Posted by bleauberry on July 20, 2009, at 18:38:20
In reply to Re: Sick of searching}}Bleauberry » bleauberry, posted by Phillipa on July 19, 2009, at 20:05:46
> Blueberry if you recently had the rash a round of about two weeks of doxycycline should clear up the lymes.
According to my Lyme doctor, it aint that simple. He says some patients only need a single dose of Doxy. Others need 2 months. It is a case by case situation. One size does not fit all.
>I thought you'd had it for years like me
The doc believes I have a Lyme exposure from 15 years ago and a second one last year about a month prior to that rash. He says also that sometimes the rash will show up years after exposure and that some people get multiple re-occuring rashes over time. Again, it aint that simple.
>How do you now feel well?
No. Better, yes. I have done two 2-week rounds of Doxy, one 6-week round of Tetra, all at low doses. Amalgams are gone. Though it usually takes about 60 rounds of low dose frequent dose DMSA chelation to see solid signs of improvement, I have done 12 so I know some of the mercury load is gone. My food choices are excellent. That is a big factor in helping everything. More important than people think it is. People think food is food and it doesn't really matter. That is so wrong. The biggest help is a puny 5mg dose of Nortriptyline. Quite surprised at the disappearance of those joint and muscle aches and pains, the significant lessening of fatigue, more talkative, more social, and overall less depressed.
I think with all people suffering from depression and/or anxiety, it is a mistake to approach it with medicines alone. It takes multiple strategies to regain footing. Imean, after all, even though medication X might help us feel better, we don't have a deficiency of medication X. The depression is from something else.
I have a long way to go and much work ahead. I am thankful for the progress I've made on such little use of meds.
>As you've been depressed for a long time haven't you? If so how does the lymes tie in with that I'm confused. Phillipa
I think I've had mild dysthymia my whole life, with periods of wellness. I had a major depressive episode as a teenager and another in mid 20's, though I didn't know that's what it was at the time. I think I've always been susceptible to anything that can provoke depression and I've always been teetering on the edge. So yes, anything such as undue mercury exposure or Lyme was apparently enough to sink me in the deep end.
I don't think I can blame my depression solely on the Borellia bacteria, since I have been prone to it even in early childhood. Borellia is however probably one of the most powerful triggers I know of. I can say that my physician says nearly all of his patients have depression/anxiety as one of their symptoms and that some have only that symptom without any of the other Lyme symptoms. People laugh when I say antibiotics can remedy some cases of depression, but those situations illustrate why it can happen that way.
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