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Topic: Were your symptoms sudden or gradual onset?

BHealthyNow
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 22537

posted

My tick bite was a long time ago. One day I got Bell's Palsy, and then two weeks later I was sicker than I've ever been.

I've read acute onset can be related to co-infections, and I'm wondering what your experiences were.

I'm mostly concerned about a relapse because I never had gradual worsening of symptoms. One day I was fine. The next I wasn't.

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Lyme, Bart, possible Babs
Currently on IV Doxy, Bactrim, Zithromax, Nystatin, Mepron
Been on nearly every antibiotic since 10/09

About 60% improvement. Dizziness, air hunger remain.
http://lemonandlyme.blogspot.com

Posts: 333 | From Boise | Registered: Sep 2009 | IP: Logged |

lymegal23
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 28573

posted

What I'm dealing with now is simply regrowth of what I treated by the CDC guidelines with doxy last year. it didnt kill all of it. and it grew back

i literally woke up one morning in september feeling like crap. mostly my eyes and head. thought I was coming down with something. after two months i felt worse. not bed ridden but just out of it and sick feeling

ive been treating one week. herxed alot. now im starting to feel better. but my stomach is all messed up now for some reason [Frown]

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JunkYardWily
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 24271

posted

mine came on very suddenly. saw a bite. four weeks later out of the clear blue i stated feeling sick. my body was never the same.

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sick since 9-09
igg, 18,23,41 reactive
igm, 41 reactive

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kimmie
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 25547

posted

very abrupt onset of symptoms for myself. Tick bite to scalp end of Nov, 2009 MS type symptoms 2 weeks later and brain lesions on MRI 6 weeks later.

Improving with treatment.

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Starfall
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 26795

posted

This should be an easy question to answer, but for me it's complex.

Yes, I would say that I had a sudden onset of some really weird, acute sx that I never got rid of.

I got steadily sicker till I was dx'ed and began tx for lyme and ehrlichia.

Now looking back, I realize that I had some nagging sx that may or may not have been related to lyme and co.

I'll never know whether those nagging sx were something unrelated or not, but I know that since they weren't severe enough to try to find a cause or a cure, I g=ignored them.

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Pinelady
Frequent Contributor (5K+ posts)
Member # 18524

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I agree with Starfall. I worked thru whatever popped up next...Because they could not find what was wrong each time....Until I could no more...Took over 2 yrs for me...

But I believe it is what all the patient has,

virus', parasites, etc. that determines what all symptoms they have and how they progress...

We simply do not know because no one has done studies like this.

I have grown to believe if you don't treat everything you have---

because the borrelia have genetic capabilities to assimilate other organisms---

you will not get well...

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Suspected Lyme 07 Test neg One band migrating in IgG region
unable to identify.Igenex Jan.09IFA titer 1:40 IND
IgM neg pos
31 +++ 34 IND 39 IND 41 IND 83-93 +
DX:Neuroborreliosis

Posts: 5850 | From Kentucky | Registered: Dec 2008 | IP: Logged |

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