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I didnt get my period for 8 consecutive months before I was diagnosed with Lymes. I started getting my period again BEFORE I got treated for Lymes but still was unable to concieve. With in 3 weeks of treatment I ended up pregnant . But I was wondering if any other women or husbands/boyfriends out there had or knew of anyone having the same issues.
Only curious because you really dont read alot about this in the Lymes literature... However, I willing to bet its a huge issue.
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You said you started getting your period again BEFORE receiving any treatment for Lyme Disease, so I don't think you can logically blame your missed periods on this disease, nor your infertility. More likely this was involved, as I highly doubt only men are affected....
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Lyme disease can cause missed periods or even a false menopause. They both happened to me. I was producing zero estrogen. I had to go on hormone replacement therapy for a number of years.
With good lyme treatment (but not with lousy lyme treatment), my periods came back and I was back to being premenopausal. Then, I no longer needed hormone replacement.
Look at the Burrascano lyme treatment guidelines. It lists the following lyme symptoms (pages 9-10):
unexplained menstrual irregularity unexplained milk production; breast pain erectile dysfunction loss of libido pain in genital area
If lyme attacks a person gynecologically, they can have all of these symptoms and more. I experienced it and have met a number of women who lost their periods due to lyme. With good lyme treatment, they got their periods back.
Any young woman who stops having periods really needs to find the cause. If it is lyme, then it has stopped your estrogen production and that will come back to haunt you in the future in the form of osteopenia and the dreaded osteoporosis (brittle or weak bones that break on their own).
Lyme shrunk my ovaries to practically nothing. Every gyn remarked on it. But, unfortunately, none of them thought of anything but menopause. They never thought lyme.
I went 10 years with undiagnosed lyme disease.
It has now been over 5 1/2 years since I got rid of lyme disease. I am symptom free, enjoying my life.
Glad you found out you had lyme disease--if you know what I mean!!
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How many with Lyme who missed periods were also using a cell phone at the time? I think it's dangerous to blame every symptom on Lyme. I've been on tons of antibiotics and some symptoms have never budged.
I also worry that most here just brushed over the cell phone-infertility article. Are women somehow immune from the effects?
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I never owned a cell phone during the time lyme disease stopped my periods. And, I never had wireless Internet either.
I want everyone to know how many women lyme disease attacks gynecologically and how they should NOT just accept their doctors saying that they are going through an early menopause.
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Irregular periods were absolutely due to my tick born illnesses. It was way way before cell phones.
They gyno's I asked told me I was lucky to get less frequent periods. Yeah real lucky!
Later during treatment, I got a constant period for a while which went away with further treatment.
My guess is that tick born illnesses have a huge effect on our hormones as TF explained.
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check out PCOS its pretty common. It causes a lot of problems, infertility being a huge one.
polycystic ovarian syndrome
soulcysters.com.
not everything is Lyme related.
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It is a known fact that Lyme may cause PCOS and endometriosis, and false menopause. My theory is that this lyme is possibly transmitted by our husbands like any other sexually transmitted disease. My false menopause has gone away with treatment but now that I'm on antibiotics, having terrible PMS and severe menstral cramps when I get my period. I think I made the critters mad!
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Endometriosis is strongly linked to fibromyalgia and gluten intolerance. And those are all symptoms of the Lyme disease complex.
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Thank you for all the info. I was actually diagnosed with PCOS and FM, but PCOS I was diagnosed with 2 yrs ago and then after my Lymes diagnosis I was told I had FM. Strangely enough I was given a MRI and a CT that showed no cysts on my ovaries and in further examination by other gyno's no cysts apeared again either.
It makes me think that as Lymes goes threw your different systems, and at the onset of its attach it causes issues that your immune system when it tries to over come it can sometimes reverse or correct on its own. Some things our immune system can magically correct and others it can't with out antibiotics / treatment . As I go over the past 3 yrs in my head and think of all the random things that have happened and then changed and so on I'm amazed at how complex it all is.
I rememeber being in my primary's office at 30 insisting I was pre menopausal because of hot flashes that I could actually monitor threw my temp and night sweats and anxiety. I remember her looking at me like I was a fruit cake and then being sent off to have my thyroid tested. Ugh. What a long and strange road its been. I'm not glad to hear I'm not alone , but I am happy to find out that its all connected...., and even happier to be able to give my sons a younger brother or sister. I was beginning to lose hope.
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quote:Originally posted by elizzza811: [QB] How many with Lyme who missed periods were also using a cell phone at the time? I think it's dangerous to blame every symptom on Lyme.
It's dangerous to blame every symptom on EMF and cell phones too, Ms T!
(Cell phones have not been around all that long. My female problems date back way before cell phones.)
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. But I was wondering if any other women or husbands/boyfriends out there had or knew of anyone having the same issues. 
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