How necessary is pain from herxing during treatment for Bart/Lyme ?

While herxing does show us that we have had die off and killed bacteria, intense herxing it is not good for the body.


Its recommended to back off the dose until the herxing subsides.

Be sure to be using more than one detox method, you need to move these toxins out of the body.
A few are:
Epsom salt baths
water with lemon juice
dry brushing
milk thistle

Incorporate binders such as activated charcoal, zeobind and others to help bind and rid the toxins.

Consider something to detox the brain of the ammonia buildup that forms.
A few are:
Burber and Pinella
Jernigans Antti Tox II CNS/PNS


Please always do your own research and check for side effects and contradictions for any treatment.

I wish you the best of healing and take care.

I have mixed feelings on this. There were some herxes that I simply couldn't go through. I had to lower the dose and work up. But i've found that on some herbs titrating upward from a low dose works very well but for others it doesn't.

magoo2 said...
I like to herx on any new therapy-I do not want to know the treatment is doing something and do not need to waste money or time on something that isn't working. With that said I also back off-maybe accept a slight headache as a herx

This pretty much mirrors my view. I am very sensitive and herx whenever the med is effective, both a blessing and a curse. It lets me know the med is having some efficacy against underlying pathogens, the curse is the herxing can be hellacious if I'm not careful.

Herxing in my case get very intense and indefinite (some meds the herx tapers off after a few days/week, others it is pretty much constant). Some herxes I can power through, others get into dangerous territory where I feel like I'm going crazy and not sleeping, so that's when I back off. At that point I see if it's possible to improvise a pulsing or lower dose strategy.

Whenever I don't have any level of herxing anymore but still have remaining symptoms (and have plateaued with treatments) is when I look to rotate the protocol.