1st major herx

So the wife's been hit with her first major herx. A-BAB was lying low, letting her up her dosage before unleashing, it seems. Could do with some words of advice or comfort...

She's been suffering with fluctuating temperature all week, switching between sweating and shivering. She's been having neck pain causing quite bad headaches, as well as nausea, disturbed sleep, general fatigue and weakness, and the past couple of days, has been having trouble downstairs - thrush/candida, swelling, burning, with slight lacerations/mild bleeding. She's suffered with thrush in the past, but she says it's never been this bad.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated. Quite worried about the girl..!

Reduce the dosage to a tolerable level or stop a few days if needed.

Detoxing is very important. I find epsom salt baths to be the most beneficial. Alka seltzer gold can also help. If she's never done the baths before, start slow and use comfortably warm water, not too hot. Soak 20 minutes. Start with 1 cup of epsom salt. If baths are too much, she can do a foot soak instead.

Make sure she's adequately moving her bowels daily. Magnesium citrate, like Natural Calm, and Vit C powder (ascorbic acid) to bowel tolerance can be very useful.

Binders like activated charcoal, bentonite clay, Zeobind, modified citrus pectin are usually necessary. Binders should be taken 2 hours apart from food and meds/herbs/supplements. Activated charcoal is probably the best tolerated by most people. Start with 2-3 capsules. Can work up to 5. Two capsules twice a day would be a good start. At some point she could add or substitute a different binder. I find it easiest to take binder doses mid-afternoon between lunch and dinner and in the night or early morning when I have to go to the bathroom.

Hope this helps.

Herbs that help me with herxing: Chinese skullcap and kudzu root.

ceebs13 said...
Thanks v much guys. She had a few days off from the A-BAB but is back on a lower dosage now. She'd reached as many as 12 drops twice a day with not a great deal of symptoms which seemed very weird. Clearly takes a little while to rear its head...

She does a lot to detox, but how much is enough? (Rhetorical question..!) IR sauna twice a week; charcoal, chlorella and bentonite clay before retiring; milk thistle; body brushing; Epsom baths; turmeric; ACV, amongst other things. Hoping it all subsides in a few days - thanks both for the input

The toxins can continue to build...so even with maintaining a certain dose...over time that dose can cause a herx.

Here's a link to a website on detox methods....maybe there's something there ... although her listed detox methods looks pretty good.
BTW is she taking probiotics for gut health?

And any exercise? yoga...or a short walk is good - gets the blood circulating.

/www.tiredoflyme.com/detox-methods.html

ceebs13 said...

Girlie said...

ceebs13 said...
Thanks v much guys. She had a few days off from the A-BAB but is back on a lower dosage now. She'd reached as many as 12 drops twice a day with not a great deal of symptoms which seemed very weird. Clearly takes a little while to rear its head...

She does a lot to detox, but how much is enough? (Rhetorical question..!) IR sauna twice a week; charcoal, chlorella and bentonite clay before retiring; milk thistle; body brushing; Epsom baths; turmeric; ACV, amongst other things. Hoping it all subsides in a few days - thanks both for the input

The toxins can continue to build...so even with maintaining a certain dose...over time that dose can cause a herx.

Here's a link to a website on detox methods....maybe there's something there ... although her listed detox methods looks pretty good.
BTW is she taking probiotics for gut health?

And any exercise? yoga...or a short walk is good - gets the blood circulating.

/www.tiredoflyme.com/detox-methods.html

Thanks Girlie. She used to do yoga quite regularly but has fallen off the wagon slightly. I'd say exercise is one of the things she's missing at the moment, but I guess it's usually the first thing to go when you feel ill. Will try to encourage. She's just Neti potted and it's helped quite a bit!

Oh, I totally understand about the exercise. I always feel better after I exercise BUT it's very difficult sometimes to motivate myself to do my exercises. When you're body is hurting...or you have fatigue...it's not something you want to do.....even if you know you'll feel better after.