Relapse

I have not completely healed and then gotten sick again. That is my understanding of a relapse.

While I did have lyme I certainly did wax and wane. I swore lyme is bi-polar. Well and fine one day and sick, sick, sick the next. I never found any rhyme or reason to lyme at all.

I also experienced the roving symptoms. I always felt like I was chasing the bugs. Trying to wear them out so they would die. One part of my body would get a symptom and then it would disappear. Then suddenly an entirely different part would get a symptom. It was so hard to explain to anyone. I know I sounded like a nut case with so many hurts moving around in my body.

I'm not well schooled on the antibiotics. Someone else will be along to help with that. I am not familiar with CBT. Did you mean CBD the non-THC form of marijuana?

Hi Kct!

I didn't do LBCore, I did antibiotics. Both my Naturopath and I thought I had it beat. I even went on to run a marathon in January of this year. Then, I relapsed. Or I thought we had gotten rid of all the bugs bug I hadn't and a weakened immune system from the race and training brought them all back out to play.

I am on an SSRI, too. I have been up and down on prozac. During treatment I have been as high as 60. Oddly enough, I am on 20mg. I think detoxing and alterations in diet assist in reducing inflamation/toxins thus anxiety and depression. Did you make adjustments to your diet to take out inflammatory foods?

I applaud you for CBT. Therapy is super helpful.

Anxiety was a major factor for me back in 2014. I know you were treating Lyme but I swear that darn Babesia is what shot my anxiety into the stratosphere. You might consider that was a missing piece in your treatment. Again, I am not familiar with the LBCore so you might have been treating it.

So. Being relapsed. I had to decide what I was going to do differently. I suggest you deciding what you are going to do differently for yourself this time. Folks here will give you great input.

This is what I am doing differently this time (fingers crossed).

1) Different doctor/different treatment protocol. Pulsing antibiotics

2) Loading up on supplements, probiotics (like VSL#3), and detoxing

3) Being kinder to myself. Saying no to social engagements when I am taxed out. Listening to my body


Hope this helps.

To your health and healing.

Peppermint Tea

Be aware that adrenal fatigue can be a big contributor to Lyme anxiety/depression, brain fog etc..

If This fails then I might do Cowden protocol. It helped alot of Horowitz's patients.