Herbs, increased symptoms, and crazy stinky body odor

Has anyone experienced an increase in body odor after herbal therapy that is accompanied by an increase in symptoms? This has happened to me on and off for years. It doesn't seem to happen with ABX. It doesn't happen with every herbal tincture. For example, I have been taking Enula without any issues. I added in BLT since I remember it possibly being helpful when I took it years ago, knowing it has properties against Lyme and Bart, and for the last couple days I added in Hottunyia and Chinese Skullcap.

My symptoms that intensified were nerve pain running down back of leg, hip joint pain that makes it hard to walk at times, more GI symptoms, increased intensity of shin and foot pain, along with a few others.

Again, I don't recall this happening with ABX. Why does this happen when I take certain types of herbs? The BO coming from my armpits is gross. I can smell myself just going about my daily routine. What does this BO mean?

I think what is throwing me off is why does it only happen on certain herbs and no ABX? Is it an herb side effect? Is it destroying microbes that is causing this body odor? Also, I get an increase in body acne when this happens.

Traveler said...
You didn't describe the odor you smelled, so I'll cover both smells I had while in treatments.

For me, I smelled (and even smelled like) ammonia when I was detoxing/treating heavily. This was due to an accumulation of ammonia from the infections, I believe. I had to learn how to detox effectively to help lower my ammonia levels in order to get away from the smell! I walked around cussing the cat for months because I smelled cat urine (ammonia!!) everywhere! LOL! Poor cat!

I've also had just a super strong body odor - and sweating brought it out even more. But, again, detoxing well and continuing treatments helped me.

Yes, certain herbs can increase your body's ability to detox certain things - and cause a body to smell differently, and they can treat different aspects of the infection and cause a body to smell due to what is being killed.

Admittedly, I've been 'out of the loop' long enough that I don't even remember what BLT that you treated with refers to!!! LOL! Sorry!

Lol! That's okay! I appreciate your input. I detox quite a bit. I'm not sure if I'm a bad detoxer or what the problem is. What methods did you use that helped?

BLT is from Researched nutritionals. I believe it has a mixture of herbs that is relevant for borrelia, bartonella, and viruses.

Oh MY!, Dude!!! It's good to be around you again!! Giggle! I love your sense of humor! Of course, the BLT has amazing healing benefits!!! LOL! Thanks for the link!! Good to "see" you and be seen again! Oddly, I've missed this community!

So BLt is an immune support protocol - so it will enhance (raise) your immune function, which means it hits any and all infections - bacterial or viral. We usually have several of each.

You can ask to get a test to see if you have an MTHFR issue - that will mean that you need certain vitamins that have been methylated in order for your body to be able to absorb them better, which will enhance the detoxification ability of the body of those that have this gene mutation.
https://www.amymyersmd.com/article/mthfr-mutation/

I had to use methylated vitamins, and manual detoxing to an extreme (like my life depended on it daily). I was NOT a good detoxer! I seem to not have near the issues with detoxing now that I no longer have active tick-borne infections. I used many methods of detoxing, like dry skin brushing, daily Epsom salt/peroxide soaks, oil pulling, activated charcoal daily, gentle exercises, liver/gall bladder detoxes regularly (about every 3 months, I think), Yogi detox tea, alpha lipoic acid, dandelion root, turmeric w/black pepper, lemon water all day, self lymph massages daily - that's all I can think of! But, doing all those things daily took up a lot of each day.

i have the crazy ammonia body odour thing going on - also worse when stepping up treatment or experiencing herx like reactions

at its worst it literally smells like a big tom cat reversed up to each arm pit !

i never used to smell like this - hardly at all really - even after a workout

i do lots of things that are supposed to aid detoxification
-take herbs an supplements that are supposed to help detox
-drink lots of water
-exercise every day to sweat
-epsom salt baths every few days

nothing really seems to reduce it
i am guessing its just something that will resolve when i resolve the infections

eating greens and loads of asparagus, handfuls of chlorella and many bentonite baths are the only thing that help the awesome stench that was my herxes ...

mmm a gf BLT sounds delish! ...lol