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Topic: Is there anyone here who has not had surgery but is ill?

linzlu
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Member # 12818

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Just curious. Any Lyme positives with no prior surgeries?

Posts: 19 | From Texas | Registered: Aug 2007 | IP: Logged |

sixgoofykids
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Member # 11141

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I had my tonsils out when I was five .... does that count? That was WAY before I was sick.

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bettyg
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hey goofy, that was my question too? lol [lol]

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ICEiam
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 7519

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My daughter hasn't ever had surgery and she is VERY Lyme positive.

She had a huge cyst removed under her arm AFTER she was diagnosed with Lyme, does that count?

HUGS

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ICEY

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lymebytes
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 11830

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No surgery, but have nuero LD and co-infections, Igenex positive.

There are many "triggers" surgery can be one. For me it was corticosteroids.

For a friend of mine, it was fumes from painting her house.

The list goes on.

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disturbedme
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
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I haven't had surgery and I have lyme and Bart (maybe others as well).

I think my trigger was getting married and moving to another state.

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Posts: 2965 | From Land of Confusion (bitten in KS, moved to PA, now living in MD) | Registered: Jun 2007 | IP: Logged |

adamm
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No "trigger" here. Simply got bitten by a tick, and got

sick 5 days later. I became encephalitic within two weeks.

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tickled1
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Member # 14257

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I believe my "trigger" was a flu shot.

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KS
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Member # 12549

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Never any surgery for me....birth of a child stirred things up...

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radfaraf
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Member # 11909

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I've had a wisdom tooth extraction and that it is. I don't believe it is related to my Lyme. My Lyme symptoms started several years later. I had no rash or tick that I saw and I'm pretty sure I got one hiking around the time I got sick, or from someone's dog who I was around a lot, and was told they would often pick up ticks. I didn't realize at the time how dangerous it was.

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knshore
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I've never had a surgery. My trigger has been many things, but the worst was cortizone epidurals.

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cjnelson
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Got sick at inital bite I am sure. Then a major "trigger" in 99 going through divorce. From there its been down hill!

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Clarissa
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No surgeries.

I believe my trigger was being born.

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Because I knew you:
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Posts: 1625 | From Florida | Registered: Oct 2003 | IP: Logged |

cottonbrain
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 13769

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No surgery before Lyme.

Bilateral surgery for mallet toes after Lyme. I now understand that this can be a symptom of RA, which I have a gene for.

Nineteen months after the toe surgery, my feet have NOT healed. I was much better BEFORE the surgery. Now I hobble...intense pain.

My LLMD says its because the surgery caused the spirochetes to settle in my toe joints.

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kbholley
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 12938

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No surgeries pre - lyme

Tick bite with bullseye rash 2001

Down hill ever since-

Bladder re-attachment and historectmy (sp) at the same time, June 1, 2006

Heart attack at the age of 38 - November 11,2006

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Posts: 126 | From Florida | Registered: Aug 2007 | IP: Logged |

linzlu
Member
Member # 12818

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Thanks for all the responses. I have snother question for those of you who said they have never had sugery.

Do you remeber a tick bite, bullseye rash and flu like illness?

I'd like to know if you have any memeory of the so called inital markers of Lyme?

Thanks,

Lindsay

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Aniek
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Member # 5374

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No surgery.

I did have a bulls eye rash.

But remember that as few as 50% of people remember seeing a tick or bulls eye rash.

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adamm
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The symptoms I got right after my tick bite were typical of a cold,

and given how little I knew about TBD's and the

fact that my parents got the same sx a couple of days after I

did, I figured it actually was a cold (the fact that I found a

tick prompted me to get doxy, though.) I now worry that

I gave my TBD's to them, as their

memories seem to have been impoverished since that time (though

they contend that everything is normal.)

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treepatrol
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Member # 4117

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Theres alot of [people never remember tick bite.

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Posts: 10564 | From PA Where the Creeks are Red | Registered: Jun 2003 | IP: Logged |

Vermont_Lymie
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Member # 9780

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No surgery.

Two tick bites (known, probably other exposures);

two known bulls-eye rashes.

Never had a positive blood test.

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Clarissa
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 4715

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No surgery.

No ticks attached to my body.

No rash.

Again, being born.

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Because I knew you:
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