| Dashadow07 2004-10-16, 2:06 am |
| > The reason he is happy is that you feel worse because
>your medication is killing the lyme disease microbes. In
>addition your immune system is responding thus two swollen
>lymph nodes. It is dealing with the death of all these
>microbes and maybe it is fighting them as well.
>
> We used to talk about this phenomenon all the time and
>perhaps misused the nomenclature of "Herxheimer reaction" to
>describe it.
>
> Old doc Herxheimer observed that when his syphiletic patients
>started an effective treatment that they went thru a sickly,
>feverish reaction as the microbes(Treponema Palladium) died
>off. He was the first to report such a reaction and so his
>name has passed into history.
>
> So your medication is working and I doubt you will feel
>as bad all thru your treatment. Lyme is hard to kill apparently
>so you have to have a long treatment to make sure the medication
>gets to all the tissues of your body where the microbes can
>hide.
>
Thanks for the info Bobbie. I had heard about the "herxing" prior to going on
the antibiotics but couldn't believe it was so bad!!! It really knocked me for
a loop! I know - good news! I understand I will have to be on various
medications for at least a year to kill all the microbes. I told the doctor it
felt as it the cells were dying in my brain as well as the bacteria!!
Thanks again for the info. And Thank you so much for being on this list. You
have been a real help to me over the years.
Sharon. :]
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