Post by LymeEnigma on Jun 8, 2008 9:21:02 GMT -8
Nyxie wrote in the thread, "Sharing Grief":
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"And on that thought, I'm wondering if the grief/PTSD has been an active part of why I've gotten increasingly sick in the past few years. If it's weakned me to the point where the infection can take hold and wreak havoc. According to the lyme doc, I was probably first infected when I was 14, but managed to fight it until 3 years ago. I tend to give the theory some credence only because that age was when many of the minor, yet chronic and annoying, symptoms started."
I think you are right on the money with that, Nyxie. I know I have been infected with something since infancy (the swollen lymph node I had all my life should have been a dead give-away), and feel fairly certain that it has caused waxing and waning disease throughout my life (for example, I had cyclic vomiting and trouble keeping weight on for years before the tick bite ... doctors back then told me it was "anorexia sequelae"). I had years when I felt as healthy as could be, and then years when I was literally puking every month, seeing doctors for weird rashes and autoimmune problems, and couldn't, for the life of me, summon up the energy to keep my house even semi-clean even part of the time. At 5'5", I struggled to keep my weight in triple digits.
I got extremely sick for the first time when I lived with my abusive ex, many years ago; stress was the factor. I got well again after I left him (I actually suspected Münchhausen's by proxy until I got sick again, out of his care). Interestingly enough, the next time I got seriously sick was after the tick bite ... and, let me tell you, I didn't even know "sick" until that point....
Whether I caught Lyme for the first time then, caught a new strain, or acquired the babesia from that bite, I do not know. I do know that it was the straw the broke the camel's back, and I have not been the same since.
lymeenigma.proboards104.com/index.cgi?board=offtopic&action=display&thread=618&page=2
"And on that thought, I'm wondering if the grief/PTSD has been an active part of why I've gotten increasingly sick in the past few years. If it's weakned me to the point where the infection can take hold and wreak havoc. According to the lyme doc, I was probably first infected when I was 14, but managed to fight it until 3 years ago. I tend to give the theory some credence only because that age was when many of the minor, yet chronic and annoying, symptoms started."
I think you are right on the money with that, Nyxie. I know I have been infected with something since infancy (the swollen lymph node I had all my life should have been a dead give-away), and feel fairly certain that it has caused waxing and waning disease throughout my life (for example, I had cyclic vomiting and trouble keeping weight on for years before the tick bite ... doctors back then told me it was "anorexia sequelae"). I had years when I felt as healthy as could be, and then years when I was literally puking every month, seeing doctors for weird rashes and autoimmune problems, and couldn't, for the life of me, summon up the energy to keep my house even semi-clean even part of the time. At 5'5", I struggled to keep my weight in triple digits.
I got extremely sick for the first time when I lived with my abusive ex, many years ago; stress was the factor. I got well again after I left him (I actually suspected Münchhausen's by proxy until I got sick again, out of his care). Interestingly enough, the next time I got seriously sick was after the tick bite ... and, let me tell you, I didn't even know "sick" until that point....
Whether I caught Lyme for the first time then, caught a new strain, or acquired the babesia from that bite, I do not know. I do know that it was the straw the broke the camel's back, and I have not been the same since.