What's the average time it takes to get well?

But from what i've seen in studying all this for the past 4 years. Treatment could be anywhere from 6 months to 4 years. I see 2 years is about the avg time span. Some people give up early and some stick with it and get their lives back at the 2-3 year mark. However, i've seen many that did treatment for 3-4 years.

Well there are those that get to 80-90% of their former selves faster than others. Most of this is due to the Lyme Dr. addressing the other issues outside of lyme like, babesia, bartonella, ehrlichia, mycoplasma, viruses, yeast, vitamin deficiences, toxins(mercury etc) exercise etc.

Basically if you spend most of your time chasing lyme with single drug regimens, you should expect this process to take a long time and miss several key aspects.

Most on here appear to make it to the 80-90% range within the first year. The second year or two is when most of the final resolution of symptoms occur.

The sooner you find treatment following the initial onset, the sooner you will get better.

hopingToFindCure said...
Very curious about this one.

I guess the questions should be

1. How long before you were diagnosed? 13 months, 17 months to finally get a bottle of doxcycline - I was so piszed off.

2. How long did it take to get well? Well, I'd say longer than 8 1/2 years... I'm still counting.

3. What treatment preceded the cure (remission for sticklers)? my one and only Herx was when I waas on a combo of oral doxy and rifampin.


ARe you still well?  Ummmmm, NO    

xpecting to many replies since, if you're well, you shouldn't be here. BUT, I really wanted to try. I've tried on many many other boards and generally get about three responses.

Martha's Vineyard said...
They do not have a cure for Lyme. And they are not going to find a cure if they are not looking for one.
The CDC has primitive test out that tell everyone that they are in fact not infected. When they are. And the Dr.s Shapiro and Steer are responsible for this false information.
So, when the Dr.s stop lying and when they stop handing out bandaides for broken arms and legs.
When they admit that this lyme is in fact deadly and hard to fight. And that it is fact is not killed with 10 days of abx any more than Maleria would be killed with 10 days of abx.
The people with lyme are not going to go away, and there will be more and more helpless, and homeless people who will suffer. And it is the whole society that will suffer.
When this disease is attacking our children and they cannot even stay in school, how is this going to affect the USA at large. If we do not take care of our sick kids, and get the CDC to stop giving out false test so that our kids are in fact allowed to die a slow death. If we do not get this addressed we are going suffer.

I want to shed a glimmer of hope.  This is my first time posting on this forum as I started on medhelp forum for Lyme in September.  I found a tick on me in June of this year and had a round rash.....dismissed it because I did not know anything about lyme disease and have had ticks in the past with no ill feelings.  A month after the tick I started getting migranes, never had before, nausea, body aches and dizzy spells and extreme fatigue.  I went the next two months through July and August going to GI specialist and ENT trying to find what had all of a sudden thrown me into illness so bad that I thought at that time I would have to quit my job.  No one could figure out anything except sinusitis maybe...put on antibiotics and got better initially.  Then worse again once they stopped.  My primary care finally ask me an important question that jogged my memory, Have you been bitten by anything?  Well yes I said a tick in June that I pulled off and a round rash appeared a day or so later that lasted a week.  My daughter had lyme disease he said, he tested me and I was IGM positve.  He put me on doxy for one month...first week was hell..then slowly I began to get better.  The nausea and aches went away, the headaches got further apart that were daily.  After one month on doxy he ask me how I felt my progress was. I told him about 80 percent better...then I was switched to ceftin another month.  And again I started off bad and then after one week almost a 100 percent better.  The headaches were gone, fatigue lifted.  I tried to remain positive throughout.  My doctors daughter is better after three months of treatment and a coworker of mine was sick with lyme since 2002.  She was treated only twice with antibiotics a month here and there and she only had mild symptoms  since.  So test for the coinfections, I was negative for these.  So maybe thats the key and stay with your treatment and dont miss doses.  I took my medicine religiously and by directions.  Hope this will make you feel better!

Kimberly, VA