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So I had my first herx yesterday. It was absolutely terrible. It basically felt like I had the worst flu I'd ever had in my life. I sat on the couch and just cried.. because I was so sick and that was all I could do.. cry.
I got feverish, had chills, extreme weak/achy body, headache, stiff neck, and many other things.
Today I feel MUCH better. Although I by no means feel "good"... I don't want to shoot myself and I can get through the day without crying. I am still very achey and tired but nothing near what I was yesterday.
Is it normal to only have this strong herx for a day? For some reason I thought it was supposed to last longer.
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Most of my herxes last 4 days on a given monthly cycle.
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charlie
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....It is for me...my herxes if I have them at all are short and intense.
Count yourself as one of the lucky ones, I'd much rather have these than the long milder miserable feeling ones a lot of lymies seem to experience.
Charlie
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Abxnomore
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Don't mean to be flip but there is nothing normal about this disease. Everyone reacts differently.
Some folks hardly herx others feel like they are in a continual herx so yes a one day herx is possible.
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jt345
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Hi
From what I have found over the past 15 years ,My herx time depends on the the amount of kill off I have.
If I catch enough ketes in my blood stream,so that my body can't keep up with clearing them I will herx,as long as The toxiins are still iritating my body I will herx.
When I first started treatment the average herx ,would last for 3days too 7days. This last time around My first herx only lasted 2 days. The second herx,this time ran about 4 days. So the second herx was after the keetes had replicated and I had more of them in my blood stream.
So,for me the more keetes that are killed,regulates the lenght of the my herx.
I should have waited to wake up before I answered this,I hope it made sense. appleseed
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