Topic: Happened Again! Got a cold and all my LYME and CO-Infection symptoms GONE
tricia386
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Hi Everyone-
Started getting a cold last night. All my Lyme symptoms are gone including my IC pain and my SI joint pain and many other symptoms. SOOO strange!
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dbpei
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I wonder if this means that your immune system is back in gear and while it fights the cold, it is also fighting lyme. That would be great! Posts: 2386 | From New England | Registered: Aug 2011
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tricia386
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Who knows...I feel like crap but almost feel normal if that makes sense
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That happened to me last month. I got my first really bad cold in years. My LLMD said it was a sign my immune system was waking up.
Celebrate!!!
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tricia386
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I have been getting colds for over a year and I am still not better....ugh
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randibear
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wierd...i wonder if the cold is just not suppressing the lyme.
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Razzle
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Buhner says chronic lyme is a TH2 process. Colds are a TH1 process. There is an inverse relationship between TH1 and TH2; things that stimulate TH1 suppress TH2, and things that stimulate TH2 suppress TH1.
So if a cold is TH1 stimulating, then that would cause suppression of TH2. If chronic Lyme is TH2, then suppressing TH2 would in effect reduce the immune system's attack on Lyme, and thus may reduce symptoms.
If the inflammation caused by Lyme is TH2 driven, a TH1 driven attack on a cold virus could essentially distract the immune system from continuing the TH2 driven inflammation associated with Lyme and thus may reduce Lyme symptoms temporarily.
When I get a cold, my Lyme symptoms continue. I have a deficiency of regulatory T-cells, though...
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tricia386
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Is it bad to say I'd rather live with a cold than lyme symptoms?
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I would also love to get a cold to get rid of my lyme pain for a certain time. Unfortunately i didnt get one the last 6 months.
It must be possible to use this cold mechanism to stay symptomfree somehow. So dear scientists, find out how.
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Razzle
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Some herbs can be taken to stimulate TH1 or suppress TH2...but this is not advised long-term...
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tricia386
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I wonder if this happened bc I started my ldn again? Thoughts?
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This happens to me, too. I haven't had a cold in a long time. I also think that I would rather have a cold than lyme symptoms. Much easier to handle!
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Lymedin2010
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Immune system makes more surface antibodies to attack organism causing the cold. This reduces the number actively seeking Lyme, causing less inflammation and destroying less of your very own tissue.
I experienced the same. Actually right now I have a bug that my family also got. I feel worst and many movements, more head and neck pressure and fever close to 100, but it just started a few hours ago.
To me this indicates a really bad system infection caused by Lyme. Immune system is distracted, allowing them to move and replicate.
So I think it can go either way, depending on how entrenched you are with bacteria.
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Lymedin, so you mean our immune system normally damages our tissue by fighting lyme and is now distracted by the cold?
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tricia386
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Been sick since Thursday and no lyme symptoms at all! Maybe my lyme symptoms will be gone after the cold! Wishful thinking. It's werid I started my ldn again on Monday and started to get sick Wednesday.
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Wow, not me!!! I catch everything and I get really sick for a really long time!! I have no natural killer cells, maybe that's why.
Kathy
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