We have spent the last month or so eating right, sleeping as well as we can and putting one foot in front of the other.
I was able to tolerate the antibiotics for only 32 days. Drat! By day 24 or 25 my stomach began to rebel. Within only a few more days I was unable to leave the house and on day 33 I had to stop. I am so disappointed. I am still trying to get my digestive tract back to normal. 
Not certain if it was the antibiotic or the supplements, but my head was clearer and my joint pain better. I had a wicked headache the first couple of weeks, but that had gotten better as well. 
It has been about a week now and I am finding a return of joint pain and headache, although not as severe as before. My ears are ringing more than normal and it is more than annoying. I need to get my body back to normal and correct some now physical issues before I can try to take the antibiotic again. 
The results for the blood tests came in the mail and, as I was warned by the doctor, I can't seem to figure out what they mean. At my appointment she said we could call or email once we received the results and she would explain them to me. I have emailed twice and called and left a message asking for her to call or email an explanation of the tests, but it has been a couple of weeks now and she has not responded. I am discouraged. 
Appointments for acupuncture have been the thing that is keeping me going but that may have to end soon. The expense will be too much if I can't work a little to be able to afford it.
Other people must have difficulties like this, there must be some way to treat this more effectively. Perhaps I am just being a baby. That would be the easiest explanation. 
I am not going to give up. Perhaps a second opinion would help. There may be a way to get the antibiotics to work without the complete devastation of the rest of my system. The doctor not getting back in touch with me is so very discouraging. Does it mean that there is nothing wrong with me? Does it mean she is so busy that I am not sick enough for her to respond? Or perhaps something awful has happened in her life and she is unable to follow up. Sigh. I was hoping for a more hopeful report by now. 
Part of me says that the medicine may have been helping, but then the other part of me says that I was wishing so hard that a couple of good days got blown out of proportion.
So folks, I am back to square one and once my system finds it's norm, I hope to have more to report. 
Not giving up, just not sure which fork in the road to take.