Weird flare - what do you think is going on?

Up until a few weeks ago, I was feeling alright. I was able to go to the gym and think relatively clearly.

Three weeks ago, I started going into work more often, which coincided with me drinking a ton of the blackberry lime flavor of: https://www.bevi.co/flavors/. It contains: citric acid, stevia, natural flavors, xanthan gum, and pottassiam sorbate.

Within 20 minutes of drinking this, I go from feeling fine to unable to have a conversation. I wouldn't even describe it as brain fog, it is much worse. My knees also feel like they have been hit by a baseball bat.

Because of all the variables that changed when going into the office, it took me a while to pinpoint this issue, and so I drank a lot of it for 3 weeks. Now, I have not had it in a week, and am still feeling worse than before with greater malaise and knee pain.

What could this be? A herx to the stevia? I do not herx from the 15 drops of stevia I have from nutramedix each day, but I would guess that I am ingesting much much more than this at work. Could it be candida flare from the xanthan gum? I have never had any other food sensitivities besides alcohol, so I would think it is one of these two scenarios.


Please help!

I was going to say the stevia has worked on the biofilms and released some spiros into the bloodstream, maybe the drops you were taking wasn't enough to have an effect, but this drink is.