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Any of you experiencing abnormal temperatures? Mine has always been 98.6. However, since a spinal tap over a week ago I have felt "flu like" and started checking my temperature. For 9 days its has ranged from 97.2 to 98. I am extemely fatigued and weak.
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klutzo
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Hi, Many of us have subnormal temps. I have heard Lymies report temps as low as 94.
Before treatment, my temp. ran from 95.6 in the morning to about 97 in the afternoon. Now, after 2 yrs. of herbal treatment, my temp. is 97.2 in the morning, and 97.6 in the afternoon. With regular antibiotics, you should get faster improvement (I am allergic to them).
Borrelia likes the cold, and will try to lower your body temperature. It will also supress the hypothalamus in your brain, which in turn, can cause blockade of your thyroid receptors, even if your thryoid blood tests are normal. Your temps are not really as low as many of us, but if you have the symptoms, a trial of low dose Armour Thyroid may help you immensely. It doubled my energy two days after I started taking it. There is a good self test to see if you have thyroid and/or adrenal supression at wwww.drrind.com
If your blood pressure is normal, far infrared sauna or other things that really heat up the body are good for killing Borrelia.
You are not alone in having this symptom.
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yep, mine was 94 for a week...even when i felt warm.
then this week i was feeling very warm just started flagyl so wanted to make sure i wasnt running a temp....i took it and it was 97.8.
one time i went to the ducks and my temp would not register at all.......now i wonder.
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My sons ranges between 94.6 and 95.5 in am and 96.3 in late afternoon. This morning his read 93.3...I thought there was something wrong with thermometer and took my own and mine was 98.4....
My sons has been like this prior to knowing he had lyme and of course his thyroid tests come back normal after low prior test and docs wont treat the thyroid.....
He recently had 97.2 in late afternoon and I was so excited...
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Mine tends to be low as well. When I feel like I am burning up with fever it will only be 98-99.
I hope the spinal was for a good reason and not Lyme related. An ID wanted me to get one to rule out Lyme but I have read it isn't a good test for Lyme and the whole needle in the spine thing freaks me out.
When I had my daughter I was way more afraid of the needle in the spine than labor.
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Always low and cold.
But when I am not low and cold I am low grade temp. I think the low grades are from the babs.
But since I started to treat my babs,I am warmer now and not walking around all bundled up as much.
Except when I am herxing and on my meds. Then its chills and fever.
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Low body temp was my inital sign when I first got sick. There I was, bundeled up in blankets on the couch in front of the wood stove and with my temperature down to hypothermia range. It was alarming.
the highest it gets now is in the 97s when Im doing fairly well, otherwise mid 96s. This week, when I went in to the drs, it was 95.5. My blood pressure was quite low, 80/60 also. My wheigt keeps dropping, but slowly at least. Its like, yeah, Im real sick, just kinda wasting away. But casual observers have no idea and wonder why we say no, bundle up, get nervous from noise, etc...
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Hubby pretty much stays 97-97.3 a lot of the time. Has some spikes up to 98 and 98.1 since he started latest round of ABX. So that's good. Hopefully his immune system is getting back in shape.
He's have some elevated blood pressure numbers now though. Anyone know if any of the ABX or supplements would cause BP problems? He's doing Flagyl now.......along with Zinc,Milk thistle, MSM, magnesium, Vit C..........
Edited to add......He just started Questran......??
Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks
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Boomerang, BP can become high later in the disease... I know mine sure went up! The Mg should help it, adn Lymies need much more Mg than a normal person. When it was just a bit too high, a combo of Ca, Mg and Potassium worked pretty well, but once it really got high, I had to go with drugs. There are definitely some supps. that can raise BP, but not the ones you mention. Klutzo
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I asked the nurse in my LLMDs office if she ever saw anyone with a 98.6 temp and she smiled and said ...rarely.....always low. I told her that is because you see a disproportionate number of lyme patients who mostly all have low temps. Despite this my old LLMD..the one with that nurse, still does not recognize that a lymie can have a fever at 98.6
Either Lyme causes perhaps detectable and undetectable thyroid problems which affect the temperature or because we have low temperatures, the lyme germ can take over. Which comes first the chicken or the egg? At any rate it seems as if Bb creates an environment that it can thrive in.
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