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I just started back on treatment for Lyme. I have to drive 2 hours sometimes longer when the roads are bad to see the Dr. My own Dr "humors" me. He says I have had more tests than he can believe some of which he has never heard of.
I attempted treatment 2yrs ago, My TSH spiked not mildly either and the treatment was stopped while I have ridden a roller coaster of hyper and hypo thyroid ism.
My specific Lyme is Ehrlichiosis. I have been off work for over 4 years now and it sucks. I always get comfused though when someone mentions ehrlichiosis as it seems as they are referring to something other than lyme. I have lived closer to the west than east coast, been bitten by Ark, Tx, and Tn ticks on numerous occasion and evidently was bitten in BC a little over 10 yrs, maybe 12 as I had the rash and no one could identify it. Along with the rash I started having migrating pains which I ignored as well as my swollen glands that were not infectious according to the Drs. I am feeling very ill right now after a week on biaxin and have not even started the flagyl yet. I have dreams that i am dying and my head feels like a well played with basketball. I have had this for so long that I wonder if I can ever get better for real.. and can someone clear up the ehrlichiosis thing for me? sorry so lengthy, i get off task and off on tangents.
Posts: 6 | From Kamloops, BC | Registered: Dec 2007
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I started out on biaxin and will add the flagyl tonight.
My head is in constant pain now and would like to smash it between 2 cold hard rocks.
Posts: 6 | From Kamloops, BC | Registered: Dec 2007
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Erlichiosis is a different disease than lyme. It is referred to as a coinfection because it is also transmitted by a tick, and so many people
who have lyme also have this coinfection. Coinfections make lyme more difficult to treat.
The other common ones are babesia (parasite), bartonella and mycoplasma (bacteria). You can also be coinfected with viruses such as Epstein-Barr and HHV-6.
Posts: 418 | From NJ | Registered: Sep 2007
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