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Posted by burnbitter (Member # 7088) on :

So it's been a while since I've posted or read much of anything. Work has been crazy.
I was having good improvement and it looked like the end was in sight.

Two weeks ago my veins decided that I wouldn't be having any more IV colloidal silver shots. We tried today to do a myer's cocktail shot, but the veins are so inflammed that it wasn't possible. (so now I'm just drinking the myer's cocktail...hey it was expensive and it's going in one way or the other!)

I hope I don't need shots or a blood draw soon, cause that won't be happening.

I started using the minocycline cream two weeks ago. I was very itchy but felt pretty good otherwise for a couple days.

The last week I started working long hours, got stressed out, and the grass pollen count went up. I feel like I'm having an increasingly bad herx. But the timing is wrong. It's possible it's from the minocycline but my doctor thinks it's been going on for too long.

So I'm switching from zithromax to ketek. And once I stop herxing from that (which hopefully will happen). I'm still continuing the cat's claw and artemensia. And starting on Perfusia-SR which is strong L-Arginine to help blood-brain penetration of the ketek. Hopefully that won't cause my cold sores to break out.

I'm going take a break from the Plaquenil which she's concerned has just become toxic to me. http://www.emedicine.com/oph/topic245.htm

I'm feeling pretty crappy right now. Probably what I need most is sleep. Though work is crazy and it's not possible to off load any of the work at this point.

I've been feeling pretty low.
I was doing so well. Now I'm worried that I'm back to the state of feeling bad most of the time.

It seems like the collodial silver really made a difference (IV shot, the oral dose doesn't seem to help).

Posted by janet thomas (Member # 7122) on :

Maybe you gotta cut yourself some slack and make time to rest more.

I'm scared of silver, IV or oral, but we each make our own informed choices.

Posted by burnbitter (Member # 7088) on :

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Originally posted by janet thomas:
Maybe you gotta cut yourself some slack and make time to rest more.
I'm scared of silver, IV or oral, but we each make our own informed choices.

I'm unsure what to do, working less impacts the success of my company and for the next month we're trying to get more funding..so no new hires. Once we're funded I know they will hired someone. It's not that they're unwilling to get help, and they're very supportive (which is why I hope we get the funding). Just there's no money for it, and if I don't do my work the funding probably won't happen.
I'm temped just to pay for someone to come in and help me out of my own money. Though I can't really afford it either.

The silver scared me too. But it did seem like it maked a definate difference. Though the week before we stopped I'd actually stopped herxing, and we were only going to do a few more weeks anyway as we though it had killed all it was going to.
I'd approach silver with caution. I was using the argentyn 23 brand. I'm not blue, and it seemed like the IV shots helped.