Worse Pain than normal, worst pain yet

Infrared Sauna? Detox bath? Detox tea? So sorry you feel so crappy. I'm not doing well today, either. But mine's more emotional than physical. Hang in there!

First of all, I'm soooo sorry that you are feeling so bad!! Those are some hard things to deal with!!!

Could you be experiencing a herx then? As the others have said, it sure sounds like it. It sounds like you are possibly dealing with extra inflammation in your nervous system, and pain alone can make me quite nauseous.

For the nausea, try ginger tea. If you dont' have any ginger tea bags, yet have ginger in your spice cabinet, you can still make it. Add 2 - 3 tsp of ground ginger to 1 cup of hot water. Sweeten enough to get it down - and drink it down fairly quickly. It should help within 15 - 20 minutes.

What are you doing to detox? Then we can make suggestions of what you can add.

I'm so very sorry that you had such a bad day yesterday, MrsPallas. I do hope that today is much better!

The good news is that the herxing should get less and less as you get further into your treatments. Remember, it's not the treatments that are actually doing this, but the toxins from the dying bacteria.

In this cold, try to stay warm, as the cold can be making you hurt worse. Are you taking anything to help with the inflammation? Because of how you describe your pain, it sounds like you need help with that. You can take turmeric - it doesn't have hardly any interactions that you would need to be concerned about unless you are on meds that thin your blood.

Oddly enough, you might try an antihistamine to help - it help sometimes when one is herxing. I have to take 2 at a time for this to help me, so judge on your own tolerance levels.

I didn't have a tub either, but are you still dry brushing and doing foot soaks? They are still quite useful.

If things are still quite intense today, let us know. There are still other suggestions that we can share.

Hypericum is a good one for nerve pain. Does he/she do classical homeopathy by any chance? That would help you overall. I'm guessing not, otherwise he/she would be doing it already. I do hope your pain will lessen soon.

I don't think that was classical homeopathy. With a classical homeopath, you would sit down and tell her all of the symptoms you experience, mental, emotional and physical and she would then choose a remedy based on the totality of all the symptoms, which would typically address the deeper seated problems first. She would ask some questions along the way to get more details, so the first appt. can take an hour or more. I had some problems go away that I hadn't mentioned since they weren't prevalent enough for me to notice them much. I just realized one day that it felt different and then remembered that I had a problem that I didn't remember to tell him about.

Hypericum is commonly used for nerve pain, so she just based it on that most likely. It does do a good job of helping nerve pain when it's an area that is richly supplied with nerve endings, like fingers for example.

I just like to show people that homeopathy can be a powerful medicine when used properly, otherwise I might not have survived when I was so sick in my 20s and I think I would be a lot worse off now if I hadn't gone through constitutional treatments, which, as they say, strengthens your vital force. Sounds like something out of Star Wars, doesn't it? :)

Hi Mrs. P, I thought I was almost cured then my joints starting blowing up and one is painful. My arthritis flared also. My LLMD felt it was an immune response and a good thing. I on the other hand was discouraged and somewhat disasbled. It did pass though. I had to lower my dosage a bit.

Naturopaths typically have a long first appt. They all take a basic class in homeopathy, among other therapies, but only a handful become classical homeopaths. It takes a lot of studying to learn it and most of a persons practice is devoted primarily to it since it does take time to choose the correct remedy for a person. My guess is that Ledum wouldn't come up as a first remedy for your overall health. It never came up over my course of treatments. It's most often used as a first aid remedy, for acute problems. It's just hard for someone new to homeopathy to understand how it works for chronic problems. I wouldn't understand it as well if I hadn't gone through treatments and felt the symptoms going away, layer by layer.

I'm glad you found your doctor since she has also experienced Lyme disease. Who would better understand it than someone who had it! She will probably help more people get diagnosed earlier if she's one of the first few doctors someone sees. I hope you will continue to feel changes as you go along