I am so pleased to hear you have your diagnosis and I wish you a speedy recovery  I wish Lyme was the answer for more people. Of course, no one wants Lyme disease but when you've been dealing with a headache for months and years, desperation would make most of us eager for an answer and for something more treatable. My story is, in some ways, quite similar to your own. I had headaches for a few months before the onset of my constant headache, which started around April/May 2011. I too can't be sure of the exact date, I was getting a lot of headaches and I was going out and drinking, so it's kind of blurred when my headache became constant. This history is different to the typical NDPH patient, who, I understand, can pin point the exact date, and even minute, of the onset of their headache. I live on a farm in an endemic are and in the summer before my headaches began, I spent probably every day outside in the countryside; so it is very possible that I could have been bitten by a tick. I had been on doxy for a few weeks, in case it is Lyme, but stopped as it made my headache significantly worse. I recently started taking the doxy again and have not yet noticed any changes in my headache. I personally do not think I have Lyme, but it would not be impossible that I do have it. I do think it is a route that every NDPH sufferer should go down, if only to rule out. Hope you feel better soon |
"What MD Junction means to me is a place where i can feel like im not alone. As someone with something as rare as hydrocephalus, it feels like im the only one in the world with it. When i came to MD, its like everyone has it. It doesnt feel like im alone. And that people need to hold up a sign to say what i have, because people know. And they understand. I can get questions answered from people who have been through it rather than from doctors or people who only can tell you from a physical standpoint. THat is what MD junction means to me." (tomboykimi)
