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Hi I am new to this group i joined because of my father he has chronic lyme. He has had a lumbar and found spirochetes(?) spelling. Anyway his lyme went untreated for 5 years then he has been put on I believe 3-4 rounds of IV Rocephin and we found a Dr. In famout MA that seems to be great after a long search with other Dr.'s that werent very good and he is on Tetracylcine now but alternates from Doxy he is Herxing now my question is has anyone expereinced the memory loss and confusion slurred stuttering loss of words speech he is 71 and otherwise very healthy this darn lyme is killing him he feels awful will any of his impairments come back at this age? Will it get better? Does anyone else have this type of LYME? Thank you so much
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5dana8
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Hi Sandrat97
Sorry to hear about your Dad
Neuro-lyme with memory loss & speach problems are common with lyme. Lyme is called "The Great Imitator" becuase it mimic alzheimers, MS , ALS and many other neurological disease's.
I had un treated lyme for many years also and my memory and speach where effected. I spent several years in treatment and now am much better.
3 years ago my hubby had to into my LLMD's appointment with me becuase I couldn't follow conversations and my speach was really bad.
But now it much better after treatment. But got much worse while I was herxing on the antibiotics. Alot of people get worse before they get better.
Has your doc tested your dad for co-infections? Most lyme pateints have at least one co-infection. When the tick bites you it transmitt many diease's along with lyme.
Go to the "newbie links" in medical and read some articles there on herxing and neuro problems and co-infections.
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Sandra, I had memory loss at 30. I started a new job and after three months still could not recall the names of the people I worked with. There were only about 8 of us.
I am much better know, but there are periods when my symptoms get worse-usually when starting a new treatment.
Your father is fortunate to have a caring daughter. Know that he can get well, and hang in there if things get worse for a while.
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I don't know if it will get any better and they say brain cells continue to regenerate use or lose...at the same time, with age...it will potentially be more challenging. And at some point in my lyme, "use" was not even an option.
I also have this type of lyme where speech and words are affected but also I do not recognize faces of family or people I know or the very simplest of things and (variable, happens sometimes does not happen other times...do not know what triggers or alleviates it but overall, huge problem)
for the longest time thought it was some autistic spectrum aspect...
although now, with the urge to sleep...seems more like
simple closing down, alzheimers. Lots of other things associate with this like
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