Help! Neuro lyme herx

I started on abx last week (day 8 today). Around day 3 I started to feel my typical brain fog, lightheaded, and very emotional ( all of my typical symptoms). My head feels like it was screwed on wrong. My doc gave me a break for a day and a half but I am still feeling badly. My anxiety is over the top- this has always been my chief complaint with lyme. I feel like i want to jump out of my skin. Then i really scare myself with the anxiety combined with the weird head feelings. I experienced an over the top adrenal rush last night with shaking. These have always been my symptoms but now they are nearly constant and much worse. I assume I am herxing, which I am a little grateful for. But now for that age old question, how long do herxes last? I will ride it out if I know there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Thank you opugirl,
I am on 600mg of omnicef. I am glad to know you felt better after two weeks. I can make it that far! This anxiety just makes me think the worst. Plus I have four little kids running around and that adds to my irrational fears. I am glad for the herx because I doubted that such bad depression and anxiety could be caused by lyme. At the same time, I am grateful to have a diagnosis.
It's nice to hear you are doing so well when it seems there a lot if bad stories here on the forum. Reading a lot of these messages often doesn't help me with my anxiety.

Please don't allow a herx to go on for two weeks! That's precious time lost! Your body can't heal as well or as effectively if you are herxing, it's just too taxing on the body! Be sure you are doing all that you possibly can to detox.

My doc got really upset with me if I allowed myself to herx even moderately for more than 3 days!! You should either back down on the dosage and then work back up slowly, or stop the med altogether and start over, at a much slower pace. Otherwise you are suffering needlessly.

Wonderful!! Let us know how things are going!