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You might be a Lymie if...you have gone to 20 doctors and have still do not know why you are sick!!
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You might be a Lymie if....you have to take a plane, train or automobile to another state to see a knowlegable doctor!
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You might be a Lymie if....you have a number of doctors that know what you have but refuse to treat you for it!
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you might be a lymie if...........each doc you see has a theory about whats wrong with you and just needs a test or two run, laughs at you about your lyme diagnosis, then when the tests come back, scratch their heads and refer you to yet another "specialist" stating that you have something not within their specialty but NOT lyme..
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arg82
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So sad, but so true.
You might be a Lymie if...your daily schedule revolves around which medicine to take on an empty stomach, which to take with food, which makes you nauseous, which makes you sleepy, and undoubtedly forget something but won't realize it until the next morning!
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You might be a Lymie if....you're GP, family and friends think you're a hypochondriac! Posts: 493 | From MidWest NorthWoods | Registered: Jan 2005
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HEATHERKISS
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You might be a Lymie if you can watch the same movie three times in one year and never remember it.
Talk about cheap date.
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I am so glad some of you took the time to laugh. Here's another... You might be a Lymey if..
You spray your hairspray on your tresses and it doesnt work, so you spray more, and still doesnt work, and hair turns white. Note: should remove Scrubbing Bubbles from cabinet. Take care
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arg82
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So so true!
You might be a Lymie if...you start telling a really interesting story and somewhere in the middle of it you completely forget what you were talking about and your very interesting story turns into something that doesn't make sense and isn't the least bit exciting. (happened to me too many times to count)
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So true Annie, I have now given permission to anyone i talk with to just go ahead and finish the sentence or the story. Makes me no difference. The only thing that bugs me is... You might be a Lymey if... You go to the doctor and tell him you are feeling okay, when in all actuality, you felt like doo doo the day before. lemon
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You might be a Lymie if all of a sudden you forget how to write, spell ,or say a word... for example last night I could not pronounce intimidate. Is it itimidate? Imtinitade? Iminimate?....lol
You might be a Lymie if on your good days you run around and do everything that you've been too sick to actually get done but have been thinking about over and over again in your mind and then in a heap of exhaustion sleep for days to recover from it.
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You might be a lymie if......
You pop you kitty kat's tapazole (hyperthyroid med) instead of your sublingual estradial!! They look identical, come from the same pharmacy!!! Yikes, didn't I put that dang stuff away? Guess not, this definitely doesn't taste like my estradiol!! Spit - gasp!!!!
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You might be a Lymie if... you feel like you just stepped off the tilt a whirl ride at an amusement park only you never got to enjoy the ride in the first place!!
You might be a Lymie if... a dr actually tells you are suffering from "military wife syndrome"--actually happened to me! Couldn't find it in the medical books though when I asked him to look it up!
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You might be a Lymie if you ignore the gallblader attacks to concentrate on the ending real pain(s).
You might be a Lymie of your day starts at noon and ends at 7pm and you still have to take catnaps to function.
You might be a Lymie if you can't sit up, tolerate the flash at scene changes or follow a plot on TV for 30 minutes, can't read because the letters are flashing and bouncing around and can't listen to music because your fancy stereo sounds tinny, makes your brain feel like it is vibrating and hurts your ears.
You might be a Lymie if you belong to a support group where half of the 100 members forget to go and the other half are too sick to go at every meeting.
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HEATHERKISS
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You might be a Lymie if you remember everthing different than the rest of the world.
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You might be a Lymie if you can't get route 33, rt 34, and rt 35 straight even if you have lived in the area for 3 years. I live on a cross road that connects to 33 and 34.
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You might be a Lymey if you see someone you've known your whole life and you can't figure out who they are. And worse yet is when they start talking to you and all you can do is nod and try in vain to get your lyme brain to tell you who they are! How embarrising. Happens more than I'll admit!
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You might be a Lymie if...you walk into your bathroom and then stop, look around, and wonder why you're in there - only to give up, turn around and walk back into the living room, sit down, and realize, "Oh yeah, I need to pee!"
