I sure someone like treepatrol will be along soon to reply with link for newbies...I'm not skilled enough to know how to do that

In the mean time you can check other posts from new posters...

Ugh...I hope I'm making sense.

I'm sorry you are feeling poorly and many have experience and Ideas here to help get through these times.

I'm still rather new myself, but these are my suggestions:

Stick to a low carb/no sugar/no caffine diet, and eat frequent small meals.

Take plenty of good quality probiotics, and check with your Dr or guidlines here for other suppliments

Drink lots of water, and organic weak green tea

Take detox bathes...I use 1c epsom salt and 1 c sea salt.

Walk everyday..even briefly

rest before you get overdone...that's a trial and error process

Make time to have fun.....you can laugh and rest

Understand and remind yourself that however long it takes you to heal, it's still just a blip on your timeline.

Learn to accept help gratiously.

Consult you LD whenever you need to

Tell your body you will heal.

I wish you well!

As you take abx to kill off lyme, there are certain times when the lyme is more vulnerable to actually BEING killed. The third to fourth week is actually stated to BE that time. So, you are right on time.

Lyme is only out, playing, replicating, mutating, reproducing every 3-4 weeks in the human body. It would be alot easier if we knew exactly WHEN, calendar wise, that is going to be, but we dont.

So yes, you will get alot worse every 3-4 weeks as you kill the lyme as that is when it is vulnerable.

Also, that is NOT written in stone. You can "herx" at any time.

Get yourself a journal and write down how you feel each and every single day.

After two - three months, you *MAY* be able to pick out a pattern. Alot of lyme patients dont have a pattern. Im one of them, even though I used to have one.

I hope this helps.

Stalk up on some FRESH lemons and put some in water, take hot epsom salt baths, anything to detox your body during this time. it is said to be the toxins or the byproduct from the death of the spirochetes

that causes this inflammatory reaction. (herx)