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I just wanted to get all your thoughts on a few things. We just started coffee enemas, castor oil packs and cats claw.
The castor oil packs are very relaxing, I think it has helped my stomach issues tremendously and my wife's bloating issues. Further than that we didn't really notice anything. We did every day for about a week and left it on for a minimum of two hours just before bed. Our technique was as perfect as could be and the packs were sufficiently soaked.
We did the coffee enemas two days in a row, the second day a more potent mixture than the first. We had varying success with this and I'll list them separately to ease confusion.
Wife: after the first she felt great, almost euphoric. She really had nothing come out other than the coffee and some mucous. After the second she did not feel so great, she felt tired and drained. With the second being more potent she was only able to hold it for around ten minutes.
Me: I felt no different after the first, only my stomach was very relaxed and felt good. I think I expelled some gall stones and mucuous with stringy stuff. I felt very tired and drained.
After the second I only expelled some coffee and mucous. I did have feces come out and it looked like a couple of white seeds in it. The seeds may have actually been sesame seeds from the bun of my cheese burger the night before. My stomachs felt upset the rest of the day (my natural reaction to too much coffee) and I felt tired.
I felt my gall bladder working both times and was nauseated during the evacuation of the second. Other than this we felt no obvious change.
I just started cats claw yesterday, one 300mg capsule 3x daily. I have not had herxing from this or really any change. My wife is going to start it tomorrow so I have nothing to report for her.
I know we should've been doing this for a while, we are going on our eighth month of treatment. We've been on oral ceftin 2x daily and alternate every two weeks between biaxin and flagyl 2x daily. We've been taking interfase plus since about our second or third month, and of course the essential vit and supps (CoQ10, C, D, multi, fish oil, mag...) since day one.
We seem to have narrowed it down to being infected approximately eight months prior to treatment with one failed treatment (the standard IDSA BS) in between.
For the past few months we seem to be stuck, my wife has recently developed PMS and liver issues. The PMS issues seem to have been resolved for the past two months. I developed chronic congestion and an irritable stomach in the past two or three months.
I think my recent developments have been due to yeast, I started diflucan about a month ago and my tounge is less white and my stomach issues have been slowly diminishing up until we did the castor oil packs last week.
My persistent herx or symptoms are twitching (mild to moderate daily that last anywhere from ten minutes to two hours), irritability, and mild fatigue (prior to tx it was severe).
Either it is so mild that I don't notice it at times or it's just very random. It seems like I'll go a week fine with nothing (other than twitching) and then a week or two bad with good days thrown in during that time.
Is there anything else with the cats claw, enema, or oil packs that we should be experiencing? Would we feel the benefits that I've read about from the first time, or does it take a while of doing them regularly to really start to be noticeable.
Our LLMD thinks we are near the end and is happy with our progress. The twitching, irritability, and fatigue kind of concern me. We have been doing everything else exactly as we are suppose to (with a slip on the diet here and there, but absolutely no alcohol) and we know we should've been doing the enemas and oil packs all along.
My congestion has not been relieved, I'm basically living off afrin at this point. I have a history of seasonal allergies and have been getting injections for the past three to four years with great success, it just feels like for the past two months that I'm not even getting them.
I'm hoping someone can offer some advice regarding the allergies. I'm also looking for your experiences with regard to our progress, are these persistent symptoms normal or something of concern? I was also looking for any input as to anything more we can do that we may be missing, we are starting parasite tx but I don't think this is a major issue for us.
We have no coinfections or any other complications further than what I described here. I have a thought that my allergy issues are related to the candida because they started around the time my tounge got very white and my stomach issues began.
I'm sorry if this post is all over the place, I just had so many thoughts of things I wanted feedback on. I have been searching the forums for all of this, but just can't seem to find what I'm looking for.
Again I just would like your thoughts, opinions, and experiences that you may have similar to ours. Thank you for your time in reading this and any info you provide.
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Thanks for the info! We take Mag Tabs SR, but due to budget this past month we got some cheap Mag Ox brand.
As far as enzymes we have been taking interfase plus, I wasn't exactly sure why. That article is very good and I had no idea the enzymes were so important, I thought they only broke up biofilms. But even with the enzymes I have the bad congestion.
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Are you taking anything for parasites?? Allergies and chronic candida are on the symptom list for parasites. Google parasite symptoms.
Gael
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