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I have realized that when I go back home to Maine, my lightheadedness and vertigo w/o the spinning feeling disappear. However, I am currently living at 7,000 feet and this feeling comes and goes quite often.
I am guessing this might be an inner ear thing, and if so, is there anything I can do about it?
Also, ski season is just about to start up. Is skiing an appropriate form of exercise for Lyme?
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Move to Florida.
I'm not joking.
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If you feel much better when visiting another area/building then you should also consider the possibility that your house has a serious mold problem.
Maybe your symptoms improved not because of altitude, but because of lower exposure to mold in the building in Maine?
I read this in the Lyme Disease Solution Book. But your improvement may very well be associated with altitude, its just not a pattern of improvement I have heard much about.
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I haven't noticed any signs of a mold problem in my current place, also Colorado is very dry compared to a very humid Maine.
I am pretty sure it is an elevation thing. My ears and dizziness do some crazy things when I am driving over passes with frequent changes in elevation.
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Elevation bothered me when I was sick. My grandmother lives in the highest area in the East in NC, which is nothing compared to the West, but it would still bother me. I'd start feeling bad just driving into Knoxville.
My Lyme symptoms would flare, for me, that meant I hurt more and was more fatigued.
If you can ski, I don't know why it would be a problem. If you're tired for the next couple days afterward, then it's probably not the right exercise for you. It just varies for each person.
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Interesting thread - a prominent CFS doc felt the
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I'm at 8000 ft and love it. South cent Colorado. there is a house down the road from me that had to be torn down b/c of black mold. there was a major water leak.
the mt air invigorates me.
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Lyme shouldn't be an issue with high alt. But it is a VERY big issue with babs. But one's body will adjust, just more slowly with a babs infection.
Moving to low altitude should not have a negative effect either way.
I'm moving to CO in a few weeks.
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I want to move... !!
I have been in low altitudes and high altitudes and did not notice a difference.
I think too that if anything the mold and environmental issues would be much more noticable and concerning. For me anyway.
But.. I can see.. once again.. we are all different with different loads of infections and different body chemistrys and different differences. : )
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"differences" that is what makes these "autoimmune" illnesses so hard to treat. nothing simple about the path of body yoga.
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Back to my question, is there anything I can do about the inner ear issue? I have heard that ginger capsules help?
JamesNYC and IckyTicky, good luck with the move. I'm sure you'll love it. Summers here are hard to beat, warm dry days and cool nights. Winters aren't so bad either. Posts: 34 | From Steamboat Springs, CO | Registered: Sep 2009
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I am from Colorado and miss it HORRIBLY! What a beautiful state. I grew up near Steamboat Springs in a small town called Meeker. Anyone heard of it?
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tickalert, I have an appointment with my PCP this week. I should try giving my LLMD a call this week as well.
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I move (migrate?) there every winter. Then migrate back to NYC in the spring. So I have lots of experience with lyme and cos and high and low altitude.
I live and work in Aspen in the winter.
Sure, it's a beautiful state, but I miss NYC. You cannot get good bagels or pizza in there!
James
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James, yes it is always the little things. I miss all the good seafood and microbrews in Maine. Also, I heart Aspen Highlands.
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Kareamber yes I have heard of it. I think it's near Rifle correct? I know I've been through there.
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pigwit may chime in here. he has been in the Andes and having some trouble with altitude. everyone's different tho. we all have different histories etc. (but now i am wondering...what if it is sort of a herx? but that doesn't make sense, does it? Bb doesn't like 02 so less O2 would make the Bb happy...)
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lpkayak, I have only flown once since having symptoms and it didn't bother me. I flew back to Maine and felt pretty well. It could have been a coincidence though.
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I have issues at high altitude, its one of the first triggers I noticed. I know of one other lyme patient with the same issue.
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I have issues at high altitude, its one of the first triggers I noticed. I know of one other lyme patient with the same issue.
I actually got an oxygen generator to help.
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I can't believe it. I've been on the LymeNet forum for close to 4 years and never met anyone from the Western Slope of Colorado. And on one thread I meet 2 people from my own back yard.
I'm from Craig and grew up here - about 40 miles west of Steamboat Springs and about 40 miles north of Meeker.
When I was a kid, we had a small place in Aspen and spent most week-ends and vacations there skiing during the winter. (That's back when Aspen was still just a small, uncomplicated community, James.)
Hi, neighbors.
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Small world. I talked to my LLMD and he actually told me that spirochetes thrive at higher altitudes since there is less oxygen... If this is in fact true, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to move back east.
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I do not believe that to be true. The body compensates very quickly to the lower 02 content in the air. The 02 carrying ability to the tissues is just as good at altitude as at sea level, that's what is important.
The 02 content in terms of % is the same at altitude, however it's only the density of the air that is different. So actually, there really isn't less 02. Just less density of air per breath.
Does that make sense?
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I was living in high altitude (about 7000 ft), and I did better when I would come to visit my parents at 580 feet. I flew from CA to TX for doctors appointments as I lived in a rural area and was unable to drive long distances for doctors appointments. All the appointments I scheduled, I missed as I wasn't feeling well enough to drive 100 miles+. At that time, I also had no clue what was wrong with me, so I'm sure having my mom as a "caretaker" again had something to do with feeling a little better.
My blood oxygen was 100% at high altitude, but I felt short of breath and had air hunger.
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