Woke up yesterday with a sore throat. Woke up today with sore throat, stuffed ears, stuffed nose, sinus pressure, zero energy, and chest congestion. I Even left work early to sleep.
Now I haven't had a head cold in a while I thought we lyme people couldn't get sick? Haha Soo is this a good thing?
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- You've been through a lot of physical stress this past week if you live in Boston.
People with lyme can get sick with other things.
I would not attribute this as any sign at all, though, other than some bad luck -- and maybe even if you didn't have to shovel 3 feet of snow yourself (?) the blizzard might have been a stressor for you immune system.
Back to the myth about those with lyme not getting other things. It's just not a "rule" that each body with lyme follows.
While many report they can go years without a cold, many others have one right after another.
The "flip" of the immune system with lyme is not so reliable as to be so overactive with all tennis balls that are lobbed at us. The underactive / worn out part also still trips us up. And the immune system is very intricate. It keeps us guessing.
And, sometimes it really is the luck of the draw. If you are exposed to a cold virus of a strain you had before, you will likely not get it. If it is "new to you" you may well.
But, some of the tendency of those with lyme to maybe not seem to get as many colds, IMO, may have to do with the good care we take, and the supplements that help us out.
Before diagnosis for lyme / TBD . . . I was always very ill, one upper respiratory knock out constantly. Antibiotics failed and tonsils had to come out in college. Likely had lyme then but no one even heard of then in '71.
I had a sore throat for a full 20 years (no doctor could ever "see" it though), not one day without it. Coughing a lot, very ill. And I would go for some years not catching full-on colds but then other years, one on top of the other.
Sounds like you should plan now to take the rest of the week off work, hope that will work out so you can rest and really take care of your nutritional needs, etc.
Certain herbals may help: Black Elderberry is key. -
Posted by Tbrown2 (Member # 42446) on :
Oh alright. Was hoping it was good news. Yes definaltly wore myself out with the late night super bowl parties and shoveling shoveling and more shoveling on top of a full moon.
Posted by LisaK (Member # 41384) on :
tbrown, same thing has happened to me!!! was so NOT sick for all my tx and now I am done and bam! I get a nasty virus with same sx you have. isn't that funny????
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
I had a friend with those sx. She was very sick for ten days. Better now. No tx except sleep
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
I had a friend with those sx. She was very sick for ten days. Better now. No tx except sleep