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I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease a few weeks ago after being infected for probably a week. I've been seeing this doctor who originally told me that my joint pain, leg tingling,and rash were unrelated and to stop worrying so much, but that she would test me for Lyme anyway. Also, I experience what I think was a seizure the night before.
Fast forward a week and a positive Lyme test: A few days into the antibiotics (Doxycycline), my hip pain disappeared and I could walk without limping again! I was sooo thrilled until I started experiencing a whole range of symptoms that would occur maybe once each day, and move on to another. These included paranoia, panic, daily crying spells, tooth (molars) numbness, inability to swallow, conjunctivitis-like symptoms (extreme and only for 25 minutes or so), feeling like I was having a bad trip for a few hours in the middle of the day and would end around 3:30 pm, ache in the lower back of my head, photophobia, numbness in my right arm in the morning, twitching in my face, shaky hands, numbness in my pelvis, heart palpitations out of the blue, having to take deep breaths, extreme fatigue during the day, enlarged red blood cells, low body temperatures sometimes climbing up a couple degrees, night sweats, chills, swollen and sore belly (internal and external), blue palms, more visible blue veins near my lip and on my legs... I'm sure I'm forgetting some... oh yeah, short-term memory loss. That was probably a given.
Anywayyyy, my main concern is that I may have been suffering from another tick-borne illness that my doctor said she'd check for, but never did even though I've had bloodwork done twice already. I've been bitten by ticks a couple times since I've been taking antibiotics too so I don't think it's too ridiculous to assume.
Is it normal to experience all these symptoms in succession AFTER starting an antibiotic routine?
I've read that one cannot be fully treated for Lyme until any co-infections are treated first; is this true?
I only have 6 days left of Doxycycline, but I fear that may not be enough and that my symptoms will reemerge and worsen again.
Posts: 4 | From Fairfield County, CT | Registered: Jun 2010
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