Tears Today

I haven't been this upset in a long time. I was writing about my daughter on another post the other day, and now I am caught up in this mess.

My older daughter and son had strept throat about 3-4 weeks ago. I was sick when they were sick but had a weird infection from a cut and so i had to take antibiotics anyway. My youngest got a weird bacterial infection on the skin of her butt and was also on antibiotics.

My older daughter came down with strept again this week, and my son wakes up this morning sick, off to the dr, sure enough strept again! And now I am sick again =(

I can't do this. I am not supposed to be on antibiotics bc of the candida issue I have. I probably have strept if my 2 kids do. I feel so defeated right now, I dont know what to do. All week I have been taking tons of immune booster meds and apparantly that wasn't enough. I am worried now that maybe my immune system is severely compromised or something - or maybe it truly is just a stroke of bad luck. I am just nervous. What if the fact that I do cheat on my diet is what's making me sick? It is SO hard not to grab a few chips or some chocolate when the rest of the family is having it.

sorry this is a negative message, but I am just upset. The one positive thing is I have absolutely no lyme symptoms!

could just use a hug and advice if you have any. thanks!

really? i didnt think of it that way..?

no, i should have! thx for the reminder, the toothbrushes are going out now!!! also weird, they were all just at the dentist....

Chapelle -
I'm sorry - what a tough day. Strep is so contagious - my sister used to get it constantly from the family dog who always slept in her bed.

In your case it is probably just bad luck. It seems like with this lyme & co every day is such a careful balance that it's so easy for one thing to shift the balance and jeopardize our protocol and health status. It doesn't take much to launch us into stress mode. I hate that.

But you know that stress will only make you feel worse and be another drain on your immune system... so please go easy on yourself.

You will recover from the abx - just make sure you engage an anti fungal and don't be scared to hit it hard. It's a short blip and then you can get back on track. You won't have to avoid chips and chocolate forever.

Take a deep breath and love yourself a little... Maybe go by yourself for a walk and sit in the park a little. ME time.

-p

((((((((((HUGZ))))))))))

And don't forget to use plenty of probiotics!! S. boulderii is the best to combat candida from what I've seen.

And as Pirouette said, if abx are necessary, you can and will recover from their use. As far as the candida goes, it won't matter even if you did choose to use herbal/natural abx, it would still hit your candida in the same way as the pharma abx.

EWWW, PeteZa!! That's not nice! LOL!

oh and did i mention the kids came home with a box of 60 world's finest chocolates to sell for their school last week? That did NOT help!!! If there is any chocolate brand i cannot resist, it is that one and dove.....!!

But I didn't want to hear about it too! LOL! I don't eat much because most chocolate has soy in it, and I'm quite allergic to soy. They make a soy free chocolate, but it's expensive and I'd eat waaay too much!

I agree with Girlie, taking more than one probiotic can be necessary, especially when battling Candida. S. Boulderii is important when Candida is present.

you gals are the BEST!!

yes, girlie, it is an addiction. I go maybe 2 or 3 days and then cave, and then the next day I will say, well i messed up yesterday, so I will mess up again today and start fresh tomorrow. I keep going thru that cycle over and over again. It is SO hard for me!!! I actually went 6 weeks from jan to feb and then that's when I started messing up and have been on and off since. My dr said it's ok to have a cheat day - but only once a week - I am giving myself too many bc I just can't do it even though i know its bad for me =( But I HAVE to!!!!

and thanks on the probiotic tip. I will re-initiate the florastor tmrw!!

peteza - yes, but I do get confused. If you take person A who never gets sick, but also doesn't have health problems, then you take person B who gets sick alot - you would think their immune system is weaker bc they can't "ward" off the bad germs. I am still trying to come to grips with this, even though my Dr has said the same thing. Getting sick means your immune system is working, but then isn't something wrong if a person gets sick often? (As I have recently and even in the fall). I was thinking that if your immune system is battling Candida (or lyme for example), then it doesn't have time to fight the other germs, therefore you would be more susceptible to getting more sick, no?

It's an odd thing, that's for sure. Those that are really sick, and their immune function is impaired won't have symptoms of viruses, unless it's REALLY bad, and even some bacterial infections as well. It's the same as with these infections though, whatever infection has the higher 'load' in the body, will be the one to produce symptoms, or at least more severe symptoms.

Hey here's another ((((hug)))). You know, you could get some oil of oregano and if someone feels like they're getting sick rub one drop into the sole of each foot. That stuff is dynamite. But yeah, anyone having lyme or having gotten rid of lyme should get an eternal 'get out of jail free' card for illness.

You have the doc that says no fermented food, right? If so I wish you could ask what his/her reason is for saying that. Sorry, not trying to bug you but I really think that is what turned my nasty candida problem around so quickly.

Thanks all!! My spirits are a bit better today, but I still feel very sick. I am going to find myself a Dr tmrw (bc I don't have a GP). My friend recommended one last year, but I never went bc she didn't take my insurance. This year my husband and I opted out of insurance - it is just too darn expensive. We have Child health plus for the kids, but I spend all my money on my Lyme Dr and treatments anyway so what is the use! So I will go see this new Dr trmw and hopefully we will confirm whether or not this is strept. I have to pay out of pocket now wherever I go, so I might as well see her and hopefully she will be willing to work with my LLMD (she is supposed to be open to lyme disease - hard to find GPs like that nowadays!)

Thanks for the remainder of the tips. Prayers sure do help, yes, and we will be going to mass today, so I am looking forward to that! Plus my youngest wants to refill her holy water font in her room =)

Tillybear - like I said before, I totally respect your opinion, and I am glad you found something that works. I am just "followin doctors orders", my LLMD does not agree that fermented foods really help - neither does the author of "the candida cure". If all else fails, then I will try it your way. But for now, I am sticking to what has been recommended to me by the professionals.

cd - I will look into kefir. Sometimes i get so much information on this forum, I don't have the time to take notes or to soak it all in!! That is a good thing though!!

and traveler - it was good to hear you say that I can recover from taking antibiotics. It just feels like a viscious cycle. I have to stay healthy for a long enough while to stop having to "start over agaim" fighting Candida. Bc if I keep fighting it, but I keep getting sick and taking antibiotics, this will never end!! That's what it feels like anyway.

Every time I try to re-start my exercise routine, I have been getting run down. It's like my body isn't letting me workout. IT is very frustrating. Weight is not an issue, bc I am thin, but I lost muscle tone again. I feel so good when I run - but I don't know what i need to do to get to the point of being able to run and not getting "run down". I can't do the LI half marathon now bc I fell too far behindon the training. Some of you know me, and I like to go go go and fight fight fight and I have been very positive about this for a long time, but I feel like I am slowly moving along and all of this sickness is holding me back from getting stronger.

about getting sick, I have one question. So what happens is a person has Lyme and never gets sick from these ordinary viruses, like sore throat, runny nose, etc. so what happens with that virus that enters Lyme patient's body? It just stays there???
My whole familiy had some virus and I was the only one who hadn't. I don't understand that. Does it mean that my body could not respond to the virus and then the virus just stayed inside my body?
I am not sure if I explained well my concern, but I hope you got my point.

Thanks Girlie.
I just hope that all those viruses are not strolling in my body, and my immune system does nothing.
Sometimes I am so afraid of all of this.