Back from the docs

I am still on an abx break. There are some underlying stuff my doctor wants to address before we go back to hitting the bugs hard. My sleep is still crappy. Well, it was awesome the first week on kava but then I had a week long migraine from hell (still here) so I end up waking up a lot from pain. So he's adding prescriptions to my nighttime pills. Kava, magnesium and trazadone
Second some of my minerals were low including iron. How the frack do I have low iron when I don't even have a uterus anymore (thank you endometriosis)? Zinc and mag were low too. So I'm adding those supps in too.
Basically he wants to build my body up and remove some issues from the equation before we start attacking the bacterial load again. Crappy sleep can contribute to my awful pain cycle as can low minerals. I will continue samento and banderol.
As for acute pain, he wants me to up curcurmin and take a whole lemon in water per hour when things flare.
Does this sound reasonable?

How low is your iron? Was it a ferritin test?


My ferritin was on the low side...and the LLND I saw said she doesn't recommend I supplement...unless it gets very low.

A whole lemon every hour sounds like a lot..

I liked trazadone the few time i took it ..had induced peace ..be careful ..psych med are pandoras box
have you tried kratom for pain ?
Bvt works too

I don't know how many bee stings it takes to heal, but I've had too many to count and decided I am not inviting more.
One day a bunch of them came out of nest in the ground and got under my shirt. I bet I had 20-30 stings. Had to jump in the stock tank to get them to stop. The suckers actually chase me to the door making me afraid to go back out, especially when I'm cutting the grass.

I've been losing weight since I cut way back on carbs and sugar, not underweight though. I struggle with nausea a lot with my headaches and migraines. When I get nauseous I can't eat meat.
The other funny thing is the test he did for inflammation came back picture perfect and he said that that is the frustrating thing about Lyme. We have inflammation in our joints, brain, heart but not in our blood so it doesn't show up.

There are only a few ways to get low on iron. You either don't eat enough iron or you are losing it through your GI tract or menstration. Most pathogens utilize our iron stealing it from us. Borrelia is not one of them.

Dark stools are often a reflection of blood/iron loss through the GI tract.

Traveler said...
Actually, Babesia destroys red blood cells, so that's another way you can be low in iron, as it needs red blood cells.

Be careful should you choose to try kratom. Some are saying it's addictive. It *may* just be a rumor, but check it out, please.

I would say watch your mouth if you use that much lemon. I like the taste of lemon in my water, and get carried away with it from time to time and it will remove layers of skin inside my mouth, which, of course, leaves it kind of raw. LOL! Ouch. No more lemon water for a bit for me after I do that - which, by the way, I just did again!! Why do I do this to myself??? LOL!!

Do I remember that you have migraine meds? If not, I'd be talking to your doc about them. I hate migraines.

I think I'd try pot before I'd try kratom. Addiction stuff scares me, had an auntie pass away due to alcoholism and drug addiction.

I don't think I could handle that much lemon either. It hurts my stomach and I'm afraid my teeth would fall out!! lol!

I do take Imitrex for my migraines but it only helps like 20% of the time. I think I am getting other types of headaches that build off the migraines. My head often hurts 24/7 so if it starts ramping up, I will take imitrex. It always hurts worse with movement or bending over. I think it's the bugs in my brain causing inflammation when it just won't ease up for anything. I hate the debilitating headaches most of all.

Sounds like a lot of Babesia type symptoms - I'm so sorry!!

If part of it's from inflammation in the brain, the increased curcumin may help. Buhner suggests Kudzu root for brain pressure.

In his 2nd edition of "Healing Lyme", he has a lot of suggestions for headaches, including migraines(page 231). If you don't have his book, it may be beneficial to get it.