Maya12
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so i have been on treatment for just under two months and all i seem to do is get worse and worse.
since starting treatment i have been much worse than i was before ever starting treatment and the herxing, if thats what it is, just never seems to get better or let up.
i always feel down and depressed and anxious and sick all over
shouldn't i be having some slightly better times by now after two months of treatment, shouldn't the herxing let up at some point and then i feel better.
i am getting so discouraged and feel i am just falling deeper and deeper from sanity and life and i am so scared.
is this a bad sign that i just feel so bad all the time but never have releif or see any improvement?
please give me some encouragement.i really need it.
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Maya12
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please can someone give me some hope
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sixgoofykids
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At two months I still needed help walking!!
You have to have hope. I always KNEW I would get better. Not getting better was not even a remote thought in my head. With that attitude I did everything I could to get well, and I did.
It takes years, unfortunately, not weeks. You will have life return during those years, but to get competely well, it's years.
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It is a long road. I'm also still at the beginning. I'm on a roller coaster. A bad week (or month), a bad herx, bad emotions, then I have a good few days and think...." Yes, some day all this crap will end and I will be me again." God gives me a ray of hope.
But depression, frustration, loneliness, pain.... It seems like too much sometimes.
I also declined tremendously for the first 3 months (on herbs), then continued to herx off and on for the next 2 (on abx). Now 5 months in I'm having my first "good" week. Of course this doesn't mean pre-lyme good, but again, it is a glimpse of how things will continue to improve.
It's a really slow process. Most illness recoveries are measured in weeks. Lyme and co's are measured in months.... But like six said, I KNOW I will get better...
If you are truly in despair, you need to talk to your dr about anti-depressants/anti-anxiety medicine and counseling therapy. They pulled me through a very difficult time a couple of years back when I felt like I was going to lose my mind.
You WILL get through this. You WILL be pre-lyme Maya again. You can PM me anytime you need to talk....
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Maya, it takes a LOOOONG time. part of the process is getting the right doc. I went through quite a few substandard docs in the process. But it has been 2 years for me, and I have been improving steadily for the past 8 months. depending on how sick you are, improvement can be slow and unnoticeable at times. But it does get better. 2 months is not very long at all. this is a good resource, so keep coming to this site.
And yes, it will get worse before it gets better. Just keep going.
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Maya12, if you were not feeling worse and worse after treating, then you'd have something to worry about.
This is a good sign, it shows that you are in fact responding to treatment.
Hang in there it will get better.
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Maya12
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Thanks to everyone who helped me today and wrote to me I really appreciate all the help and encouragement I lwant to hug you guys for all the help and don't know what I would do without you guys
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Maya12
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This cite really is priceless for me And keeps me going
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Thanks to everyone who helped me today and wrote to me I really appreciate all the help and encouragement I lwant to hug you guys for all the help and don't know what I would do without you guys
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