Please help!!! Grapefruit Seed Extract reaction?!?!

I started GSE this morning, I was told to take 1 with breakfast and 1 with lunch. I felt okay this AM, but after my noon dose.... I felt extreme fatigue, stabbing pains (more intense than the usual migrating pains), lightheadedness.... I just tried a detox bath to help and now I'm sobbing uncontrollably...

I feel like I'm never going to be myself again...... Is this a herx? Bad reaction? What do you guys think?

Could it be reacting with something else I'm taking??

Please, any help.

My heart is also pounding out of my chest. I just don't know how long my body can take this

Hi Louise, what did you take? Was it GSE?

Hi Marie, here is the list: Zithro 600 mg x2/daily, Ceftin 500 mg x2/daily, IV/oral glutathione & PC, multiV, magnesium, calcium/D, probiotic, vit c, YL essential oils (thieves, lemon, panaway, oregano, Lyme Bullets, rain drops x1/wk, inner d), L-lysine, milk thistle, & cats claw
Any reactions you know of? One of my doctors told me to start it and us aware of everything I'm taking... Surely he would've thought if that, but you never know....

That is a very potent combination you are taking. 2 strong abx, cat's claw, oil of oregano and gse.

It might be overwhelming for your body to handle all the die-off (it is also an anti-fungal next to being a cyst buster).
If I were you I would stop the gse, recover and then maybe retry it, but in much lower dosages, building up very slowly. And up your detoxing. Do certainly mention your reaction to your llmd. He or she might change dosage or get more info on your state of health when knowing this.

(I'm not a dr, but looked at the interaction lists and can't see anything.)

Please hold on Delmar.

Do some breathing exercices, it will distract you. That sometimes helps me when I'm totally overwhelmed by a herx or some kind of unusual reaction. It can get pretty rough sometimes.

Have you tried Benadryl or another anti-histamine?
If it's possible to have someone beside you, i would recommend that. It always gives me a safer feeling when hubby is beside me when it's getting scary.
And please, if you feel you are finding yourself in a dangerous situation, go to the ER. Or at least try to contact your doctor today!

Please keep us posted! I won't be able to answer during the night, it's 2.37am here, I need to go to bed. But I'm sure others will be there for you.

What brand did you take and what was the exact mg? Yes definitely hold off on taking it again as everyone suggested. I attempted to take gse several times but always ended up with a headache and anxiety. Never failed. But I knew it wasn't a herx. Yours may be but not in my case. I found out from this forum that certain brands of gse may be contaminated and estrogenic. The estrogenic effects explained my headaches and anxiety. So I switched to nutribiotics which is supposed to be one of the best brands and I didn't havea any issues except for one. My heart was palpitating. BUT this was bc I took more than the recommended dose on the bottle. It says to break it up three times a day and I just took four hundred mg all in one shot. Big mistake!! Hope ur feeling better! The reaction will subside so don't worry.

Wow Chapelle. I just read your post. I am a breast ca survivor, and the cancer was estrogen-receptor positive.

Ok, I am on Nutribiotics, which you say is safer.

Even though I've had palps before, the GSE isn't giving me palps, but it is giving me weird headaches (unless the headaches stem from the sinus infection).

I think I'm going to stop taking it, and go back to Oil of Oregano.

Either that, or I'll call my ND.

Margaret

Thanks everyone.

Teragram - I know its aggressive, but I've been tolerating everything well, and having really good days. I'm able to workout and even run again. I want to really kill this stuff... I'm not looking to be on abx for more than 1 year.

I'm not using the cats claw everyday. I'm using inner defense which has theives and oregano in it, but haven't started the Lyme bullets with the oregano (those are to be used during herxes/flares only anyway). The GSE is supposed to function as my cyst buster for now.... My integrative medicine doc recommended I start taking it in those doses, knowing everything else I'm on. It's either GSE, or my LLMD wants me to start tindamax (sp?) in the next month. I'm not too keen on taking something known to cause brain tumors in rats/mice.

I'm at a bit of a crossroads.... I'm not sure what my LLMD will say/do if I refuse to take the tindamax. I've been told by both doctors "you will not get well if you don't take a cyst buster". But this GSE scares me a bit too....

What would you cut out before taking the GSE again? I can stop the cats claw but in not even doing that as religiously as I should. I'm not going to stop the oils.

I felt much much better after another dry brush and detox bath last night.

Chapelle - I'm going to have to find out for sure the brand/dose. I'm on "vacation" and filled my pill box so don't have the bottle with me. It's one I bought from my integrative med doc so its not nutribiotic. I read that post too, but thought this would get me going until I could order nutribiotic. Should've waited I think.

strategy - which one is the new one?? I am taking the "original GSE nutribiotic liquid concentrate". This one gets 238 five stars, so it must be ok!