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I'm on my 18th month of treatment. My temperature is still low. Tonight it is 95.7. I'm wondering when it will return to normal.
How low is your temp? Has it come up with treatment? hatsnscarfs
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Wifes runs 97.6 96.7 low. Also she is on synthroid it helps her.
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During early treatment, I got as low as 95.7.
I'm back to 98.0 - 98.1. But that's as high as I ever get (since childhood).
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Is a lower than normal body temperature significant with lyme disease? I have suspected I may have lyme for some time now, but have been unable to convince my doctors. My body temperature is always around 95 to 96 and wonder if this is a signifcant symtom to add to my list. I eventually want to show all the similarities I have to people with lyme to my doctor. Thanks for any input.
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Hubby has been pretty much 97-97.3 since we first started checking it.....
Over the last couple of weeks, he's had a couple of 98 days! Woohoo!
Tonight he was 97.7.....so it seems his temp is slowly creeping up.??
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My normal temperature is 96.8 I haven't ever been adequately treated so don't know if it will go up when I am.
I do know when I run a fever like now, 99, it reduces my pain and achiness, I'm always thankful for a raise in temp.
(99 feels awfully hot when you're use to being < 97)
Ok, that was no help at all, I always thought it would normalize when I got this in check, at least I also hope so.
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Hmm. I don't have a thermometer lying around but mine is usually lower than normal.
My heartbeat is so slow is alarms people (literally) - in the 40's, occasionally in the 50's.
I am the one with a couple fleece layers on while everyone else has short sleeves.
Some say this is because I was born -- like my birthday friend Biting Back -- on the average hottest day of the year -- July 24.
I like nothing better than getting into a hot car that's been sitting in the parking lot and just going "aaaahhh," with enormous delight.
I do take Synthroid for hypothyroidism since getting bitten, but nothing takes away the cold except the hot daze of summer.
I actually enjoyed the hot flashes of early menopause because I got freaking warm for a little while!!!
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I don't know I'll have to get a thermomiter.
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When I first started treatment, my temp averaged about 96. That was 7 months ago.
Now, it's in the 97-range.
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I'm running in the 96- 97.4 range.......but I've been as low as 94.9 and 95's several times while herxing.. I'm coming up on 2 years of treatment at the end of Feb.
I have Babs and Bart too.....I wonder how co-infections play into the low temps??
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Before the lyme diag. I was so freezing cold that it interfered with functioning. I was wearing a down coat & gloves in the summer and the only time I was not visibly shivvering and had white toes and fingers was when I was in HOT water.
The only way I could sleep was to take a hot bath and then get into bed with an electric blanket set on max all night. Then I was not warm but bearable.
All the various docs asked about thyroid and tested it and the tsh was always in normal range. I found a holistic endo. and he treated my symptoms with thyroid meds. He only uses Levoxyl, no substitutes, and it did the trick.
My body temp rose and I am no longer freezing. Its been, maybe 3 years now and he still adjusts the meds now and then.
It did not give me any more energy etc but did take care of the low body temp. My hands are still colder than normal people but always have been even as a child but I no longer shiver.
You might want to have your thyroid checked by a competent doc who will look at your symptoms and not only treat via a lab sheet.
Not all our symptoms are necessarily caused by lyme or will be taken care of by the lyme disease treatment.
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Interesting timing Hats I was always between 96.8 and 97.4. I have been in treatment now for about a year and my temp is finally registering a wonderful 98.6. Yippee.
On the other hand I just caught a bug from my son. My temp was up to 103.4. I know this sounds strange but I was happy for it. I have had terrible ear infections and sinus infections and never had a temp.
I am taking it as a sign my immune system is starting to function again,
Take care and peace.
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96 to 97 for me,very interesting,I think you are on to something.My blood pressure runs a little low since lyme too.
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My 4 children and I all run between 96.2 and 97.
When I was dxing the family it made me think back
to the 1st Thermascan I purchased over 9 years
ago. The insert said to take temps often and
get a baseline. I returned it because I thought
it didn't work. Because our temps were all so
low.
The school just doesn't get it 98.6 or 99 and my kids are sooooo sick.
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I was feeling really really warm today Thought for sure i had a high temp. I took it and it was 95.7!! I guess that is higher then last weeks 94!
I thought it was so odd!
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Chainsaw Joseph......my predominant health issue at this time is headaches/peculiar head sensations, which have sent me to docs and clinics often. The nurse always comments on my low bloodpressure. The doctor's say it is low but not dangerously so. Another symptom for my list!?!?!
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