It's going alright, which is better than terrible.
I'm having a really difficult time remembering to take it on time. I have to take it about 8, 12 and 4. Typically right before the time I have to take Cortef I think I better go take Cortef and then, I forget and remember 30 minutes later. Better 30 minutes late, than never I guess. Today is day 4 and I have taken all 12 doses. This is particularly good for me. I hate to admit that medicine compliance has never been a strong suit of mine. Typically when something makes me feel bad, I won't take it. So to feel a wave of nausea come over me, I hesitate to continue, but my goal is to be better this go around.
With the new herbal Lyme treatment, I'm on day 13 of the detox stuff and day 4 of the Bb1 bottle. I'm at 4 drops in the morning and 4 drops in the evening. Nothing terrible has happened yet so I keep on rising the drops. On Sunday, I will add in the "Bar" bottle (for Bartonella). So far so good. I've not had any particularly weird things happen yet other than the mouth blisters, but those happened after I started Diflucan and Detox bottle and not the new Cortef or the Bb1 bottle.
Yesterday, I had a really bad twitch of my hand. Now normally the twitches don't really bother me and I'm not doing anything that can cause any real damage, but yesterday tells a different story. I was unloading the dishwasher. We bought a new blender and the blades are sharp. I was being really careful because the blade was being washed. Well as I passed over the blade carefully, my hand twitched. I cut my thumb on the very sharp blade.
It didn't bleed at first, but I went to the bathroom so I could wash it and get a band-aid. As I got to the bathroom sink, it began to bleed and bleed and bleed. It took 30 minutes of direct pressure for the bleeding to stop. It stopped just in time because I almost got in the car to drive to the Fast Med Urgent Care. The cut seems to be healing nicely. I'm keeping it covered, but will uncover it tomorrow in the HBOT to stimulate more healing.
All in all, I'm doing okay even though I feel weak and have been having some headaches.
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Jennifer, are you going to Carolina Hyperbarics for your HBOT treatments? Using a hard chamber? Do you feel it's making a difference? I'm considering doing a three week (15 dives) stint of it but it's so expensive! I don't want to spend the money unless I feel fairly certain it will make a real difference. Thanks. :-)
Darla, I get my HBOT at my LLMD's office - not at Carolina Hyperbarics. It's a soft chamber. I think I posted a picture a while back. I've heard that it's best to get 40 hours of it. I did 3 days in a row at 90 minutes each for a few weeks. I will say that I do feel better than I did when I started, but it's a not a therapy that I would do as a stand alone treatment. Now I do it once a week 90 minutes each. I was supposed to try to stretch it to two weeks, but haven't been able to do that yet. I feel it really helps my mood, my breathing and headaches.
Gotcha. Actually I think I've already asked you this before...lyme brain. I went to a Lyme support group in Raleigh last Sunday and they had a guy from Carolina Hyperbarics talking about the advantages of the hard chamber. It can get deeper into the tissues. One lady had done six weeks and got "well"! Then she relapsed but got "well" again after three weeks of HBOT in the hard chamber. It's much more expensive than soft chamber but I'm thinking of doing it. If I get well from it I'll let you know! Glad it's helping your headaches, breathing, and mood...any improvements are good!
Yeah I think I heard about that. Pete's group right? I didn't realize there was a group meeting until it was too late. I totally would have come.
It wasn't Pete's group...it was the other one that used to meet at Earth Fare at Brier Creek but this time they met at Starbucks on Lake Boone Tr. I went to this group a few years ago and it was horrible...unorganized and with no leader to keep conversation under control. This time it was very good...well organized and great info.
Darla, let me know the next time there's a meeting. I some how am not in the loop on either group. I didn't realize there was a second group.
Yeah, the group I went to last Sunday has been around for quite a while. Pete's is a spin off of those that were not happy with the original group. Although after attending last Sunday I was impressed and liked it. I'll try to let you know when they meet again.
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