My final thoughts.....

[Guest guest]

Tony, Penny and Barb, I did not come here looking to get my mind

changed. You are as insistant that I am not herxing, as I am that I

am herxing. I know what the symptoms are that I feel, and I know

what the symtpoms of a herx are, they fit. Our primary disagreement

is that it can't possibly happen on such a low dose of ABX. So we

are at an impass there and we will have to agree to disagree. It is

not every crappy feeling that I attribute to a herx, just the ones

associated with ABX meant to kill infection. Mag is believed by many

to cause herxing under the right circumstances. Just because herxing

is not generally listed as an effect of Mag, does not prove that it

isn't what is happening, time will tell. It wasn't that long ago

that CFS, FM, Lyme weren't even thoughts. I climbed the CFS, FM

ladder all alone, now they are pretty much household words and

accepted by most all medical professionals, if they keep up on

mainstream medicine at all.

You have all given me things to read, and what you are not seeing

apparently is that the stuff you are sharing with me comes from

mainstream medical science. If they say that ABX only kill bacteria

at this dose, you stake your life on it. Even though I don't know

that any of these tests have been on Lyme per say. No one seems to

have tested low dose Mino to see what happens to Lyme, so how can

you say with such certainty that it is not causing a die off??? You

can't!!!!

If we all fully believed what mainstream medical science tells us,

then there is no chance that staph is at the source of our sinus

infections, because all studies and lab tests say it isn't.....but

you all disagree, because of experience. There is absolutely nothing

in mainstream to support that belief though. I could pull up no

doubt hundreds of reports saying what you believe couldn't possibly

be true more likely.

If we believe mainstream medical science then there is absolutely

NOTHING wrong with us. We are all healthy as horses.....right? There

is nothing in mainstream that indicates we are sick....right? It was

thinking outside the box that got us this far. Who gives a rat's

behind whether or not we can find anything published mainstream on

our supposed illnesses. We are sick and we know it. Mainstream

medicne thinks we are all crazy and still out looking to lynch

doctors who are treating us.

All I am asking is that we keep thinking beyond this box we are know

in. If you think you know all there is about herxing, then your not

only in a box but you have the lid nailed on. It amazes me when

people are so closed minded about stuff not totally understood yet.

You would think " we " would know better. Sigh

> Since then, I have read that there are specialists who believe that

> you can indeed herx off of mag. The reason being that it helps your

> body do what it should, it functions better. Other then this, I

have

> never read of any negative side effects expected from magnesium

> other then the runs. Maybe you have, but in this case maybe it

isn't

> a negative reaction, but actually a herx. Proof otherwise???

>