Topic: Can you get Lyme without having flu like symptoms right away?
BackinStOlaf
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When my symptoms started I hadn't has a flu or cold in years.
My first symptom was a tingling arm.
Anyone else experience something like this? No fevers or flu like stuff?
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Keebler
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- St.O.
Any number of symptoms, any arrangement, any timing. So many variables. It is very common for patients to report that they had felt awful for a long time but they seemed to never get the typical cold or flu - I was sure that way.
But I did have a sore throat for 20 years straight. Always told it looked fine but it was the side arches, not the back of the throat. Don't know how doctors could not see as it felt on fire.
By thy way, patients' test results would not be lying around on the counter. Patients do not see other patients reports at any doctor's office. Privacy is strictly enforced. -
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Keebler
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I wonder, if for privacy purposes, it might be good to delete in all your posts your doctor's vacation schedule. Not sure he'd want that advertised. Many here know who you see - and even strangers could easily find out. -
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I didn't have flu like symptoms for about 6 months after I was bit. I think my first symptoms were fatigue and arthralgia.
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lymebytes
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No flu for me. Started w/shoulder blade pain, spread down my left arm that started tingling and the crushing pain spread to my chest. Then wildly disseminated after having a cortisone shot to help the shoulder blade pain. AFTER the shots...I felt flu-like, but lyme was on a furious and fast track through me. But no flu symptoms ever before that.
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No initial symptoms at all for me for 10 weeks, then sore shoulders and stiff neck started. We're all different in presentation.
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Mine started with a headache and dizziness three months after bite.
Stiff neck, lethargy, and brain fog started after second steroid pack from the Neuro wanting to treat symptoms rather than finding cause.
The Lyme ran wild after third Medrol pack and that is when I made the jerk test me for Lyme. I found a good LLMD immediately afterward.
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map1131
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My lyme sx actually started with knee pain, carpal tunnel issues, aches and pains that moved. No flu sx. Went on for 6 mths.
It wasn't until 12 vector bites(nest) in the summer, then three weeks later, the flu from hell attacked.
Pam
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CD57
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What is "flu like"...I never really got that....it seems to mean different things to everyone.
I associate flu with body aches, severe fatigue, headache, perhaps swollen ln and fever.
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map1131
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Flu-like is just how normal everyday people get with the flu bug. You have body aches, chills/fever, vomiting, diarreha (sp), fatigue etc.
I knew the day this flu-like day began July 99 that it wasn't just "the flu". I remember I told my husband when he told me "you have the flu"...this was no ordinary flu!!!!!!!!!!
I knew day one I was being attacked by the meanest son of a gun I had ever had in 41 yrs.
CD, it's weird that it presents itself so differently in people.
Pam
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Starfall1969
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I started off with lightheadedness, weakness/tingling on my left side and severe neck pain.
From there it went nuts into joint pain, chest pain/tightness, anxiety, eye issues, etc.
I never really had the flu-like symptoms either.
And I have no idea when I was bitten either because I never saw a tick or a rash, although I knew we were in an area that is infested with ticks.
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A bit of fatigue to minor degree for 12-18 months then sleep disorder and some minor knee aches and but still able to work out 3X/week then someone coughed in my face last spring within hours had left upper arm pain that kept me up at night, next day had nausea and upset tummy and then within another day or two life was not the same, had 3/4 th of sx on Dr B's list and most of the rest over the past 9 months. My tick exposure/bites were 2-3 yrs ago. My treatment started 8 mos ago.
Things are looking up,
Beachinit.
Posts: 448 | From Downeast Maine | Registered: Jul 2009
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i had the flu-like and was sleeping everyday.... i believe i have chronic fatigue symdrome with a bunch of viruses. hope my dr can figure this out.
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