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I've had lyme for 8 years now and I'm on Mepron, Biaxin XL and take Bicillin shots. On Sunday, I was walking in the woods in a lyme endemic area, but I had bug spray, pants tucked in, etc. Later that night, I had my bicillin shot.
On Monday night, however, I started feeling very dizzy and went to bed with bed spins, broke out in a drenching sweat (different kind of sweat from babesia sweats) and some nausea. The next day, felt awful with a headache and frequently feeling feverish. Today, the following day, just headaches. I've never felt dizzy with lyme before and headaches have been rare. After two days, the symptoms have subsided and the dizzyness seemed to be only that night.
Could it be a sign that I might have been re-bit? Or could it be a herx? Being on Biaxin and Bicillin, am I covered for lyme in case it was a new infection? The other thing on my mind is if I got re-bit was the issue of coinfections.
I'm not sure if I should bother my LLMD's office about it. I have a telephone consult in a week, but not quite sure what to do. Any thoughts or advice would be helpful.
Another thing on my mind is that I frequently avoid sugar/carbs - almost religious about it, but on Monday, I had a good deal more carbs/sugar than I'm used to. I've been diagnosed before with having reactive hypoglycemia. Could the symptoms that night have been from a sugar crash (dizzy, sudden sweats)? It doesn't explain the hot forehead the next day or 24 hours later though.
Thanks.
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Geneal
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Or maybe you caught some viral infection?
How are you feeling now?
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Actually Rob, it really does sound a lot like a viral infection/ flu type thing, especially with the fever and all. Maybe you picked it up while travelling?
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I know I was getting better after about 16 months of abx and then got a fever and flu like symptoms and I started to take a nosedive again.
So the big question was, did I get re-infected or was I slipping on the current treatment or was I herxing like crazy?
The bottom line as I was sent for a second opinioin is that it really didn't matter and he just changed my entire treatment protocol.
Since if I was re-infected, I would be doing the same thing as I would if it were the other two cases.
So many unknowns with this disease and no way to test accurately as to what may have happened. Just stick with your treatment and good luck.
Cathy
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I'd figure Babesia would have been covered by the Mepron, as well.
It could have been the hypoglycemia, flu or reactivation of a virus.
If you were hypoglycemic prior to Lyme, feeding sugar & carbs to the ketes (ferment to alcohol) could have given you a "double-whammy".
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how are you feeling now, still dizzy?
I became dizzy when symptoms hit me hard, i know feel it was babesia. although zithromax seemed to clear it up.
are your sinuses ears ok, maybe an inner ear thing possibly?
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Maybe it was a herx??? I dont know I just wanted to help if I could!!
OR.. maybe it was a traveling virus???
Hope you feel better
Shandy
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Hey neighbor!
I understand about the reactive hypoglycemia. The fever part does not fit in, but the dizziness and sweats certainly do.
If it happens again, drink a glass of milk and see how you feel after about 10 minutes. If you feel better, then it is probably low blood sugar. If you still feel yucky, then it is probably something else.
I have found that the lactose (sugar) in milk is just enough to bring my sugar up to normal without being too sugary. If I am feeling shaky, 8 oz. of milk and a ten minute wait brings me back to normal.
Well . . . I know. Normal is subjective . . .
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