Just curious. Any Lyme positives with no prior surgeries?
Posted by sixgoofykids (Member # 11141) on :
I had my tonsils out when I was five .... does that count? That was WAY before I was sick.
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
hey goofy, that was my question too? lol Posted by ICEiam (Member # 7519) on :
My daughter hasn't ever had surgery and she is VERY Lyme positive.
She had a huge cyst removed under her arm AFTER she was diagnosed with Lyme, does that count?
HUGS
Posted by lymebytes (Member # 11830) on :
No surgery, but have nuero LD and co-infections, Igenex positive.
There are many "triggers" surgery can be one. For me it was corticosteroids.
For a friend of mine, it was fumes from painting her house.
The list goes on.
Posted by disturbedme (Member # 12346) on :
I haven't had surgery and I have lyme and Bart (maybe others as well).
I think my trigger was getting married and moving to another state.
Posted by adamm (Member # 11910) on :
No "trigger" here. Simply got bitten by a tick, and got
sick 5 days later. I became encephalitic within two weeks.
Posted by laura j (Member # 14257) on :
I believe my "trigger" was a flu shot.
Posted by KS (Member # 12549) on :
Never any surgery for me....birth of a child stirred things up...
Posted by radfaraf (Member # 11909) on :
I've had a wisdom tooth extraction and that it is. I don't believe it is related to my Lyme. My Lyme symptoms started several years later. I had no rash or tick that I saw and I'm pretty sure I got one hiking around the time I got sick, or from someone's dog who I was around a lot, and was told they would often pick up ticks. I didn't realize at the time how dangerous it was.
Posted by knshore (Member # 13451) on :
I've never had a surgery. My trigger has been many things, but the worst was cortizone epidurals.
Posted by cjnelson (Member # 12928) on :
Got sick at inital bite I am sure. Then a major "trigger" in 99 going through divorce. From there its been down hill!
Posted by Clarissa (Member # 4715) on :
No surgeries.
I believe my trigger was being born.
Posted by cottonbrain (Member # 13769) on :
No surgery before Lyme.
Bilateral surgery for mallet toes after Lyme. I now understand that this can be a symptom of RA, which I have a gene for.
Nineteen months after the toe surgery, my feet have NOT healed. I was much better BEFORE the surgery. Now I hobble...intense pain.
My LLMD says its because the surgery caused the spirochetes to settle in my toe joints.
Posted by kbholley (Member # 12938) on :
No surgeries pre - lyme
Tick bite with bullseye rash 2001
Down hill ever since-
Bladder re-attachment and historectmy (sp) at the same time, June 1, 2006
Heart attack at the age of 38 - November 11,2006
Posted by linzlu (Member # 12818) on :
Thanks for all the responses. I have snother question for those of you who said they have never had sugery.
Do you remeber a tick bite, bullseye rash and flu like illness?
I'd like to know if you have any memeory of the so called inital markers of Lyme?
Thanks,
Lindsay
Posted by Aniek (Member # 5374) on :
No surgery.
I did have a bulls eye rash.
But remember that as few as 50% of people remember seeing a tick or bulls eye rash.
Posted by adamm (Member # 11910) on :
The symptoms I got right after my tick bite were typical of a cold,
and given how little I knew about TBD's and the
fact that my parents got the same sx a couple of days after I
did, I figured it actually was a cold (the fact that I found a
tick prompted me to get doxy, though.) I now worry that
I gave my TBD's to them, as their
memories seem to have been impoverished since that time (though
they contend that everything is normal.)
Posted by treepatrol (Member # 4117) on :
Theres alot of [people never remember tick bite.
Posted by Vermont_Lymie (Member # 9780) on :
No surgery.
Two tick bites (known, probably other exposures);
two known bulls-eye rashes.
Never had a positive blood test.
Posted by Clarissa (Member # 4715) on :
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