Pretty new to this....

I have a question...I started treatment in November and have been having these burning muscle aches in my upper chest (right below my throat) and it spreads to my shoulders down my arms, up the back of my neck. It's been going on for over a month. My doctor doesn't seemed concerned about it..had an ekg no heart block. Anyone have similar symptoms.

Thank you for the warm welcome.

Right now I'm not doing anything to detox. I'm not really sure what to do. I've read SO many different ways to detox it's overwhelming!

It looks like you got through this pretty quick. I got sick Sept 15.(no symptoms prior)..starting seeing an llmd who started me with treatment November 15. Some of my symptoms disappeared..numbness..tingling..eye twitches. Now I have a stoned liked feeling..air hunger and chest aches..chills just feeling sick.

hi lynbrz - a belated welcome to the forum as well.

lyme works in cycles. it will cause symptoms one month, and different symptoms another. some people have a list of 40 symptoms they can add up over time, and others just have a few that continuously rotate or remain.

detox is super important. if you are overwhelmed, start with the basics. Just do an epson salt bath every day to start - ad 4 cups of epson salt and a bottle of peroxide to warm bath water and sit in it for 10 min the first few days, then 15 min, until you get up to 20 or 30 min a day. While doing that, you can just buy a batch of lemons and start drinking lemon water daily.

I have other suggestions, but if you start doing this for now, it will really help your body out!

I am going to start detoxing thank you.
Do you recommend one that you found really worked?
I have a few hours in the morning I can dedicate to detoxing because my girls are in pre school.
For some reason I thought it was five months of treatment you had, sorry. How long were you sick? Mine started with a chill and low grade fever and then quickly went down hill. I was tossed around for a month to doctors who all said it was in my head and I was depressed. Fortunately my neighbor went through it..so I was referred to an llmd pretty quick.

My llmd tested me for confections and they were negative..but is treating me as if I were positive based on symptoms. I'm taking A Zithromax and Bactrim....and lots of supplements. It's been 10 weeks and I thought I'd feel a little better?? The worst part of this is feeling stoned and insomnia..I wake every night at 3am with a vibrating feeling. I sometimes feel like it's never going to go away.

Oh and I was cdc negative..not enough bands were positive. I had 4 positive on the Igenex igm..igg was negative. For a little I questioned if it was lymes...I had soon many blood tests and scans and everything was normal.

i was sick for 4 months before beginning treatment, and it took 5 months for me to start to feel better. i treated for 8 months total. So ten weeks isn't much yet, bear that in mind. And yes, I got worse before I got better, that is a sign that you are herxing and the meds are working.

my all time favorite detox remedy is alkaseltzer gold - just check with your Dr first before using it.

yes, i had bartonella too (clinically diagnosed). i had a ton of symptoms and herxed and yes i had anxiety too.

this is the link to the thread that summarizes my story (sorry i dont know how to create a hyperlink)

www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=3509582

Post Edited By Moderator (Girlie) : 2/3/2016 1:19:07 PM (GMT-7)

Chapelle - I edited your post just to change to hyperlink.

thanks girlie, could you please teach me how to do that?!

I'll try again:

type [url] then paste the link and type [url] but put a / before the second url.

That is confusing...

Bluelyme - I read some of those stories...heartbreaking!
How long has it been since you took it.

I remember reading about Bactrim and Steven Johnson syndrome when I was researching antibiotic treatment for Lyme.