Treatments and Confusion

Hi there! My name is Kay and this is my first post.

I read through the New to Lyme page and still have a couple of questions that I would love answered!

I'm 21 and was just recently diagnosed after a long and frustrating battle with many of the symptoms. We have no idea when I was first infected, but are leaning towards when I was 16 and was diagnosed with "mono." I never noticed a rash, but do remember around that time having a painful welt on my head, under my hair that seemingly took forever to heal.

My questions mostly have to do with the treatments. The doctor that I have been seeing hasn't gone into many of the specifics, though I expect we will be starting to go over that in our appointment this week. For now I have only been put on supplements. I have been reading the forum (which is helping me so much) and I am a little confused. My doctor said that oral antibiotics would probably not be an option for me, but it sounds like there are people here who have had the disease much longer than me and take the antibiotics orally. Also, if I end up doing IV antibiotics will this require hospitalization or coming in everyday for treatment? I know that detoxing is a vital part of everything and would love a little more insight on that as well! I feel like this is a lot to take in right now, but I am so incredibly happy to at least know what is going on! Thanks to everyone in advance!

I'm not doing ABX. For me, my treatment started with tackling the OTHER problems first and building up my immune system. It's slower, but less discomfort and I'm seeing noticeable improvements now - a year later. Getting candida under control, Epstein Barr, HHV6, fungus, etc. I'm treating lyme very lightly with herbs, but ramping up slowly.