Progress is so slow...

oh no Lympickle!! =(

I was going to post a new thread about headaches, but I might as well just share the story with you here - bc maybe it will help. I literally only got a severe headache when I herxed, otherwise, i've been headache free since January. Then last week, I started getting headaches every day. Im like, what's this?? I figured out I was getting them around 11/12 noon every day - AFTER I had taken my serrazymes and both antibiotics. So I decided to do a trial - I stopped the serrazymes for two days. Still the headaches, then I stopped the Bactrim for two days (including today), and since yesterday, no headache. BAM. My thoughts were right - so far, anyway. I am going to try taking the Bactrim tomorrow and not the Zithromax and see what happens, and then go back to my usual regimen. If the headache resumes while just on the Bactrim, well then I know its the Bactrim, but if the headache resumes while on both antibiotics - then its too much for my system. When these headaches started, and I thought it could be from the meds, I started to think to myself, well if there isn't much Lyme bacteria left in me, maybe taking all of this stuff is not necessary anymore. Two antibiotics may be too much at this point, and the headaches could be a sign of that. After I finish my trial with the meds, I will email my dr my thoughts and see what she says. But if you were pretty much symptom free, is it possible your body really is becoming overwhelmed with all of the stuff you are taking? And the yeast issue may very well be part of the problem. Hang in there lymepickle, don't give up!!!

Chapelle thanks for your post! : ) Yes my main thing today was a headache! All day long. Feel better now though I'm drinking lemon water and relaxing in my comfy cozy bed.

I don't know I almost feel like it could be the medication? Or yeast? I think those are 2 things. That and I haven't been sleeping well the past week because I have been coming off seroquel which I used to help me sleep. But now I'm coming off of it. That and I added in the low dose naltrexone for the past few weeks which I read interferes with sleep.

Lol which is it, medication, withdrawal, lack of sleep, infection, yeast? Maybe all of the above?

Yes it could be yeast... At least I'm off the tinidazole. I'm going to take the evening off of antibiotics. I will take my next dose tomorrow.

Hi Girlie... No I'm not overdoing it. I take my job as easy going as possible.

See the issue with Lyme treatment is it is very complex... You will know what I mean as you progress through treatment. You feel better, then you feel worse, you herx, then you flare, then you feel much better, then you decide it's time to stop the sleeping medication, then you can't sleep, then you get medication toxicity symptoms, then you get yeast overgrowth symptoms. There becomes so many different issues that pop up as treatment progresses. See this is why I highly suggest you goto Dr.C as soon as you can. I don't think Dr.s that don't normally deal with these kinds of patients will know what to do.

It's a very difficult juggling act! To juggle all these things.

It's okay I will just keep at it and try and hang in here. I will believe that I will get better and restore my health in time.

my son hasn't been getting headaches, but what you guys are saying about maybe it could be yeast, makes me think of my little guy's situation.

When we went to his last appt with the llmd (June 9th) I told her he was down to only about 9 complaints of joint pain in a month (a HUGE improvement) and tummy aches, that's it.

And, I told her the tummy aches seemed different, not the early AM, before-any-food-tummy aches he used to get in the winter, but LOTS of tummy aches now, almost always after eating, most meals!, and sore throats after eating.

She said she suspected yeast ; and then the small, hardly noticeable, white bumps on his fingers and toes that he had looked fungal she said, and made her almost convinced he was having yeast overgrowth.

so, she prescribed fluconazole.
also he's off his abx now, while on the fluconazole for 4 weeks (didn't have to be, but it's what I was comfortable with and she said that's fine)

well, long story shot (too late?) he's doing even better now, off the abx and on fluconazole.
unfortunately in the past 17 days he still has had about 5 complaint of joint pain (knee or ankle), so I know we're not done treating this thing yet, but the tummy aches? basically gone! and, knock on wood, no sore throats either.

I think we had traded some lyme symptoms for yeast symptoms (candida?) and I feel good we're working on that.

Anyway, not exactly the same situation, but it made me think about my son when you brought up yeast.
and, like Chapelle said, maybe a side effect of the abx. My son't tummy troubles might not just be yeast, but also not tolerating the antibiotics well anymore and having side effects from them.

whatever the reason for you, I hope it can be resolved soon!

Chapelle thanks so much for that article! I think that pretty much figured it out! The way my psychiatrist made it seem that the seroquel was pretty harmless, safe, and not addictive. Doesn't necessarily seem like the case on what I read in that article! Yikes some people had withdrawals for 90 days! I can't believe it, that is a long time. Hopefully I will be able to sleep normally again. I might just have to be patient and stop taking all meds for sleep : (. Before I caught ill I would sleep like a log for a good 6-8 hours straight every single night with no sleeping aids at all!