I really hope your treatment starts to help you soon. Maybe you are going through herxing?

Good luck to you!!

*Allison

We've had this discussion before, and honestly, it kinda turned into a debate. I will tell you that my honest opinion is that yes, you can recover. Whether or not this disease is curable, I don't know, and I honestly do not believe that it will ever completely go away. I pray that one day, we will find a cure, but there is just too little known and too few docs out there who really give a crap about it or us. I just can't bring myself to believe that I, personally, (only for me, not for anyone else--just me!) will ever completely be cured. I think that there's a chance for a relapse no matter what we do. I think that it's a really difficult thing for us to expect that it can ever go away completely. But, having said that, I find that there's no reason not to hope!

I do think that we can recover and live normal lives. We may have more infections, as we already do, and be more prone to pain and other issues than others, as we already are, but I think that in general, once we are recovered, we can live relatively normal lives. I think that the risk for relapse will probably always be there. However, I also know that Connie, Julie, Ann, Denise, and Clayton, and perhaps others here that I don't know about are in remission. They are doing EXTREMELY well, and I couldn't be happier about that. It gives me hope that perhaps they are cured, and they could be for good. We shall see, and only time will tell...

There's just a part of me that can't believe it's forever. Forever's a long time! LOL But I do think you have to have hope, and you have to have a positive attitude, and know that you can get better, you can heal. I know that I AM getting better. I'm better than I was when I started this natural protocol about 8 weeks ago (and before that, too!). And I can tell you that I felt a whole heck of a lot worse when I first started it. The first 6 weeks were hell!! I'm just now starting to feel some improvement. And it's not that much, but I now have some hope that I'm gonna get better. And I'm just now starting to be able to function, and to have a brain that is starting to work! Yippee!!!

*hugs*

Jen

I recovered, my doctor and myself believe its in "Remission"...He did however tell me it can show its ugly face at any give time...I try very hard to keep my system up and running, eating well, detox baths, vitiams, etc, etc....I do know when I'm run down my neck/knee will start to hurt and I know its time to, relax if at all possible...

Cure, I don't know, I don't think anyone can really answer that question....Hopefully one day we can....

You will, it takes time and sometimes lots of it. I was planning my wedding when I was bitten by my "Love bug"...Pretty much ruined everything...I was really sick from Aug until March, then little by little I stared to feel "Normal" again...

Hang in there, your time will come hopefully soon.

Julie

My sister was kinda the same way your husband's co-workers were. She was caught early, and she says she is fine now, and she only had about 3 weeks of treatment. I worry about her all the time, but at this point, I don't have the energy to do more for her. I try to educate her, because she has a lot of aches and pains that I feel are related to Lyme, and she also has rage issues that I think could be attributed to a co-infection that was never treated. However, it's her life. My opinion on some of the early stage lyme is that they are likely to have it rear its ugly head later in the game. But I think there's too much we still don't know. And by that I mean "we" in the general Lyme community. I suspect doctors have a pretty good idea and they just aren't saying! Which sucks for us. But we'll find out one day, right?

Good luck in your healing process. I do have faith both of us will get there. You don't know my story, but I've been sick for 14 years from this, and only just now figured it all out and put it all together. It's been a long haul, but after 8 weeks of natural treatment, I really AM starting to get it together and feel better...So, that's a really, really good thing. The fact that I can put this many coherent sentences together is AMAZING! LOL *hugs*

What I mean by a natural protocol is things like herbs and vitamins and that sort of thing. If you're interested in knowing what I take, send me a PM, and I'll be glad to give you the rundown of everything. There's one more herb that I'm going to be adding, but I'm still doing the research on it at the moment, so I'm not quite ready to add it till I know a little bit more. But what I'm doing so far seems to be working and is helping me quite a bit. Since I can't get "conventional" treatments, I'm not willing to sit back and die, as the docs would have me do! LOL