I am 5 months into treatment today! Yay I can't believe I am already this far into it.

I have to say that my first 3 months of treatment went pretty smooth. Then between months 3-5 I think the herbs and probiotics finally started doing their job and I got some extreme die off.  Especially the past month, it was pretty difficult to get through. I really thought I was going to have to go on disability from work. I started getting really worried. Then I remembered that before I started this treatment, I came on here and read that sometimes you have to get sick, and go through pain before you get better. So I just pushed through.

I had an appointment with Dr. B last Wednesday, I told her that I thought I was having extreme die off:

Crazy headaches, my lymph nodes by my ears, and on the outside of my breasts were swollen, and they hurt really bad. The inside of my left ear would hurt really bad, some days worse than others, it would come and go. I was feeling very weak, I was so emotional, a lot of anxiety. I haven’t had that much anxiety in the past 6 years. I had so many negative feelings inside of me, it wasn’t like me, and I couldn’t get myself to think positive. I was so angry all the time. My body ached, sometimes I would get so overwhelmed at work for no reason, and I would have to hold back tears. My hands and legs would fall asleep all the time. My left leg would hurt so bad because I felt like the blood wasn't circulating through it. My eyes were getting bloodshot, and they would burn. My urethra burned every morning between 8-11 a.m., then at night from 8-12 p.m.  I would get really bad cramps, like my period was about to start, but wasn’t even close to my period.  Oh and when I did get my period I had the worst cramps in my life, and it was so heavy and so clotted. My breasts hurt me so bad, I could not take my bra off, and any movement hurt them. I couldn’t even lie on my side. I felt like I had the flu, I had a cough, and itchy throat and sometimes I would cough up phlegm. I had a lot of pain on my left side in between my rib, and pelvis bone. One time I read someone on here post that die off makes you look like a corpse. Oh boy, did I feel that. I think I have been wearing more make up than usual because my face just doesn't look healthy. I look sick, and pale.

It’s crazy because I was doing so well when I started treatment. I thought wow I guess I am not that bad and this will be an easy recovery. But I think for me it just took a while for the herbs, and probiotics to really start doing their job, and getting the bad stuff out. I had bought Dr. B’s dissertation, and I didn’t start reading it until I started getting all the die-off. It was good because by reading it I knew that everything that was happening to me was normal, and it is part of the healing process. I also confirmed that all of that was die-off in my last appointment with her.

I just hope that all of that was the worse I had to go through. Dr. B told me in the beginning that she didn’t think I would take that long to get better. She said maybe 6 months. So I am praying that it will be smooth sailing from here on out. After Dr. B changed my herbs last Wednesday it has really helped. I’m now on 1 Bif, 1 Super, 1 goldenseal, and 4 RP each dose (and at night I add in 1 fish oil). The only symptoms I have right now is my eyes are still kind of blood shot, and my urethra only burns a little at night.