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Posted 7/14/2017 8:46 PM (GMT -5)
So is started fasting this is day 2 and i have the worst bone pain, like funny bone pain but it's continuous and in all my bones. It fades but never goes away and it's very intense when it's at it's peak which feels like all the time right now. if anyone else has experienced this please ur thoughts would be helpful. How long does it last? I did this bc i did a lot of research on fasting and how it can heal you. I already hate food so fasting is a breeze. Compared to all my Lyme symptoms not eating is the easiest part of my life right now it's actually a blessing bc less for me to do, sounds terrible but it's true feeding myself is a hard chore most days.
Posted 7/14/2017 9:44 PM (GMT -5)
bumping so someone with experience with this can answer.
Posted 7/15/2017 10:58 AM (GMT -5)
Well, no answers yet. So I will tell you all I know about fasting and this will be short.

All day and night fasting is heavy duty cleaning and it can cause many symptoms. It is like a super charged detox method. The rocket ship of detox. I am sure you have noticed your breath. Many people experience back pain.

I fast everyday from 7pm to 9am. That's enough fasting for me.

Whenever I do something and it causes pain, I quit doing it. Pain is a signal to me that something is wrong. The old joke of going to the doctor and telling the doc it hurts when you do "this." The doctor says, "well don't do that."

I think there are many easier and more gentle ways to detox when you have lyme than fasting. Be super nice to your body. Treat it gently and it will love you back.
Posted 7/15/2017 11:57 AM (GMT -5)
kw661 - I have not seen/read/heard of anyone using fasting as treatment for LD.

Is that all you're doing?

I suggest you do more - either herbals or abx.
Posted 7/15/2017 3:53 PM (GMT -5)
KW you are not going to get well unless your immune function is working. Keep in mind that requires all of your body parts to be in optimum health.

Depriving it of nutrients isn't helping. Your cells can't even replace themselves.

If you insist on having a totally clean time frame from food, do as PeteZa says she does, 7 pm to 9 am.

That's when we are meant to fast, if we sleep somewhere in that time period.

This is not good for you.
Posted 7/15/2017 8:56 PM (GMT -5)
Hi kw -

I completely understand not wanting to eat. I was like that my entire life, mostly. As a kid I hated food, never had an appetite - didn't change until I was in my 20s. But when I got really bad w/ Lyme & Co the appetite issues came back. And I was like you - no problem not eating, less to mess with and I didn't have to worry about all the food restrictions.

But starving yourself has its own impacts, and few of them are beneficial when you're also battling Lyme. 70% of your immune system lies w/in your digestive system so when it's not being fed or if what it's being fed is not optimal, it struggles and damage can occur. The last thing you want is to overwhelm your immune system.

I don't know about you, but now that I'm in intense treatment, when I don't eat my viral load takes over - even when I'm on a lot of antiviral meds. It can get scary.

I spent a few years eating nothing but soups and pureed foods, medical food powder. I HIGHLY recommend exploring foods like this, even baby food - just to get SOMETHING in your body.

Bone pain -
Bone pain is pretty common for bart so if that is not something you are treating you might want to explore it. I didn't have much noticeable bone pain MOST of the time until I started taking abx for Lyme... then it was very intense. It can take your breath away. I was never able to alleviate any bone pain except through more tx (once I started on abx for bart I definitely improved). The pain moments return still but very infrequently and they are just short spurts.

Hope that's helpful -

Please let us know how you're doing and if there is anything else we can help with.

-p
Posted 7/16/2017 9:53 AM (GMT -5)
bone pain is usually Bart.

And you should write down your symptoms because it happened to me more than once, i thought i did something and provoked an effect. Like "i ate this candy/drug yesterday and today i feel like s...t" And in some cases the truth was because this disease cycles and has its own ups and downs, and because it takes days and weeks, it will share the same timeline with some of your dietary changes, medication changes , life changes, whatever ... then u will do the false assumption A=>B "because i did this , it resulted in THAT", when there is really no link, it's just the disease cycling and tricking u all over again ... but ... sometimes there is a link...

Keeping a log of your symptoms and treatment is very important. This way u can see if u did something repeatedly that provoked it or it's just a normal cycle
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