Lyme Disease and Adrenals/Thyroid

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Is anyone here familiar with treating Lyme disease when there are

possible adrenal/thyroid things going on? A friend of mine who was

dx'd with Lyme several years ago recently went in to have her thyroid

checked, she was having hypo symptoms out the wazoo and has a mom and

sister with Hashi's. Her thyroid levels were " normal " although her

Free T3 was REALLY high indicating to me a problem converting to T3.

T3 was midrange. Doc also did blood cortisol which was " normal " (I

didn't get an actual # on that.)

The kicker is that she also retested her Lyme infection and it is now

again an " acute, active infection. " She is 5 months postpartum. She

had been feeling really good and thought she had the Lyme under

control, but postpartum she has been a mess.

Anyway the doc wants her to do antibiotics for the Lyme. She's going

to put it off a couple of months and do some natural things first like

garlic etc. But when she does either do the antibiotics or hit it hard

with a natural antibiotic, she will likely get a massive Herxheimer

reaction - the bugs dying off and cleansing. She'll probably be

bedridden for a month or two.

My concern is that if she has adrenal issues (which I don't think she

can know either way from the blood cortisol) - will the Herxheimer

reaction throw them out of whack even more? Does anyone have

experience with this, and would it be wise to test the adrenals and,

if there is adrenal fatigue present, to support them for awhile before

dealing with the Lyme? Or is it as her doc has said, that treating the

Lyme first is the most important thing and then they can look into

thyroid/adrenal?

Her doc is from Shomon's Top Docs list and so far seems to be

pretty decent.

Thanks,

Heidi

[Guest guest]

Heidi,

That is exactly what I'm doing now! Have been treated with antibiotics

for the past several years (on & off) for chronic Lyme Disease! My

adrenals gave out several years ago but didn't know anything about

adrenal exhaustion until recently. My new doc took me off the high dose

antibiotics and put me on low dose Benicar (not for high BP in this

case) & low dose Minocycline for now. He and I both agreed we need to

treat my adrenals/thyroid first, before going any further with Lyme

treatment simply because the treatment or the Herx would be too much for

my adrenals to handle. Am almost optimized on Cortisol and will soon

add Armour, then go from there. I don't know if this would be the same

for " acute " Lyme, as mine is " chronic " . But hope this helps. If you

need more specifics, email me privately at: ssg546@...

Sharon (in VA)

wilddreamergrl wrote:

> Hi,

>

> Is anyone here familiar with treating Lyme disease when there are

> possible adrenal/thyroid things going on?