Physchological Bart herx?

Can someone please tell me if I’m herxing?? I feel like I’ve completely lost itand could really use some reassurance. I just have been getting so dissociated lately. Today was the worse. I was having dinner with my parents and I felt like I was in a dream. My thoughts started racing to the weirdest thoughts possible. Like extreme existential thoughts. I started panicking and had to leave dinner. My arms went numb and it’s just the scariest feeling. It feels like I’m going psychotic. I’ve been diagnosed with bartonella through labs and have been taking Samsara tick recovery twice a day for about a month. I just don’t know anymore. Am I dealing with a psychological illness or bartonella here?

I am currently just doing herbs to try and lower my symptoms a bit and then use the doxy with the herbs once my symptoms reduce a bit from the herbs. My question is can a herx cause these symptoms too? It helps me to know that during the midst of panic and crazy thoughts that this is a sign I’m improving.

yes it sounds like a herx

for me when I feel suddenly bad, about two days later I felt better and it was semi-permanent improvement. Then it would happen again. I would tell my self if I can get through this, I will feel even better.

definitely want to do some detox and anti-inflammation. for me, it is fiber/probiotics, fasting, **spirulina**, and **1TBS tumeric morning/night** with black pepper and, recently been using 1tbs Ginger makes me feel amazing.

as the herbs wear out, you increase the dosage... and you will get these herx again. just know you are making progress.

Def do whatever you can for detox. It does sound like it could be a herx, but if it gets intolerable like this may want to take a break from antimicrobials for a few days and try to get things to stabilize. And when you restart maybe do lower dosage treatment for a little while and increase incrementally so long as you aren't getting intolerable flares.

Keep hanging in there!

Barthelp, you sound like me two years ago. My first symptoms were a sore neck and head presser. Shortly after that I had Panic Attacks and OCD. I never had problems with this ever in my life. Always a pretty balanced person.

Over the course of months the I had multiple psychological symptoms. At one point I would have auditory hulcinations and pretty scary thoughts. I also have taken Tick Recovery during this time. I am doing better now and what I would have to tell myself that I was not crazy something was happing. The physical symptoms such as muscle twitching, visual disturbances, stiff neck, fevers, and nuerapthy always kept me pressing forward. So yes stirruing up these bugs can cause psychological herxing.

Crossing my fingers but things have been getting better and they will for you. I hope I found a cocktail that works! Monolaurim, Vitc, Broccoli Seed Extract, fish oil, DHEA, Hawthorne, NAC, Alpha lipoic acid, Woodland Essence IHA, Knotwwed Plus , And CSA.

Work up to a tolerable dose. Listen to what others tell you. I did pay the price for it. If you can afford it go to a LLMD for help. Read as much as you can if possiable and never feel like a burden to ask questions to others on this site. They really helped me.