Posted 11/9/2016 7:31 PM (GMT 0)
Collective minds can pinpoint many things. This symptom, or set of symptoms, evades me. It doesnt happen often, but when it does, im down for a couple days, doing only necessary duties.
Just for background, im taking knotweed, cats claw, Houttuynia, Anise and Burbur. All 30 drops 3x/day except Anise and Burbur, which is 5-7 drops 3x/day. I had plenty of energy and only occassional aches pains, nerve pain, brain fog, etc. But overall was working every day. Doing as much, or more, than my co workers, which is a very hard manual labor type work.
It started on or about friday. I felt somewhat fatigued. Which at the time I considered a byproduct of working so hard. I signed up for overtime on the weekend. Saturday I felt increasingly more tired. Sunday, I woke with fever blisters, or cold sores, on my upper lip. As the day progressed, I noticed what usually happens when these cold sores show up. My digestive system slowed down. I started to bloat. I then, later in the day, started getting pains in my abdomen, and the occassional fleeting nerve pain in my spleen area and up toward my collar bone. It seems the nerve pain is referred pain. Brain fog has reared its ugly head.
Monday my digestive system was even slower. I had trouble with a bowel movement. I could pass gas, but that was it. The whole time I am eating normally. This though caused another problem. When digestive motility is decreasing, it causes acid reflux. Not traditional acid reflux, but food has no where to go but to get backed up. Monday night as a lay down, I would get that burning sensation. At this point I knew these symptoms like the back of my hand. Everything is progressing as normal, for these symptoms. Tuesday pretty much the same. Brain fog has increased substantially. A lot of gas, though I did have a somewhat smaller bowel movement. Reflux lessened very much to where I barely noticed it. The whole time the fatigue was pretty great. I could sleep 14 hours if I wanted, though I fought it for the most part.
Today, wednesday, I again took off work for the 3rd day in a row. I had a very good bowel movement. The cold sores are at the end stage, though I now have some hair follicles under my goatee that are inflamed, a few if you pull on the hair a puss like substance will come out. More waxy than oily. My bloat has all but diminished. I can feel my digestive system ramping back up. Though still fatigued, I do feel more energetic. I do have what would fit IBS type pain in my lower abdomen. Normal for a slowed digestive system that has now ramped up some.
I am betting on tomorrow I feel almost fine. Well, as fine as can be having Hashimotos, Lyme and Bartonella. I will most likely have the energy to work. The bloating will be gone. And the cold sores, though scabbed over, will almost be unnoticeable.
What does this sound like to you? I have never been checked for EBV, though I cant be positive this would be it, the break out of cold sores seems to be of the herpes family. What stumps me is why, when they show up, does my digestive system suddenly come to a halt. Or does the cold sores show up due to the digestive system coming to a halt, releasing toxins through these sores?
This is something neither I, nor any doctor, could ever figure out. Matter of fact, none of the doctors I have seen wanted to touch it, except one. His idea was to prescribe Linzess to keep the digestive system moving. All that did was ensure I was in a constant state of diarrhea, which included 24/7 abdominal pain. That treatment lasted exactly one week before I fired him.
Any ideas????