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Can lyme symptoms such as muscle pain go away for years at a time without any medication? If you have a flare-up, say for 2 to 3 months, could it go away without any antibiotics or medication?
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I don't know but I'm curious to know why you ask? Is this happening to you??
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Yes. Over the years I would get unexplained leg pain -- mostly in the right leg in the quad -- that would come for 2-3 months and then go away on its own. I often believed it was lyme but I never took anything for it and it would go away.
But if it's lyme, does it just go away without meds?
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The first of my issues was an eye twitch that lasted for a year. It went away on its own without antibiotics.
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I think lyme symptoms can come and go. Maybe your immune system clears up a problem area and then later the bacteria starts in on another problem elsewhere. I also think that some strains of Borellia can be killed off by your immune system alone without treatment. I had Borellia Hermsii. Relapsing fever. You have a series of relapsing fevers along with other lyme like symptoms. The fevers stopped after a while. I still have burgdorferi kicking around but I think I may have managed to beat back the Hermsii myself.
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I believe the body is resilient and wants to get better! Sometimes it needs a nudge. When you have these flares is there anything different you do... Rest more, take supps (like magnedium) stretch the muscle more? I think some of the things we do when we're in pain would benefit us all the time.
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I think many of the symptoms of Lyme ebb and flow in intensity. It is one of the factors that make it hard to assess whether a treatment or supplement is doing anything. I find this with muscle and nerve pain, along with the other varying symptoms.
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