Lymes disease

[shaper]

A little over a month ago my so n law diagnosed I have Lyme disease. I went through the first month of treatment with antibiotics with little good news. I just started another month of treatment. This can go a long time. The antibiotics do a number on my stomach. I have days of severe loss of energy and difficulty in remembering things. I've been trying to replace the alternator in the wife's car, three days and it isn't in yet. It's odd, I have been collecting for two years to get everything I need to reload all of the most popular calibers. Now that I am ready to smelt, mold, and load, I don't have the energy to walk to my shop. And what is worse, I don't care. Within the past few weeks I have sold off a lot of tools and projects that I now know I will never finish. I'm now thinking of selling off my powder coating shop.
Sorry for going on like this, I'm just down. I have always been very active, now I can't seem to do anything properly. So, I'm asking my brothers to put me on your prayer list.
thank you
shaper
Pat Groover

[flyingmonkey35]

Pat.

I'm sorry to hear about your sickness.

I was going to make a joke and still will..


Sounds like you need rum / salt and some margarita mix. As you already got the limes.

Ha ha ha.


Hang on to your stuff. Don't sell it unless you need cash.

[MrWolf]

Don't sell your stuff, that is the meds talking. Give it some time and hopefully everything will get better for you. You are in our prayers.

[home in oz]

Time to see a medical specialist of tick-borne diseases, I think....

[Wise Owl]

Get some Pro-Biotics and start taking them. That will at least help with the stomach stuff. Also some ginger tea for settling it down.

The anti's do the same thing to me when I take them.

[JWFilips]

I got it in 2006 and again in 2008. Then I had my 7 year relapse ( as the doctors told me I would in 2013 from the 2006 episode) When I originally got it it works a number on your head ....not wanting to go outside or in the woods ...but I have over come that. In my case treatment was not worse than the disease..... The first episode we thought I had spinal Meningitis . Now a number of years have passed with strange things still happening in my body but Hey I'm getting old not sure if it is the "Cysts" or just old age

[waksupi]

Start doing some research, doctors don't know all that much about Lyme's. A friend of mine has been under treatment for over two years, and she is stil lnot completely recovered.

[leeggen]

LD is no fun, been thru it twice. First dig. was flu then I forced the Dr. to do blood test for LD. Yip I had it antibiotics do and can make you feel just as bad as the disease. Hang in there it will get better. Recovery is relavant to how long you had it before dig., so you will be back up and running. Don't jump to the conclusion you will never get back to ones old self, you will.
CD

[yancey]

Hey Pat ! Hang in there and prayers going out for you.

[MaryB]

I find coke to help settle the stomach and stimulate the appetite a bit. Hang in there, any chronic illness can take a toll. I have been dealing with a crippled spine now for 8 years and have days like you describe. I set a goal to do one small project a day, beyond that is great but I make myself get off my butt and be semi active. The alternative is not in my playbook I am to stubborn to give in.

[Beagle333]

Do hit the health food store and get some probiotics. They really do help the stomach rebound from the abuse. Good luck!

[runfiverun]

greek yogurt can help the stomach also.

[doc1876]

and L-Lysine is a good natural antibiotic. I have seen it even give herpes a run for its money ( would have cured her too, if she hadn't switched doctors, and he had a fit. the original doctor was so impressed by it he is prescribing it for his patients!!). In most cases, 1000 units 2x a day will get you back to the good road, and then 500-1000 each day.

[dtknowles]

I find coke to help settle the stomach and stimulate the appetite a bit. Hang in there, any chronic illness can take a toll. I have been dealing with a crippled spine now for 8 years and have days like you describe. I set a goal to do one small project a day, beyond that is great but I make myself get off my butt and be semi active. The alternative is not in my playbook I am to stubborn to give in.

Listen to Mary. Be a fighter, it will only beat you if you let it. Fight, fight , fight. Do not go quietly into the night.

Tim

[Ramar]

Prayers are with you brother. I feel your pain.
Ramar

[Dhammer]

I'm dealing with an injury that has drained me for last 6 years between extreme constant pain and minimal sleep, to days without sleep at times. So I totally get where your comming from. I look up how to do things make notes, before I start projects and take pictures as reference points with my brain being swiss cheese.

Hang in there first of all.

Depending on stomach issues there are some really good meds as options. The problem with the stomach, depending on your exact symptoms if untreated it can cause damage to your stomach along with above n below. I found that out the hard way.
Next, I would ask for a full blood work up to include testorone, estrogen, thyroid, hemocrit, etc, (the works). Between the Lyme, disease, meds, stress there may be something else now out of whack. Talk to your doc, explain what's going on and that you need to get your quality of life back.

I hope it gets better sooner then later. For me it was finding the right docs. I will never be pain free, will always have really bad days but I've got some days that were better then I had hoped for after the first 3 years of hell. I use my kids as my drive to keep going when it gets bad. I also found it I font keep my brain really active the memory issues get worse. So I keep up on my hobbies even when its bad along with learning new things and relearning things I have forgotten how to do.

Again, I really hope things get better sooner then. The no energy just sucks. I had a hard time admitting and then dealing with the memory issues and few other symptoms.

[.45Cole]

I have always been VERY scared of Lyme disease and religiously checked myself after being out in the woods. The probiotics actually are a mixture of bacteria that help start a colony in your gut that help digest and breakdown intake, beings you scr*w the beneficial bacteria when you throw an antibiotic down the hatch. They also outcompete the bad bacteria (c diff) for nutrients and keep c diff in check, as it is already in your gut.
People have the amazing ability to overcome most stuff on their own, so much so we have to do placebo's to see if something really works. Massage and your favorite place to eat will keep your head in the game an improve your mood. HUGE in keeping your body up to the task of knocking out the disease.

Good luck!

[monadnock#5]

Mindset. If you allow yourself to fall into the trap of believing things will never get better than they are right now, they never will. I will pray for you. We will pray for you. In the meantime, don't sell your stuff.
I don't believe that the Great Architect will hold it against you for praying for yourself in this situation, especially when there are so many looking to you to fight the good fight.

[dragon813gt]

Sorry to hear that you caught Lyme. Unfortunately the disease is sort of politicized in the medical community. There are doctors that refuse to treat it properly. I don't know if it's common in Georgia. Even here, where it's very common, some doctors almost refuse to treat it. After watching friends go through it I will suggest you see a doctor that specializes in it. This usually means very high doses of antibiotics. I watched the friends that went that route recover in a few months time. While the ones that didn't went through years of lingering problems. You want it out of your body as soon as possible.

[DLCTEX]

I had it in the early 90's and was down with it for almost six months due to not getting a correct diagnosis. You will recover, hang in there.