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Connie, I can't say if the Bolouke was doing me any good, really. For this reason I stopped taking it because the cost was so high. But let me explain.... My doc, God bless him, takes a low and slow approach with Lyme treatment in order to prevent a big Herx. At the same time though, it seems that it doesn't do much to get you better fast enough...at least that was the way with me...you know, different people reacting in different ways, which is so true of Lyme treatments. His approach is low dose antibiotics, with big time anti-inflammatory medication and supplements. He started me on Benicar, 20mg, 3 times a day. Benicar is a blood pressure drug, with mostly anti-inflammatory properties, along with some natural supplements for inflammation. The Ultra InflamX was part of this as well. They (my docs) attack the inflammation because it is one of the biggest hiding places for Lyme. Fibrin lines the walls of the blood vessels and Lyme burrows in and sets up shop. By reducing the fibrin, using anti-inflammatory meds and supplements, the Lyme are exposed to the bloodstream and the antibiotics. This is the first step to killing them off that my doctor takes. As I said, for some reason this approach did not work for me. I just got sicker. In January of this year I demanded IV antibiotics in an effort to attack hard, damn the Herx reaction...which I really haven't had bad at all. But again, some people do - poor Jaime - and some don't. Oh, and by the way...my neck...absolutely the worst pain I have. Lymph nodes are tender as can be. I can point to the specific pain spots, easily. Believe it or not, two spots have eased way off since beginning IV treatment,and my jaw is not quite as sore and stiff. Tom I am not a doctor, and nothing I say here should be taken as medical advice of any kind.
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) Lyme gets everywhere and if it's been there long enough, it has had time to build a nice, big colony that might take awhile to obliterate. 
