Colds/Flus

Same here! Everyone in my family has this nasty bug right now and I'm the only one who doesn't have it (I'm not complaining!). I've noticed this for a while, even before starting my Lyme treatment - every time a bug would go around I would be the only one who never got it (while I watched my poor coworkers get the same bug over and over!).

My interpretation (based on nothing but opinion) is that our immune systems become so hypersensitive since they're used to fighting an infection 24/7 that the second they recognize a foreign invader they're already primed to attack!

Also, being on 3 antibiotics all the time I'm pretty sure I'm fighting plenty of things before I even realize I've come in contact with them.

Maybe we just don't notice because feeling sick stopped being out of the ordinary a long time ago? It usually takes me until after the fact to realize I've had a cold - I get so wrapped up in Lyme and everything else that I forget colds and flus are even an option!

I too have had very few viruses - but I did get a lot of bronchial infections when I was a smoker. Abx won't do anything for viruses, but the support that our bodies get from the abx (natural or pharmaceutical) may have something to do with not getting more viruses.

For me, I know that my doc has been working on healing my immune system so I credit that for this year of not getting the flu - and I'm very careful to avoid those that seem to be ill!! But that sure doesn't explain all of those years I wasn't in treatment of any kind and I didn't get colds and flues.

I think what Borderlyme said is quite possible though - we just don't realized when we have a cold or milder flu anymore because we are used to feeling "fluey" every time we herx a bit.

I had a nasty cold for a week the first week in January.

Hmmm. I get sick way less often. I think it is because my immune system just doesn't have the energy to fight the colds, so I just get what feels like regular lyme symptoms (mostly fatigue)

Or I have a super immune system??? But that just seems kind of ridiculous, considering I've had Lyme for over 4.5 years now. You'd think if my immune system were THAT good I'd be healthy

I was told by one of my doctors."you're too sick to get sick the way others are around you" " and you live in this completely totally fatigued state that
is all flu like every day.

We titrate our expectation level down as to just how much energy we have to have to do anything and run things out on 3 cylinders while others are on 6 cylinders but really now if you look around..other than in action movies or
at the gym the average people are getting very slowed down.

Just to see all the type two diabetes is pretty disturbing.

For me, I am sure that my regular flu feelings are dute to lyme (or other chronic stuff), wheter people around me are sick or not never seems to have an effect on me.