Houtt Herx - Now back on Erythromycin ABX

Posted on here about a really bad reaction/herx to Nutramedix Houtt took it Sat - Weds last week and Thursday started to feel really ill. This has continued and had my worse day today .... full moon tonight too.
The pain is all round my ears, face and neck swollen, lymph glands round ears and back of neck full of lumps and bumps and the feeling of a tight band inside my head. Pain runs upwards and downwards from each ear and is excruciating. Phoned Doctor as feel to ill to leave the house and he prescribed 500mg Erythromycin X 4 pre day. Honestly feel like I have done a few rounds in boxing ring. Ears, jaw and head are the worst but my whole body is hurting. Cant do the lymph drainage as round my neck and ears is too sore, plus it feels like my head is on fire.

Cant put my teeth together feels like a wedge in my jaw on both sides.

I have read Erythromycin goes after bart, am really anxious as if ABX don't do anything or are too strong I don't know what will happen to me at the moment. This is the weakest I have been in years.

So tired of this, like all of us.

Suzee so sorry to hear this. Houtt is definitely not a hoot for some people. I am slowly making my way with it because I really feel as though that and crypto are helping me even with my small dosages. I had to stop and restart houtt when I first started as it really had me feeling awful. Have you tried any if the other herbs?

Now onto the erythromycin. Before I knew what i was dealing with, my former doctor filled a prescription for me for 50 mg of this for another issue. Well after a couple of days on it, I really began to feel unwell. Now, of course, this makes a lot of sense to me. It was apparantly hitting against one of these infections. So I guess what I'm saying is go slow. 50 mg was affecting me after a few days. I know we are all different but you just never know.

Thanks Traveler, gosh really worried now about taking a large dose of Erythromycin already today but I just felt like the bacteria was multiplying rapidly and my face was swelling at least that has stopped, not gone down yet but not swelled up more. Waiting anxiously for the next 24 hours to pass. Will do 4 per day and not 8 per day.

Me too Krimpet, the Wild Oil of Oregano was the best thing I have ever tried while suffering with this ... I haven't taken any for about 6 weeks since I started CBD Oil. Will go back to WOO at some point as well as I didn't herx and got up to 40 drops per day of that. I take Reishi drops as well, 20 each day. I had a good protocol and more energy than for a long time till trying Houtt. I need to wait till finished this course of abx and then some and then try JK for a couple of weeks and then CC. I know I am ok with WOO so will start that up again but in smaller doses.

First I have to have a little giggle about this phrase "the pills of WOO" - snicker, snicker!!! It's one of the very best natural broad spectrum abx that I have found!! I keep a bottle in my frig at all times, just in case I need an abx.

Krimpet said...
Definitely go slow on both of those other herbs. JK and I for some reason at this time just dont get along at all. Peteza told me to do 1 drop a day....but I think I will follow your lead and do 1 drop every couple of days after I introduce a few other herbs. Cats claw I started for EBV in March, since that was all I knew about at the time. I worked that up to 12 drops 3x a day. I dont know if I'm going to go too much further with that one. I want to work up the others. I stopped taking Wild oil of oregano but may add it back in at some point. I just want to get to a place where I have a working protocol of herbs.

Did you know you can do lower doses than 1 drop at a time? If you take 1 ounce of water and add the 1 drop of herbal tincture, then give it a good stir, then divide it into 2 - one half ounce doses, you just made 2 half drop doses.

The pills of WOO .... it's a wonderful term. Yes I would like to try them, is the ADP pills of WOO. Thanks for making me smile. Late her in UK and can't sleep with pain, can't take any more painkillers and my stomach is reacting the ABX I think. I really wonder if I have the strength to get through this herx. If it throws any more at me I truly don't know how my ravaged body will cope.

Just need to have a bit of a rant, feeling tired, very vulnerable and very lonely with all this. Don't want any more suffering, I have really had enough.

I took half dosage prescribed yesterday and again today accompanied with lots of ibuprofen. The pain is still awful and its like I can feel the bacteria in my facial bones, jaw, creeping into my head radiating above and below the ears. My jaw on right side feels like there is a mass of something preventing me from being able to put my teeth together. I feel absolutely awful but I was getting rapidly worse and think, so far, that the abx have halted any further progression. I have lost hearing in right ear, ear is swollen and scaly inside.

I have an appointment with my GP at 7:30 in the morning. They said they will suction out my ears and send bacteria to lab to do a culture test.

I am so shocked at this extremely rapid decline since starting Houtt ?? Was it that or was I going to have a downward spiral anyway and deteriorate ?? I don't know.

Krimpet yes I still have the head burning and stabbing pains when I move my head. I will look up Neuroflam, for the moment I am just taking ibuprofen, abx, turmeric and activated charcoal.