Scared of living with a roommate in college while having Lyme

First of all, have you ever had a roommate?

Are there any suite type of setups on your campus? Where you have a private room but you share a common living room/mini kitchen and a bathroom with a few other people? They had that at the University my kids went to and if that's in any way possible, even if you need to get a special medical accommodation to get that it would give you the best of both worlds.

You would have that automatic bond of roommates and make friends with their friends and so on and so on but still have the privacy of your own room.

Noise cancelling head phones might be a great purchase. You might also want to look into testing your cortisol levels. Mine were sky high at night. My LLND gave me something for that I'm no longer watching TV until 3 AM.

I know a few months ago I wouldn't have liked anyone that was around me and I'm a pretty social person. I needed to center my focus on me and getting well. Everything else and everyone else seemed like an annoyance, The petty things they complain about are absurd. I wish I could be bothered by something so trivial.

Does that sound familiar? If it does than maybe you are in the right place for now and wait until you are farther along in your treatment to move into a more social environment. I know you wanted the normal fun college experience now but there is nothing normal about Lyme.

Get farther in your treatment and then jump in the social scene when you are really ready. If you feel you are ready now go talk to a campus adviser.

Thank you guys so much for your input!!

Today i'm having one of those bad days. I'm contemplating why i even wanted to transfer to a big school anyways (Rutgers Uni.).
So last night i turn the lights off at 1am. For the next hour or so there were people laughing and hollering until after 2am outside my building. Mind you this wouldn't be a terrible problem if i didn't have a 8:40am class this morning which i have to wake up at 7:50am. And then of course i get up this morning and slowly beginning going into a full blown herx. :(

Marigold:
I completely understand and i'm considering this as well. I unfortunately live 45m-1hr away, and where my school is in New Brunswick even if i do move off campus it will still probably be loud on weekends...but maybe if i try getting a place farther away(Piscataway)?

I'm kinda regretting leaving community college and the comfort of my own home to go to that school. I'm home now and it feels so good. Nice quiet suburban NJ :)

I'm currently a senior at Michigan State another Big 10 school who found out about lyme only recently, but the undiagnosed symptoms made living with roommates difficult. People especially college kids who say they "understand" what you're going through really don't and will eventually get fed up with little things you do because of your lyme. Fights over the thermometer that sort of thing, and its especially hard to make friends at school when you don't drink. I went from being extremely social and popular to the exact opposite after quitting drinking because of Lyme. While you may feel like you're not making alot of friends with the condition your in you won't really be able to enjoy the social atmosphere the way you probably want too, so it would be better to try and meet a few people with similar interests rather than looking for quantity of friends whom only shared interest is partying etc. If you have any questions feel free to email me, but I would not recommend giving up the blessing for the idea that the grass is greener on the otherside, because chances are you and you're roommate won't get along or if you do it won't be the instant friendship you'd think unless you get really lucky, most people unless they really liked their roommate that I know fell out of touch the following year or so. Joining a fraternity or something similar because people are forced to interact with you which is what it sounds like you want, the only issue is drinking so you'd have to probably look at some of the more religous/nerdier fraternity's to avoid the pressure of drinking. Hope this helps.

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