Can lyme symptoms such as muscle pain go away for years at a time without any medication? If you have a flare-up, say for 2 to 3 months, could it go away without any antibiotics or medication?
Thanks!
Posted by Jessiep (Member # 35399) on :
I don't know but I'm curious to know why you ask? Is this happening to you??
Posted by bruce101 (Member # 2457) on :
Yes. Over the years I would get unexplained leg pain -- mostly in the right leg in the quad -- that would come for 2-3 months and then go away on its own. I often believed it was lyme but I never took anything for it and it would go away.
But if it's lyme, does it just go away without meds?
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Could be magnesium deficiency.
Have you ever taken fluroquinolones? They can strip you of magnesium. It will take constant supplementation to get that back.
Posted by terv (Member # 29410) on :
The first of my issues was an eye twitch that lasted for a year. It went away on its own without antibiotics.
Posted by Samlyme (Member # 43732) on :
I think lyme symptoms can come and go. Maybe your immune system clears up a problem area and then later the bacteria starts in on another problem elsewhere. I also think that some strains of Borellia can be killed off by your immune system alone without treatment. I had Borellia Hermsii. Relapsing fever. You have a series of relapsing fevers along with other lyme like symptoms. The fevers stopped after a while. I still have burgdorferi kicking around but I think I may have managed to beat back the Hermsii myself.
Posted by Kudzuslipper (Member # 31915) on :
I believe the body is resilient and wants to get better! Sometimes it needs a nudge. When you have these flares is there anything different you do... Rest more, take supps (like magnedium) stretch the muscle more? I think some of the things we do when we're in pain would benefit us all the time.
Posted by ukcarry (Member # 18147) on :
I think many of the symptoms of Lyme ebb and flow in intensity. It is one of the factors that make it hard to assess whether a treatment or supplement is doing anything. I find this with muscle and nerve pain, along with the other varying symptoms.