I can't figure out why I feel so lousy these past few days. Is it because I've been off abx? Is something making me herx?

I just feel weird, off somehow. I'm not really sure how to explain it. Light/noise sensitivity, nausea, headache, and very spacey. (They are not new symptoms but the overall lousiness has increased.)

Today, I did dry brushing, alka seltzer gold, milk thistle, kudzu root, magnesium, potassium, collagen, fish oil, and detox tea. I just took activated charcoal to see if that would help.

Girlie said...
How long have you been off abx? just a couple of days?

Did you stop detoxing when you stopped abx? (until today?)

Good plan on the detoxing today - hope you get some relief soon.

It's been a week off abx. I haven't stopped detoxing! I wasn't on my usual detox routine on Thanksgiving or this past Sunday (still detoxed, just very light). Could missing two days of detox be the problem?

julymorning said...
Are you under any level of mental stress or getting agitated?

You've described how I am every morning of the day. Then depending on how the day goes, those symptoms fade away into the background. Sometimes it doesn't change other than get worse.

I keep thinking "ammonia". Must try to take action to get rid of ammonia. It's often the cause of feelings like yours.

I feel like I'm always under mental stress and getting agitated lol I'm definitely overtired. The activated charcoal is already helping......what helps with ammonia?

pmm73 said...

julymorning said...
Are you under any level of mental stress or getting agitated?

You've described how I am every morning of the day. Then depending on how the day goes, those symptoms fade away into the background. Sometimes it doesn't change other than get worse.

I keep thinking "ammonia". Must try to take action to get rid of ammonia. It's often the cause of feelings like yours.

I feel like I'm always under mental stress and getting agitated lol I'm definitely overtired. The activated charcoal is already helping......what helps with ammonia?

I went straight away to our search feature and looked, because I had forgotten. The first suggestion is to cut back on protein. While that isn't the main cause (the bacteria is), it is something we can do right away.

Yucca was mentioned and talked about, but with mixed results.


It seems having Lyme and over production of ammonia go hand in hand. I'm not good at linking posts out of past topics, hopefully you can sort your way through some of them. There are some really good, lengthy discussions on this topic.

As Sissy said, our symptoms can run together with any other possible issue we are having and get hard to figure out what's going on.

pmm73 said...
Thank you for checking, I will look about the ammonia and post anything I find :)

It IS so hard to figure out. I was used to feeling lousy....but then even what makes up "lousy" has changed!

Crazy isn't it? It is always a "different kind" of lousy!

dacarte3 said...
pmm,

How long have you had lyme? I'm going to assume you are a "newer" lymie?

The up and down, rollercoaster ride of symptoms are to be expected. Bacterial lifecycles, your treatment cycles, etc, causes ups and downs in, bacterial load and inflammation (herxes).

If you were to put our lyme and co symptoms on a graph chart it would look like a group of rolling hills or chain of mountainous spikes.

Bad stretches, good stretches, a little bad, really bad, good, really good ,bad, a little good, really good, bad again.

It's just lyme. What I learned when it's bad, hang in there because the storm does pass. When I feel great, enjoy it because the storm will come back eventually at some point (until symptom free status is reached).

I was bit about 5-6 years ago (maybe even earlier when I think about it) but only diagnosed/started treatment in August 2016, so I do forget at times that this is all new to me. It feels like it's been forever already! Some symptoms I can handle gracefully, others terrify me, and others just annoy me - I have seen some progress but I get frustrated when I feel lousy without knowing why exactly or what to do about it.

Randy Eichner said...
I am going through the same thing except I haven't had these symptoms in months. Not sure if it's the new moon or a Bart babs combo flare.

I didn't realize it was a new moon (even though it's on my calendar lol) Last round of abx, I felt like I had the flu everyday. This time, I feel like it's one constant migraine (but the pain is in the back of my head).

I really do think I have Bart....I see a new dr next week who will hopefully help confirm that. Here's hoping.

Hope you feel better.

Sorry PMM,

Sounds like a bad cycle. Detox extra and hang in there.

Decarte: Bad stretches, good stretches, a little bad, really bad, good, really good ,bad, a little good, really good, bad again.

LOL - another Lyme T-shirt. We should come with storm warning. Really bad day stay away.