Ahhhhhh I got the Lymes!!!!

ProfessorCracker · Joined: 21 Jan 2007 Posts: 733 Location: Taghkanic ny

I just found out I have the Lyme! I a, sure many of you around here have also had/have it? Experiences ? I just started two months of the meds.
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BillB3 · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:49 am Post subject:

That sucks!

I'm moving this to the General forum, don't think this is off-topic at all....

guava · Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 143 Location: kingston, ny

Noooo! I am sorry to hear this. Good luck, kick it's a$$.

TriassicDoc · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 2:40 pm Post subject:

if it's any consolation, another mtb racer buddy of mine had The Lyme last year and made a full recovery and is even stronger now, but the treatment was harsh and it took many months to recover.

:/ feel better. I hear tequila kills much of everything.

Ranger Danger · Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 399

I've had it 3x. But you really haven't lived till you've also felt the joys of ehrlichiosis (aka anaplasmosis) and babesiosis (the "malaria of the north"). Glad to hear you're getting treatment.

Here's a bit on Lyme from Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods:

"If undetected, it can lie dormant in the human body for years before erupting in a positive fiesta of maladies. This is a disease for the person who wants to experience it all. The symptoms include, but are not limited to, headaches, fatigue, fever, chills, shortness of breath, dizziness, shooting pains in the extremities, cardiac irregularities, facial paralysis, muscle spasms, severe mental impairment, loss of control of body functions, and - hardly surprising, really- chronic depression."

Feel better!
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jamesframes · Joined: 30 Sep 2006 Posts: 2655 Location: new paltz, NY

boohoohooo Crying or Very sad

sorry dude-ticks suck
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Forest_biker · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 859

Had Lyme this year.
The worst fever I've ever had for four days, but my stomach was fine.
A textbook bullseye rash on the shoulderblade.

Heavy antibiotics for 21 days..or so from what I remember.
The antibiotics made me dizzy (like three beers) and a little sick in the stomach.

After that, I've been fine and have been retested since, everything checks out good.

....The best part is at least I was still off work recovering from a broken foot.
I figure I picked up the tick at the 909 where I was hobbling along with a cane for exercise on the new Timbuk two trail. Shocked

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slave2bacon · Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:31 am Post subject:

Seems like anyone that spends any time outside around here will get it eventually. I had a super fever, lethargy and a crazy headache for about 2 weeks. Originally it was mis-diagnosed as flu, then mis-diagnosed as possible meningitis. Only after the bulls eye rash showed up was I finally able to get treated.

A few weeks of antibiotics and you will be fine.

ProfessorCracker · Joined: 21 Jan 2007 Posts: 733 Location: Taghkanic ny

headaches, fatigue, fever, chills, shortness of breath, dizziness, shooting pains in the extremities, cardiac irregularities, facial paralysis, muscle spasms, severe mental impairment, loss of control of body functions, and - hardly surprising, really- chronic depression.

Well that explains a lot! Sounds a lot like racing!

I noticed in the directions for the meds not to take with minerals, caliculm, or iron- it absorbs the meds and then they are doing much-
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ProfessorCracker · Joined: 21 Jan 2007 Posts: 733 Location: Taghkanic ny

somewhere a tick has been infected with roskin disease...

no bullseye mark for me (infected ticks don't always have it)

I have had e-coli (took ten days for the DR's to figure it out plus one week after no solid foods), and Giardia both of those were like getting hit by a truck. Lymes for me has been a slow descent, feeling worse and worse- looks like I have had it for a few years Sad

Yeah the meds make you feel a little drunk, a little sick, tired and cranky. maybe thats just work?
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TriassicDoc · Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:08 pm Post subject:

the horses practically live on doxy bc they are always getting lyme disease, in spite of the vaccination for it. Scooby gets the vaccination, too, and he got it. His major symptom was that he couldn't wag his tail--it was sooooo sad!!!! He also nearly died from the doxy.

pinklewurst (tschneller) · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2010 6:46 pm Post subject:

I had it, picked the tick off early, watched for the rash and it showed up about 5 days later, got the meds and never had a symptom other than the rash. Got tested just last week and I'm still negative. My dog had it too, she stopped chasing cars and bikes so I knew something was up; she recovered ok too, probably saved her life cause she still doesn't chase anything much now.
The conspiracy theory is that Lyme didn't exist thirty years ago and that it was a military experiment gone wrong. Any thoughts?
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DrDave · Joined: 25 Sep 2009 Posts: 82

2 months is an unusually long treatment course for Lyme, 3weeks used to be standard for early stage disease but now it looks like 10 days works as well as 21. does your Dr know what he/she is doing?

Kevin · Joined: 09 Sep 2006 Posts: 1414 Location: Kingston

ProfessorCracker · Joined: 21 Jan 2007 Posts: 733 Location: Taghkanic ny

"sorry dude-ticks suck"

That's funny!
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GG · Veep Joined: 25 Sep 2008 Posts: 907 Location: new splatz

Lyme disease was likely brought here by colonists from Europe on stowaway rodents on ships...it is very similar to a European tick-borne illness...it's spreading more rapidly as human development spreads in a patchy suburbia type fashion - a landscape that is good for ticks, white-footed mice (reservoir host for disease), deer (intermediate host for ticks) and oak trees (mouse and deer food). First seen and documented a few decades ago in Lyme, CT as children were coming down with arthritis, which is not something children normally get....

It's actually a pretty cool ecological/public health scenario...but it sucks if/when you get it...I've been lucky so far....fingers crossed!

jamesframes · Joined: 30 Sep 2006 Posts: 2655 Location: new paltz, NY

...or aliens
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ProfessorCracker · Joined: 21 Jan 2007 Posts: 733 Location: Taghkanic ny

Isn't there a bio-weapons lab on an island off the coast of Long Island sound ( not far from Lyme Connecticut)? Plum Island....
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Kevin · Joined: 09 Sep 2006 Posts: 1414 Location: Kingston

3 parts at about 45 minutes of your life...

http://www.mojvideo.com/video-conspiracy-theory-with-jesse-ventura-s02e01-1-3/d13b2bb862a8a29276cc

http://www.mojvideo.com/video-conspiracy-theory-with-jesse-ventura-s02e01-2-3/5b880ae913de31b79a94

http://www.mojvideo.com/video-conspiracy-theory-with-jesse-ventura-s02e01-3-3/296e5b2fd750c105b5d5

and much shorter...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCl84qh_8Ss