Since I keep getting colds/flu does that mean my immune system is getting better?

I read something on one of the facebook lyme groups earlier and someone was happy that they were getting colds and flus becuase they thought it meant that their immune system was working better. Is there any truth to that? I'm telling you right now I have ALWAYS caught everything that was going around and it just seemed like I got it worse than everyone else.

The naturopathic doctor that I saw before my LLND always said that since I got SO sick with a common cold she thought I had some weird underlying problem causing my immune system to be weak. Turns out she was right and it was lyme and company.

Any thoughts??

I never heard of that before. I can tell you when I was really sick with lyme I got every cold and flu bug that I encountered. I even had canker sores in my mouth all the time. My immune system was shot and thats when the Lyme came raging.

Now that I am on the mend and feeling better I managed to go through this whole flu season with not even a runny nose. My immune system seems to finally be working.

I also would like to hear what someone else knows.

My understanding was also that; your immune system is what fights off illnesses.
If your immune system is sluggish or compromised, the symptoms are far worse and the illness is hard to get rid of.
But if the immune system is totally wiped out would there be no symptoms? But the overload to germs, toxins, etc. would build up and cause more problems.

I too have not been sick with a cold or flu in the past 2 years. Is it just luck or does my body figure I'm already feeling so bad, it doesn't want to add one more thing to this poor wretched soul?

Me too way worse colds since I've had lyme. Makes me feel like I'm dying where as before I'd take some dayquil and be able to work all day

Same here! When sick from Lyme and barto, flu and colds were much worse for me and my son. Maybe those that were bound to the house and didn't have exposure to outside world are not getting sick because they don't go anywhere and don't catch them, not because having Lyme prevents one from getting ill from viruses/flu.

I have heard the other approach but it hasn't been my experience and also common sense would lead me to believe that if the immune system is compromised from Lyme you are more likely to get sick from contagious pathogens--not less.

Since I got well, there were winters with my kids bringing viruses fro school that didn't affect me at all or they affected me v. Little compared to what they had to go through.