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Posted by bleauberry on March 16, 2011, at 17:23:28
Supplements:
Japanese Knotweed 3 tabs tid
Coptis 2 caps tid
Artemisinin 1 cap tid
Berberine 1 cap bid
Raw garlic every other day (enteric coated 5 clove equivalent)
Green Food tablets bid
Saw Palmetto/Pygeum/Nettle bid
Andrographis bedtime
Alpha lipoic 12.5mg acid every 4 hoursMeds:
Doxycyline 100mg bid
DMSA 12.5mg every 4 hoursDiet: Clean. Dark chocolate or maple syrup are my daily splurge foods. Gluten free. Oatmeal daily. Love romaine with everything. Broccoli sprouts! Basically veggies all kinds, meats, and berry fruits (frozen). Prefer organic every opportunity. It's worth it for the extra flavor, nutrients, and freedom of chronic low grade pesticides, herbicide, hormones or antibiotics. I eat everything a non-gluten-free person would eat, it's just that it doesn't have gluten and it is organic.
And a handful of other supplements are waiting their turn, either due to purposeful rotation or methodical introduction.
Honestly from day to day I don't feel that much better....but...when I look back a couple years it is very obvious I've come a long way. And then I realize....the crushing dark depression isn't there most of the time, headaches are gone, night sweats mostly gone, walking a little faster, seem to have more endurance, anxiety completely gone, the morning waking anxiety completely gone, sleeping real good, more sociable, interested in hobbies again...basically overall globally better.
Lately I've had maybe one or two days a week that are actually pretty decent, or random times during a day that are decent. That is in stark contrast to the way it has always been for more than a decade and a half....dark, tomb, dreary, death, anhedonia. I got a ways to go for sure but wow I never had this kind of improvement on all the psych meds. For sure they didn't heal a thing and probably actually just allowed disease underneath to progress uninterrupted.
I like the chinese saying, "Dispel evil and support the righteous". Which is basically what my entire cocktail and diet is all about. Healing of untold numbers of symptoms, conditions, and diseases naturally follows.
I've read about many people describing the healing journey as being a roller coaster ride of improvements and relapses, with the good days eventually outnumbering the bad. I can vouch for that personally now. it is a rough ride at times, but with some pleasant vacations mixed in. Even things never got any better than now, gosh, it's a ton better than at any time of the last 20 years on so many different meds and combos. Amazing those powerful pharmaceuticals can be so impotent compared to more benign substances.
Posted by whitmore on March 20, 2011, at 21:29:49
In reply to Current Cocktail, posted by bleauberry on March 16, 2011, at 17:23:28
Hi Bleauberry:
When I look at your list of supplements and meds. I assume you are addressing chronic lyme, coinfections and heavy metal toxicity.
I also have lyme--in my case with babesia. I have been unable to cope without an SSRI(which I distrust) and clonazepam and Ambien, which I'm OK with. I see a LLMD and am being treated with ABX and Malarone, though I'm only in my 3rd month of treatment. I'm thinking of trading SJW for the SSRI, as I hate the weight gain and sexual se's of the AD, and find them very worrying for long term use. Have you been down the AD path yourself? Did you ever try herbal AD's and if so, were they effective? BTW, I always love your posts--you spend a great deal of time giving detailed answers and are balanced in your arguments.
Posted by bleauberry on March 21, 2011, at 16:38:27
In reply to Re: Current Cocktail » bleauberry, posted by whitmore on March 20, 2011, at 21:29:49
> Hi Bleauberry:
> When I look at your list of supplements and meds. I assume you are addressing chronic lyme, coinfections and heavy metal toxicity.Well, sort of. I'm actually treating depression, but to do that means conquering the evils that are the primary cause of it. It is Lyme or something Lyme-like, not sure. Detoxing is a big part of Lyme, in addition to supporting the immune system, reducing inflammation, and killing the organisms. Sources say the organisms use heavy metals to their advantage. I tested a bit high on a urine test for lead and mercury.
> I also have lyme--in my case with babesia. I have been unable to cope without an SSRI(which I distrust) and clonazepam and Ambien, which I'm OK with.I think until some progress has been made psychiatric drugs offer a great benefit in managing symptoms. With successful treatment there won't by any symptoms to manage. But until then, drugs can be very helpful to weather the storm. I've done that. And still do in emergencies.
I see a LLMD and am being treated with ABX and Malarone, though I'm only in my 3rd month of treatment. I'm thinking of trading SJW for the SSRI, as I hate the weight gain and sexual se's of the AD, and find them very worrying for long term use. Have you been down the AD path yourself?
Yeah. Long time. Most drugs you can name.
Did you ever try herbal AD's and if so, were they effective? BTW, I always love your posts--you spend a great deal of time giving detailed answers and are balanced in your arguments.
Herbal ADs. My first ever was SJW and it was like magic. Then a idiot psychiatrist took me off it in favor of Serzone!? It never worked again. To make a smooth switch from a med to sjw, if you do that, is to plan on taking a couple months doing it during a very slow pattern of small changes.
Rhodiola Rosea was real good.
SAMe has a decent track record.
It will all be much easier once some progress has been made. 3 weeks isn't very long.
In the meantime, I highly recommend a book called Healing Lyme by Stephan Buhner. Most of his recommendations I am doing and like the results thus far. All of them go along with meds. Detail scientific stuff on everything Lyme related. You can learn a ton in this book that will make your journey smoother and faster.
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