"The high doses of antibiotics have come with their own troubles, from digestive issues to a reaction know in the Lyme disease community as "herxing.

"The high doses of antibiotics have come with their own troubles, from digestive issues to a reaction know in the Lyme disease community as "herxing." The Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction is allegedly caused when endotoxins are released by the death of harmful organisms within the body - or bacterial die-off."

"While she acknowledged the treatment is slow, after six-plus months on antibiotics, life has gotten better for her, and the effects of Lyme on her brain, lymph and immune systems have diminished."

"Hauskins too has recovered from the severe herxing reaction and considers her current condition a 90 percent improvement over her sickest days with Lyme disease."

"I am so happy to be where I'm at," she said. "... It was a risk, but it's worked."

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