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Hi all, hope you are feeling well today. I have two questions for the masses: 1) Is anyone using, or has used, an online symptom tracker? Many LLMD's insist upon regular symptom tracking and it can become tedious. Looking to simplify, and maybe be able to print out some useful graphs (sounds anal, I know ;-) 2) Of those of you who are able to exercise (and trust me, I know this is not all of us), do any of you subscribe to the theroy that the ketes hate it and/or die off when you raise your core body temp? And as such, do you do regular cardio? And what sort of routines help you (duration, level of exertion, etc) Thanks! Be well...
-------------------- Battling Lyme off and on for 21 years in one form or anohter, mostly neuro... Posts: 13 | From Philly suburbs | Registered: Jan 2011
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My lyme doctor told me I would never get well unless I did the Burrascano 1 hour weight lifting/calesthenics program every other day.
I believe this is one of the best things I ever did. It worked wonders for me.
In March, it will be 6 years since I completed my lyme treatment and I am still symptom free, enjoying my life.
Burrascano gave a number of possible theories on why the weight lifting worked to kill the diseases and achieve a remission. One was raising of body temp.
You can read about it in his Guidelines on page 31.
I recommend that every lyme sufferer do the 1 hour, full body weight lifting program when they are well enough to do so. It was a major struggle for me to do it for 10 minutes when I first started. It took me months to work up to the 1 hour of continuous lifting. That's because my major symptom was extreme muscle weakness. My legs shook like jello just walking down a flight of stairs.
I did bench presses, crunches, leg lifts, pulleys, hand weights, back exercises, etc. No aerobic exercise, just like Burrascano says. It lowers the T-cell function too much and for too long a time.
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No aerobic exercise, wow. I had no idea. That's predominantly what I have been doing, with some mild weight training. Thanks TF.
-------------------- Battling Lyme off and on for 21 years in one form or anohter, mostly neuro... Posts: 13 | From Philly suburbs | Registered: Jan 2011
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KfromPA, I was a competitive trail runner before I was diagnosed with Lyme and co, and I've continued to do at least some type of aerobic (as well as anaerobic) exercise throughout treatment. As I've improved, I've been able to run longer and with more regularity again, although nowhere near the level I could pre-Lyme.
Before I was diagnosed and early into my treatment, I wasn't recovering well from exercise, and so I had to take more days off and walk on some days. As I've improved, I can exercise daily again, if I feel like it, and am recovering a bit better.
All in all, I subscribe to the theory that exercise and raising core temp does help!
ps - who do you see in the Philly area? PM me if you don't mind telling...
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