Dear Stephen, I am wondering if Zoloft could be exacerbating tremors/shakes in my son or if there could be a negative interaction between it and any of the lyme herbs he is taking.
muscle/skeletal/joint
Let sleeping spirochetes lie?
Dear Stephen, I asked my doc if in my case with mild symptoms whether or not its better to let sleeping spirochetes lie. She didn’t know. Am I stirring up a hornet’s nest by taking the herbs?
Autoimmune disease with lyme
Dear Stephen, If I were to do your core lyme protocol—and I don’t have an active lyme infection, just autoimmune disease (whatever that really means)—could any of the herbs be harmful?
Vulva and vaginal pain
Dear Stephen, I experience vulva and vaginal pain, bladder irritability and colon irritability. This has been going on for 10 years. Is there anything you can suggest?
Lyme arthritis
Dear Stephen, My symptom is arthritis. So should I take every herb listed on the core protocol, plus the arthritis protocol?
Hand tremors
Dear Stephen, Are there any additional herbs, tinctures, or treatments that can stop hand tremors from lyme? Anxiety makes them worse, but the tremors are always present except when sleeping or during deep meditation.
Andrographis and stephania for ALS-type Lyme?
Dear Stephen, Will andrographis and stephania work well on their own, without cat’s claw and knotweed? I read in your book that stephania inhibits cytokine production and andrographis does as well.
Chronic muscle pain and spasm
Dear Stephen, What can be done to help with the chronic unrelenting migrating pain and spasms?
Intractable neck discomfort / choking symptoms
Dear Stephen, I feel like I am being choked and when I move my neck from side to side my sternocloidomastoid muscles feel like they are so tight and ache so much.
Bone pain
Dear Stephen, All my bones hurt when there is pressure on them. When I lay in my bed my hipbone and ribs hurt, for example. Can you explain what causes this pain and is there something I can do about it?