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Well guys, I believe I have finally gotten my first cold, after a couple of years.
I feel bad from the cold, of course, but it seems to have kicked in lots of additional Lyme symptoms on top of it...Yuck!
so, my question is: Doesn't it mean you are possibly getting closer to normal, and/or healing when you get "the common cold" back?
I think I read that once here...Insight anyone?
Thanks, as always! (sneezing)Laura
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sixgoofykids
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Hey, Laura, you might not be willing to do this, but the last cold I had over Christmas wasn't triggering my Lyme symptoms. I was doing coffee enemas every day, but didn't on Christmas Day (yeah, can you imagine, excuse me everyone while I go ....).
Anyway, I slid downhill Christmas and felt really bad when I got up on the 26th with Lyme symptoms. I felt immediately better Lyme-wise, but not cold-wise, after the enema. After the one the next day, no Lyme symptoms at all.
I didn't have colds for a couple years either. I kinda wonder whether our immune systems just didn't use to even recognize we're sick. Most cold symptoms are your immune system getting rid of the bug .... runny nose, fever, etc. ... so were our immune systems not even recognizing there was a problem?
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I don't know, but I have only had Lyme for a year and have a cold right now. I'm definately not 100%, so I don't know if that premise is going to hold up.
I hope you are correct, but I am guessing no. I don't understand how having lyme would make you immune to colds.
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kam
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It is a good sign when you get a cold.
It means the immune system is beginning to work.
I have not had a cold since coming down with this in 2001.
I have had a cold the past 6 or so days now.
Not fun, but it is supposed to be a good sign.
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Well that sucks for me. I haven't had a cold or flu in over three years, ever since starting lyme treatment. Previously I would get sick every spring and every winter with colds and sinus infections like clockwork. Was always sick in the winter as a child as well. I'm doing fairly well right now (still have those monthly crash days of fatigue) with the lyme and am loving not being sick with anything else when everyone around me is hacking away at work.
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