What is Your Protocol?

I posted this a few years ago, and found reading what others were doing very helpful.
Here is my 2020 protocol, or action plan.
1. I went through my cupboards to see what I have in supplements and also in the freezer to take stock.
2. Herbs: I have been using Cats Claw, Neem (capsules), Japanese Knotweed (bark I steep into a tea) as anti-bacterial, anti-viral.
3. Local herbs: I have been drawn to harvesting local herbs and have integrated use of pine needles for the vitamin C, and have used also horsetail for the recurring UTI. I gathered also last spring elderberry flowers which are anti-viral and really great for getting the bowels moving. Decades ago somebody brought some cistus icanus from greece to our region and they wound up growing wild up one trail, which of course, hasn't been exposed to pesticides. I'm integrating this into my medicinal teas. I found this article if anyone is interested. [url]https://klinghardtinstitute.com/articles/sardinian-cistus-incanus/
4. Stress: life has given me what I can't control and I'm doing what is in my control to reduce stress.
5. I've applied for disability which my attorneys say I am a good candidate for. I applied a few years ago and was denied, and may be denied again, but I am going to keep pursuing this. I have another year and a half to 62 where I can draw from social security and set as a goal not dipping into my retirement because it is so dinky. My partner, at this point, is supportive of this action plan and I'm able to live at home without having to contribute to the rent/utilities.
6. Lot of time in nature, exercise, support groups, and doing what brings me joy as I take stock of having let go of everything, the idea of working, the dance company, the professional career as an artist, the volunteer work. I just let go.
7. Continuing learning and prioritizing with my spiritual well-being and letting life stem from my spiritual practices.
ahh... and yes... I am using charcoal and apple cider vinegar for detox and have my enema kit which I may return to.
8. I am thinking, given the ACE (google ACE studies), and the fact that two siblings just died from cancer, and how ACE can impact health, I am looking into things to lengthen telemeres.

Mine is....

The full Cowden Protocol
Daily Epson Salt baths
Daily Dry Brushing
Dry sauna three or four times a week
Yoga
L-Metylfolate

Preparing to start Dr. J Lyme Babesia Biofilm & Enula Part A Protocol which includes:

Omnicef
Septra DS
Mepron
Artemisinin
Enula
Cryptolepsis
Flagyl

Other drugs/supplements/herbs I take (current schedule):

Low dose Gabapentin (100mg) or Trileptal (150mg) once at bedtime
Zyrtec - (1) 10mg per day
Pepcid or Zantac - (2) per day
Multivitamin – Usually once a day at lunch
Additional Vit. C – 4000mg+ per day divided between am and pm
Additional Vit. D – 5000IU am or lunch
Additional Magnesium – around 500mg per day divided 1-2x day
Ubiquinol – (1) 100mg capsule lunch or pm

Milk Thistle – around 1400mg per day divided 3x day (on off ABX days)
Japanese Knotweed Powder – 1 ½-3 tsp. per day
Wild Cherry Bark – 10 drops 1x at lunch
Pinella – 10 drops 2x day/lunch and supper
Glutathione – 2 squirts 2x day/before lunch and about ½ hour before bed
Binders – Charcoal – about 1 tsp. day, Bentonite Clay – about ½ tsp. day/midnight or early morning if awake
Apricot Kernals – 2 kernals 3x day at mealtime
Iodine – Lugols 5% 2 drops 1x day/lunch

Probiotic – 90 to 100 billion per day away from ABX – does not include S. boulardii
S. Boulardii – 5 billion – am & pm

NAC – 600mg 1-2x day
Dandelion – take 2 or 3 capsules – every other day or so
Burdock – take 2 or 3 capsules – every other day or so
Alpha Lipoic Acid – (1) 100mg capsule 1x day lunch or pm

Some other things: healthy, mostly organic diet; oil pulling, Burdock or Parsley tea

Forgot probiotics 100 billion or 50 billion raw

BlueRidgeDave, doing pretty well here, thanks (in another flare now it seems, but thankfully not as bad as last flare). Hope you're doing well.

I think the answer is that I was on a lot of it before I started seeing AW. At first appointment, I did show her my herb/supplement/drug list. She did mention backing off some on the J. Knotweed, as I was building up to 3 tblsp. per day at that time if I recall correctly.

Since starting to see her, I have added NAC, Dandelion, Burdock, ALA to help as liver enzyme rose. She recommended the NAC and when I questioned her in last appt., told me not to back off the liver support because of my high enzyme. Since first seeing her, she has added the CoQ10 (I take Ubiquinol) as I was a little low on it in bloodwork, and also the Gabapentin (and/or Trileptal), higher dose of probiotics, and S. boulardii.

She questioned me about a few things on the list, for instance, the apricot kernals and Cherry Bark but didn't say I couldn't continue with them.

Some of the things I take were in the Weigman protocol I used early last year, and I just continued with them thinking they may be helping me.

Post Edited (ChristianWithLyme) : 1/7/2020 2:43:31 PM (GMT-7)