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My experience of taking antibiotics - whether herbal or pharmaceutical - is just like everyone else's except very accelerated. The whole process of herxing, feeling better, and plateuing literally all happens within about 10 days. And then the backsliding starts happening after about 15 days on a given treatment.
I know some of you have said to give the treatment longer - like months, and I've tried this. I've stayed on some treatments for months and the backsliding just keeps getting worse - no more herxing, and no more improvement.
Does anyone else have this strange timing acceleration? I marvel at the stories of people having herx, improvement, and plateau over months and months.
Example: I started A-Bart about 10 days ago. I herxed badly for the first day or two. Day 3-4 I stopped herxing and started feeling better. I felt really good from days 4-8 or so. Now, I can already tell its stopped working and I'm plateauing / backsliding. Just to appease everyone I'll stay on it longer, but I can already tell you it isn't doing anything anymore. I can take 20 drops and nothing happens - NOTHING - no herx, no improvement, its like eating rice.
Anyway, thoughts & input welcome.
Thanks.
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BackinStOlaf
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Yea, that sort of happens to me too. Very frustrating
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nefferdun
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I have never gotten better using only herbal remedies. It is hard enough staying on top of things using drugs. I have to change things around a lot. I also have to alter which infections I am going after.
I have had similar experiences. I start to feel much better, get optimistic I am on the right track and then back slide. I was feeling really well. Then a few days ago I began to get dizzy again. I do not know if it is a herx or a regression.
Everything cycles. I do not that much. With borellia it is easy to figure out - every 28 days I would have a flare of symptoms. But with babesia I can't figure it out.
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I'm the same, so I switch out an intercell drug for another when this happens.
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