Trying to piece the puzzle together. Please help.

Hi, all. Well my long stretch of doing well has come to an end. I am on a 17-day off Pulse. My schedule is five days on of tetracycline, artemisinin, and oil of oregano. Then three days off of everything, five days on everything, three days off, five days on, then 17 days off.

Art and oil of oregano have been kicking my butt. But I am now in day 14 of the 17 day rest., And I had the worst night I've ever had last night. My feet, ankles, legs, thighs, hands, arms, face, and chest were burning. My shins were the worst. On top of that my tinnitus flared wickedly. I've been having terrible mood swings, great anxiety, more diarrhea, etc. my feet have been buzzing, which I've never had before.

I have a call into my doctor. I have been detoxing daily with a nerve tincture, liver and kidney tincture, and Cowden's nerve and brain detox. I take daily Epsom salt baths.

My question is: how can something like this flare so badly after a.) Being on treatment for year, and B.) I'm not taking any medication, so this can't be a herx.

Thanks in advance!

Hi, Girlie.

This is the second cycle through this protocol. I've been on artemisinin for six on-pulses and the oil of oregano for 1 on-pulse. Tetra for all of it. Things did start getting hairy after starting art.

I think I remember you telling me that art really kick you in the butt. Or am I thinking of someone else?

Do you consider yourself improved?

Generally speaking, mood swings is from unstable cell membranes which can be related to decreasing lithium or sodium levels. I'd supplement with lithium orotate 10mg three times a day. Diarrhea can be from sodium issues as well. I'd evaluate what I was eating to see if excessive sodium or deficiency of sodium was an issue.

Anxiety is generally from a neurotransmitter pathway dysfunction which can be from aluminum accumulation, too much phenylalanine, not enough tyrosine, not enough tryptophan, and a few other things. I'd take something to increase my aluminum excretion, I'd eat less foods that had phenylalanine, I'd eat more foods that had tyrosine and tryptophan (hard to do when limiting phenylalanine) and eat more berries. You may be deficient of the components of plants and fruits/berries that your body utilizes to make your neurotransmitters. This will help buzzing feet as well. You need the nutrients and bacteria found in eating raw foods like plants and vegetables.