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Posted 7/5/2019 11:35 PM (GMT 0)
If you got bit by a tick and got Lyme disease but never knew you had it because symptoms remained dormant and didn't come out for a couple years ...does this mean that your chances of having problems for the rest of your life increase?
And dare I ask, does this also reduce your life expectancy?
Posted 7/6/2019 12:19 AM (GMT 0)

Astronomer said...
If you got bit by a tick and got Lyme disease but never knew you had it because symptoms remained dormant and didn't come out for a couple years ...does this mean that your chances of having problems for the rest of your life increase?
And dare I ask, does this also reduce your life expectancy?

I'm not sure about increasing your chances of having problems the rest of your life.
I think we go by when symptoms start....so if you got a few symptoms....and treated right away...rather than not treating...and getting more and more symptoms piling on....it might take less time to get into remission.

But, then again...we have members who treated a few months after getting symptoms and they're still not in remission....

I haven't heard that it reduces life expectancy. I do know one lady who has been in remission for about 4 or 5 years now....and she is late 60's and going strong...seems to be very healthy.

There's a lot of 'unknowns' with lyme...
Posted 7/6/2019 12:48 AM (GMT 0)
I would say no, here is why, I believe your immune system was strong enough to keep it at bay, remission some would say. But something happened to your immune system and it for loose, so you need to kill the buggers as soon as u can and boost your immune system and you may heal faster than most of us because your immune system has antibodies figured out just needs fixed I would think
Posted 7/6/2019 12:49 AM (GMT 0)
So much can go into putting Lyme into remission- treatment, diet, life situation (stressors). I felt about 85% getter for 18 months and, before I knew I had Lyme, better for a few years. Not 100%, but could live a pretty normal life.

Heart surgery changed that. But I had gone years without a diagnosis and still was able to get back to life.
Posted 7/6/2019 1:48 AM (GMT 0)

Girlie said...

I think we go by when symptoms start....so if you got a few symptoms....and treated right away...rather than not treating.....


Thanks for all these responses. Now I'm concerned that the treatment may not be enough since folks here seems to think that 100 mg of Doxycycline for 3 weeks might be too little. I am concerned about approaching my doctor since they never like it when you say "but I saw it on the internet." I guess it's time to find a Lyme expert.
Posted 7/6/2019 2:38 AM (GMT 0)
100 mg twice daily is half dose of what LLMD's prescribe.


If I were you, I'd get a Lyme Literate Dr. You want to get it treated properly...right?
Posted 7/7/2019 12:35 AM (GMT 0)

Girlie said...
100 mg twice daily is half dose of what LLMD's prescribe.

Really? Is there some reason for taking twice as much doxy as mino?
Posted 7/7/2019 12:55 AM (GMT 0)
They’re in the same class but different meds.

Tetracycline is even more - I believe it’s 1000 mg twice daily.
Posted 7/7/2019 3:13 AM (GMT 0)

Quin said...

Girlie said...
100 mg twice daily is half dose of what LLMD's prescribe.

Really? Is there some reason for taking twice as much doxy as mino?


What does mino mean?
Posted 7/7/2019 3:50 AM (GMT 0)
doxycycline and minocycline
Posted 7/7/2019 5:45 AM (GMT 0)
Astronomer. - Doxy (doxycycline) and mino (minocycline) are two medications from the Tetracycline class of antibiotics.

they are commonly used for treating lyme and co's.

There's another antibiotic in the Tetracycline class called tetracycline....just to confuse us.

Not as many LLMD's use tetracycline...but I do know one very experienced LLMD's who does have that in his protocols.
Posted 7/7/2019 6:04 PM (GMT 0)
astronomer, some are born congenitally all the symptoms i had growing up were likely not genetically passed . is an enlarged heart or frayed nerves shortening life span i say yes yes symptoms like ms lupus pain syndrome demyelination and the real real pain of alzheimers is definitively linked to spirochetes and will hit 1 o 2 americans according to pbs .... we are a lucky 1s to catch it now and act accordingly. dont fear its a lot to take in i will bump up my lyme lingo crash course thread for you ..
Posted 7/10/2019 2:32 AM (GMT 0)

RainyCloud said...
mine was dormant too, it came out years later


I'm not really sure if mine was or not but I have a strong suspicion it was. Do you know for sure that you had contracted if before you had symptoms?
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