What a week!
I Herxed all last week. That means my Mepron, the anti-malarian drug I am taking, is working and I am truly with parasites. The Herxing is the feeling sick from the meds and the parasites meeting. The result is toxins being released from the death of parasites. It was like having a terrible case of the flu. For an extended period. Sunday to Sunday. Started with a tickle in my throat, to a sore throat, off to aching joints. Feeling a fever coming on, oh no it's a head cold with headaches. Night sweats are fun, why not. Still achie and my nose won't stop running. Off to get an ultrasound because my spleen in enlarged. It's like a belly massage. Now my gut feels bruised. I can feel each individual organ. Now my gut is hot. Feels like I have done to many sit ups. Hope the Mepron is still working. Used the eliptical for a half hour then got a fifty minute jog in until my gut started to feel bruised. I had a light day at the gym. Be back there Wednesday. Glad to be feeling better. Being sick is so bad for my membrane. Too close to remembering what it was like a few short months ago. How horrible. Onward!!
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Sorry you have been feeling so bad...but I guess that has to happen so you can feel better. Hopefully after this you will feel fantanstic and we can go for that burger! Organic of course...
a little more up and down and you will be in the clear my friend! please know that i think of you often and am wishing you well! it sounds like your herx started pretty soon after starting the meds, i think that is supposed to be a very good thing. i was in my 5th week before my first herx on mepron, but i had some symptom improvement before then. i think i heard that the longer it takes to herx has to do with how long you have been infected. i think you will be feeling great soon again!
i would love to have one of those elipticals at home, they are so much fun and the only thing that i have ever found that didn\'t kill my knee and make it swell up. it would probably cost less than a bally\'s membership!
i like your membrane thing...\"being sick is bad for my membrane\"...it makes me think of something that my dad\'s mother used to say to him for some reason. she would tell him that too much laughter was bad for the nerves! how funny is that! ah, that was in another time...a different era i guess.
oh, how is the spleen doing?