Posted 11/1/2021 9:22 AM (GMT 0)
As I mentioned recently, I unexpectedly killed some borrelia by taking claritin. Borrelia is known not to be able to tolerate high doses of desloratadine, but I only took 10 mg claritin, and it worked a bit better than expected.
Of course, I herxed and now I'm detoxing.
What is surprising me is just what is coming out as it dies.
Sure there's the usual sick feeling, and sweating, and peeing a lot, but it's also releasing some very unexpected things.
One is that I'm getting a lot of stomach acid and hot flushes and adrenal issues, signs of vitamin D toxicity. I've had problems with vitamin D toxicity in the past, but it had not occurred to me that borrelia was actually hoarding a bunch of vitamin D. Why it would do this is kind of a mystery, as I doubt the bacteria have a use for vitamin D specifically, however borrelia is known to take up cholesterol so it's cholesterol transporter is probably just grabbing the vitamin D and other steroids by accident. Nonetheless this would help explain why we see so many reports of vitamin D toxicity on this forum.
I'm also getting some of the weird spaced out euphoric effect that I associate with depakote. I haven't taken depakote recently. It was pretty obvious that borrelia accumulates valproic acid, often to toxic levels, as this drug has little effect initially, but causes herxing after several weeks of use. I'm just surprised how much valproate it had accumulated, and held onto for months.
The herxes also cause some unexpected diarrhea, so I suspect there's some antibiotic in there that it was tolerant to, that's now getting released as it dies. I don't know which antibiotic it might be, I've taken so many.
Borrelia burgdorferi sure holds onto some pretty strange trash.