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Posted 8/8/2014 6:59 AM (GMT 0)
Just the other day, I mentioned brain fog to my husband and he had no idea what I was talking about. He's 70, and he says he's never experienced such a thing. Looking back, I remember having it when I was in school and when I was a young adult. Is my husband the rare exception? Doesn't the average Joe/Jane, non-sick person, have brain fog from time to time?

I also remember telling my mother once that she was amazing because she never, ever, even once complained about her aches and pains. And she said, "What aches and pains, Jane? So I was wondering about that, too. Does the average person have minor aches and pains?

Thanks for your take.

Jane
Posted 8/8/2014 10:48 AM (GMT 0)
I think if you have a long-held Lyme infection you put up with a lot that the average person simply doesn't experience. Or if they do, it isn't for as long or as often.

Also if you have symptoms rotating through you tend to become more conscious of them and try to "map" how often they occur and how often. I even remember things that my friends and family members go through that they forget altogether.

I was fooled by all the advertisements for medicines into thinking that everyone has the same kind of cluster of ailments that I was experiencing before treatment with Lyme. But most people do not feel that badly!

As for brain fog, women are more likely to experience it than men because of the hormone shifts we go through. It also depends on how good your body is at getting rid of toxins. They have determined that that can vary according to your genetics.

Hope you are feeling good these days.
Posted 8/8/2014 11:56 AM (GMT 0)
Part of the reason why we say "You don't get it until you get it" - A person doesn't understand unless they too have been infected with these bacteria.

People can't understand what we go through because they have not ever or only rarely experience the same things. They rarely live with the same things, although others with chronic illnesses can understand better since they live with their own set of symptoms.
Posted 8/9/2014 3:08 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks, both, for your responses.
Posted 8/9/2014 5:13 AM (GMT 0)
I thought so. My mother talked about brain fog for years before she came down with ALS. She did have ALS though.

Fibromyalgia patients talk about it all the time, though who knows what Fibro. could or couldn't be.

I didn't have a clue that people didn't know what it was.

Margaret
Posted 8/9/2014 5:16 AM (GMT 0)
Until Lyme, I never experienced brain fog, or aches and pains.

Now, I'm still in disbelief that this can happen to someone for sooo long. I hate it....hate it...hate it...
So done with this bull-s---!!

Sorry, I've got no patience for it tonight. mad
Posted 8/9/2014 5:17 AM (GMT 0)
Apologies about the previous post.

I was just at a friends' for the evening trying to have good conversation and was in pain...trying to forget about it, but not able to. So frustrating...to hurt...all the time.
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