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Posted by sickoflyme (Member # 5461) on :

I finally got diagnosed via Bowen test in April this year after suffering all the pains, etc for 4 years. Now My local doctor is working w LLMD and started giving me Bicillin shots last Friday. Nine hours after first shots my heard cleared up , no brain fog. the next day I had nausea, fog, and the works. I expected to herx, expected to have extreme fatigue.
Today I ended up in ER with the strangest pain in stomach, extreme nausea and was uncontrolable, I think I even trieed to hit the ER doctor who fortunately or un, had seen me two weeks before with a severe asthma attack. The steroids set me into the worse herx ever. He knew I was not a nut, finally did tests which of course showed nothing, and put me on morphine and nausea meds. I felt disassociated from the world, felt like an alien had impregnated me and was trying to cut its way out with a dull knife, my body had pain from my collar bone to my belly button. I has trouble breathing and it was spasms of pain that had me rolling in the bed. I ended up throwing the throw up bucket. Me, mild mannered me! Is this what I can expect from now on or does it get worse until it gets better. Do you herx every week after shots? Does it get any easier to SIT after a few weeks. Does this treatment work? Help. former Maui Girl,now in Michigan tick country for summer, Jane Swanson

Posted by treepatrol (Member # 4117) on :

Steroids with lyme big big no NO!Sorry your having all those problems make sure your taking plenty of acidophilis to put the good flora back in your digestive tract. Maybe your allergic to penicilins?

Posted by sickoflyme (Member # 5461) on :

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Originally posted by sickoflyme:
I finally got diagnosed via Bowen test in April this year after suffering all the pains, etc for 4 years. Now My local doctor is working w LLMD and started giving me Bicillin shots last Friday. Nine hours after first shots my heard cleared up , no brain fog. the next day I had nausea, fog, and the works. I expected to herx, expected to have extreme fatigue.
Today I ended up in ER with the strangest pain in stomach, extreme nausea and was uncontrolable, I think I even trieed to hit the ER doctor who fortunately or un, had seen me two weeks before with a severe asthma attack. The steroids set me into the worse herx ever. He knew I was not a nut, finally did tests which of course showed nothing, and put me on morphine and nausea meds. I felt disassociated from the world, felt like an alien had impregnated me and was trying to cut its way out with a dull knife, my body had pain from my collar bone to my belly button. I has trouble breathing and it was spasms of pain that had me rolling in the bed. I ended up throwing the throw up bucket. Me, mild mannered me! Is this what I can expect from now on or does it get worse until it gets better. Do you herx every week after shots? Does it get any easier to SIT after a few weeks. Does this treatment work? Help. former Maui Girl,now in Michigan tick country for summer, Jane Swanson

Thanks, Treepatrol, but I've had penicillin many times and had no adverse affects. I had open heart surgery two years ago and had a valve replaced, had heavy doses of penicillin. Also had to take it for years before dental work because of heart murmur.
This felt as if I was being attacked in stomach, like the Lyme was dying and cutting itself off me. Now , pardon the refrence, but I feel as if it had sent all dead Lymies to bowels and have full feelings today down there. HAs anuone had this experience?

Posted by lymie tony z (Member # 5130) on :

Just last year around this time I had the bicillib treatments...unfortunately I did not have the possible herx you are experiencing...almost wish I had.

Only thing that made me feel that bad was Vancomycin they gave me by mistake in hosp for knee replacement...very similar reaction to yours. Could be that I've been treated longer than you and my bugs already adapted to the pennicillin and it does'nt kill as much of it anymore or whatever.

Sorry your having bad time but perhaps it is a good sign that you're really killing off a lot of your infection. If you can handle it.
Did you ask the attending LLmd what it might be?
the zman

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Posted by Nestle (Member # 878) on :

I was on bicillin for about two years.

I herxed terribly at week 8 thru week 20. i would be paralyzed for a few hours two days after the shot.

I lived thru it!

Karen