This time around - Artemesinin

I am on my 3rd day of taking 1200mg of artemesinin in 3 divided doses.  The last time I took a high dose or artemesinin like that my muscles were so, so, so sore.  This time around.  They are not!  So that is good news.  My muscles still hurt (or skin) when you push certain tender spots especially so I am not saying I am free and clear but those intense muscle pain and intense fatigue is not happening.  This is my 3rd time (or maybe 4th) of adding in artmesinin to treat potential babesia.  The first time - the dose was so low, and my anxiety was so intense from Bartonella, that I really didn't notice in anything when taking artemesinin at 100mg 3x a day.  I did note a little fatigue though that first time.  The 2nd and (maybe 3rd time) of taking it, I took much higher doses like I am taking now and I had intense muscle soreness pain in my big muscles (glutes and quads).  This time, I don't have that pain at all. Go figure.  I haven't been treating Babesia at all this time around since starting treatment in August so I am really not sure what to make of it.  Maybe if I continued Artemesinin for a week or so they muscles might start hurting?  I don't know.  Anyways, I am happy I am not having muscle pain.

Another thing, I have been going for 20 minute walks every day.  I absolutely love getting outside in the fresh air.  Foot Pain and Anxiety and Lethargy have been the major road blocks to that historically for me (never before Lyme Disease but always after Lyme Disease).  Every time I would start to exercise, inevitably at 3 weeks in I woulds suffer debilitating anxiety and absolute depression that would last and last and last and last.  So far, I have been exercising very gently, and this has not happened.  I was reading another persons blog who has lyme and talks about how they want to be better than they are and they are running like 2-4 times a week at 2-4 miles a pop.  Honestly, that is my end dream.  I mean if I could run 2-4 times a week at 2-4 miles a pop I would be over the moon ecstatic.  Literally, that would be my dream come true.  And so that makes me realize that I am so much further behind than they are.  Right now, when I walk, the bottom of my heels hurt, and so that is still there.  I am thinking about going to a Podiatrist and asking for a bone scan or mri of my foot just to see if I have adequate blood flow or bone loss on the foot.  I am also thinking of taking the herbal tea Boneset that Stephan Buhner recommends as well as a formula for strengthening bones by Jarrow called Bone-up that has ground up calf bone, calcium, magnesium, vitamin D and vitamin K in it.  So that is where I am at right now.  And...I am still so grateful all the time...that I am not dealing with anxiety.  Yes, there is ALOT ahead of me but I am SO much better than where I was.  Ahead of me...heel bone pain, muscle tenderness, weight loss, lethargy gone and of course the lyme herxing of stabbing pains that I get when I am on tinidazole.  Today, I will be starting my 3rd pulse of Tinidazole.  Wish me luck!