Any help or advice?

Hello! I hoped some of you guys know whether this is normal, a good or bad sign: so I'm just gonna share my situation.

My boyfriend got lyme after a tick bite in the start of juli 2016 (He is actually not quite certain WHEN the tick bit him), he had no idea that he had a tick, till he noticed it a week or two after (he came to the conclusion that he perhaps got it when he was out with a friend) - cause the tick was still there. He didn't evolve any bulls eye rash. He went to the doctor and he gave him antibiotics for 28 days. He had been on the antibiotics for a week, when he started getting really, really tired. He has been in bed every single day since and he can't do anything. He is too tired to get out of bed - he only wakes up for breakfast and dinner, otherwise he is sleeping ALL day and night. Other than that, he got slighty more migrane than usual(he already suffered from alot of migrane), and he's just very weak, but that's it.

Is this normal with lyme? I've been reading and researching and hoping to find a way - or something that might make him feel better. Is there anything that can help? Is it good for him to stay in bed and sleep? Is he approving or will it only get worse? It hurts me to see him sick.

Thank you very much, for taking your time to read this..! and thank you, for your help.
- Mrs

Post Edited (Mrs777) : 9/19/2016 5:47:32 AM (GMT-6)

Mrs777 I was very sleepy when I first got lyme too. I slept a lot at night, would wake up and eat and go back to bed. My husband would come home from work and I would wake up for dinner.

I have no idea if this is normal, but it did happen to me.

It did not last forever. As best that I can remember it was just about a month.

Traveler:
Thank you very much, I'm not sure how to reply to a certain post, if that's a thing here. I'm also very glad I found this forum. I'm not quite sure what abx or dosage he got, as he didn't share all those little details, at the moment we were just quite sad. I can ask him and see if he can remember. Thank you again, for your help.

PeteZa:
Thank you for your reply.. so you're feeling much better now?

Artemix:
Thank you.. :/

Yes, he is finished: thank you so much for your help again. It means alot to me, you wouldn't know. :) I'll get in contact with a proper doctor who knows something about it then! Thank you for all your help.

Mrs777, yes I am feeling excellent. It is a long journey getting well with this lyme. There are many factors that help work in getting well. Treatment, of course, is number one. Either antibiotics or herbs or a combo of both. Then there are eating habits. You have to eat healthy to get well.

Detoxing is super important. All our organs need help in getting rid of the toxins that we are exposed to on a daily basis. Drinking water is the basic beginner's detox method. There are many and they all add up to better health even when you don't have lyme.

And I think a mental attitude is important. I always visualized being well. I did sleep when I was tired, but I found that keeping busy distracted me from my lyme pains.

Lyme is frightening. Especially since it is not like a cold. You don't get well in 2 weeks. It scares you because you doubt ever being well again. You get pains that migrate. That makes you think it is spreading and that is scary. And you don't know what to believe. You turn to the internet and there are just as many things saying "this" as there are saying "that."

And to top it off you don't have the energy to figure out what is the truth. I could not read more than a paragraph and my brain would shut down. That was all I could handle.

Your boyfriend is extremely lucky to have you to decipher all of this for him. I think we all wish we had a "you" in our life.

Here is some good reading material to start. This site has some awesome information. And, of course, this forum does also. Lots of good people here that have tried so many different ways. All looking to get well. There is no single solution to curing lyme. It is a personal journey with a personalized cure that each of us has to find.

www.tiredoflyme.com/detox-methods.html

www.tiredoflyme.com/the-herxheimer-reaction.html

Thank you, I'll see what I can do. I'll let my boyfriend know, when he wakes up.

And Mrs777 (it reminds me of a Boeing 777...lol) ....it is different for everyone even the way the disease progresses and how it effects people and how it goes into remission for everyone.

For me I am still dealing with fatigue and as I said sleepy (mainly in the morning). I do not have other pains that impair me from other thing. However, while it sounds easy a car without gas does not work no matter if it is new or old. I am trying to make an analogy here.

Mrs777 you also have to remember to take care of yourself.... You don't want to go making yourself sick by being a caretaker. I have seen that happen.

Make time for you to relax.

And I highly recommend watching comedy movies!!! That got me through so much.

As you encourage your BF to detox, please remember that doing too much too fast will also make him very ill. That's because many of the toxins are being stored in his tissues and will flood his bloodstream when using too many detoxing suggestions too fast.

I would encourage you to have activated charcoal, or other binder, on hand to help him out when he's herxing really bad.

I'm not Traveler - but yes it's still possible to detox too fast. If in his waking hours - he does several detoxes at once.

Just have him do a couple detox...and add one in ever few days.

Is he drinking 8 glasses of water daily? That is a start...

Could you add some fresh squeezed lemon juice into a couple of the glasses? (Maybe have a glass by the bed and he can drink through a straw. The lemon can damage the tooth enamel)

Girlie:
I had no idea, that it was still possible.. thank you so much! He is drinking lots of water, yes.
- thank you for your advice! I will try that out :)

as Traveler suggested - a binder to flush those toxins out. You can purchase Activated Charcoal at a health food store...or even a grocery store that has supplements.

But, he needs to drink at least one full glass of water when taking the binder.

And nothing for 2 hours on either side of it. (medications, supplements, food will get ushered out with it)