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You might be a Lymie if...You spent $1500 to fly to Alabama, stay in a hotel, buy tickets for a NASCAR race and end up sleeping through the whole event while the sound of 9000 horse power engines go screaming by.
HEATHERKISS, I lived at 33 and 35 for 5 years and still never got 33, 34, and 35 figured out. Then, of course, there's 36 too. Never figured out that one either.
I think that's where I picked up my HME (Ehrlichia Chafeensis).
Corgilla
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if the appointment time on the calender say 1pm, and you can't remember when the appointment is , and when you need to leave home to get there
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You might be a Lymie if you sit staring at your socks trying to figure out which foot each sock goes on.
---- You finally have enough energy to make tuna noodle casserole and forget the tuna. Then you get your mercury level back and realize you should've left it out in the first place.
----You can't win at Solitaire and you finally catch yourself pulling the cards off of the Ace piles at top to make plays.
Did all of the above and much more.
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You might be a lymey if on your very first post, you misspelled your topic line.
(check out my May 6 post "Nearly Narcoleptic Newcomber" - of course I meant Newcomer, but those darn spirochetes mess with my typing capabilities!!!
You might be a lymey if you are constantly walking into door jams.
You might be a lymey if battle scenes in movies put you to sleep. (never fails)
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Thanks everyone for these posts. I jsut died laughing with lots of these. I am a brand-new lymie and was getting pretty bumbbed out about it all, until I read these little laughs!
Of course, the reason they were so funny to me, was that I could relax to most if not all of these. Thanks for the lighter-side of guys!
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You might be a Lymey if you tell everyone to play the lottery so that they could possibly help pay for the best LLMD in the area.
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HEATHERKISS
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Just checked my ticket........ I did not win.
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You might be a lymie if you put a few drops of eyeglass cleaner in your eyes (the bottles are shaped/sized identically). Yeow!
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You might be a Lymie if you drive a small tan car but leave the grocery store and push your cart up to a dark blue lincoln and wonder why the key won't work..
And then keep trying until the car alarm goes off!...
THen realizing what you have done, walk quickly away and find your car(which you now realize looks nothing like the one you tried to break into) and try to sneak off before someone calls the police an you!
It would be a difficult one to get the cops to understand..lol
If while tring to explain your increasing nuerological problems to your husband you earnestly explain that you are having a hard time even finding the diaper isle at Mcdonalds.
You might be married to a lymie if..
You reply I know honey I have a hard time buying diapers at Mcdonalds too (With a straight face!)
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you might be a lymie if you can't remember your symptoms just a few minutes ago...no wonder you're a hypochondriac you don't have any symptoms!
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You might be a Lymie when you have a haircut appointment, drive and arrive at a rotary, forget where you are going so you go around and around and around then remember "oh haircut" then you forget how to get there and go around and around and around until you remember "oh yeh north" Then hope you can get home.
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You might be a Lymie if you words up your mix a lot.
You might be a Lymie if you sometimes forget your own age, or even name, but you can still rattle off signs, symptoms, diagnosis, latin names and treatment protocols for any given tick-borne disease.
You might be Lymie if you know the TV schedule for the hours of midnight to 5 AM.
You mihgt be a Lymie if you can't stop filpping your lettres aronud.
You might be a Lymie if you've ever accidentally thrown anything in the garbage that wasn't supposed to be thrown away...i.e. the cup of tea you just made, a sandwich, your purse...
You might be a Lymie if you can understand the following sentence: My duck told me the tx for my sx was abx, even though I was herxing from the babs and bart.
You might be a Lymie if you walk into a room, pause for 30 seconds staring stupidly at the wall, and then walk back out with no idea why you went in in the first place.
You might be a Lymie if you forget what you just wrote.
You might be a Lymie if you forget what you just wrote.
You might be a Lymie if you often feel drunk without actually being able to drink, and if you have no sex life despite being screwed by so many doctors.
Alison
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You might be a Lymie if ...... you win 2 out of 3 games of Scrabble and your friend is beginning to wonder what is wrong with HER brain!
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You might be a lymie if you put eyeglass cleaner drops in your eyes instead of on your glasses! Owwwwwwwww!
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