My kids brought home a lovely flu bug (the vomiting and diarehea one) and I seemed to have gotten it a little in that my stomach did not feel right and was upset, but it never progressed like theirs did.
Anyway, whaT DID happen was major old Babs sx of: chills, major body aches and severe full body inflamation, crying spells, and intense fatigue.
I thought maybe that Lyme was kinda trying to take over instead of this new invading germ? Does that sound crazy?
(It's either that or the infrared sauna I sat in the day before)???
Do you have experience with this happening to you? Thanks for your insight!
Posted by Starfall1969 (Member # 17353) on :
I don't know what the correlation is or might be.
What I have noticed is that for a couple days before I actually come down with something, my symptoms seem to subside.
Then I get sick with whatever, and all he ll breaks loose with my symptoms.
It's really exhausting to be sick with whatever bug is going around and then to have to put up with the Lyme and cos.
Posted by laura miller (Member # 12703) on :
Star, Are you saying that this does happen to you too?
As if we need the double! Thanks, Laura
Posted by randibear (Member # 11290) on :
well all i can say, is that i was feeling pretty good and then wham...the flue..for 3 weeks now...
Posted by Judy G. (Member # 18498) on :
I had a bad flu/virus of some kind that knocked me out -- the same time I started Azithromyocin. Bad herx and bad flu - I was sick for three weeks.
The flu/respiratory stuff was bad but I had a cough that would not stop, dry hacking all day and night -- finally about the beginning of the third week I started bringing up mucous and soon after that the cough went away.
I think the coughing was the herx since my husband got the flu about a week after me and he never had the coughing, but had all the other symptoms, fatigue, sleeping 12 hours a day, fever, stuffy runny nose, plugged up ears.
Not sure the herx or the Lyme made it worse (other than the cough) because he was sick for just as long. It was kind of nice for me (but not for him) that I had a control group Posted by Faith6 (Member # 14072) on :
Laura,
Sometimes I think we are too sick to get real sick with the bugs going around. My two daughter's have had Influenza B for the last week. I haven't gotten it full force, but I haven't felt like doing much - like mild Lyme symptoms kicked in.
I don't know if I would rule out the sauna as at least part of the issue. I read from your other post that you were in it for quite awhile and didn't sweat. I wonder if many toxins got moved around or died but didn't get sweat out.
From past experience with saunas, I know they wipe me out, but usually that is right away. I haven't tried the far infrared yet - we should be picking up a used one next week!
I plan to start just twice a week for 15 min a day, probably for the first month. I tend to get carried away and over do so I'm trying to make a plan before I start using it.
My LLMD said to drink tons of water before, during and after the sauna.
Hope you're feeling better today!
Faith
Posted by sparkle7 (Member # 10397) on :
Any additional viruses, bacteria, pathogens can make you worse. It just increases the body burden of what you have to fight.
Bacteria, viruses, & pathogens can also trigger other pathogens to mutate. This probably makes everything worse.
I'm no MD but this is what it seems like to me.
Posted by randibear (Member # 11290) on :
so far two people have died here with this flu. nasty stuff...
remember, if you're coughing up solid yellow or green, time to see the doc....
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