Herx from a vitamin IV?

I reacted to IV nutrients + glutathione last year. I remember feeling foggy-headed and barely being able to walk afterwards.

I consulted with an LLMD who said I was too sick and sensitive at the time to do IV's, so I stopped doing them. I think he said they were causing me to detox too fast.

My arm often ached for days after getting an IV, and I still often have red marks and bruise-looking things, even a little bit after getting a blood draw.

So, you're not the only one. I don't entirely know what it means, just wanted to tell you what I was told.

Butterfly, thanks for sharing.

I was getting both glutathione pushes and IV drips. For me, the drips were more painful. There was a lot of stinging and pressure. They had to adjust it to go very slow, and were never able to get the whole drip in, because when they increased the flow, my pain would go up over a 7.

Also, sometimes my veins wouldn't take in the IV and/or collapsed.

The pain may have something to do with my hyper-sensitive nerves. I haven't even been able to get acupuncture, not because of needle issues, but because I get revved up later that day and crash. My ND thinks I may have a gene variation that affects my breakdown of neurotransmitters.

I'm open to trying IV's again if I need to in the future. Right now I'm getting ready to go to the Hansa clinic, which I don't think uses them. I guess I'll see where I am after that!

Post Edited (Ilexis) : 1/23/2013 1:43:30 AM (GMT-7)

Hey guys,

Sometimes it's not a herx that you are feeling but it can be a cytokine release, which doctors are talking about a lot more these days with lyme. A cytokine release has nearly the same symptoms as a herx, and man times you can't feel a difference. It doens't get severe unless it blows out into a cytokine storm, although it can make things very uncomfortable for the individual.

You have to remember, we are dealing with a lot of different things that the lyme does to our body. It certainly can shake up our immune systems. Sometimes with all the toxins and bacteria, our system gets overwhelmed and cytokines begin an immune response and causes inflammation.

My doctor thinks this happens a lot more than we think or notice, and many times it's not the herx. I have a problem with my cytokines since December. My doctor has taken a lot of immune boosting herbs and vitamins out of my diet and replaced then with immunomodulators and I have seen a tremendous difference in what I thought was a herx and was my cytokines releasing.

Dr. Kruse has some interesting information on cytokines as well. It can get confusing, but makes a lot of sense once you figure it out.

I'm not saying to stop your vitamin treatments, just making a suggestion that it may not be a herx.

Good luck!