Anyone with weekly flares? I hate Tuesdays!

I seem to feel worse on Tuesdays than any other day. It's been a pattern for a while now. I thought maybe I was eating poorly or not detoxing enough over the weekends and that's why but I don't think that's the case anymore. I've been focused on making sure I continue my detox routine on weekends and watched what I ate this weekend. And here we are on Tuesday and I feel awful again! It seems to hit me the most in my stomach with GI issues and pain.

I found this thread: www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=3508063

Could one of these bugs cause a weekly GI flare?

Yes...I've been working Mon - Sat for a few months now.

Krimpet 🍔 said...
PMM that's great that you are working. I know it's not fun but at least you know which day is going to be bad.

I never thought of it that way! lol

I never stopped working; I used to just work Mon-Fri and then waitress/bartend on the weekends. I gave up the waitressing and picked up some extra office hours (much less stress on the body!).

julymorning said...

pmm73 said...
Yes...I've been working Mon - Sat for a few months now.

I am hazarding a guess that your return to work every Monday kicks in a stress load that may be lowering your system. If there is a way you could squeeze in extra relaxation time when you get home on Monday, be extra vigilant of your diet that day...maybe it would make a difference?

Mondays do have the reputation for being difficult for anybody. With Lyme we often feel the effects the next day, particularly if we aren't aware how far we're pushing our selves.

I was thinking about that too, but I usually feel worse on Tuesdays than on Mondays. So maybe it is a delayed reaction to Mondays lol I see my new doc next week; I hope he can give me some clue as to what's still happening!

If only I didn't have to do this whole working for a living thing lol

pmm73 said...

julymorning said...

pmm73 said...
Yes...I've been working Mon - Sat for a few months now.

I am hazarding a guess that your return to work every Monday kicks in a stress load that may be lowering your system. If there is a way you could squeeze in extra relaxation time when you get home on Monday, be extra vigilant of your diet that day...maybe it would make a difference?

Mondays do have the reputation for being difficult for anybody. With Lyme we often feel the effects the next day, particularly if we aren't aware how far we're pushing our selves.

I was thinking about that too, but I usually feel worse on Tuesdays than on Mondays. So maybe it is a delayed reaction to Mondays lol I see my new doc next week; I hope he can give me some clue as to what's still happening!

If only I didn't have to do this whole working for a living thing lol

I really feel for people that have to struggle through.

I used to see the effects of this even before I relapsed, if I overdid one day I would feel it the next, sometimes the next 2 days! Once I relapsed again though, I was done, could barely get through one day. But I was running a retail store business by myself, so...talk about hard work.

If it gets to that point with you, it might be time to apply for disability, even if it's temporary. Ca. finally approved a Lyme case, but anywhere else I would still recommend applying based on symptoms that prevent you from working, rather than giving it a Lyme title unless you have CDC proof of infection(s).