I decided to treat myself to a massage yesterday. I have issues with sweating at night, but last night was over the top! I could almost wring my p.j.s out and I had to change in the middle of the night.

Today, I have felt horrible, weepy, tooth pain, low self-esteem, and just having a hard time coping.

I have only been on antibiotics for a little two weeks and have been slowly increasing the Transfer Factor Lymplus.

Could a massage have pushed me over the edge? My days are far from perfect, but today has been the worse on several days.

Any thoughts? I have and still do drink tons of water.

This happened to DS when DH gave him a massage. I'm not sure if we should continue with massage or not. If it makes him herx, maybe we should just do it when he's already herxing and do tons of detoxing. We are trying to keep him in school but he's sick at least 1-1.5 days a week still. I feel like now that we're coming on a year of treatment, maybe it's time to add massage to get some of the toxin buildup moving

AzerilA - did you find the herxing lessened over time?

Anything that draws toxins out in force, such as deep tissue, is going to make you herx and feel bad. Now obviously this should improve as your toxin levels decrease.

Of note, there are some Lyme test that involve a deep tissue massage and then testing the urine.

artermix said...
it pushes the toxins or the spirochete?

Artermix, toxins. (see #2)

www.tiredoflyme.com/11-things-that-can-make-a-person-with-lyme-disease-feel-worse-besides-treatment.html

Once the bacteria are at such low levels, you no longer are symptomatic. Thus things that you could not do before without feeling like :;;((&&), you can now do and tolerate. From my understanding you will always have some spirochetes but they are now held hostage by your immune system.