Lyme Disease Support Group

First it was just severe heart burn even after drinking water and gas pains which quickly turned to severe, disgusting gas able to clear out the entire floor of our house.

After 2 days of that diarrhea started once or twice a day along with the gas and complete exhaustion.

Today I have a major migraine and i have no appetite. When i tried to eat so i could take my pills I felt so sick for about an hour until I finally vomited.

Is it Lyme, is it Candida, is it something i ate or a bug????

Unfortunately my dr is out of the office for the next 2 1/2 weeks, not at she would probably be of much help anyways.

I'm taking huge doses of probiotics - 5 different types of flora in them and i eat homemade, organic yogurt several times a day but Im really starting to think this is Candida or H. pylori.

I'm going to try to elimate that last few sugar sources from my diet and hope that helps but does anyone have any other thoughts or suggestions?

The last major herx I had was when I went in the tanning bed for 3 minutes. I missed two days of work and the time I wasn't sleeping I spent on the commode. I think looking back now that I have been herxing like that my entire life. My mom used to say that I got a lot of stomach flu's when I was younger, but I think I was just herxing all of those times.

anything white: breads, pasta, and reading the labels of food.

so sorry you are going thru so much w/your llmd on vacation. best wishes /// hugs/kisses

bettyg, iowa leader

I cut out all other grains as well. The only thing left that may be causing an issue is the little bit of fruit and honey that i eat in my yogurt.

It's weird how it just appeared. I haven't had this issue with herxing before.

My chiropractor suggested cutting out dairy as well so I may try it to see if it makes a difference. He said it was possible that due to a leaky gut, I've become lactose intolerant.

That would make me very sad because I LOVE dairy products!! It was the reason I only lasted a few years as a vegan!

Sorry you're feeling bad.

I hope your elimination diet experiment provides some answers. I don't know much about leaky gut but I know there are some threads about it here if you want to search.

((hugs))

These are binding foods...my twins had to be on this for over a month when they were a year and a half. They had some god awful virus, that gave them green poop - that smelled so bad, it made me vomit - and they would fill like 3 diapers each - then stop for an hour...sorry but god that was wicked.

I have also added jello to it - I know there are sugars in it - and sugar free isnt the greatest as it has aspartame...but jello adds a soothing element to our intestines...Oh and you drink it before it gets all jello-like...

Recently I also used Fruit Chillers - yep it too has sugar - but its a fruit pop and helped me get through one of my awful gut retching episodes a few days ago...these they make in both fruit cups and tubes that ya throw in the freezer...

I have also used Almond milk and Rice milk as a milk replacement - I cant stand soy - you can actually get Potato milk which has a lot of good qualities - only pain about that is you order it - it comes in a powder form and you have to mix it with water...powder is messy...but it is good stuff...

Hope you can get through this...

Christine

Post edited by: cmany, at: 05/20/2010 02:35 PM

I tried having a milkshake the other day to see if it would upset my stomach but it was fine. So maybe it's not lactose.

However, yesterday there was a LOT of fresh blood in my stools. It wasn't just on the surface like you would see with a hemorroid but interweaved throughout suggesting it's from higher up and I kept having blood come out the entire day.

Today, only a little blood but now I have long stringy things in it (which I suppose could be from the bananas that I have been eating).

I'm not straining or anything so I don't know what is going on now.

And to top it all off I'm on my last day of antibiotics (30 day course) and the doctor won't refill until she sees me in 2 1/2 weeks when we'll "discuss things".

I did find another dr, unfortunately the earliest I can get an appt is October! I'm on the cancellation list so I'm crossing my fingers something opens up.

Post edited by: use1015, at: 05/25/2010 12:00 PM