i'm doing pretty good with the lyme symptoms, able to live somewhat normal... thanks for checking in...
i'm not looking forward due to ticks! other than that its my favorite time of the year.. i'm going to have my lawn sprayed this spring for ticks, hopefully this helps.. this is really the first...
i'm thinking bart also, i was tested for bart which came back neg. but i know its a clinical diagnosis.. thought about buying a thing of cats claw until i get in....
its been a few months since i've been here... alot has taken place since then.. i bought a new home.. working alot and i have been off abx since august.. I've been doing pretty good with lyme and...
sorry for your loss~ we are here for you, you was here for me when i was sick! this family is strong.. long live your dad and his memory!!...
certain ABX have this..i think i was on clyndimican or mepron/biaxin and i had this.. i just quit it, and after 3 days of stopping that abx protocol the metal taste went away... feels like sucking on...
ok, so last night we hung out and i actually stayed all night with her... we just talked about our feelings.. She is worried about being hurt apparently.. i guess even though she broke up with me,...
thanks for the replies! i have no idea on what course to take, my heart tells me to leap foward and take another risk, but my mind is telling me to think real hard before you travel down this road...
she asked how i've been with the lyme since we parted. i just told her i'm getting by and i'm alot better than i was before.. that was about it, i learned my lesson, i'm not going to talk about all...
hello all! i'm feeling decent, still having stupid symptoms!!! i've just learned to live with them now... so its really no big deal anymore...isn't that bad to say? anyways, i had a thread back in...
lyme is getting huge!! i have it, and that is another reason i see more of it, but i think if i wasn't sick, i would be hearing about it alot more than i did already...i never heard about lyme until...
watched it also.. good lyme talk in there......
my ears need to pop!! this has been going on for 2 weeks...any idea? They are all stuffy, and will not pop open.. Everything is echo mode.....
TMJ.. i've had this for prolly 10 years.. its annoying, but it won't cause bells palsy....
i had no sex drive and my g/f at the time was very sexy and wanted sex all the time...i am in my early 30s, and it really sucked not being able to perform when she wanted too.. and this was not like...
IgG is positive, so i'm chronic... i could've got this when i camped all the time when i was very young, could've got it a year ago.. who knows... but i was a walking zombie for about 2 months...
i had the flu once back in 2002 for a week.. i started having some back pain and stomach pains in 2009.. doc put me on doxy.. next day bulls eye rash... i got bit a long time ago and never knew it,...
i was tested for all co infections.. all negative.. only positive was IGG band 41,58,66 + its chronic... trying to rebuild my immune system.. i went back to the PCP today and had a CBC done to see if...
i watched a few weeks ago, its a really good movie imo.. if you get a chance, you should rent it....
pcpc, i quit because i was tired of ABX!! i felt ok, now i feel crappy.. so i started zithro since i have a bottle left, i have no idea about the marks on my stomach being bart..i have symptoms of...
i took rifampin with no side effects, took it for a month and quit it.....
yeah, i'm on zithro right now since i have a full bottle left.. i'm thinking about going on doxy after zithro just to see, because really it seems when on doxy my symptoms got worse, but then i felt...
work is going decent... i show up and feel decent enough to do most of the work..i'm just glad alot of the work isn't physical. symptoms i'm having is pain in the upper adbomen and sharp pains in the...
so yeah, basically very simple, i was off ABX for a full month.. I felt decent, never 100%.. i started having major back pain and upper abdominal pain and alot of redness on my upper abdomen.. I only...
congrats on the house though! that is very stressful, been there before.. i hope you get better.. it will take some time, but you will come out of it.....
i dunno, i thought about seeing an immunologist for allergies. this started in june, and hasn't gone away since.. i will post a picture when i get around to it today.....
i'm lost also on the IGG.. i had 4 bands positive with 1 +. but the IGM was neg.. my question is, like stated above.. if the IGG is positive but the IGM is neg, does that mean the lyme is in...
i plan on staying off ABX.. we will see.. i haven't felt worse or better since off of them.. i feel the same... i know my IGG was positive on band 41 and 30.. i just feel like something else is...
i feel decent.. the last couple of days i've been having some back pain and some abdomen pain.. nothing extreme, just annoying.. it just feels like i did an ab workout everyday on my upper abs, that...
i'm totally confused on why i have this red non prickly rash only when i move around or when i stress out.. Its like when my body heats up, the redness comes out, its only right below my pecks on my...
i'm around the swine flu all day, i work in retail, and my staff is 90% college kids, and some are sick with H1N1 so i'm going to end up with it, i hope not, but i' can't escape it.. i think most of...
what testing do you do? if you did the regular EIA test, that test is no good.. if you did the western blot test, can you post your results? if not, do that test next, but through IGENEX, they are...
it has taken me about 3 months to get 100%...
i'm sorry your feeling like crap!! i hate it also!! i feel like i'm living in hell everyday.. not hell as in i'm in pain everyday.. because i'm not in pain.. i'm in alot of emotional pain though.. I...
my vet is really annoying.. i told her about the flea i saw on him, she said just to watch the spots.. they are getting worse.. i spent 180 last week at the vet, i'm not going to spend that again for...
i feel ya on figuring out what your dog has. did you get him tested for lyme? i did, and it came back negative.. he was on doxy for 3 weeks, but now he has a red prickly rash on his stomach down to...
thats odd.. my little yorkie has been chewing between his front paws for about a year now.. i have to stop him, i thought it was wierd that one day he wasn't doing it, and then he was.... so that is...
no shots for me, i say that now.. but i prolly won't be saying that if i come down with it.....
i do eat bread still, usually a sandwich a day.. but i don't do sugar, caffiene or alcohol....
when my body heats up, i break out in a red rash on my stomach/chest.. only after a shower or when i'm up walking around....
i take b12 shots every 4 days, this keeps me going.. i take a ton of supplements, not sure if it helps, but i feel good when i take them knowing i'm rebuilding my immune system hopefully.. I hang out...
i have tmj, it started back about 15 years ago, but recently started back up bad around 2 years ago.. i haven't had any lock jaw, just when i bite down, my jaw pops out of place.. kinda cool, kinda...
george w bush had it, and it was kept very secret really.. if the president gets it, and no one really talks about it... we are pretty much screwed.....
i had 41 and 58 positive on the IGG which i guess is chronic lyme.. i had only 1 positive per band. i think 58 is something called "heat shock protein" which i have no idea what that means.....
muscle twitching is very normal.. just take some vitamin d with magnesium to help with the twitching...
i was losing my hair last summer, but now since i've been DX and have been on ABX my hair is back.. weird huh!...
phantom, i had anxiety once that last about 2 weeks about 10 years ago. and i never had any coughing or night sweats. Anxiety with lyme is totally different. you know if something isn't right.. when...
i had all of your symptoms, i have lyme that came through positive on the Western Blot.. Have your doctor run a Mono test also.. I had mono and the Cmv virus also.. I believe alot of my dizziness and...
yeah, no papers on thyroid.. i might go ahead and have that tested soon.. i'm going to stay off the ABX as long as i can and try to re-build my immune up and go in to have another CBC done......
+lyme, i don't really know if he actually did a thryoid test or not.. i think he did, because it runs in the family.. lemme look at my paperwork.....