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I'd love to hear from anybody who has started treatment this late in the game. I took my 1st doses of antibiotics for Lyme tonight. From what I've read it looks like the 1st few mos. can be brutal.
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Uh-oh. My first few YEARS were brutal.
Bitten in 1990. Diagnosed in 2008. I've been treating ever since. Doing well but still on antibiotics.
Do you have a good ILADS trained doc? Were you tested for co-infections and opportunistic infections?
You will need treatment for ALL of your tick-borne infections. Maybe some others, too.
Read some of the stickies over in Medical Questions. That's a good place to start.
Diagnosis is the best thing that can happen to you. Treatment is a long, hard road, but you can recover your health.
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Thanks Boxermom and Keebler. I've been on listserves and forums, this board method is new to me. Yrs. does not sound encouraging:^/, but what to do other than carry on? Glad you're feeling better than you had at 1st.
The Dr. I'm seeing has a chapter in a well regarded book "Insights into Lyme Disease", I guess that would make her Lyme proficient. She's certainly a better medical detective than I've ever had (all over the country!!!). She's turned up all sorts of things when I was just trying to solve Adrenal Fatigue:^D
Did Merc. detox in '89 which got me out of a wheelchair. Dx'd w/Fibro in '00, been on Guai protocol which did help somewhat, but never as much as it helped others. Sick since '80 on and off (great while pregnant twice- fell apart both x's after).
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MANY on this board were diagnosed 20 yrs or more after initial infection. It took 42 yrs for me to be dxd. Got well in 4. Been off abx for 8 yrs now!
With the right doctor, you can do it!!
Go "low and slow" due to your high bacterial load.
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My response to treatments always has depended on what they are. After being found after 25 years undiagnosed, I had a wonderful response to oral clindamycin right away - took away all the pain. I herxed after a month and then dropped back in dosage.
I think there are gentler, supportive initial treatments, including what supplements to take. Carol in PA has good advice here for people who are starting out - basic supplements to start with. See her advice to Derk D recently in General Support, re a post about treating himself.
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@Lymetoo and @Robin, thanks for the advice. What is "low" for Doxy and Mino? I was so sick yesterday that I vowed to give myself a day off today if I was that bad today, but I wasn't, so I'm gonna stick w/it unless I hafta "say Uncle"! I'm on 100mg of ea. bid.
My Dr. did say I could take a day off if it was too much.
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