Buhner protocol causing flare of candida?

One thing I can tell you about lyme and healing is that it isn't like most other illnesses. Anyway for me it wasn't. I did not feel, "oh, I'm getting better day by day." That was not the case for me at all.

I would lose a symptom and another would appear somewhere else. It was constantly roving in me. I believe it was looking for places to hid from the herbs.

I can't tell you what to do, you aren't my kid...... You will have to do a pro and con list to see what is best for you. It is easy to tell someone what to do, but I hate the responsibility that comes along with that.

Now about stress. I do know that one very well. My husband can just barely raise his voice and I will get diarrhea.

I can make a situation stressful in my own mind and have physical results from it. It can be anything from a stiff neck, diarrhea again, headache, pimples, etc.

Stress was a huge problem for me and I still have to protect myself from it. I am a praying person, and that helps a lot. I also love my quiet places where I can let things go.

I still get stress, but now it is usually because I see a grandchild of mine in the process or on the journey of doing something stupid. I can't stop them and that stresses me. I just put that in the elevator and send it to the basement to be burned in the furnace.

I am wondering how well you ate with all your stress and the holidays. Like you said, it is probably not one thing, but the combination of everything.

Take a deep breath and just get on that treatment wagon again, whichever you choose.

Nix the sugar for 3 months. I know you will feel better with just this one thing.

Hugs of comfort...... I know this anxiety so well and I hate seeing others with it.

I am VERY biased because I healed from Buhner's core protocol, along with Beyond Balance. I do not believe that those tinctures can cause candida. The amount of alcohol is minimal. However, there are tinctures without any alcohol. Check out Hawaii Pharm. They make a lot without alcohol. I have even gotten them on Amazon.

I think if you ask 10 people what to do, you will get 10 different answers.

Being a foodie myself, I totally understand your dilemma. At first I was so sick I could not go out. When I finally could, it was embarrassing to take my "cocktail" of herbs. If I did not take my herbs at meal time, I would completely forget.

You are probably having a flare because you are not treating. The lyme bugs are having a party because there is nothing chasing them.

If you do start the herbs, you have to start low and up them slowly again. You will probably get to move up faster, but be careful. You don't want a herx on top of a flare.

I wish I had the right words to say...... It is so hard to hear of others suffering.

Dang this stupid disease. !!!

Again... thanks peteza for your kind sympathy it's so sweet!!

Walkingbyfaith. Thanks for your input.

I just feel so ill that I think I am afraid to take anything. Like I said earlier.. I was managing before the holidays. Not good, but I was able to function. I am now dysfunctional. I can barely stand up today. I have been lying down all day. I was very weepy because of how i feel and I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel. I have to go to work tomorrow and I am not sure how I am going to accomplish that. I am hoping to wake up tomorrow with more energy!! 🙏🙏

Lymesick I don't think they like us to get religious on this forum.

You are more than welcome to email me.

Aphysicalwreck, worrying about going to work the next day is anxiety and stressful.

Remember that lyme comes and goes. Horrible and not so horrible is how I describe it.

I hope you feel better tomorrow.

I took many a day off to just sleep and lay around. That was all I could do frankly.

Also the problem is that I run an office by myself on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and another women runs it on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I don't like asking her to fill in for me because she always fills in for me when I take vacations. Also I have a lot of work to do that she does not do. I really need to go in. Also I don't get paid if I don't work.

Hopefully I can get through the day!!

aphysicalwreck said...
Also the problem is that I run an office by myself on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and another women runs it on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I don't like asking her to fill in for me because she always fills in for me when I take vacations. Also I have a lot of work to do that she does not do. I really need to go in. Also I don't get paid if I don't work.

Hopefully I can get through the day!!

I bet you get to work and you get busy and you don't feel as awful.

For some reason concentrating on my job, I had less symptoms. I guess I was distracted.

I hope this is the case for you. Try your best to be positive.

Hard when we feel like poo-poo, I know.

aphysicalwreck said...
Hi.

I started the buhner protocol at the very beginning of November. Over the holidays I was extremely stressed. More then ever. I work for a home heating oil company and because of the extreme cold weather we had I was busier then ever and working almost double of my usual hours plus holiday shopping, entertaining, events etc. right after New Years I started to feel worse then ever. I think its a combination of my Lyme symptoms and candida from all the stress.

I stopped taking the core protocol thinking at first that maybe the herbs was the cause. But it was probably the extreme stress that jusy totally put me over the edge. I feel like I am at deaths door.

I was thinking maybe to start up the protocol again but because I suspect that candida kicked in as well and the tinctures have some alcohol in them is it not a good idea? I was never overly sensitive to alcohol before but I also felt that my candida issue was not that bad. Probably always slightly there though.

Any opinions on starting up the protocol again?

Also I was thinking to go to the Dr j clinic in D.C. But am afraid because their treatment is all abx. If I have a candida issue as well as Lyme I can't see how abx is the right plan of action.

You won't be the first patient to go to Dr. J's clinic with Candida issues with lyme.
He does have his patients on Diflucan intermittently.

(just an fyi - if you do decide to go there - Candida isn't anything new to Dr. J and his staff)

So can you use herbs instead of abx? I thought it was to supplement them?
Can you start off with herbs, or are abx needed...l am getting to the root of autoimmunity investigation so could start abx once they've tracked this down and diagnosed.
I'm also using diet, the aip.
I like to come across healing stories.
Am grateful so many positive ,so much advice,as someone new to this it is hugely helpful

aphysicalwreck said...
Thanks girlie.

That's good to know.

When is your appointment?

It's in a couple of weeks.

Flights/hotel booked...just hoping it won't be freezing temperatures and snow.

Friends/family are asking why I don't wait until mid March/April when the weather's better - to go...but I am already wishing I was there yesterday!!