... But, as like with all good questions, I don't know the answer.
I just got home from taking Sweetie to her latest LLMD appointment. She's been on a Wormwood Combination supplement for the last several months. I can't even remember anymore. At least 4 or 5 months. Taking 1 pill in the morning and 2 pills at night.
Today, she graduated to a lower dosage. 1 pill in the morning and 1 pill at night.
Her doctor went on to say that, if this lower dosage goes well (meaning no returning Lyme symptoms), then, in 3 months time, she'll reduce it to only 1 pill in the morning. And that at only a month or so before taking her off completely (again, if she maintains her health with the still lowering dosages.)
Before we left, her doctor asked Sweetie if she had any questions, to which Sweetie said no. But then she and I in the car alone? She wondered...
"If I'm able to go down to 2 pills a day then 1 pill a day then no pills at all, and I feel okay, does that mean that the Lyme is gone?"
"Well,... hmmmm,... uhhhh,... I don't think so. I think it means that it's just well managed. The Lyme will always be there. We just figured out how to make you feel well anyway. Who knows? It may mean that you can be off any medicine most of the time, but that maybe once a year you feel pretty yucky and would have to take supplements again for a month or whatever. As an example. I'm just sayin. I don't know. But that would be a really great question for you to ask your doctor next time we see her. She would be able to answer yes or no, with a much better explanation than I'd ever be able to give you."
But! This is all putting the cart before the horse. We need to first see that reducing her daily dosage by 1 pill will suit her well, then move on from there if able.
When her doctor said we'd be doing this, I blurted out loud that this was "scary," to which she kind of gave me a confused look. I just meant scary/exciting because of the WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN factor. Maybe she'll be just fine, or maybe she'll get sick again, which concerns me. When Sweetie went off her antibiotics and onto supplements, she did, in fact, get sick again. At which point her supplement dosage was raised a bit, then her medication changed because of lack of availability of that supplement, and now here we are, doing well on the Wormwood at a specific dosage. To change that up, just a little bit, is a bit scary. I have it in my brain that, it seems, as long as she's on something - and at the right dosage - she's fine. To think about reducing, and ultimately taking supplements away all together - well, I just don't know how that will all go. Apparently, though, we will see soon enough.
Here's hoping that Sweetie will remain in good health and not fall back into any of her Lyme-y ways. Onward and upward is the name of the game.
Let's go!
