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Why is it that extreme exercise and diet made my lyme go in remission. When I had stopped, I hit stage 3!After that I gained weight off nothing and had an obese abdomen. What do you guys think of exercise? I'm far too weak to do it now, but it did great things for me. It strangely worked like an antibiotic.. Maybe because it supplied extra oxygen to my muscles and since the bacteria's anaerobic, I had herxes! Lynn
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Lynn:
I believe exercise kept my Lyme at bay for years. I was first infected around 1990, bullseye and all. The MD I saw would not treat me - dismissed it as a black fly bite. I exercised daily and at a more competetive level on weekends for years, until my joints started to become "arthritic". I slowed down, put weight on, etc., and was finally diagnosed with late stage or chronic Lyme.
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When you exercize it also produces natural endorphins (pain killers) that could of helped in down regulation of the pain symptoms too.
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My LLMD told me that exercise makes Lyme worse. You may feel better temporarily, but the underlying condition is heading in the wrong direction. She warned me that I could set myself up for a major "crash" if I tried to overdo it at all.
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Probabaly the symptoms of lyme caused you not to want to exercise-- thus there was probably an effect both ways. But I do belive that with lyme, "the more you do, the better you get". So it's good to try to exercise as much as yu can manage. But it's important not to overdo it, too, especiallyif you are at a stage where your temp is elevated (I think in later stages it tends to be the opposite) And be careful- your body is more fragile now! At my worst stage I couldn't do anything- could barely walk. At that time I discovered that "heat sessions"-- either hot tub or sauna- helped me to start mild exercise; from then I gradually built up. I had the co-infections babesiosis and ehrlichiosis, too, so my case may not be totally typical. I also started to take graoefruitseed extract and ilive leaf extract 250mg of each wih 8 or 10 oz of water twice a day.,, as well as eat as much raw garlic as I could choke down. I took some colloidal silver too, wgich helped alleviate the symptoms. And I did pay attention to diet and supplements, which made a difference. But all this stuff was stopgap until I got going with the antibiotics- then it helped even more. So the general advice is, do everything you can within reason-- pain happenbs for a reason.. And heat can help one get going. DaveS Posts: 4567 | From ithaca, NY, usa | Registered: Nov 2000
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If possible I think doing some sort of excercise is good all over. While I cannot do Tae Kwon Do any more, I am trying to get a group going to meet at our church to do Tai Chi. You know~~the old Clelebrex commercial with the people making the circles (("running the platter")) Tai Chi is very gentle, you take it easy and don't do what your body says not too. The breathing is relaxful, and healthy. This form is called Tai Chi-Chi. It's the gentelest I think, and not just for the seniors! Posts: 60 | From Enid, OK USA | Registered: Apr 2005
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I was a regular exerciser. At least 4x 30-50 minutes. Did this through vertigo, dizziness, tinnitus. Was looking to develop and tone, but actually seemed to retain a lot of fluid. I would sometimes start to pass out or panic I was going to have a stroke during some exercise and would stop. Repercussions late spring last year stopped me from repetitive fitness as simple as weeding the garden. Started to lose weight over summer unexpectedly with severe lyme pain and agressive chronic symptoms. I really feel like the gains/losses are related to the hormonal differences and balances between the men and women affected by Lyme disease. The frequent exercise definitly can put a hold on menses and like treepatrol stated about the endorphin influence. Also serotonin levels fluctuating. I feel like there may be a temporary comfort in the weight loss and loss of menstruation due to the balance out of the hormone levels... putting you into a male like chemical/hormone balance.
quote:Originally posted by Lymester: I was a regular exerciser. At least 4x 30-50 minutes. Did this through vertigo, dizziness, tinnitus. Was looking to develop and tone, but actually seemed to retain a lot of fluid. I would sometimes start to pass out or panic I was going to have a stroke during some exercise and would stop. Repercussions late spring last year stopped me from repetitive fitness as simple as weeding the garden. Started to lose weight over summer unexpectedly with severe lyme pain and agressive chronic symptoms. I really feel like the gains/losses are related to the hormonal differences and balances between the men and women affected by Lyme disease. The frequent exercise definitly can put a hold on menses and like treepatrol stated about the endorphin influence. Also serotonin levels fluctuating. I feel like there may be a temporary comfort in the weight loss and loss of menstruation due to the balance out of the hormone levels... putting you into a male like chemical/hormone balance.
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I think that exercise is also good if you don't overdo it. Like, if you're dizzy and weak, do soem sitting down exercises like crunches , thigh exercises, swimming's goos cause you don't have to stand up. Swimming's also really good for your joints!I find it helps with lyme rage, takes away depression, and puts the lyme in remission[ lyme's anaerobic and can't live in the presence of oxygen]. Exercise in my opinion is like medication,it's almost like that special oxygen therapy but in small odses- your muscles and tissues get a good supply of O2.SOOO if you stop exercising, it's alomost like cutting of meds in my opinion. atleast that's how I FELT.If you exercise for an hour a day , keep it constant, if not, I find I get worse. Lynn xoxox
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Twenty years ago when I first got TBD no one knew what was wrong. I was so scared and alone. I became a "health nut", that is organic whole food, walked an hour daily in the sunshine, herbs, homeopathics, etc-I did it all.
It took me 1.5 yrs to improve but I did. But I never got all the way better. IMO, exercise stimulates all body systems, thus improves immune function.
I'll never know why Lyme caught up to me. The stress of childbirth and nursing set me back a good bit. Then menopause really set me back again. But still I managed to do not too bad.
Then a horrific wrist fracture and 2 repair surgeries did it. Or maybe I was bitten again. Maybe many bites. But I became housebound I was so sick.
Now I'm on abx and improving. And walking again. So it's only 2 blocks. It's a start. And I'm not alone this time-I have all of you.
And I'm feeding myself better food. But I never could have done it without the abx.
I gonna become a "health nut" again. It keeps the immune system strong . And I'm gonna stay away from ticks!
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babesia is aerobic..it' loves o2 and thrives on it...so you may have activated a case of babesia....it lives in the red blood cells, which is why when we have it, and it invades our body we are short of breath!
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