Refuse to sink - My journey battling Lyme disease

I had a great follow-up consult with my herbalist Friday. She continues to be happy with my progress and thinks by July I'll be ready to wean off of my antimicrobial herbs, although I'll continue taking core support herbs. I have to have 3 months symptom free to be considered in remission. I was really excited about the prospect of remission being so close, and I posted something on FB about it. What no one saw behind that post, is that I've been dealing with a lot of pain, flares and herxing lately. Even though I'm supposedly near remission, I certainly haven't been feeling like it this last week. I mentioned in my last post about how going off of intermittent fasting threw my body into a hormonal crisis of some sort. It's also affected my Lyme symptoms, and I'm not sure exactly what is what, I'm just trying to give my body time to adjust. I woke up almost a full week ago with terrible neck pain, and it has continued daily ever since. I didn't h...

In my last post I talked about how I believed intermittent fasting was behind my hormonal imbalances. About a week after I stopped IF, I was riding the hormonal crazy train - depression, irritability, crying for no reason. I felt like I did postpartum after having my babies, it was absolutely insane! But it proved to me that IF was messing with my hormones. It also threw me into a Lyme flare, I was getting a lot of pain in my hips, legs, and even my hands. And now, two weeks after quitting IF, I feel like my body has adjusted for the most part. I'm not having the crazy mood swings and feeling back to normal. I'm sure it'll take at least a month for my body to fully adjust, but right now I'm just glad I'm feeling myself again.  Last week was a great week for concerts! I went to see Disturbed and Three Days Grace on Wednesday, and then Saturday saw Papa Roach and Shinedown. I went alone to the Shinedown concert, which is totally out of my comfort zone. I've bee...