Good morning everyone

There are many things you can do to detox. In the new to Lyme thread there are many examples such as:
Lemon in lots of drinking water
Binders such as activated charcoal
Epsom salt baths with dry brushing
Herbs such as burbur Pinella.

Juicing or Green Smoothies
detox foot pads
sauna (if you have access to one)
liver/gallbladder cleanse
colonics
coffee enema
massage
lymph drainage
rebounders
organic body products
water testing
parasite cleanse (paragone) or any other reputable product
candida cleanse
essential oils for detoxification
magnet therapy for electromagnetic stress

Post Edited (Purrrsiankitty) : 6/15/2017 5:01:05 AM (GMT-6)

I would suggest that you start out with some simple detoxing routines like drinking the lemon water, dry skin brushing and soaking in an Epsom salt/peroxide bath. If you have swollen lymph nodes, the lymph massages are very helpful too.

I did start out with pharma abx, but due to severe herxing, and a doctor that didn't know enough about it, I ended up stopping those and eventually going to all herbs. I used only herbs to heal well the first time. I'm back to using only herbs since I have been reinfected.

The choices of what to use and when are a very personal choice. Some really need to use both abx and herbs, others need herbs, and still others need to use abx. I believe this is dictated a lot more by our bodies than our preferences though. We do whatever we need to in order to heal, so we have different paths.

Yes! The curcumin will help with inflammation, and the Yogi detox tea will help with detoxing your liver and kidneys. Adding in the above will also help use other detox pathways in your body as well.

If you seem to be tolerating it all well, then you can add in a few more things as you tolerate them. You can add in a new detoxing routine every few days usually.

Don't be too afraid of herxing! We don't want you to be afraid during treatment! We just want to help you understand how important it is and to help you get started and be here to offer suggestions if it happens. If herxing gets too bad even with a bunch of detoxing, you lower doses of treatments or just stop treatments temporarily in order to give your body a chance to catch up.

Please do NOT apologize for asking questions! If you don't know, you need to ask. The learning curve for these infections is pretty steep and it really helps to be able to lean on those that have already had to learn these things!

Mono can have an impact on the testing - but it's on one band. The rest of the information about this that I have seen is pure BS. It's an attempt to discredit the labs that are showing a lot of positives because they use different testing methods than some of the other labs - it's just more specialized testing for these infections, like they do for many infections/diseases though.

Mono can definitely reactivate though - and many of us deal with reactivated EBV (the infection that causes Mono). I prefer to use Lysine to keep it under control, others use pharma anti-virals when they need it.

Best of luck!