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Posted 4/24/2017 1:11 PM (GMT 0)
Everyone join me in commemorating my one-year Tick-aversary. Proverbial drinks (non-alcoholic) are on me! It's been 1 year since I found my first tick of the season (not embedded) after hiking all day, and continued to hike after. So I don't know exactly when/where I got "The Bite" but I strongly suspect it was this weekend last year. Worst symptoms began 1 month later.

I'm quite stuck at 75%, lots of abx with some natural support. After being miserable on this GF, DF, SF diet and home-cooking all my food and hating every last dish I have to wash, I loosened up this last week. Got tired of it all and said "this misery isn't helping me get any better, so why bother?" and had a cookie. or two. or three.

Well, now I know the difference between "stuck at 75%" and sliding back to 50% with a heck of a lot of pain... so... back to the diet.

Keep tickin', everyone!

yeah
Posted 4/24/2017 2:30 PM (GMT 0)
Babs, I have cheated and paid for it dearly. My cheats were usually doing something physical above what I should have. It would lay me up for a couple of days to recoop.

I got bit April 29, 2015 so my anniversary is coming up too....
Posted 4/24/2017 2:38 PM (GMT 0)
Happy Tickaversary to you too, PeteZa!

I do get pained from "physical cheats" but I'm usually too proud of myself for going out and DOING something, so its worth the pain.

Not so proud of my dietary cheats. Either the physical cheats caught up with me after 1 week, or the dietary cheats caught up with me in 2 days. Either way... I got impatient and frustrated and now I'm paying for it.

Appointment tomorrow, hopefully we'll pull out the Big Guns. I'll even take a mad herx right now. Being stuck at no progress is very depressing.
Posted 4/24/2017 2:41 PM (GMT 0)
Well, not a happy anniversary to most! I"m so sorry - I really do understand. I get so tired of constantly being in treatment and sticking to a diet!! But, as you have discovered (the hard way), so did I - to stick to those things is what helps us feel better - even if we don't feel that good.

This though is what literally keeps me in treatment - I know how I feel when I"m not.

Hang in there, Babsbunny!! You are NOT alone in this. We are all in it with you!
Posted 4/24/2017 2:48 PM (GMT 0)
I did not do the diet cheats. My eating was good to begin with, but on occasion (very rarely) I would have pizza or ice cream.

When I first got sick with lyme I ate a pizza (organic even) and threw up. That's why my name is PeteZa. Same thing happened when I tried to eat some ice cream.

I can now eat those things. I have healed and I had to try them. I still don't have but maybe 1 or 2 times a year. I just don't really like them. However, my brain thinks they sound good once in a blue moon. My brain can be so convincing. LOL
Posted 4/24/2017 2:49 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks, Traveler. No, I wouldn't say it's a "happy" anniversary, but I'm trying to keep positive, and yes, actually be happy for the progress (slow and painful as it is) I've made. And the fact that it only took me 5 months to get dx and treatment, instead of many years, like some people.

Fighting hard with humor. Or I'll sink into terrible despair.

Speaking of which, I know we have our share of emotions and unexplained crying... but did you ever have sudden fits of LAUGHTER? Yesterday I had tears pouring out my eyes from laughing. I was sobbing laughing. Even though what I was laughing at was not funny at all.

My emotions are broken. If I was in the movie "Inside Out" there'd be a Tick character running around like a madman in my brain, flipping switches, pushing buttons and laughing manically. And pulling the "stop hitting yourself" lever like an idiot.
Posted 4/24/2017 3:15 PM (GMT 0)
Babs, lyme can mess with most every system in our body. I stood there crying to my husband. He said, "what wrong?" I said, "I don't know, I don't think I'm unhappy." And there I was crying.

And your reference to laughing is so me. I am totally a positive person and I love to laugh, a LOT!

Lyme made me feel bi-polar. One day so very down and one day so up and full of life. That right there played tricks on my mind. I questioned myself constantly and worried that I was losing it.

It is all lyme..... I got to the point where I would get a twinge or pain and just gasp in fright, and then giggle, saying to myself.... "just another lyme symptom." It was the only way I could cope day by day.

I think we all find our coping mechanisms for this disease. Laughing sounds like a good one to me!!!

Added: laughing has been proven to heal people. So let it roll!
Posted 4/24/2017 3:17 PM (GMT 0)
Well, you did just describe the way my life feels sometimes! LOL! That tick character has a wicked sense of humor!!!

Actually, yes, I have had those 'odd moments' where I really didn't understand why I was laughing because it really wasn't funny. I just called it my runaway emotions. Everything seemed to be out of whack for me. I cried at the drop of a hat if there was any frustration in front of me, I laughed at kind of inappropriate times (for me), I would get very mad at the smallest irritations (like the water dripping from the faucet) and other oddities. But that was a while back for me, my emotions are more stable now.

With the amount of stress going on in our bodies, our nervous systems are a mess! We can't really expect to have normal responses to things when we are this heavily impacted.

Hang in there!!! You're making progress in the long run and that's what matters.
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