Your top 5 tips from your last LLMDs appointment thread

Thanks for posting, love this thread!

I wish I had 5 things to take away from my last LLMD visit. It wasn't a very productive visit. But I look forward to seeing what everybody else's says.

Good stuff Donjr, out of curiosity(not that it changes anything), could we have a hint of wich llmd told you thise valuble info? Just in case we sonetimes get conflicting tips, so we can compare different school of thought

Went to my first LLND appointment yesterday, I left there with mixed feeling.
Still, there was a few interesting things mentionned by the LLND, some debatable, some not.
Here's my top 5 tips/find:

1- You should not eat the same food every day because your body might grow an intolerence to it.
This might be obvious for some, but for me, since I got the green light for eggs, I started my old habbit of eating 4-5 whole eggs every morning. The LLND told me to instead, eat them every other day.

2- The best time to take a probiotic when on antibiotics, is right before bed.
Charcoal and probiotics do NOT bind. By taking the probiotics before bed, you allow your body 8 hours to resplenish some flora.

3- When you have had lyme symptoms for more than 2 months, you are a chronic sufferer.
Therefore I am.
This was a hard one for me to swallow despite me seeing it coming. I've been infected back in June, but it took me 1 month to start a real protocole other than the doxy 200mg BID. I've always kept the hope of being able to kick it out of my system since I was early on the ball... but I guess it won't happen.

4- Nightshades vegetables should ONLY be reintroduced if you no longer have any joint pain.
When it's the case, re-introduce a new one every 3 days (several portions during that day). See if theres any worsening of the symptoms. If not, you are clear.

5- Tap water is apparently the devil. So either buy water in glass bottle, have a water filter system under your sink, or have a Brita to filter the water.
One question that rise with the Brita that I should have asked: That countainer is made of plastic... dosen't it toxify the water?

My last appt.:


1. Babesia is the 'driver' and needs to be irradicated in order to treat the other infections adequately.

2. Pulsing the antibiotics/anti-parasitics allows the immune system to do some of the work on the off-days.

3. Taking care of pain is beneficial to the immune system.

(I already knew the above from him prior to my appt....)

Alxander said...
Hi Girlie, hope your new treatment is going alright! I'm excited that you are on the new Dapsone abx

Concerning 3) and pain...
Could you explain me a bit more what you mean?

I take it that it is good for your immune system if you find way to reduce the pain?
My LLMD did put me on Low Dose Naltrexone and at the time I was kind of agaisnt it. I felt that it would hide my pain and I wouldnt know if my relief is actually coming from the plaster (naltrexone) or a "real" improvement.

Thanks, my treatment is going...but it's hitting me hard.

He has patients coming in and saying they don't need the pain meds...they can handle it. But, he says "But your immune system can't"
- meaning that being in constant pain can/does affect the immune system.

I haven't listened...still not on the pain meds he prescribed. I'm not against it for the same reason as you - I don't mind if it hides the pain...but I just don't want to take one more med than I need to. I always go searching on the internet for side effects/risks...and the pain meds (lyrica/gabapentin) do have some.

I did break down and try Gabapentin in February...but it didn't help. I was willing to go only so high in dosage. Now I'm supposed to try Lyrica. But, Im holding off because I seemed to have a 'shift' in symptoms the past couple weeks...for the better....so we'll see what happens.

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