Lyme Disease Support Group

I've been on antibiotics for just a few days shy of 2 months. First, Doxy for 5 weeks, and then Omnicef and Azithrymycin ever since.

The only thing that has improved is upper abdominal pain.

Everything else still....sucks

I feel just awful.

Is this typical, or should I have seen better improvement by now?

Is there anybody here who can share how long it took for them to begin feeling better?

Or is everybody here pretty much still sick?

Thanks for listening.

have LONG have you been sick?| that's the key answer to me. the longer you have been sick, the longer it will take to KILL OFF CHETES in your entire body.

everyone is different. it's TOO SOON to see improvements in my non-medical opinion. sorry

bettyg, iowa leader

Tarat, I was tested through Igenex for all co-infections, but they were all negative. I do realize that doesn't mean I don't still have them, though.

Maybe I should talk to my LLMD about treating for them anyway?

I was hoping that my high CD-57 results would've been on my side and helped me fight this quicker. No such luck.

~~~RE your "Am I Expecting Too Much Too Soon?" ~~~Yes.

Natsmom, looks like we are in the same boat. I guess as long as I do not get any worse I can deal. Just the head aches that make it impossible to function!

Here's to hoping for a quicker than norm recovery.... good luck!

~~~The important thing is to stay patiently vigilent.Doing whatever you can to keep your immune system strong,keep an excellent diet,proper rest,good attitude.

~~~Try adding different things such as herbs,supplements,etc.Ponder the mysteries.Tickle yourself.

```````~~~in my straight jacket~~~out on a limb~~~lookin like a cocoon~~~hangin by a thread~~~waitin for a butterfly~~~under the moon~~~Lovey-Dovey,Mitchell~~~

I really have no way to know how long I have been sick

Have I been sick since a teen-ager, when the "hypersomnia" and strange nightmares began?

Have I been sick since my mid-twenties, then again in my mid-thirties, when I searched and searched for a doctor to help me with my energy levels?

Have I been sick since I got my first symptom outside of extreme fatigue and hyper somnia, which was my very first migraine, with aura?

OR have a been sick since approximately three years ago when first unemployed, when I attributed all symptoms to the "stress" of being unemployed?

I have no way of knowing.

I do know that I have been in remission at times.

I have had months where I felt better, then "trauma" or "stress" would send me spiraling and I would be diagnosed as having depression (twice) or PTSD (once).

Looking back, I definitely felt worse after these traumatic events, including after those deaths in the family, a car accident, then after our fire.

After all of the above I "bounced back" to tolerable levels of living which I mean to say a decent "quality of life."

But it has been worse, and no more remission since three years ago.

And even worse in the past six months.

I used to have such high energy in the summers, almost felt like a "normal" person again, and I still haven't figured out if it was because I could sleep more or due to the sunshine.

Three summers ago that stopped, and I feel the same all year long.

I have no idea how treatment will go for me, but I am not only preparing my body, I am preparing my mind that it WILL go well, and I WILL beat this damn thing!

It would just be nice to know exactly how long I have been sick.

But there is no real way I will ever know. Just guesses.

I hope you all start feeling better from your treatment VERY soon!