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Can you please reply if you get a low grade fever with your herxes?
This will make me feel better about what I'm experiencing.
I'm either having one prolonged herx that's causing me low fevers and severe lower spine pain, or I'm getting markedly worse.
I haven't had fevers at all for a long time now, so really really hope they're not coming back Posts: 453 | From TX | Registered: Aug 2008
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I have low grade fevers on antibiotics. They are usually normal in the AM and then around 4, I feel flushed and my temp is usually b/w 99.1 - 99.5. I also have severe spinal pain - mine is upper though. I believe I was having one prolonged herx - pretty miserable on abx.
I am off antibiotics now for about 3 weeks and then I'll start again. I am feeling much better - more energy, nowhere near the level of spinal pain, can think clearly. Still have my baseline lyme symptoms though.
Not looking forward to starting abx again...but it is a necessary evil!
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Have you been tested for babesia? Could be the cause of the spinal pain.
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I have been having a low grade fever for the last couple of days. I've been trying to keep track of it but I'm getting horrible about keeping my symptom journal.
I start feeling flushed as well and usually my family says something like my ears or face is red. Take my temperature and sure enough it's low-grade. I believe that was one of my beginning symptoms that I thought at the time was unrelated to the rest of the stuff I was experiencing
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VB you can do a search here for "fever" also to find more info.
I did and sometimes stopped meds for a day and it went away.
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Since I am very new to Lyme, I'm not sure if I have had low fever or not. I have thought I felt feverish but have not gotten over about 99. However, I know that when perfectly healthy (whatever that is) I usually tend to run a bit low.
Also, I had terrible lower spine pain the past two days ... from my 1st course of abx treatment for my new onset of Lyme symptoms. It is so shocking and unreal to see more people posting exact things that I am experiencing from day to day. It just confirms more and more that I have Lyme. It's hard to accept but at least I know it isn't all in my head.
Today is the best I have felt so far and it is day 6 of my abx. Day 4 was horrible and 5 was a close second but not quite as bad as 4. Amazingly, this is also "standard" for an abx herx.
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Thanks to all. This makes me feel better about my fevers.
Lymetoo, my LLMD doesn't test for babesia, but treats for it. I was on malarone for about 6 months, then artemisin, and back on malarone for the past 2. I hope it's not babs, or it's totally resistant to the medications!
Kim, sorry about your spine too. I believe you posted a topic about twitching earlier, right? I am thinking more and more that the severe twitching is primarily from my spine now. I have been getting electrical shocks up and down my spinal cord and all over my back. This has been for the past month or so, as soon as I started meds at high enough doses to cross the BBB and get into my CSF. Thinking (HOPING!!) maybe the die-off is finally happening in my spine, but who the frick knows with this stuff :/ Maybe the same is happening for you? Would love to hear how you progress!
Best wishes to all, V
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I have low grade fever with herxes. I had low grade fever BEFORE I started abx, which is what let me know that something infectious was going on... Every four weeks.
When I first started abx I had them all over the place. No pattern whatsoever, just fevers here and there, sometimes constant, but after the first month they became a pattern. It brought the bart to the surface.
Now I have a distinct bartonella pattern (every 5-6 days) and a lyme pattern (every 4 weeks) of fevers.
Chart them down, it's very interesting
Take your temperature when you first get up (befor eyou get out of bed). If it rises more than a degree and a half, that's a fever for you. (For instance, from 97.5 when you wake up to 99.2 later on, or from 98.1 to 99.7, etc. Because everyone's rising temperature is different and everyone's temp varies at least 1-1.5 degrees throughout the day.)
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