I was put on an antibiotic this week for two weeks to deal with a severe parasitic and several bad bacterial infections before starting herbal treatments.
My doctor is an MD specializing in functional medicine, but primarily uses plans outside of allopathic care. I have been seeing her for several months to diagnose and treat the root cause of symptoms surrounding metabolic resistance to weight loss I have been experiencing for over 5 years. Up until this week, she only prescribed vitamins, probiotics, minerals and herbal remedies, and even this was to be a short cut on the first leg of the detox journey from these specific long standing parasites and malicious bacteria.
I now believe I had an allergic reaction to the antibiotic. I slogged through it for 3 and a half days thinking I was just having parasitic and bacterial die-off reactions. I felt empty. I lost connection to joy, and it felt I was walking half in my body and half out. It was as if my soul had come partly unglued. In the middle of climax during intimacy with my husband, I forgot what I was feeling, it just disappeared, the entire orgasm, and then instead of euphoria at climax, I just felt heat leaving my body. I walked around feeling like I was holding my breath for those days and for one full day after the treatment with my stomach sucked in as tight as I could. I was constipated and also felt the discomfort of bloating. It felt as though all the emotional parts of being alive that happen in the torso region were gone, vanished, like a missing part of my existence. I couldn’t think straight. I was missing the openings at corners in the rooms and walking into walls several times a day. My breasts and armpits were very tender and sore. I would get very sick, like trying not to vomit at the thought of taking another antibiotic pill. I thought it was the bacteria and parasites trying to fight back by turning my body against the medicine. Then, I got chills. And chills are what is listed in the Web MDs and mainstream literature as an allergic reaction so I messaged my doctor. She said, “Stop it. Get off now. We can start the herbal treatments.”
So, I guess the good news is that after a day being off them, actually it took close to two days as I ended on Thursday and didn’t feel normal until bedtime on Saturday, I am finally reconnected with my body and starting on all the natural protocols she gave me for taking once the antibiotics were complete. I guess it’s just going to be a longer haul on a bunch of herbal bug killers. Instead of a month, probably two or three are suggested. I feel like I lost an entire week of my life in the three day process. It was like that machine in The Princess Bride. Just pure misery.
I think I may have found an oily short cut as I looked to some clinical research on oils affecting parasites and bacteria as I was coming out of the fog and thyme oil at least in a lab setting had a 100% efficacy against the parasite and another 4-5 oils worked in clinical settings for the bacteria. So I got myself some capsules and have replaced my 3 doses a day of antibiotic tablets with oil capsules. I am still having die off symptoms, but at this time, my soul is attached to my body having them. I no longer have underarm and breast tenderness or a hollow, breath holding sensation in my stomach. I feel the discomfort without losing my sense of connection to being alive and so far, today, I haven’t bumped into any walls.
My sheets felt incredible against my skin as I went to sleep last night and I haven’t connected with that simple joy of being alive for a week.
What’s really living?
This is a long post. I just wanted to say that I am further ensured that even the best things medicine has to offer humanity, the simplest and most possibly benign treatments for some of the most dangerous ailments, such as antibiotics, are not right for everyone. It would be wrong to suggest that because something “worked for me” it’s for everyone and should be forced on everyone.
Yes, the bacteria and parasites can be spread to my family because we accidentally drink out of each other’s glasses or our toothbrushes touch in the holder, and because we share a home and a bathroom. The parasite I have unfortunately is (of the parasites) the third most deadly world wide parasitic infection among those actually diagnosed. It’s possibly more deadly than reported and undetected despite its prevalence for shutting down organs because people in the west don’t test for parasites.
It was with no excitement nor lack of understanding of the gravity of my condition that I decided to break with tradition and get a prescription antibiotic as treatment for my condition. I was diagnosed with something and given the best studied treatment. I wasn’t given a preventative measure for something I didn’t have with a lower and more debatable rate of annual mortality leaning toward the lesser.
So if you are one of these people who thinks everyone, sick or healthy alike, should get a prophylactic treatment for something they don’t have, probably will be barely symptomatic of and won’t prevent transmission of said illness to allegedly protect yourself or others, a treatment which has by Harvard research caused possibly one hundred times the tens of thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of reactions (that could lead to death) REPORTED nationwide, you are an asshole, a stupid asshole.
Have a lovely day.