I'm with you there on the emotional stuff though. Not that that's any help.

I've been on it three months, and now exercise almost every day and work a challenging full-time job. The Lyme and babesia symptoms are still mildly present every day, and flare once a month. My adrenaline and cortisol levels have dropped so far from where they were, I have to relearn how to get energy and stay motivated.

This regimen is for Lyme, babesia, and systemic inflammation.

Omnicef 300mg/2x day
Ketek 400mg/2x day
Mepron 2 teaspoons/2x day
Artemisinin 100mg/3x day

For inflammation:

Celebrex: at your own risk
Bromelain: recommended by many Lymenet members
Theanine: active ingredient in green tea, recommended by many Lymenet members

For yeast:

Nystatin 3x day
Coptis extract 2x day (the active ingredient, berberine, is also found in grapefruit seed extract and, in smaller amounts, goldenseal extract)

When I feel good it just means I am not suicidal from the pain.

Things will get better. Just keep reminding yourself of that.

5 days is definitely just enough to feel the depression and nothing else.

Did you start full dose? Mepron 750 BID and 250 zith BID?

Not much happened to me until 4th week and then I wish it hadnt happened. So it may take some time.

Yes, mood swings, that's true. What had become slight hot flashes are now sweats. Other than that, nothing.

some of the results of antibiotics, don't kick in until week(s),month(s) after cesation, when the immune sys. kicks in from having been suppressed by the medicines them selves, the infection(s) themselves, and other factors.
Burrascano's 1998 description of the effects on the heart weeks after stopping treatment fit me to the 'T'.
So this is the kind of timeline you have to think in, generally speaking.

We're not used to thinking in terms of these long timelines, and the fantasy
is to have 'microwave' results/effects, by which to assess ourselves, the treatment, and conditions, as we're able to with other medical and dental conditions.
Despite which what I just said, I'm still impatient for results, effects, etc.

Antibiotics weaken the immune system ( and they are a necessary evil)

So when you take them, you not only haev the effect of what they have done to kill the lyme ( herx) , you also have your own natural fighter (immune system) being totally devastated.

*Sometimes* one CANNOT see how far they have come until tehy are OFF of antibiotics. And don't ever try that on my account!

I did. It worked. I did 18 months of antibiotics, gradually tapered down and thought I was gonna relapse.

I'm not almost 90 percent better. I was 40 on antibiotics. My post is on the front page of lymenet.

And no im not saying what I did is what everyone else should do.