It took me a week to get ready to start treatment. I had to really wrap my mind around everything. I read all the literature and just felt that I really could not commit to such a rigorous plan right now. In the end I decided I really want and need to get better, so I decided to suck it up and get started. I searched the internet and found a watch that has 5 alarms. It is not very pretty, but it works! It goes off when I need to take my pills and when I have to take my temperature. I made a cute little zipper wallet to hold all my pills. I loved the treatment for the 1st 4 days. I felt amazing. Then I became one of the 20% that feel worse before they feel better. I started having the “call you Dr if you have any of these symptoms”, symptoms. She had me take my antidote pill, which I was told in the beginning I must have on me at all times! I instantly felt better and was given the instructions that I needed to start the tapering down that I had hit my threshold for this round. What I did not know what those list of symptoms where what normal people experience. For me I should have stopped when my not so common symptoms that hit the day before! Needless to say I took too high of a dosage. Which I have learned does not make for a very positive experience when you have to taper off the medication. You have to taper off twice as slow as you go up. Let’s just say it had not been a pretty. Three phone calls into my ND, and another antidote pill and I am still struggling. She is hopeful that the next round will be the one that gets my body to temperature and I don’t have any reactions. With as scary and yucky as this has been, quite frankly, I am not sure there is going to be a next time!
On a positive not my sinus pain and congestion went away, and I started to perspire. That may not sound like much by I have not perspired in over a year. I am healing!
So now I have to decide if the temporary awfulness out ways the possible positive changes. Right now the answer would be no. This is not worth it to me. Then again I felt the same way during childbirth and went on to have 5 more.
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