A short YouTube video (Dr. Diane Mueller) explaining that starting Lyme treatment can temporarily worsen symptoms — e.g., headaches becoming significantly worse — attributed to a "die off" or Herxheimer reaction. The speaker asserts that toxins released during treatment inflame the body, can damage mitochondria (the energy-producing part of cells), and may allow extra toxins to enter the brain, worsening symptoms.
For beyond those things is a worsening of any of your symptoms. So if you're, you know, if you're really headachy, right. If you get a lot of headaches with your disease process and you start a Lyme treatment, all of a sudden the headaches are significantly worse. That's probably a die off. Now, sometimes when we're figuring out protocols and treatment plans and that sort of thing, sometimes it's hard to avoid a little bit of a die off or Herxheimer. But what's happening when our body has more of these toxins than it can handle, is these toxins are inflaming us. They're damaging our mitochondria, the immune, I'm sorry, the energy part of our cells. The part of our cells that is producing energy. So the mitochondria can get damaged or set cells can get damaged. We can get extra toxins leaching into our brain.
What are typical symptoms especially neurological ones for Lyme disease HIGHRES
