Buhner's Protocol

Hi everyone,

I was treated for late-stage Lyme in the beginning of this year with a few months of Ceftin and a combination of herbs and supplements. After the lab work came back negative in April, my Dr. advised me that no further treatment was necessary and that I simply needed to rest and allow my body time to recover.

After speaking with several members on this forum, I decided to start the Buhner's protocol in conjunction with a "cyst buster" just to be safe. Rather than purchase the traditional tinctures online, I bought all of the ingredients in comparable dosages separately as this was more cost-effective. I have been taking Japanese Knotweed, Cat's Claw Vine Bark, Andrographis, Grapefruit Seed Extract, Eleuthero Root, Sarsaparilla Root, and Dandelion Herb. These are all of the ingredients present in both the Core and Tonic protocols.

I have been on the Buhner protocol for about 5 weeks now, and am seeing a mild improvement in symptoms, but nothing major. I still rarely feel well enough to get out of bed, much less go back to working full-time or spend time with friends and family. I am going to continue the protocol for another 3 weeks until the supplements I've purchased run out.

Has anyone found success with using this protocol following antibiotic treatment? If so, how quickly did you start to feel better?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

PeteZa, thank you for that. I am going to look into that further as it seems I am missing a few herbs to my overall protocol.

1000Daises, I have been tested positive for Lyme three times now over the past 6 years. All three times the co-infections test came back negative for all. The first test was with Quest Labs and the last two were with IGENEX. It seems like IGENEX is a fairly reputable test, so seeing as that it came back negative two different times, I've been standing by those results.

Intuition - Testing can't tell us when we're done with treatment - symptom resolution can.
And it sounds like you stopped treatment too soon - since you rarely feel well enough to get out of bed.

Also, re: testing for the co-infections. Most of us with Lyme also have co's.
Unless you catch it in the first few days/weeks...more than lyme treatment is necessary.


"It seems like IGENEX is a fairly reputable test, so seeing as that it came back negative two different times, I've been standing by those results."

That is not a wise thing to do. The testing for the co-infections is not reliable/accurate - in fact some LLMD's don't even test for them...they assume you have the three B's and treat them.
At the very least, they will got on symptoms...and ongoing symptoms after a fair time on lyme treatment.

...and Dr. J. treats all three B's for a reason. In a recent interview he said "Babesia is ubiquitous".

I love saying creepylepis! That made me giggle. But for newbies it is short for cryptolepis.