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I have recently posted and thank everyone for the replys. I wanted to post again to get some other advice.
I was working outside in a wooded area. That Night I woke up with hives so bad I couldnt stand myself. To the point of puking and I had difficulty breathing.
That went on with irritability, very strange feeling until I started taking antihistimine when I realized it was hives.
After 11 months or so I started getting difficulty breathing. It excelled to panic attacks. During all this time I have been taking antihistimine and now I have seen a allergist and have stronger hive medicine and also anxiety/ssri meds from a psychologist.
When I have stoped taken the antihistimine Just to see How I felt. I had all the symptoms of Lyme Disease even more. The symptoms are not always there but I do have tiredness very unusual amount of tiredness. I always feel i need more sleep and get a headache sometime on the right side of my head. Knees hurt back hurts.
what stands out the most is the difficulty breathing. I am a very laid back person and my life is quite nice and simplified.
Do you think Hives can appear from LD? Can anithistimine block some of the symptoms?
THANK EVERYONE AND THIS SITE!!
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For the years that I had lyme disease, I got hives a lot. Before that, I never got hives.
During that time, many things caused hives for me. I once had hives for at least 5 months continuously.
The thing about lyme disease is that it is hard to figure out when you got it. You usually figure it out by learning about lyme symptoms and then looking back.
Lyme can start out as temporary episodes. It did that to me for 5 years. You can be totally normal for months, then get an episode of lyme for months. For me, the episode was horrendous fatigue (nothing like normal fatigue) that would never go away, trouble sleeping, and muscle weakness.
Lots of headaches, stiff or sore neck, things like that.
When I had the hives, I lived on antihistamines. I was doing lyme treatment also at the time. The antihistamines just helped with the hives, not any other symptoms.
Eventually, I would figure out what was causing the hives, and that is how I would get rid of the hives. Many, many medications caused hives for me during the time I had lyme disease. These were all types of medications.
Evidently, having lyme can put you over the top with inflammation so that you get hives more easily. We once had a thread about this, and many people said that with lyme they got lots more hives.
When you say difficulty breathing, is it like having difficulty getting enough air, seems like you can't take a deep enough breath?
If that is what you have, that is called "air hunger" and it is a sure sign of babesiosis which is a lyme disease co-infection.
If you have not looked at the Burrascano lyme treatment guidelines yet, why not look at the symptom list he has on pages 9-10 of this document:
Read and study this document to understand lyme disease. Then, you will be better able to think of how well your current and past situation lines up with the symptoms of lyme disease.
You may have many more symptoms that you thought were other things.
Before I knew I had lyme, I was going to various doctors for various problems that all turned out to be lyme--things like dental pain, abdominal pain, dry eyes, etc.
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