are you in treatment? if so how long?

are your symptoms keeping u from functioning?

I'm assuming lymeherx said funny....because anyone who has had an illnes for a sustained period of time has motivation problems from time to time...

the longer you have a debilitating disease the more likely that you are going to run into motivation problems at least from time to time.

Give yourself a break once and awhile... when your symptoms become to much....
You have to learn to accept your limitations and learn to adapt to them until you get well.

what helps me do the things I need to do.... like a load of wash.... even though I'm always exhausted and doing the wash is going to increase my pain level ... and my pain level already has me limited...

I just think of all my family has done for me and all they have sacrificed to make my life better...

the fact that my mom cleans the entire house and cooks for me.... and the least I can do is my wash....

and it makes dealing with the extra symptoms from doing my wash easier to face

Basically you have to find your own motivation... but you also have to cut yourself a break...

also i'm not saying you are but I thought you should know that depression is a symptom of lyme disease that many patients have in case you should ever experience it.

I hope it helps to know that losing motivation from time to time is normal... and that i would say we probaly all have at one time or another.

I hope this makes you feel a little better

ha ha ha

yes chronic motivation challenges,

also you cant make goals cause you dont know how youll feel, so you develop psychological problems.

I do have modivational prolems. I never did before this past year.

I don't know that it is all illness now or a mix of depression along with it. I have always been able to manage stress and have never in my life been a depressed or anxious person until this past year. Althought with the overwhelming neuro problems it is understandable.

I have to push myself to do simple tasks that used to come easily. Things that I used to love to do don't mean that much to me anymore.

I have been told that once I am underway with treatment and it takes effect one day my symtems will begin to reverse and I will start becoming that person I used to be again.

I hope that you will start feeling better soon.

I am not at a place where I can give out advice about Lyme yet. I am here to Learn but I can tell about my own experiences. I hope that I have helped in some way.

Welcome to Lymenet
Cindy

Until now.

I find myself immobilized for the first time in my life. My get up and go and gotten up and gone. So sick and meds thus far have not helped but made it worse and I can't even take the full doses.

It is the not getting anywhere that takes the life out of you. I keep reaching for the old spunk and can't find it.

Nobody, including family, really gets this. I am so sick of trying to explain it over and over to people who really don't listen, just continue to say, "why can't you come over, why can't you have a huge thanksgiving dinner for the family like you used to, blah, blah, blah.

Motivation disappears in the face of self pity, anger and helplessness, not good motivaters, that's for sure and nobody knows it better than I do. For example, I have told my aunt 50 times about my situation, explained it in full, and she still acts hurt when I don't come over for lunch!!!!

Let's face it folks, this is unfettered territory: a chronic disease that no one knows anything about except us.

There is a great George Carlin line: "if you are really sick and dying, people feel sorry for you, if you continue just to feel bad, you are a pain in the ass."

No that it bothers me too much. LD has cured me of the "always pleasing other people" disease I suffered from all of my life. A small victory at a great cost I might add.

Sorry for gloom so early in AM, but holidays always bring me down. But there are worse things as we all know and self pity does not buy you a cup of coffee or a day of feeling decent!!

Lymelady

You are not alone. That sort of thing is typical with Lyme. What I am not sure of is whether it will improve over time with treatment. It is keeping me from working. Anyone have any opinions on that?

Just droping a piece of paper onto the floor, you know you have to pick it up, but you just look at it and it just stays there. Weeks can go by befor it's picked up.
Try explaining that to a normal person.

Could be that the brain fog, CFS, depression, plus others, tied all together = lack of motivation.

If I knew the answer I would pick up the paper and all the pens around my desk.

Alex

This happened to me, and it was depression.

I had this happen several years ago, and took the St Johns Wort, I was not nearly as sick as I am now.

A year later... I started a candida program with the nystatin, first time every using long term nystatin tablets. By the 3-4 day I felt incredible in the mind, so much motivation. I designed a website in one week, and prior to this was trying to design a website for ONE YEAR. I keep a journal so know this. I was not working but was trying to keep up with my line of work... but just could not get into it... until I took the St JOhns wort.
I had no idea that what I had was depression. I had seen a herbalist at that time that did iridology and she picked this depression up in my eyes.

Also, when I was on the nystatin, I had stopped the St Johns Wort... did not need it.

Depression can be from lyme, candida, or just plain being chronically ill. Or other causes too,.

I know for me, I am very depressed now... so started on the St Johns Wort, and really! noticed a difference. Got more things done, like sorting boxes that have been sitting there for months!

I am now off St Johns Wort, because I read not long ago that it can induce liver enzymes... making medications less effective. 50% less effecitve I read. They were talking about the recent research that had been done on st johns wort and it enducing liver enzymes and a cancer drug. It does this to some medication, and they cannot say for sure which ones the news article said and how each individual would respond.

So, just to be safe I stopped it about one week ago. well, I am now sinking into the depression again, so not sure what to do here. Also, I think the st johns wort was reacting to the doxycycline as some night I took it I was awakening later with shortness of breath. I stopped it and no more of that.

I also think> my depression now may be candida.... I am on the nystatin and oil of oregano, and the herxing from the nystatin is MAJOR depression.

Maybe your candida is bad? or try a antidperessant. I am in Canada and the best St JOhns Wort I have used is by Flora Health products. It is superb. No other St Johns wort worked for me like this one.

I am afriad to use something like Zoloft, since I am so sensitive to meds. I used some sleeping pills years ago, and 1/2 pill had me walking into walls. Took 2 days to wear off.

Trish