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Posted 4/7/2017 11:47 PM (GMT 0)
So throughhout this ordeal, my periods have stayed totally normal. It's the one symptom I don't have. Lucky for me, they have always been light and short. And never really had any typical PMS symptoms or cramping. But they do come frequently - like every 24 days. This has always been the case for me.

Now I've noticed that for the day or two before my period, I feel horrible. Flu like - feverish (but no fever), achy, sore throat...not like PMS, like I have the flu or a bad cold. I've noticed it since I started abx. I've actually felt pretty great, then today I'm feeling horrible. It's just weird because it's not really Lyme symptoms as much as flu-like symptoms.

Anyone else been through this? I'm hoping it will lessen the longer I'm treating.
Posted 4/8/2017 12:13 AM (GMT 0)
My daughter does. She has everything you do. She was kind of thrilled when I told her they were working on a cannibid suppository, but that hasn't been available yet.
I used to have horrid cramps, but have been beyond that for 20 some odd years.
Posted 4/8/2017 12:18 AM (GMT 0)
Well, I wouldn't know because my periods stopped when I got lyme.
Posted 4/8/2017 12:18 AM (GMT 0)
It's just weird because it's not a herx (doesn't feel like one, anyway), and it's different than my regular Lyme symptoms.

I continue to eat really clean and detox like crazy, but it's still been happening every month.
Posted 4/8/2017 12:40 AM (GMT 0)
Well, it was probably getting close to that time anyway....but thought I'd go through peri-menopause first.

I went from having periods...regularly...to none..

In other words...when I'm healed - I won't be getting them back...lol that ship has sailed now.
Posted 4/8/2017 1:05 AM (GMT 0)
mm57553 -

Disruption w/ your cycle is so very common w/ Lyme treatment. I have also always had very regular periods, even throughout treatment for the past 4 years until… I started using a biofilm buster. It shortened my following period to 3 wks and the next cycle was only 2 wks, along with frequent and extreme temperature swings and a few other babesia sx.

But my periods also brought pretty extreme PMS sx that would literally knock me out of commission for a couple days every month. Thankfully, once I started detoxing consistently and thoroughly (when I started treatment) the PMSing was significantly reduced.

The menstrual cycle is really a detoxing cycle that trains your body to shed a uterine layer and eliminate it, and generate hormone processes to be ready for ovulation. You might try increasing detox methods, particularly a strong digestive binder, to see if it helps any.

-p
Posted 4/8/2017 2:07 AM (GMT 0)
Lyme played a very large and nasty factor in my daughter's hormones when she turned 18.

If I'd had any idea she had Lyme....or if I did, I would have been able to somehow try to help. Maybe. I mean that was 1999 and things were still pretty ignorant on the Lyme front here locally. Though I did have computer access!
Posted 4/8/2017 7:31 PM (GMT 0)
Pre-lyme I never had cramps and in retrospect that was one of the first symptoms I experienced before I knew I was infected. I had really light periods and would even miss a month here or there, hardly a noticeable thing.

Now I have such bad cramps I'll wake up in the night crying. I hardly sleep for the 5 days it's awful. My lyme symptoms flare up as well! Lots of inflammation in my jaw, face and eyes, joint pain and still body, exhaustion and moodiness.

Things that help me are
-Epsom salt baths with frankincense essential oil.
-Heating pad!!! I can't believe how long it took for me to get one.
- tummy massages (pushing down towards the pelvis)
-Anti inflammatory drinks (1/2 full fat coconut milk 1/2 water. Tumeric, pepper, cayenne, cinnamin, clove, 1tbs olive oil, honey. Toss in amy anti inflammatory herbs. Simmer for 5 mins)
- I'm already caffeine free but allow cocoa powder sometimes and I cut that out for the week leading up and the week of my period.
Posted 4/8/2017 8:59 PM (GMT 0)
Pre-lyme I never had cramps and in retrospect that was one of the first symptoms I experienced before I knew I was infected. I had really light periods and would even miss a month here or there, hardly a noticeable thing.

Now I have such bad cramps I'll wake up in the night crying. I hardly sleep for the 5 days it's awful. My lyme symptoms flare up as well! Lots of inflammation in my jaw, face and eyes, joint pain and stiff body, exhaustion and moodiness.

Things that help me are
-Epsom salt baths with frankincense essential oil.
-Heating pad!!! I can't believe how long it took for me to get one.
- tummy massages (pushing down towards the pelvis)
-Anti inflammatory drinks (1/2 full fat coconut milk 1/2 water. Tumeric, pepper, cayenne, cinnamin, clove, 1tbs olive oil, honey. Toss in amy anti inflammatory herbs. Simmer for 5 mins)
- I'm already caffeine free but allow cocoa powder sometimes and I cut that out for the week leading up and the week of my period.

Post Edited (LizBee) : 4/8/2017 7:46:56 PM (GMT-6)

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