Awe, Jen, you look so cute in your picture! I know you're feeling terribly ill, but you certainly look pretty in your picture. I won't even post a picture -- unless I can find one of humpty dumpty. I'm loosing my hair from the Lyme and I've put on 20 pounds in the past 2 years from it as well. Doh!

I do remember you mentioning on the other board how active you were. What an incredible blow it must feel to you to have been doing so much and then have to slow down in order to concentrate on healing. I really think you made a smart decision, friend.

That slow chipping away of our lives is exactly how I've tried to describe it to folks who ask me about it. A few years ago I was busy as a bee and then gradually I was able to do less and less. Now a busy day is if I spent time on the 'puter reading and posting, empty the dishwasher and wash some clothes. Add a shower to that and I'm wiped out for the day.

My sofa and I have become one this year. lol

I know you didn't want to cancel that appointment but I'm glad you did. Vertigo and driving sounds too scary a thing. You did the right thing, girlfriend.

I was on Flagyl for 3 weeks a couple of years ago (I had Lyme at the time but no one knew it), so I was taking it for another infection and I called it the antibiotic from hell. It's a tough one to take.

The chlorella for me just didn't work. My dentist wanted me on it for a few days prior to amalgam removal and then a few weeks after. The chlorella made me horribly nauseas, put me into a kind of stupor, weak, dizzy, edema in my face, legs .... when I called the dentist to report the symptoms he said those were allergy symptoms and stop it right away. I recall one day while taking it I felt so ill and so out of myself that I asked my husband to put me out of my misery and get the shot gun. lol

There are other things that can used instead of Chlorella. Try reading some of Klinghardt's suggestions on his neuraltherapy.com site.

On my Lyme treatment, I did 5 1/2 weeks of Doxy and also had to go on Diflucan, and Ambien. I'd been using natural antifungals for years and natural sleep aids but my yeast got very bad recently and my insomnia had become nearly total. After 5 1/2 weeks on Doxy, my doc decides to take me off it and put me on Samento and Coumanda instead.

Overall, I'm much worse now than I was before starting treatment. That is, my Lyme Disease symptoms are far more pronounced and I'm feeling more of an effect on my neurological system. I see him tomorrow to go over things. The anger and crying spells from the herxing are a challenge to say the least.

I'm not planning on staying with this doc. I've got a consultation set up with one of the Lyme God doctors and will see what he says. I see him next month because he had a two months waiting list. I don't feel safe with the doc I'm seeing at the moment for alot of reasons.

Maybe I'll mosy on over to your place and introduce myself. If you say it's a nice place, then I know it will be true.

Just so happy to see you posting here, Jen.

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