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If twitching is from lack of magnesium, then it wouldn't really be a herx, would it?
On 400mg of Doxy for a week and no herxing except muscle twitching.
My LLMD does have me on lots of anti-herxing stuff.
I feel better, not worse, like I expected.
I'm not complaining, just hoping we are getting the stuff!
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Carol in PA
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"If twitching is from lack of magnesium, then it wouldn't really be a herx, would it?"
Yes it would!
Lyme Disease depletes our magnesium in several ways. One, the Lyme bacteria use it for themselves. Two, the liver uses magnesium when it detoxifies the dead Lyme bacteria.
Many of the herx symptoms are due to low magnesium.
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Carol - thanks for the explanation. This is all so confusing, but what you said makes sense.
I am upping my magnesium supplement. It really does help.
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Can be nerves too... is your doxy paired with something?
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Carol in PA
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Bluelyme, yes it is the nerves!
Low magnesium means that the nerve cells do not have enough mag for the enzyme processes to function correctly.
Then they get irritable and twitch. The muscles don't move unless the nerves "tell" them to, so the muscles twitch and spasm.
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