Posted 3/18/2016 4:27 PM (GMT 0)
When you have lyme I think anything can cause anything. There are so many symptoms out there that we can have. The hope is that they don't last long. Just about the time you get rid of one symptom, along comes a new and even weirder symptom. You get to the point that you just go "it's lyme" and move on with your day.
My husband would look at me like I had a 3rd eye with my new symptoms. Honestly they are strange and I got to the point where I didn't trust what I was feeling. Was I imagining that itch? Oh gosh, now it's gone, so did I imagine it? Naw, I remember it itching so bad and I was scratching it. I had conversations like this all the time with myself.
Also I thought "is it something other than lyme? Is it mold? Did I all of a sudden get a wheat allergy because I did just have wheat crackers?"
It had to become a joke in my house because I was going to cry. Laughing was so much more fun. So my favorite line now is "Is it lyme or is it memorex?" The response is, it is lyme. All of it is lyme. I am not crazy, a hypochondriac or weird. I have lyme and with that comes strange and unusual symptoms.
Staying calm is the secret. Stressing about each symptom or rushing to google will aggravate your mind. I honestly had to make peace with "symptoms." I had to let them come and go. It is the nature of lyme to migrate and move from part to part. I absolutely hated it but for it not to create stress and magnify the problem, I had to relax.
I hope this helps. It took me awhile to find peace with lyme. To not be anxious and scared and impatient.
It actually took, what I would consider a long time, to relax.
I still can get worried, but I just take a deep breath and review my journal. Maybe a new herb is causing this, or what exactly did I do different. Journal keeping is so important to me.
We all are our own guinea pigs. We are our test subjects.