here's what I'm currently taking:

N-acetyl cysteine 1000 mg 2x a day
Fish oil 10,000 mg
Magnesium 1000 mg 2x a day
GABA 500 mg
Methyl b12 800 mg
Multivitamin
Vitamin D 10,000 mg
Murcuna pruriens

I can't see any of that making me worse... The fatigue and depression are just horrible, I can't think of anything else that's changed. It's far worse than I've been in 10 years of depression. I also take adderall and Abilify, but no changes there. I just suddenly lost all drive to do anything, I just stare at the wall and cry all day. I'm trying to start detox baths but haven't noticed anything so far.

Any thoughts? Or any supplements people have found help depression?

Stacey, I am so sorry you are feeling so badly.

First, I do not think you were on doxy long enough. Yes, long enough to feel worse, but not long enough for treatment.

My suggestions are to read through the detox methods and pick and choose ALL the easiest for you to do. Not all at once but gradually adding one by one. GRADUALLY!!!

www.tiredoflyme.com/detox-methods.html

The detox methods I love may not be the ones you love and most importantly that work for you.

The best start is lemon water. Honestly this one cannot hurt you.

I cannot do the sauna or baths. I can't do hot anything. But, I am not you and lyme is VERY Individual.

Crying is not a bad thing. I think I cried my entire first 3 months. Then someone said that lyme bugs can be in your tears and boy did I got for that!! I pictured each tear was bugs going out of me!!!

I do not know herx versus lyme symptoms. Someone else will have to expound on that one. I KNOW symptoms and they are weird and different and it got to the point that if my finger itched, I chalked it up to a lyme symptom!

Hang in there and if you need to just chat, we are here.

Also wanted to ask you - why were the antibiotics stopped after two weeks? Are you switching over to herbals?

I hope you have another appointment and I hope they put you back on a treatment.

If they don't, you have options....

When is your next appointment?

Two weeks of Doxy rarely hurts anyone, even at the doses we take, and it's a really good abx to start people off on when there could be Anaplasmosis or Ehrlichia as even a short course of Doxy can eradicate those infections.

I second the suggestion of increasing your detoxing! That should make a difference.

When is your next appt?

Maybe they are hoping your short stint of doxy will produce a positive Igenex test???

i am like that where I seem to herx from everything, and most things I do seem to make me feel worse, and than when I stop them, I STAY worse.....My eyes have such delayed vision (image drag)it's unreal, and my brain seems to have weird migraine "pulses" that rise and fall and somehow are connected to my eye movement...

but it's easier than one thinks to herx. If a pill boosts your immune system, or has any change in the body, it can change how fast/well the lyme dies. I herxed bad from multivitamins. And yes, herxing and detox symptoms are similar so it's hard to know exactly what is going on.

Detox methods can sometimes cause more herxes because they might further kill lyme/candida in the process. Epsoms baths in hot water, apple cider vinegar can kill candida for example. And I would think anything that boosts the immune system could cause more of a die of as well, vitamins/minerals etc.....Like Chlorella rids of the old toxins, but boosts the immune system to cause more die off! Lyme disease is like the Rubiks cute. You match one color just to have another one unravel! Stay strong!