Life After Lyme Disease

Due to feeling extremely ill over the last several months I have neglected in updating this website. I am feeling a bit better now so I will be posting on a regular basis once more.

Basically my LLMD had me on a very strong dose Doxycycline antibiotics for 5 months. During this time I had gotten extremely sick because the antibiotics wrecked havoc in my body. I had to finally stop taking them because the Doxycycline had pretty much shut down my digestive system and made me horribly ill. For some time after I stopped the antibiotics I was feeling a bit better but then I got a lot worse fast.

I am now trying to deal with this by using natural methods that I found in my extensive research on Lyme Disease. I am taking 5 different natural antibiotics on a daily basis and many other supplements to strengthen my immune system and make my body inhospitable to the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium.

I have also changed my lifestyle quite a bit. No more coffee and alcohol. No processed foods. Trying to eat as much raw foods as possible, get more sleep and drinking lots more water to help detox.

As time and my health permits I will start posting detailed info about the supplements I am taking and how things are progressing. So far it has been about a month on the supplements and I am definately feeling better. Lets see how things progress from here.

It has been about tree weeks since I had started my antibiotic treatment with Doxycycline 100MG twice a day for 30 days and I don’t think it’s working. During these three weeks I do not feel much better. The nausea is a little better but the joints in my fingers are now swollen and painful, almost feels like arthritis. This is making it difficult to work on my computer which is my main source of income.

I will be going back to the Doctor soon and will see what he says.

I had my appointment with an infectious disease specialist today. The Doctor seemed very casual about it, almost like it’s not a big deal. That did not make me feel all that good about this Doctor but I will give him a chance.

He asked me a long list of questions trying to narrow down my symptoms and try to evaluate how far the Lyme Disease has spread throughout my body.  Based on that the Doctor said that he thinks I had Lyme Disease for less then a year.

He prescribed Doxycycline 100MG twice a day for 30 days saying that it should clear it up fairly quickly. Hopefully it will work. He also gave me a referral to get a cardiogram done to make sure that the Lyme Disease did not spread to my heart. He said it was just precautionary.

I’m really hoping the Doxycycline will work.