Re: HEIDI...Lyme Disease and Adrenals/Thyroid

[Guest guest]

If she does the antibiotics route make sure you put her on huge doses of

probiotics daily. The antibiotics can make the adrenals much worse and not

only that, make the gut and a whole host of other issues worse. Plus, it

will make eliminating toxins that much harder.

Most docs know this by now and prescribe large doses of probiotics when they

use antibiotics, but if your doc has not mentioned it, go out and buy some

( I like Ultra Primal Defense). There are ones doctors prescribe too but I

have no idea if they are better or more expensive but you can ask your

doctor.

Antibiotics kill your good bacteria as well as the bad, and without that

good bacteria...your immune system is sent into a tailspin. 70% of our

immune system resides in our digestive tract!

Cheri

Lyme Disease and Adrenals/Thyroid

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]

Hi Cheri, I'm taking a Z-pack for what might be a bit of a lingering

tooth infection that I had re-treated with a root-canal last week. I

have probiotics at home and I take on pearl a day. What do you mean by

huge doses? I believe that our local Earthfare store has the Garden

of Life stuff which I hear is pretty good so I can pick some up

tonight if the one pearl/day dose isn't enough.

Thanks,

>

> If she does the antibiotics route make sure you put her on huge doses of

> probiotics daily. The antibiotics can make the adrenals much worse

and not

> only that, make the gut and a whole host of other issues worse. Plus, it

> will make eliminating toxins that much harder.