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About a week and a half ago, I got a sore throat, I lost my voice, and started creating sinus and chest mucus in large and disgusting quantities. Jay got a touch of this, too, violating our usually hard and fast rule that only one of us can be really sick at a time.
He was [...]
Filed under: Chronic Illness, Lyme Disease | Tagged: Cold, Doxycyclene, Erlichiosis, flu, IM Bicillin, lyme, Pertussis | Leave a Comment »
If you’re keeping score at home, I’m up to eight IM Bicillin injections over the last four weeks.
The herxes seem to be getting milder, especially compared to the morning I couldn’t walk. My reactions since then are more confined to the “regular” type: Increase in muscle and nerve pain, muscle twitching, shoulder spasms, joint pain [...]
Filed under: Chronic Illness, Lyme Disease | Tagged: Alpha-stim, Herx, IM Bicillin, lyme, pain, quality whining, the new normal, truth | 4 Comments »
My last IM Bicillin shot was last Saturday. It was more painful than usual, even though Jay was very careful and we did everything right. Hot bath and heating pad afterward, everything.
Sunday morning I woke up at 5:30 AM (had to use the loo), but I couldn’t walk. My right hip, the one that didn’t [...]
Filed under: Chronic Illness, Lyme Disease | Tagged: disability, IM Bicillin, lyme, mobility, Wheelchair | 5 Comments »
My Lyme doc called me Tuesday to let me know that my recent blood tests for Lyme and other tick borne disease (TBDs) may have set a new record for positivity. She’s sending me copies, which I’m anxious as all get-out to see. I mean, anxious as in obsessed. Anxious as in I won’t [...]
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