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Posted 2/28/2013 1:43 PM (GMT -5)
It seems like most of the effective things I try...the first day or so I take it a few hours later I throw up and then the next day I'm okay. Like today...I decided to take yeast ease b/c the azo tabs are just not getting rid of oral thrush in my mouth. 2 hours later I feel hot and barf. I feel ok after and even ate plenty for lunch and that was an hour ago and I'm okay.  What is the deal with this???? It comes on all at once - so no time for prevention really. I feel ok after I barf I just think it is odd. Wondering if this happens to others.

1st - doxy

2nd - Houtuynia

3rd  - yeast ease from jernigans

Posted 2/28/2013 2:30 PM (GMT -5)
Could it be that you are throwing up because there is nothing else in you when you take the doxy? That is what happened to my son. Regardless of whether it says before food or with food or whatever, if he didn't eat before he took it, he would get sick.
Posted 2/28/2013 2:34 PM (GMT -5)
Nope, I take it on a semi-empty stomach now and don't have a problem at all. And the others I take with food but it is the same rxn.
Posted 2/28/2013 2:34 PM (GMT -5)
It seems to be the same thing that happens to me as well. I was already vomiting a lot before I started treatment. Now on Doxy and Plaqunil, I have experienced some intense herxing. Vomiting seems to be part of it. I wonder if it's all the toxins getting overloaded in our systems?

It just comes out of nowhere too, or I can feel it building for a while. Sometimes I feel better afterwards, sometimes worse. What I do know is that Lyme has made me get over the fear of vomiting!! I am about to add Ceftin into the mix and we'll see what that does.

Keep detoxing as much as your able, I am finding this is very important.

 

Posted 2/28/2013 4:23 PM (GMT -5)
I can relate to this...
Many times that I've tried a new anti-microbial herb or detox method for the first time, I puke soon after. The next time and thereafter I don't. Often I feel quite nauseous again, but no puking. My intuitive understanding of this is that every new detox approach you try gets the most toxins moving the first time (there's the most to move around), and then subsequent times you're still moving toxins but there are fewer to move.
I actually wish I'd puke the subsequent times, too! Maybe that's weird but I think puking is so much better than being super nauseous and NOT puking!
Posted 2/28/2013 6:53 PM (GMT -5)
How well do you tolerate the Houttuynia? For me it was very hard to tolerate for the first month or so that I was on it. Although nausea has been my right hand gal (wink) for many years now, when I was starting the Houttuynia it was the worst I had.

Not that I'm suggesting that you back off the Houttuynia, just thinking of an explanation for the nausea.

Also, have you tried using ginger root caps regularly even though you don't have "much" trouble with nausea? It might help prevent this from happening.

Just a thought.
Posted 3/1/2013 6:42 PM (GMT -5)
Warriormom, I'm taking Ceftin and I find it much easier than the Doxy. I would feel sick literally within seconds of swallowing Doxy and I could not at all tolerate it on an empty stomach. It's the drug of choice, I so wish that I could have stayed on it. : (
Posted 3/1/2013 6:43 PM (GMT -5)
BTW, I agree Marigold! There is nothing worse than long tortuous hours of just plain nausea!
Posted 3/1/2013 8:29 PM (GMT -5)
i get nausea and vomiting when herxing. I now know it's herxing because I used to have constant,daily nausea and vomiting before starting treatment. Since starting lyme treatment and especially since starting Bart treatment, all of my GI issues are gone except for when I'm herxing.
Posted 3/1/2013 8:45 PM (GMT -5)
I'm doing fine on the Houttuyunia now just that first time....weird huh?
Posted 3/3/2013 8:24 AM (GMT -5)
It's quite possible that the first time on Houttunia created a die off just large enough to make you that ill only one time, Opugirl. Or it could be that you need your first dose of things to be 1/2 of the regular dose so that you are "introducing" it to your body more slowly.

It seems to me that once we get past a certain point of being ill -which is different for each of us, our bodies start being really weird! We all seem to find little querks that are unique to us.
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