How are you supposed to keep a job with lyme disease? Or any illness for that matter

Blackcolon

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Joined : Jun 2015

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Posted 6/5/2015 1:46 PM (GMT 0)

My Lyme seems to only flare up around my period and its always different. Its unpredictable i should say. Well, my body is in pain everyday all day but it gets worse around my period.

Every month this year when ive gotten my period ive fainted. A few days before my period i would get cramps and become extremely moodly. One second im fine the next im bawling my eyes out. The day my period wpuld start i would be in unimaginable pain, just like when i first had lyme. My legs hurt so bad i couldnt stand up or even move. Id laying in bed crying from pain. With headaches, backaches, cramps. Basically i felt like i had been hit by 3 trains. Then id get light headed and dizzy with a pain in my guts. This meant i was going to faint. Within seconds id be having heart palpitations, drenched in sweat, unable to speak, shaking, id throw myself onto the floor where id vomit, then faint, then rush to thw toilet where id have diarrhea then sometimes faint again.

This month i was expecting the same thingto happen, because its happened every time before this this year. I was supposed to get my period on monday. I was having cramps but no blood. Tuesday my boss emails me the schedule and says i have to work on thursday. I didnt get my period on tuesday either so i told her i couldnt work on thrusday. I ended up bleeding on thrusday but nothing bad happened other than my body hurting very much.

Well i have work today and im afraid that i might faint today. My legs are in so much pain along with the rest of my body and my cramps keep coming in waves.

I work as a prep cook in a very small eatery, at one time only 3 people are working. Me, the bosses husband who is the cook, and another girl who is a waitress.

Im afraid if i tell the woman that i have this problem shes goingto fire me because im "unreliable".

I need this job. What am i supposed to do. What if i faint? How do i even explain that.. the bosses husband barely speaks english so he wouldnt even know what im saying if i try to tell him whats wrong

Healing98

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Joined : Jul 2013

Posts : 1451

Posted 6/5/2015 2:02 PM (GMT 0)

It is so hard to keep a job for many with Lyme. Specially those who work in construction or whose job is hard on the body like lifting or standing all day.

You sure are in a tough spot. If you were to faint, you could hurt yourself when you hit the floor or by spilling something hot on you when you fall. The liability on the eatery would be something that the owners would surely think about if you were to tell them. Then again, they may be the type of people who understand and may accommodate your illness. Is there a possibility for you to look for another job where you can be sitting down? Maybe even at that eatery behind the counter?

Have you had a recent conversation with your doctor about your low blood pressure and fainting spells? I know that some cardiologists are using anti-seizure medication to control fainting on cardiac patients and it is very effective. Something about controlling the brain sending electrocardiogram signals to the heart.

I am thinking that maybe even salt pills may keep your blood pressure from dropping too low.

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