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LymeWife
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posted 09-05-2015 12:27 PM Hi everyone! I just registered. My wife had a very rough night last night and I am very worried.

She has yet to recieve an actual Lyme diagnosis, but all signs point to it. A little over a year ago she had 2 tick bites in Pennsylvania. We now live in Colorado and it is much less common out here. In the time since her bites she has been through many specialists, possible diagnoses of everything from MS to Cushing's disease to RA, but no positive tests. Following a dose of corticosteroids her symptoms blew up and have gotten so much worse. Her pain is severe and body wide, pain pills can't even touch the pain. We are taking treatment into our own hands since doctors haven't been helpful. Still have not seen LLMD. We ordered antibiotics, doxy and tinidazole after a lot of research. That was yesterday so we are waiting for their arrival.

In the meantime, we read about Claritin possibly helping fight Lyme, so she has been taking it for several weeks. Since then she has been having some additional, scary symptoms. I am wondering if Claritin can cause herxing because thats what this seems like. Last night she had these intense body spasms and twitches that were extremely painful. She said they felt like shocks. She became very rigid and kind of contorted and yelled out in pain. This happened on and off for about 20 minutes. This was the worst episode yet, but this has happened several times in the past week or two.

Anyone know what is going on? Does this sound like a herx reaction? Something else? What can we do, besides doctors (she is doctored out for the time being after most recent bad experience)? Should she keep taking the Claritin?

Thank you everyone!

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Welcome, LymeWife! [Smile]

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