Herxheimer reactions are not due to "neurotoxins" per se. They are due to endotoxin-like products. These are just the normal cellular components of the bacteria that the immune system recognizes....
"There is clear, widely accepted scientific evidence indicating that a 10-28 day course of antibiotics, depending on the stage of Lyme disease, will kill the Lyme disease bacterium in humans in all...
You need to be more specific about your symptoms. Relapsing fever is a classic example of a cyclical illness but without more information it's hard to know for sure. Also keep in mind there are a lot...
First, Lyme is not an opportunistic infection but a highly adapted parasite. That is not so much opinion as it is biological fact. Opportunistic infections are things that live in the soil, or gut,...
So... I was on cryptolepis at a dropper 3x a day. Then I started taking nauclea, doxy, and upped my cryptolepis to 2 droppers a day and started herxing again after a long period of not being able to...
There's really nothing to generalize here. Every condition, every abx/herb is different. I will say, I have found cryptolepis to be a large magnitude stronger than doxy or tinidazole. But I'm still...
Not really. The immune system is ALWAYS a variable in successful infection outcome. That much is established fact. Truth Cures takes it to a whole new level of dogma....
Not had any bad labs but I frequently get pain in that area...
I'm going to be honest, cryptolepis for me was stronger and more effective than doxycycline. The thing is... you can't really generalize "herbs vs antibiotics". There are some herbs that absolutely...
I'm really glad to hear that! Just keep your eye on the prize and remember to live well in the meantime. Try not to focus too much on the life you had, and rather on the one you're living. I've found...
Absolutely hope. I thought about suicide, getting heroin/dilaudid, etc when I first got sick. But somethings can get better on their own, some things we learn to manage better, and somethings we...
Some of the labs don’t include all the bands - lowering your chance for a positive result. And then there’s the lab here in Canada that won’t even do the WB if you don’t test positive on the Elisa...
Cross reactivity can occur but it is unlikely to be that extensive. Given that these are common pathogens it would be a huge limitation to these tests and I imagine it would be recognized...
I'm not going to lie, I'm skeptical of a lot of things LLMD's are doing. I don't know anything about Armin's, but the fact that LLMD's are using it does not quell my concerns about whether it is a...
I don't know anything about arminlabs but your results make me skeptical of the laboratory. Huge shifts in the microbiome can occur with infectious diseases, but to test positive for so many primary...
"Herbs are my friends now. " I know that feeling! Not going to lie... the Cryptolepis and Sida acuta kick my diseases butt harder than doxycycline....
My pathologist was not incompetent. My case was very rare. The kind of tumor I had is frequently confused with sarcomas and he did the right thing by suggesting a second opinion. It's not much...
I've been through the scare myself a few times. Most convincingly when they pulled a tumor. The first pathologist was like "this might be a sarcoma but I'm not totally sure". I had every reason to...
If I recall it's been shown that dead spirochetes are cleared within hours. Really, I don't understand where people have come to believe that DNA just sits around in tissues indefinitely. Bacterial...
I have not been to Emory personally but Marshall Lyon is one of the only infectious disease specialists around that will even test people for Lyme. I don't know his stance on "Chronic Lyme" but as...
It was one of my first symptoms along with palpitations and in the past year trigeminy. Never found anything on the cardio workup except a right bundle branch block. I've started taking large doses...
Cryptolepis/Sida Acuta is the best antibiotic I've tried for my Neuro symptoms. Just be prepared because neuroherxes suck...
Honestly man, nothing stopped my herxheimers lol. Only lowering the dose. Size is going to have SOME influence as you're still processing more antigen. But what I'm saying is it's not going to be...
Babesia book says 1/2tsp cryptolepis x3 daily til gone. 1/4tsp sida acuta x3 daily. His Herbal Antibiotics book says for both 20-40 drops. In severe infections 1tsp 3 times daily for up to 60 days....
Peeps I have no idea what I've got and I'm done speculating lol. Cryptolepis is not specific to babesia. It is active against a broad spectrum of bacteria and protozoa and in fact Buhner recommends...
