Headaches

I have constant headaches since more than 15 years, I learned to live with them, although it's very tiring. I try to avoid painmeds, only take them when I can hardly open my eyes.

I experience all sorts of headaches, there's always the constant one - the one I ignore. It's located on the top of my head or on my forehead, it's 'mild'.
There's the severe stinging headaches on the top left side of my head, I need to stop everything I do, I can't sit up, and then it just goes. I sometimes get the severe stinging ones behind my eyebrows or under my eyes (I don't have sinusitis).
Sometimes it's on the temple too, stinging kind of.
They're mostly located on the left side of my head, but not always.
There's also tension headache when I get too much stress: easy to solve with a few or just one visit to the osteopath. A warm pad in the back of my neck can also help to sooth it down.

I think the headaches are one of the first symptoms I experienced.

My LLND says that tick-borne diseases can trigger migraines. He explained its like a switch being flipped on. It was my worst symptom and kept me in bed for 5 months. And none of the antibiotics touched it.

The neuro doctor put me on specific migraine meds (after my Lyme/Babesia/Bartonella antibiotic protocol was completed). It took about a month but the headaches finally subsideded.

Please remember that the tests for Babesia are about as bad as they are for Lyme - there are only 2 or 3 strains that are even tested for, even though there are over 20 different strains. A person can test negative for those three strains yet still have an active Babesia infection. I did! I had most of the typical symptoms and Babesia treatment has done wonders for me.

It's always worth investigating to see if a person "might" have an undetected or "subclinical" tick-borne infection when they aren't healing from the Lyme infection or if they have symptoms that can be explained by one of them, but not the Lyme infection.

Many very knowledgeable LLMD/Lyme Researchers tell us that Babesia and Bartonella both can stop the healing from Lyme disease. Even if a person doesn't show many of the symptoms.

Of course there are other reasons for a person to not have much or any progress in healing from Lyme, but those are discussed lots here as well!