Can't answer your question because I haven't had a lyme herx yet but I know there are lots of people who have intimate experience with them, but just wanted to say hi!
Posts: 83 | From us | Registered: Nov 2006
| IP: Logged |
lymeladyinNY
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 10235
posted
Hi Mtndog - I, too, was infected in 2003 and that same year I received 4 weeks of IV rocephin.
After about a week on the rocephin I had my first herx and it was HORRENDOUS! I had a 105 fever and was incredibly ill for 4 days.
I have never had a herx as bad as that one since. My opinion is that before you ever hit the spirochetes with antibiotics they're all in the active stage, close to the surface of your body because the body environment is not toxic for them.
When the antibiotics get them the first time it's like a bomb hit them. There are many casualties because they were all out and about doing their business.
Later, when you keep hitting them, they've gone into stealth mode - they change to cyst form, go intracellular, and go deeper into the body. Basically, they're in their bunkers and it's war as they try to evade the toxic antibiotic environment.
The herxes aren't as bad then because you're not killing as many as you did with the first bomb.
A whole arsenal is needed to get them in their hiding places and it takes time. A Lyme doctor is your best bet to help you know how to get to those that are in hiding.
Best wishes to you and I hope you have much success feeling better!
Lymelady
-------------------- I want to be free Posts: 1170 | From Endicott, NY | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged |
bettyg
Unregistered
posted
dog, did you get my 50+ pages newbie links, advise, symptoms, igenex tests, HERXING, disability, much more, and treepatrol's newbie archive link of 1000 sites of GOOD info?
i was off board for 1 month during time you joined for my hip replacement surgery/recup. if you did NOT, please send me a PM.
that's the 2nd icon to right of my name; 2 people standing there by envelop. click on there and ask me to send to you, will explain a lot about what you are asking about, and much more.
yes, i had herxes from day 1; 1 severe herx after being put on flagyl.
if/when you get my links; after the long 125_+ symptoms list is a chart; pritn it off. KEEP TRACK OF WHAT YOUR HERX IS DOING TO YOU. wished i'd done that 3 yrs. ago, but didn't know about that, etc....too new to being dx after being misdx for 34 years!!
IP: Logged |
I can't possibly imagine whose user name would be sixgoofykids when it should be ImarriedMrDarcy Posts: 24 | From Massachusetts | Registered: Apr 2007
| IP: Logged |
-------------------- sixgoofykids.blogspot.com Posts: 13449 | From Ohio | Registered: Feb 2007
| IP: Logged |
mojo
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 9309
posted
Mtgdog. My first herxes sound a lot like yours with the extreme fatigue and anxiety. The only thing I didn't have was intolerable pain. My joint pain came over a year into my treatment and is not too bad.
Typically your first herx/herxes are the worst. As time goes on they get easier and easier. Now 16 months into treatment I barely notice them.
Posts: 1761 | From USA | Registered: May 2006
| IP: Logged |
Vermont_Lymie
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 9780
posted
Yes, that sounds about right to me for your first herx, if you were infected and never treated before!
Best wishes.
Posts: 2557 | From home | Registered: Aug 2006
| IP: Logged |
The Lyme Disease Network is a non-profit organization funded by individual donations. If you would like to support the Network and the LymeNet system of Web services, please send your donations to:
The
Lyme Disease Network of New Jersey 907 Pebble Creek Court,
Pennington,
NJ08534USA http://www.lymenet.org/
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
![[hi]](graemlins/hi.gif)
![[cussing]](graemlins/cussing.gif)
![[woohoo]](graemlins/woohoo.gif)
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
)![[bonk]](graemlins/bonk.gif)
![[lol]](graemlins/lol.gif)
![[spinning smile]](graemlins/spinsmile.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic