Category: What Can I Expect During Lyme Treatment?
34 posts in this category
All the Other Crazy Weird Symptoms
I have written about my list of Lyme disease symptoms. Today, I would like to cover some of the other crazy weird symptoms I experienced. So often, as Lyme warriors, we get caught up in the big, obvious symptoms like exhaustion and dizziness. And understandably so, but it was all...
Read MoreYour Body is Still Your Own
Oct 26, 2022
Blog Comfort/Mental Wellness Remission/Recovery What Can I Expect During Lyme Treatment?For years I have been angry with my body. At some point, long before my Lyme disease diagnosis, it stopped performing the way it used to perform. It became slow, painful and less agile. Eventually, I stopped listening to its moaning and disregarded its pleas for my attention. Then, I...
Read MoreHow to be a Caregiver for Someone Battling Lyme Disease
So, your loved one has just been diagnosed with Lyme disease. After the shock wears off, hopefully you ask yourself how to be a caregiver for someone battling Lyme disease. Admittedly, when I was diagnosed, it never crossed my mind how difficult it would be for my husband (who was...
Read MoreLetter of Love and Compassion for Lyme Warriors
A few months ago I wrote this post about learning to love myself after Lyme disease. After decades of fearing my body, even two years into remission, I am still running away from my corporeal existence. For as long as I can remember my body has felt like nothing more...
Read MoreWhat in the World is Herxing?
Herxing. It’s a strange word. Even saying it out loud sounds scary… Herxing. Yuck! It certainly doesn’t sound pleasant. When my doctor first warned to look out for herxing my mind shut down. Lyme disease, antibiotics, likely unable to work for at least six months. This I could handle, barely....
Read MoreMy List of Lyme Disease Symptoms
I have been spending a lot of time on Facebook Lyme disease support groups. A recurring theme of people reaching out with questions about bizarre symptoms they’re experiencing has me reaching into my memory bank. I know how they’re feeling. In fact, the desperate fear of the unknown that I...
Read MoreLosing Joy
Losing my joy I curl up into a ball against the world. I have been here, in this tiny shape of avoidance, for so long. The sun hurts my eyes and noises make me jump. Walking is dreadful. I feel as though I may collapse at any moment. The sun’s...
Read MoreThe Importance of Routine
Prior to being diagnosed with Lyme disease I was not a routine type of person. I preferred spontaneity to structure. But, the importance of routine was revealed to me in the need for structure and expectations, however minor those expectations may have been. Truly, it happened without any forethought or...
Read MoreRemember to Breathe
I recently wrote about the worst night of my Lyme disease treatment. I realized after I hit publish and closed the mental door on that post, how deeply that experience had affected me. In writing about that night, I was forced to relive the trauma and the resulting wisps of...
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