oh where oh where did my immune system go?

So sorry -this is not fun. When my kids were little I used to say the only thing they shared were their germs....

I did not have Lyme at the time, but I was so run down, I got everything they did. They would heal and I would be dragging behind.

As their immune systems got stronger, less sickie stuff came home. It did take a few years. I wish I had the magic answer, but you are not alone. And as my mother used to say ~ this too shall pass. It just isn't fun!

I want to chime in here a bit. I've had a cold for eight weeks now - because my immune systeme is really bad. But I don't think that people with lyme should beat themselves up about not taking care of themselves. We try harder than almost everybody else. No one bitten by a lyme carrier can say that it's their own fault. Carrying that kind of guilt is a false acquisition of blame. All we can do is just keep fighting with rest, proper diet and supplements, and a whole lot of stress avoidance. Sometimes a knowledgeable MD will decide it's ok to prescribe a med which will help. Other times they don't. No matter, we can't blame ourselves for being sick. It's better to do something more positive.

yes feeling better thank you.

I wasn't saying that to say it was our faults. Trust me. I have been through hell with this illness at no fault of my own, but I also haven't had a good immune system even prior to lyme, much less after lyme. That is what I heard on tv and in a perfect world maybe it would be true, but in the real world, it just isn't that way.