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Posted 3/13/2015 2:47 PM (GMT 0)
Does anybody experience feeling like you have a fever (hot, etc), but when you take your temperature it's actually below normal (like 96.5 or 97)? I know that ever since I've gotten sick, my body temp is low...is this just Lyme?
Posted 3/13/2015 3:11 PM (GMT 0)
Yes that's very typical of Lyme. I've never taken my temp. but I frequently have chills and flu-like feelings without fever. It could be Babesia but I'm not quite sure. Do you also get flushed in the face where it feels very warm? I'll get all the above usually late afternoon or evening time.
Posted 3/13/2015 3:13 PM (GMT 0)
Nope, no flushing of the face. Just an overall hot, sweaty feeling (but not drenching night sweats like is common with Babesia).
Posted 3/13/2015 8:21 PM (GMT 0)
Yes, in fact I referred to these as my "phantom fevers" :)

I feel hot and flushed like red cheeks, almost like some sort of internal sunburn, it's weird. But when I take my temperature, it is almost always in the 97s.

I came to my own conclusion that this is the inflammation in the body. It has pretty much stopped for me because I cut out gluten completely, kept dairy out of my diet, and upon the advice of my LLMD, cut out nightshades as well. Nightshades are white potatoes, peppers, spices, tomatoes, etc.

Have you tried this yet?
Posted 3/13/2015 8:39 PM (GMT 0)
Yes, Runnergirl.
I feel hot, and sometimes my skin is hot...my husband will confirm it, he'll put his hand on my back and say I'm burning hot.
Check my temp and I'm barely in the normal range (almost below normal)...

It's interesting how lyme changes us.
I used to have cold butt cheeks all the time...the rest of me would be warm. Now they're hot all the time.

I had flushing of the face once - a few months ago.

No wonder this is so hard to deal with - there is so much going on...and some of the stuff that we consider 'minor' - would send most people to the Dr....and we just pawn it off to lyme...
Posted 3/13/2015 11:26 PM (GMT 0)
Yes, exactly that, and also kept wondering if I had a temperature, and then it was 97.

And as far as being hot--all of the above--hot flashes, hot sweaty face, and then sometimes just steady hot.

I found that Cryptolepsis helps quite a bit, and I also take Monolaurin, and then Hydroxychloriquine, and Malarone.

I think the hot stuff is Babesia, isn't it?

I don't understand why we all have low body temps though. I always assumed thyroid, and of course, my thyroid isn't there at all, so it takes a lot of meds to keep me going.

Margaret
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