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Topic: Indication You Are Getting Better?

daystar1952
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I have noticed that there are different subsets of people with lyme. The 2 differences I notice the most are some lyme patients have underactive immune systems and also catch all the "normal" diseases going around...such as colds, flus, sore throats...etc. Then there are those of us who never seem to get the normal illnesses that everyone else gets. We may feel worse with an excaberation of lyme but we do not get these other contagious illnesses.

Well.....everytime I'm allowed to go on antibiotics for an extended period of time I begin to feel pretty good. An an indication of how much better I am getting is...that I begin to catch the normal diseases again. Maybe our immune systems are partially overactive from fighting the lyme and coinfections and therefore are on overdrive and keep away these contagious illnesses.

This past week I realized how much "better" I must be getting. I became very sick with a stomach bug and threw up for the first time in 15 years. Anyone else have this experience?

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Lymetoo
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Member # 743

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Yep, I started getting viruses and such about 2 yrs ago. First time in many many years.

It used to amaze me [had lyme then....didn't know it]... while teaching school that I felt lousy all the time, but I would never catch any of the bugs the kids brought to the classroom.

I'm not sure this link still works.
immune system http://flash.lymenet.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/017077.html

Glad to hear that you are getting well!

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Jewlbug
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I've been wondering this myself. I was never one to get sick, even before Lyme. I've been in treatment for a year now, and I caught one hell of a virus last week that's been floating around my region. I don't think I've been sick like that for many years. My temperature even returned to normal.

The weirdest thing for me was that the entire time I was sick, I did not have 1 Lyme symptom. It was almost like my immune system found something more important to fight.

I really do hope that this is a positive sign that we are on our way to recovery!

My best,
Jewl

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Sue vG
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Member # 3143

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Yes, I have that hyperactive but off-key immune system too. But that was going on for a few years before lyme (as I define it) hit. An immunologist actually put a name to it, but I can't "access those files" at the moment.

I've had tests which suggest that my situation is related to a copper-zinc dysregulation (metallothionein disorder), though lyme may have exacerbated it.

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daystar1952
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Jewel bug....I know just what you mean ...and I've said it myself...that when I am sick with the "normal" illness...I don't have any lyme symptoms. You said maybe it's because our immune system has found something more important to fight....I also said that.
So.....does this then mean that our symptoms are coming from the end result of our body fighting the lyme germ and not the germ itself casuing the actual symptoms?

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beachcomber
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I have just the opposite happening to me. For years I caught every single flu, cold, bronchitis, pneumonia, sinus infection, you name it. My family commented that I was "sick all the time". I couldn't be near a two year old in the winter - the little germ carriers. But, I love the little guys and would play with them and get whatever germ trickled out of their noses. I also got sick every single time I flew on a jet.

Since being treated for Lyme, I now get colds the way normal people do. It cycles through my system in a week or 2, instead of the 3 months I would have one before. My immune system seems to be working better since I have been on abx and have started to kill off the chetes.

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