It's hard to be specific with the symptoms but in a nutshell, the feeling a person receives after showering or bathing is one of "disgust" or the need to "get out of the skin". This is actually a symptom in itself that can only be understood through experience. In the beginning of treatment, a person could shower or bathe without the worry of this feeling of "disgust" appearing, but as they progressed in their treatment, this debilitating experience arose.
Some of the more generally understood and common symptoms include becoming lightheaded and an increase in brain fog or an inability to articulate critical thought. After taking a shower or bath, eyes becomes glazed and puffy and the skin of their face becomes very pale; a clear indication of the toxicity within. These symptoms will increase and become exponentially worse in the hours following the shower or bath but will begin to subside within a day.
Not everyone will experience the same symptoms as each person's body possesses different types and different total loads of infections, toxins, and toxin accumulation within.
No information has officially been presented or come forth explaining why this feeling of "disgust" arises in certain people with Lyme Disease. There are however many plausible theories that have been tested, yielding a few reasonable causes. So what can actually happen in a shower or bath that can lead or give way to such a miserable and disgusting physical and mental state?
Irritating the infections - When the body is exposed to a hot shower or bath for prolonged periods of time, the infections within the body (e.g., Lyme & coinfections) become irritated and disturbed; flare ups will likely occur soon afterwards. The longer a person spends in a hot shower or bath, the worse the flare up symptoms will be in the hours following it. Flare up symptoms are unique to the type of coinfections and total load of those coinfections a person may have.
Herxing - It is believed that when the body's temperature is heated to roughly 106° Fahrenheit or 41° Celsius, the spirochetes and candida begin to die off. In a essence by taking a hot shower or bath for an extended period of time, you're inevitably creating an artificial fever. Though killing the spirochetes and candida within without medicine is a great accomplishment, it leaves little control as to how much you actually kill off. As a result, in the following hours after your shower or bath, you will probably experience massive die off symptoms.
Toxin mobilization - By exposing the body to a hot shower or bath, toxins from the duration of your treatment that are currently stored within the body, reenter the bloodstream. A person doesn't even need to be exposed to high water temperature to mobilize toxins as the pressure from the shower nozzle is enough to do it. The heat makes it worse by relaxing muscles and tissue. On top of toxin mobilization, the risk of generating a die off from either Lyme or Candida can begin to occur, depending on how hot the water is and how long you're exposed to it.
Toxin mobilization could also explain why those with Lyme could shower or bath in the beginning of treatment without the worry of feeling horrible afterwards. The amount of toxins within the body in the beginning of treatment was almost non existent compared to the amount of toxins residing in the body after being on treatment for a year or more. Even if a person is detoxing well, not all of the toxins will be removed or expelled from the body. Many of them will be stored within fat cells and the tissue of the body because they have become too much for the body to handle or process at one period of time during the course of treatment.
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