Paul Fehrnstrom wrote: > Hi Marshall, thanks for your reply. > > I had all of the classic herx symptoms, only more pronounced. > According to the sources I've come across, the onset time frame varies > and is dependent on many factors. > (from http://www.silver-colloids.com/Pubs/herxheimer.html) > ------------ > Time Frames > There is differing data on the timing of a Herxheimer reaction. Some > data indicates that it usually occurs between four and 24 hours from > the onset of treatment. Others note that between Day 3 and Day 5 of a > treatment program is often when the reaction is most noticeable. What > appears to be most accurate is that reaction times -- and indeed > whether there will be any reaction at all -- are strictly dependent on > the individual being treated. Duration of the reaction also varies > widely, from an hour or a few hours to days or even a week.
"Day 3 and Day 5 of a treatment program" is different than "3 to 5 days after the treatment". In the first case you have a continual buildup of debris during the treatment until at some point it overwhelms the immune system. In the second case, the buildup should stop soon after the CS has been discontinued, and in several days should be below where it was upon termination of treatment. I did undertand you correctly did I not, that the presumed herx occured days AFTER discontinuing the treatment. There is another possibility. You may have had a pathogen that was effectively hiding from your immune system. The CS killed it, and the resulting debris notified the immune system of it's presence, and so it started manufacturing antigens for it. Once this started, the antigens begun killing the pathogens directly, and although CS had been discontinued, the was was on, and you got a herx like reaction. However in this case it really would not have been a herx, but rather a war waging between your immune system and the newly identified pathogens. Marshall
