Refuse to sink - My journey battling Lyme disease

Going off antibiotics has been a little rough. My stomach has been a mess, and some of my symptoms came creeping back. I'll be honest, I was panicked. It's always a guessing game with this disease, you don't know what treatment will work for you until you try it. I felt at peace with being off antibiotics, but I was second-guessing that choice. Luckily, things seem to be evening out a bit. I started taking l-glutamine between meals and I've definitely noticed a huge difference. (l-glutamine repairs the lining in your gut) I've been taking Samsara Herbs tick recovery formula for the last week, ramping up dosage fairly quickly in an effort to replace what the antibiotics were doing. I think I'll just need a bit more of an adjustment time, so I'm staying patient. I'm not so patient about my weight, though. It's been two years since I've been able to sustain any amount of weight loss, which is very abnormal for me. I know how to lose weight, I...

As of June 16th, I've been treating for one year. I always said I would give antibiotics a year, or as long as I could tolerate them. Last week, I had to make a decision. My body was telling me it's done with the antibiotics, so I took a couple days off while I thought about what to do. On one hand, I've been finally starting to see progress; on the other, if I continue, it's very possible that it could do more harm than help. In the end, I decided I will never again push my body to go through something it can't tolerate. It is a little bit scary to go off them, but I feel tremendous peace about it. So what's next? Justin and I have consultations scheduled with an herbalist many of my Lyme friends having been telling me about. He cannot tolerate the antibiotics, and I want to move on from them. She's located in Vermont, so we decided to take our whole family on a long weekend there, and on that Monday morning we'll go meet with the herbalist. I...