Withdrawal Symptoms?

So, before Lymes and all that, I was an avid coffee drinker. You might have even considered me a pro at it. Every once in a while though, I decided that maybe I should quit drinking coffee for a few days and kinda reset my tolerance for it. Like anyone heavily addicted to that caffeine wonder, I would go through withdrawal and get the worst headaches. In fact, I would get migraine headaches. I would get the aura, the feeling something is wrong, bad vision, mental sluggishness, vertigo, nausea, etc...Then it would all go away, then the headache would come on. If any of you have suffered from migraines before, it IS NOT just a bad headache. In fact, if you've never had one before, you might actually be thinking you're having a stroke. It can, and often does, cause most of the same early symptoms, up to and including numbness on both or one side of your body.

Anyway, back to my point. Recently, I'm trying to kill the last of these little bugs in me (Lymes, etc...) and since my herxes have been minimal, I decided to switch it up and try pulsing my entire protocol, especially since some new studies have been released that seem to be leaning towards a pulsing plan.

I'm probably being haphazard here, but I went off my entire protocol for 24 hours, including probably a dozen herbs and two different ABX, and I got I one of the worst migraines I've ever had. I haven't had many, but this was bad. I couldn't think, I couldn't read, and the only thing that made it go away was sleep.

My question is, have any of you gone off herbs or ABX before and had a withdrawal like that? Gladly, I don't think this is a Lyme thing, since I felt the exact same as I did from caffeine withdrawal.

Any thoughts?

Yeah, I haven't looked into it to really know what the heck I am talking about, but my first guess is that antibiotics don't work like that in that they are not habit forming.

There is nothing for the system to crave. I do not think our bodies want them, even when we are sick.

It's just the mind, along with the help of outside intervention (doctors), saying, here.. take this medicine.

Again, very likely that I am wrong.

It could be the infections hitting you again? There are a number of symptoms, as I'm sure you know. My treatment plan is weak - I do not feel well, even when I remember to take everything. If I miss something, hell is to pay.

*shrugs*

Time will tell, my friend.

I've had some pretty massive migraines - both from these infections and not- so I know what you are talking about. They are truly miserable even when they aren't so bad only a dark, quiet room helps, even with migraine meds!

What most likely happened was the sudden lack of support your body was used to getting, not that it was addicted in any way to any of it. When you consider the symptoms of these infections, and suddenly stopping all things, you are allowing the toxins to very quickly build back up and the bacteria to suddenly think the 'coast is clear' and so they come out in force - which is why pulsing pharma abx can work really well for some. So the migraine was just a response to the sudden withdrawal of support for your body.