posted
I thinking of using a sauna to help detoxing and help with my health in general and I wonder if I will be able to, where I have a problem with heat.
If I get overheated at all it totally zaps my strength.
-------------------- diagnosed with MS, 1988-Diagnosed with Lyme Disease 2009. Also babesia and bartonella. Currently not on antibiotics. Taking Metalloclear for high lead and mercury since October 2012. Rifing since June 2012 Posts: 148 | From usa NH | Registered: Mar 2009
| IP: Logged |
posted
If you do it...do so carefully and with someone around...
The sauna helps with the detox process...but also remember that Lyme hates heat...it kills the buggers...which could be why your strength gets zapped...toxicity...
Be sure to keep yourself hydrated too...as this will also help with the detox...
-------------------- We each have a right to be healthy, and no one has the right to jeopardize that! Take Charge of your health - and your life you are the only one who will! I know what I am & I know what I am not I know what I HAVE & I know what I HAVE not Posts: 33 | From co | Registered: Aug 2008
| IP: Logged |
Lauralyme
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 15021
posted
Do you mean an infra red sauna? Because they are not that hot inside. Still a good idea to start low and slow.
I could never sit in a regular sauna for the length of time that I am in a FIR sauna
-------------------- Fall down seven times, get up eight ~Japanese proverb Posts: 1146 | From west coast | Registered: Mar 2008
| IP: Logged |
posted
No don't do it. Heat was my biggest trigger for setting off a lyme episode. I tried getting in a sauna once when my Lyme was really bad and lived to regret it. Honestly, go somewhere COLD. Let your body rest and get away from the heat. That's why we have winter. It is a period of rest. I recovered a lot during the winter. And now, thanks to the Cowden protocol, I am almost completely healed and heat is no problem.
Posts: 21 | From Charlottesville, VA | Registered: May 2012
| IP: Logged |
posted
Laura: yes it is an infared sauna. a sunlighten.
Hopefully I can use it enough to help detox the heavy metals I'm trying to get rid of.
Jessie: never heard of the Cowden protocol. I'll have to research it.
-------------------- diagnosed with MS, 1988-Diagnosed with Lyme Disease 2009. Also babesia and bartonella. Currently not on antibiotics. Taking Metalloclear for high lead and mercury since October 2012. Rifing since June 2012 Posts: 148 | From usa NH | Registered: Mar 2009
| IP: Logged |
posted
Everyone is different, but using the sauna has helped me. Lyme hates the heat. So i turn up th eheat whenever i can.
When i was younger i couldnt take hot showers it would make me ill. I would feel like i was going to pass out & a few times i did pass out, lol i didn't know why at the time, i am pretty sure it was lyme dye-off/herx from the hot water.
Now the hotter the better, but it takes time, bump it up gradually adding a minute or two at a time. I use the sauna & hot tub in my routine to keep my lyme in check.
If i start to feel poorly, i schedule more sauna/ tub time.
Posts: 86 | From Central PA | Registered: Jan 2010
| IP: Logged |
posted
I have the Dynamic Hemlock Infrared sauna I bought at Costco. Great price and I love it. On sale again right now until the end of this month.
I can't stand heat either. I went very slow with the temperature and time in the beginning. Now that I am on IV, I can only go into the sauna 3 days a week when my port isn't accessed. It really helps.
-------------------- Faithful
Just sharing my experience, I am not a doctor. Posts: 2682 | From Colorado | Registered: Oct 2009
| IP: Logged |
Lyme hates heat...and by keeping yourself cold you are in essence aiding the disease...
I certainly know how uncomfortable and wicked heat can be...but keeping cool is aiding in providing the bacteria with the environment that it needs to survive...
Heat should be approached with caution...as it will cause the bacteria to die off...thus it makes us feel horrible...much like a Herx...
But cold is not going to be helpful in destroying the organisms.
-------------------- We each have a right to be healthy, and no one has the right to jeopardize that! Take Charge of your health - and your life you are the only one who will! I know what I am & I know what I am not I know what I HAVE & I know what I HAVE not Posts: 33 | From co | Registered: Aug 2008
| IP: Logged |
The Lyme Disease Network is a non-profit organization funded by individual donations. If you would like to support the Network and the LymeNet system of Web services, please send your donations to:
The
Lyme Disease Network of New Jersey 907 Pebble Creek Court,
Pennington,
NJ08534USA http://www.lymenet.org/
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
![[confused]](graemlins/confused.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic