Dear Stephen,
I’m dealing with lyme and mycoplasma and intend to start your protocol in a few weeks. At night, I have an issue where I grind, chomp, and clench my teeth. This is very painful. I wake up with a headache, sore jaws, teeth, throat, and ears. I have very little stress in my life, no unspoken emotions, and no parasites. Mouth guards are of little help and sometimes increase the pain. Is it possible the lyme and/or mycoplasma are causing this issue? Maybe my body is stressed? Maybe once I start the protocol, this particular issue will go away? If not, what herbs would you recommend? Thank you, thank you.
I’m dealing with lyme and mycoplasma and intend to start your protocol in a few weeks. At night, I have an issue where I grind, chomp, and clench my teeth. This is very painful. I wake up with a headache, sore jaws, teeth, throat, and ears. I have very little stress in my life, no unspoken emotions, and no parasites. Mouth guards are of little help and sometimes increase the pain. Is it possible the lyme and/or mycoplasma are causing this issue? Maybe my body is stressed? Maybe once I start the protocol, this particular issue will go away? If not, what herbs would you recommend? Thank you, thank you.
Stephen’s response:
Lord, that is a hard one. I used hypnotherapy to stop myself doing it. It was occurring from a part of me that was mad and frustrated and had no other outlet. You might try motherwort, pasque flower, or coral root tinctures to see if the can be of help. Sometimes they are.
Lord, that is a hard one. I used hypnotherapy to stop myself doing it. It was occurring from a part of me that was mad and frustrated and had no other outlet. You might try motherwort, pasque flower, or coral root tinctures to see if the can be of help. Sometimes they are.
Stephen
Dear Mr/Ms “Chomping”,
I have found that clenching and night guards come up often in the lyme world. I’m not sure the connection, but I found it to be comforting when a few in my support group mentioned that when they were treated and symptom-free from Lyme, that their need for a mouth guard went away completely! I know many dentists, like mine, pointed to stress and the frontal lobe “action” for the cause. (I am a “over-thinker” as well, so pre-lyme diagnosis…I thought this as the exact cause) But, I’m finding true many a time over, that most of my symptoms throughout the years were exacerbated by stress, but not the Cause. The bugs are. As you may know, Lyme and co-infections can create their own emotional anxiety in the mind, not to mention the physical array of stress, as you aptly mentioned. Luckily my mouth guard works, otherwise my jaw would be locked..a lot. uf.
Good luck. And Good luck with Stephen’s suggestions! Cheers.
I would like to share that I used to do this before I became ill with Lyme. In the month after having my first child I ground my teeth so fiercely that I would experience all of what you describe. A mouth guard did not help as I chomped down on that equally as hard, if not harder, than my own teeth, so it saved my teeth but I still got the headaches, etc. I learned much later after becoming ill, that, at least in my case, it had everything to do with magnesium deficiency. Try taking 400 mg of magnesium in the form of glycinate or citrate (not oxide or carbonate), spread out, with meals, during the day. I no longer have any tooth-grinding headaches, jaw pain, etc. Best of luck!
Ditto on the magnesium. I’ve had chomping/grinding issues from Lyme and uping my magnesium intake virtually ended most of it.
I use transdermal magnesium (there are a couple of distributors online and thru Amazon). I find it absorbs better than oral capsules. I regularly take probably 400 mg oral a day and about a tablespoon of the mag gel slathered on my neck/shoulders before bed. Does wonders!
She chomps her teeth while brushing hair or eating oatmeal.
Hi Stephen
Can you suggest a reputable Teasel company? Thanks
THIS IS A QUESTION FOR
DR. BUHNER
Dear Doctor Buhner,
I have been bitten by a tick. I had a huge rush and I took antibiotics for a month. After, I took the herbs that you suggest in your revised book and I am still taking the herbs.
I need your help because my entire house is infected with mini ticks. They are in the plants outside, in my garden. The problem that they got inside the house and the house if all infected, my clothes, bed, etc. I have called all the pest control that I found and they deny that the ticks can be inside the house from the garden. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS THAT THE TICKS ARE IN MY BODY, IN MY SKIN. They go all over my body, specially legs and arms. They resist extraction and when I take then out, I get re- infected by other tick in the wound.
I had to leave the house. I thought that it was enough but, I infected another place because the ticks are in my body.
I have tried to write to you but I got no answer.
PLEASE, help me!
Thank you, in advance, for your kind reply to my e-mail address. am in distress and my life can not continue like this!
Hi Pat,
That sounds awful. I have never heard of this before. The Buhner Healing Lyme Q & A is closed to new questions but I will write to Stephen and see if he will answer. I hope to get back to you shortly. Best, Julie
Hi Pat,
I heard back from Stephen. He thought it might be Morgellon’s Disease but otherwise, had no idea as he has never heard of this before. My thought is to try diatomaceous earth since it is used to kill ticks and other insects. Just be careful not to breathe it in yourself, as it can be damaging to the lungs. It might take a while to kill them through their life cycle. Wishing you my best, Julie
There is also a connection between parasites and teeth grinding.