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Posted 9/3/2017 9:43 PM (GMT -5)
I have mold illness in addition to Lyme. I was doing better recently as I was working on Buhner's bartonella protocol. Last week, I added in Cordyceps and have been hurting ever since and am trying my best to figure out why. Here's the background.

1. Took Cordyceps 3 days and started feeling toxin pain. Stopped to get the inflammation under control and try to detox more.

2. Added peroxide to epsom salt baths 3 days, and toxin pain increased along with sensitivities (mold, chemical, EMF).

3. Today, no bath. Sensitivities show no sign of abating.

I'm trying to figure out why my sensitivities have shot up and continue even though I last took Cordyceps on Thu (only 1 capsule) and did no peroxide today. I also have not had any new mold exposures, in case you're wondering. It doesn't really feel like a herx, as all of my symptoms have not increased. It's mainly just tissue pain from either toxins coming out of my tissues or hypersensitivity to mold, chemicals, and electronics. Here are the possibilities I've come up with:

a) Extended herx reaction to Cordyceps
(Makes me wonder more about the possibility of active chlamydia pneumonia/porphyria.)

b) Toxins dumping out due to cumulative effect of herbal treatment over a period of weeks
(Seems possible but not probable.)

c) Cordyceps is a fungus and since I have mold illness, it's making me a lot worse.
(My gut has actually been okay or better than usual through all this. I figured if Cordyceps was going to be bad for me because of mold, then I would have had an allergic-type reaction to it or that it would have adversely affected my gut. Neither of those happened.)

Any thoughts/opinions/insight???
Posted 9/3/2017 9:51 PM (GMT -5)
Lyme disease waxes and wanes all by itself. So you can have symptoms one day and not the next and it is just the nature of lyme disease.

I can't do epsom salt foot soaks. I got a horrible reaction.

Anytime you take a new herb or med, you can herx.

So, all of the above and your answers also can be true.

Just so sorry. It is so hard to figure out this whole stupid disease.
Posted 9/3/2017 9:57 PM (GMT -5)
"c) Cordyceps is a fungus and since I have mold illness, it's making me a lot worse."

This is a myth.

"There is a ridiculous urban legend that if a person has candida infection (or any kind of yeast or fungal infection or overgrwoth) they can't take any kind of mushroom (IT'S A FUNGUS!") as it will cause the yeast/fungal infection to grown out of control. This is totally and completely untrue". -Stephen Buhner
Posted 9/3/2017 10:11 PM (GMT -5)
dacarte,

Buhner also says "Some people do have allergic reactions to fungi; if so, don't use this one."

I knew about that but cordyceps sounded like such a beneficial herb that I wanted to try it. That was the only way to know. I took it for 3 days and had nothing that seemed like an allergic reaction to it.
Posted 9/3/2017 10:15 PM (GMT -5)
Yes a allergic reaction can happen. But you were connecting the dots to mold exposure, thus more "fungi" is bad.
Posted 9/3/2017 11:15 PM (GMT -5)
I have only good things to say about cordyceps. I love it. And yes, you can have lyme symptoms no matter what you're taking. Even when I'm good and do everything I'm told to, I can still flare up or have bad down days. It's all up and down.
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