Possible Lymes / Mercury / Antibiotics Link

[GromHellScream]

A little bit about me.

In 2007 I was not even 21 years old, when I came down with a crippling systemic arthritic disorder. My Joints and tendons became inflamed and weakened to the point where  I tore a tendon in my arm just turning the steering wheel. I live on the East coast, I knew it was Lymes related, but no doctors could help me, and i got worse and worse. I started a dose of doxyccylin and a prescription strength NSAID. After numerous doctors and various Antibiotic treatments, and thanks to my dad for dragging me around because i had given up hope, in 2009 I finally found a Lymes doctor who put me on a Combination of antibiotics that began to give me relief. Very Slowly, Over a period of months I was able to use my hands and work on a computer and play war2 and play guitar again. in 2012, we attempted to get off the antibiotics and i relapsed immediately. After continuing the antibiotics for 2 more years along with Ivermectin, i was able to be antibiotic free since without any relapsing. I have not improved 100%, but certainly it is much better. Perhaps I am lacking a Rehab component to my recovery, or perhaps there's another piece to the puzzle.

Fast forward to 2020-2021, i notice slowly that my cognitive function is declining.

• I'm very tired all the time,
• depressed, no will to live,
•  very bad brain fog
• low energy all the time.
• I can sleep for 10 hours and still be tired and nap.
• I'm deathly sensitive to chemicals, cant smell anything or I will get an instant headache.
• I'm hypersensitive to food, anything that's not straight from the ground causes headaches, or inflammation (This began shortly after i got the lymes). 

Getting Covid in early 2022 didn't help but now things are even worse. I'm putting the eggs back in the pantry and the oatmeal back in the fridge. Sometimes when i try to read, it takes me forever just to connect with what I'm seeing and begin reading. I lose my train of thought very easily, and I feel like I might be retarded. I'm only getting a few good work hours each day. My brain just feels.. broke. 

I began cutlers protocol and am on round 5. My symptoms worsen slightly when I'm doing the rounds, which lets me know I am probably on the right track.

Now on to the interesting stuff.

I was on heavy antibiotics for 7 years from 2007-2014. So I began wondering what this did to me, was there metals in the antibiotics? After some digging around, this turned up

 

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We first learned of a possible connection between antibiotics and mercury metabolism and excretion from a 1984 study on mice. Scientists found that giving mice antibiotics suppressed the gut flora, which reduced fecal mercury excretion. Mercury concentrations in the tissues and various organs were increased in mice fed antibiotics.

 

Scientists found that the antibiotics wrecked the Gut Flora to the point where excretion of mercury stopped almost completely. Now I was on a healthy dose of probiotics, so Who knows how much of this I got.

If you google around, there's tons of links that area related to chronic lymes and heavy metal toxicity going down all sorts of rabit holes. Some suggest you cant even treat the bacteria if there's an excess of mercury. I hope someone finds this and finds it useful.

TLDR:

Antibiodics may wreck gut flora and stop excretion of mercury for time you are on them ( possibly further) I was on antibiodics for lymes for 7 years, did it fuck me?