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How do you decide if symptoms in a child are herxing or just the Lyme going crazy? My DD7 is on Azithromycin and Augmentin daily, and tinidazole on the weekends. Also a long list of supplements for detox and probiotics. So far, the only diagnosis is Lyme, no co-infections. Her main symptoms are/have been tics, OCD, anxiety, defiance, rage, anger, night awakenings, nightmares, and tummy pains. She's been on this combo of meds for several months now and most of the above symptoms have been about 90% better. I've noticed a pattern after her weekend tindimax where the tics will come back very mildly for 2-3 days and her other symptoms also come back in a much milder form than before treatment. This past weekend we increased from 4 weekend doses of tindimax to 6 total doses (3 days). Her tics this week have been much worse and she's been having night awakenings again. Strangely, the other symptoms didn't seem too bad this week until this a.m.. She awoke in a good mood, then about 1 hour after getting up started getting very anxious about what clothes she was to wear today (much of her past OCD revolved around clothing). We got through that, then in the car she had a sudden and very short lived pain on the left side of her head. I asked several times if she was O.K., and she was (quite grumpy by now though). As I write this I'm thinking herx, but I still find it hard to swallow that there are no symptoms of fever/malaise from the Lyme biotoxins. Any ideas? Should I skip this weekends tindimax? Our LLMD is out until next wednesday. I've got a call in to him, but I'm not sure I'll hear back before next week.
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