I don't see any strong antibacterials. That was the only thing that got me better personally. Cryptolepis, sida Acuta, knotweed, etc...
How much minocycline and did it help? I just finished some doxy but I think the cryptolepis was helping more than the doxy When you say you plateaued on sida, did you just stop taking more? Or did it...
Actually I'm taking CSA as well. I just said Crypto/Sida because they are pretty interchangeable for me. For the past week I was taking 1/2tsp twice a day. Today I jumped up to 1tsp twice a day....
So this whole time I've been going off the bottle that says "20-40 drops". I herxed very hard at first, made some improvements, then kind of plateaued where I neither herxed nor improved further. But...
Wow, I took the max dose of lauricidin and got nothing. Maybe it's because I was already doing pretty well on antibacterials. But I was really hoping to have these strong reactions people are...
Did nothing for me either. Maybe have actually made me a tad worse. Not bad, but like a little herxy maybe...
Nah, no persister treatment specifically. Tonight was my first dose of tinidazole. I've "pulsed" but not in any methodical way. Just stopping treatment randomly to give myself a break and then...
Aww don't tell me that Girlie! Anything but that. I want to hear that you herxed really hard and came out the other side 90% better :) This is my last hope at the moment lol. Otherwise I'm back to...
Curious what people do with this one. I have 500mg pills and I'm debating whether to take 500mg 2x daily or whether to take larger doses pulsed. I know you can take up to 2g I think for some...
They're a pain and I haven't found anything that helps. I've started taking doxy along with heavy doses of CSA and Nauclea Latifolia and I think my heart beat has slowed down a bit. I haven't had a...
Yes, if you had the rash you had Lyme. Assuming you actually had the Lyme rash which is pretty distinctive. You are lucky to have a healthcare professional who actually did the right thing. Tests are...
I think the major problem is going to be convincing them that the Igenex is valid. Have you had a standard test? Do you have any symptoms like peripheral neuropathy? If so you could probably get a...
Look up John Aucott's work on PLDS. He's the head of John Hopkin's Lyme program and studies the effects of "PLDS" (regardless of what we believe the cause to be). His last paper specifically showed...
For me there's no numbness just crazy burning...
I never had a biopsy but based on the symptoms I'm pretty sure I had horrific small fiber neuropathy. It started in my feet and rapidly climbed to my face. It was so bad I couldn't wear socks and...
So how do you know the quality of these people? I looked it up and apparently not asking a prescription is illegal. Not that I care. But it makes me concerned about quality control if it's a "rogue...
Thanks Girlie. I took 100mg x2 today but I'll bump it up tomorrow. Don't want to waste this experiment. I quit taking all my herbs last sunday after a particularly aggressive regimen and for the...
Interesting. Thanks for that. 200mg twice a day is the standard for neuroborreliosis so don't know why that is if 100 reaches peak levels. Girlie I couldn't find adchemist. I didn't realize you could...
Sorry if this is a dumb question. I don't have an LLMD but have 30 doses of 100mg doxy from something else and felt like giving it a spin. I know that's not enough but I just want to gauge my...
I don't have an answer to those, but if you're having issues you can try just lowering the dose. I had to do that at the beginning. I had to take veryyyyyy low doses to avoid a near dangerous level...
"reovirus has most likely passed due to it not being a very harsh virus." Try and prove that is the case. You are using the same logic the IDSA uses for Lyme disease. Negative evidence doesn't mean...
"Something like Celiac has been triggered by an infection, a study has shown that through reovirus. But the infection has passed" This has never ever been proven. Dummys arrive to this conclusion...
"You know that for a fact? There's drugs on the market that don't successfully work for many autoimmune disorders, yet through lobbyism from Big Pharma, these drugs stay on the market." I don't think...
The avenue for autoimmune disorder for Chronic Lyme Disease has been explored over and over again by these Doctors and they've come up with nothing. Just like Willy Burgdorfer has put it, nothing!...
"Heal those that chronically sick" Dude that's the point. That's why ALL possible avenues are being explored...