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Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere. It is now one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the U.S. Lyme disease is caused by infection with the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria, and is primarily transmitted to humans as well as dogs, horses and other domesticated animals by the bite of infected ticks.

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Pushed Antibiotics too hard?

SpaceHorse
SpaceHorse

I'm new to this group, I was diagnosed with lymes around two years ago, when I started college. Due to school work I've always been bad about compliance as stress compounding with herx related symptoms was tough. Anyway over the past month I was really good about all my antibiotics (doxy, pen) and probiotics. Last wednesday I ended up in the emergancy room with a what they thought was gallbladder pain. They did blood/urine/ultrasound tests and nothing showed up. The pain faded and was replaced with nausea that seems almost like gerd. I'm suddenly ultrasensitive to basically everything, I was already sensitive to certain things that fed into co-infections as it was.


It's tough because I can't sleep more than 3 hours without waking to the nausea. I stopped my Antibiotics and it faded a little bit, but then came back but not as bad, so I took them again (this was stupid) and it got even worse. I don't plan to take them over the next week, as it's finals week and I'm between a lymes dedicated docter. Getting a lot of emotional swings along with the persistent nausea and vertigo as well as aches and weird nervous things all over. 


I just feel like I'm going crazy and needed to vent a little bit, sorry if I rambled too much.  

Rosi
Rosi
Hello there SpaceHorse, This is a rather late reply. Maybe you're done with finals by now and have found your new Lyme doctor. Yes. I had mainly digestive problems when I was first being treated. I was fairly clueless about what was aggravating my system in terms of digestion at that time. The antibiotics certainly did and I couldn't tolerate them. My doctor gave me homeopathics and later herbs which I did much better with. I read about acid and alkaline foods, got some ph paper from the drug store and kept my ph abot 7. Later, I stopped drinking coffee, which was really aggravating my system. Now I drink green teas, and have excluded gluten and some grains.
Everyone is different with this, so I don't want to give advice that might not work for someone
else. However, I do know that sugar and any processed foods and alcohol or caffeine do disrupt
people with Lyme. I still struggle with my diet but find when I follow it I'm so much better.
That is only one piece of the big Lyme puzzle as you no doubt know. Also, magnesium helped me with aches and also Epson salt baths. Please keep posting here, though the replies might be sparse at times. Sorry you're having to deal with all this. I send you my best wishes and please keep posting.
intuitionroad
intuitionroad
Hi SpaceHorse, I'm dealing with more or less the same issues, I have taken so many caps/pills/meds over the years that my stomach can't take anything anymore. I also stopped the treatment, which broke my heart, because it was actually getting to a point where it was starting to go well and I was optimistic.For a while, I could only eat white bread, it seemed to calm down my stomach, but made me feel worse because of the gluten and sugar excess. I have forced it and started taking a pill for the stomach, which has slowly allowed me to go back to my diet, though I still feel nauseous, it is getting better. I'll start with IV medication and see how it goes.
jasonalission0401
jasonalission0401
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