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Here I am again! Now I trying to figure out what supplements help with imflammation i have cut out a lot of my normal carbs and sugar... but the pain is still horrible. Like I said before my doctor will not do pain meds so i just started acupunture which isnt working yet. I am on Q10... Salmon Oil... and digestaguard along with Doxy...Rifampin and zithromax Today its been a week since i have started and my pain is a Million times worse today its horrible. I can't sleep at night, i cant sit still at work b/c my body aches all over like i just got hit by a truck or ran 1 million miles i cant even pick a spot in my body that doesnt hurt.
What can I do? What else can I take?
I am going to look into seeing a pain specialist but my liver isnt doing the best so i am scared about medications a pain speciliast would put me on.
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TerryK
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Avea - Mood, Liquid Extract, NutraMedix Bromelain Digestive enzymes on an empty stomach Feverfew Fish Oil Noni, NutraMedix Quercitin Rutin Serraflazyme Turmeric
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Hoosiers51
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You could research Wobenzym....it is supposed to be really good for the immune system and inflammation. It helped with my fatigue.
Athletes in Germany supposedly use it in place of aspirin or Tylenol.
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I wrote this under Kiwikid's post "How healthy is your diet".
Kiwikid,
I totally agree with Tincup on every point.
I would like to add the suggestion you find a doctor trained in nutritional healing of the body. www.acam.org is a good place to start.
Use this doctor to identify food sensitivities you may have. This will tell you which foods you need to avoid. This doctor can also help you heal your gut which certainly sounds like it is leaking.
A leaking gut allows things such as yeast into your body where it wreaks havoc. Cleaning up your body helps it fight lyme and co.
This can be done in conjunction with your LLMD treatment and together can bring you back to health.
It could be the healthy diet you were on was not so healthy for you.
All my life I have had a sweet tooth. Otherwise, I ate very well, but sugar was a part of my daily life.
No doubt this was due to yeast overgrowth. I had lots of strep throat every year of my youth and lots of antibiotics to go along with it. Back then, no one talked of protecting the gut from the antibiotics. Diflucan had not yet been invented. So I figure yeast was damaging my gut for years before I became ill with lyme and learned about all the things that could be contributing to my illness.
Your gut is considered your second brain and a study from Yale discovered that 70% of your immune system is in your gut.
Most chronically ill people have a sick or leaking gut and until it is healed, they can't be healed.
For 2 years, both my LLMD and my GP have worked to heal my gut and clean up my body from all the stuff that escaped my gut into my body. Their work has healed and continues to heal me. I am doing extremely well.
As for sugar, I no longer crave it. This is incredible for me!
Also this post under "What diet has worked for you" This one deals with inflammation.
I strongly disagree with the high protein/low carb diet, especially if you are trying to detoxify.
Antioxidants come from fruits and vegetables. Not meats. Inflammation is flamed by red meat.
Read the attached article about glutathione and its role as detoxifier in our bodies.
Notice the paragraph of foods that increase the glutathione in your body.
Google glutathione.
Google health benefits of fruits and vegetables.
In addition to antioxidants, raw fruit and vegetables gives us enzymes needed to digest food and clean up the body. So try to eat something raw every day. Cooking kills the enzymes in your food as does irradiating vegetables. Irradiation has been approved by the FDA and is practiced by grocery stores. They tell us it is done to kill bacteria, but don't you believe it. It is done to kill enzymes in the raw fruits and vegetables so their shelflife will be extended substantially. Enzymes break down the food before we eat it just as it does after we eat it. An irradiated apple will sit on your counter for weeks without rotting. It will also sit in your gut without digesting and pass through unabsorbed.
Eat organic or local (local farmers are not irradiating nor do they use as heavily concentrated pesticides and they do not ship their produce long distances) as much as possible.
Eating a mostly vegetarian diet alone reduced my inflammation and thereby my pain by an estimated 50%.
IVs of glutathione put me back on the road to recovery. Currently, my doctor has me using glutathione suppositories which are working very well.
I continue to eat a diet of mostly fruits and veggies. I do eat meat but more like a side dish and not at every meal.
I avoid preservatives, dyes, etc as these contain excitotoxins which induce inflammation.
Try a vegan diet for two weeks (no animal products of any kind including butter, cheese and eggs). Two weeks is long enough to see significant benefits if this kind of diet is going to work for you. If you do not see improvement, then try high protein/low carb diet. Different body types do require different nutrition. But if you are fighting inflammation, a high meat diet is probably a bad idea.
I emphatically state that diet alone has had and continues to have significant impact on my health and state of wellness I enjoy today.
While I do have to work hard to stay healthy, I am very very well and enjoying all aspects of my life as I did before lyme struck.
Diet plays an important role in maintaining my health.
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