However, in the back of my mind I know something will pop up! Never knowing what or how severe.

I know some well versed Lymies can explain this cycle to me!

Thank you!

Lyme in Texas . . . yee-haw!
 

As it turns out, nobody really understands why the cycles appear. A few ideas are tht it takes a while for the bacteria load to be detected by the immune system, at which time the bacteria is attacked. At that point two things happen. the first is that some bacteria are destroyed leaving some pieces that cannot be picked by the macrophlanges (garbage truck) because they have a similar structure to other harmelss stuff in the body and that these same pieces are inflamatory to the body, thus the systems.

Once the immune system attack occurs, some of the bacteria go into hiding (the cyst form that everyone is talking about) and/or modify their outside layer so the attacking cells can't see them any more.

The then whole process starts again.

Another theory is that the symptom cycles occur during growth cycles of the bacteria, after which they again go silent.

There are some other theories but they more or less follow the above logic.

The cycles typically continue when you are being treated also. Basically when you are untreated the low point of next cycle is lower than the past one. When You are being treated, it sort of goes the other way, getting better on each cycle at least as far as I have seen.

Hope that helps.
 

---Nancy