Posted 6/25/2014 5:04 PM (GMT 0)
What do you think? Rest and get better? Or push through and get out there? I've been a full time college student the whole time I've had Lyme disease and it has not been easy! I've had to make a lot of changes to my education in terms of my major and location, etc, and I haven't been very happy about them. I still have very good grades and pull through but it's starting to wear on me. At the same time, I don't want to let this disease stop me from doing EVERYTHING I want to do. It's taken away all of my hobbies and many dreams and caused me to push away a lot of my friends but it has not yet taken me away from my education. But now that I've been getting treatment for a good 6 months and am not getting better, I'm starting to wonder, is it because I'm not giving myself enough rest? At the same time, I feel like I would be so incredibly depressed if I succumbed to just spending my days fighting LD, but maybe that's what my body needs and maybe it would be a huge relief to not have to push through all the time when all I want to do is sleep and rest my aching body. It's so hard to know. I don't do much in terms of detoxing or special diets, are there things I could do to make it a little easier to get through the day? Also, how much rest is the right amount of rest? I'm sure this is to an extent, based on the individual, but what do the people who've had success do? What works? Do I have to completely put my life on hold in order to speed up the treatment process?