CajunGrl said...
Hi Miki,
Welcome to the forum hun. Why don't you post a new post and tell us about yourself and what you've been through so far with Lyme Disease.
Hi Cajungrl and everybody else on the forum. Sorry about not replying to you sooner but I've had the mental capacity a similar size to the tick that bit me, for a what feels like a long time. I feel that I have been consumed from the inside out, extremely slowly, for the last couple of years.
I've had many different symptoms, from fatigue and arthritis to stabbing pains all over my body and tingling up my neck and face to what seems like every sinue in my body wanting to snap, you all probably know how that lot feel, but the worst by far was the slow mental torture I experienced. Some days I couldn't function at all as my ability to think was always so blurred, I was anxious alot of the time too, if anxiety didn't trash my days then apathy did. Irrational and illogical thoughts ate away at me turning me in to a paraniod wreck.
I was diagnosed in Sept 09 clinically, blood test were sent to your land of opportunity (Igenex) and returned with a positive result from both Igenex and CDC (borderline for Bart). Since then I have been taking Doxy 200mg/ 2 times daily with Metronidazole 400mg/ 3 times a day for two days a week. These are due to change very soon to three other ABX (yet to be prescibed). Within a month of treatment starting I regained alot of my mental ability and other symptoms subsided too. I'm still getting bad days but now I have a few good ones thrown in.
I was bitten in Southern Hungary in Sept 06, that bite has nearly ruined my families and my life too. My wife has been great through the whole, very bizarre last couple of years. We have watched the forum for over a year as we suspected LD was the culprit to my slow destruction but LD, as you all know, is very misunderstood and I couldn't get any response from my Dr other than depression. You all have helped us to a greater understanding of LD and my wife describes this forum as her "lifeline", she now grasps, as do I, the basic complexities of this disease. I would like to thank all you fantastic people on this forum for not only keeping my marriage together but also getting me to realise my symptoms were not in my mind. I feel part of your community and will continue to read the threads with interest.
Thanks for reading this and I'll try to have more input as time goes on.
Miki.