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UPDATE

IT HAS BEEN ALMOST 10 DAYS SINCE I STARTED THE MEDICATION. I TRULY CAN'T BELIEVE THE DIFFERENCE. THE CHRONIC BACK PAIN THAT I EXPERIENCED FOR 4 YEARS IS GONE. TO BE PAIN FREE IS AMAZING. NO MORE ACHES IN MY OTHER JOINTS THAT LAST ALL DAY OR ALMOST EVERY DAY. I FEEL LIKE A NEW PERSON.

MY TMJ HAS DISAPPEARED.

THERE ARE DAYS WERE I FEEL TIRED BUT NOT THE KIND OF TIRED I USED TO GET.

SO THINGS ARE LOOKING GREAT!

MY SYMPTOMS

Since a few years back I had steadily become more achy in the knees, wrists, ankles and lower back. I truly thought that it was age related. Maybe some of it is. My thighs would also ache. Until this past year I noticed other symptoms but as I said before that they were mild and sporadic. These are some of the most recent:

increased motion sickness

short term memory problems

stabbing pains that last only seconds in various places such as, ankles, thigh, side, head, wrist, hand

my eyes went blurry one day while talking to a customer at work, both were blurry and then the right eye vision started to shake

extreme fatigue on occasion, tired most of the time

hard to concentrate

heart skipping beats, or beating funny for a few seconds

a slight buzzing in one ear

weakness in the knees and wrists

droopy eyelid

nausea

and I have notice over the last year and a half that spelling easy words was very hard

The most recent symptom was ear pain when I was chewing, now it has moved to the jaw, TMJ

I have started on the medications and supplements (one night and two days now) and noticed a change the next day. I wasn't achy at all, felt wide awake a ready to go. Even my eyes felt wide open. I ended up with nausea and diarrhia for the first couple of days but it is settling down. The Dr. said usually the symptoms get worse before they get better so we shall see. I know that my husband felt good the next day when starting his meds and then got worse for a few weeks.

Today I don't have as much energy and it is difficult to type and spell correctly.

I have worked in my garden planting flowers and weeding today, took my son out and now I am home writing this but plan on relaxing on the couch for a bit.

Feeling like a new person yesterday was amazing and I can't wait to feel that way forever.

HOW I FOUND OUT I HAD LYME DISEASE

My husband has been recently diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease after many years of suffering, Dr visits, thinking he was crazy and having mutiple tests done. Lyme and others came up negative, not once but a few times. SEE HIS STORY AT http://www.jeffslymejournal.blogspot.com.

We found a specialist, a "LYME" specialtist and drove 2 1/2 hours to see him.

After my husbands hour and a half visit, tests etc.... he suggested that I get the Western Blot test also to see if I have Lyme because we were here at the specialist and WHY NOT? So I got the test also. Weeks later we received the news.

My husband tested positive for Lyme and I so did I!

Wow! We were happy,(as you could be for that matter), that finally the tests showed up positive and treatment was prescibed for my husband but I was shocked that I tested positive for active Lyme!

I had very mild symptoms and never in a million years thought that I had LYME! I just thought that I was getting older, achy joints were normal and just ignored the other mild symptoms because they were so few and far between.

NEITHER ONE OF US SHOWED THE CLASSIC BULLSEYE RASH THAT MANY PEOPLE GET!

So now treatment begins for me. My husband has been on the med's for a month now with very much improved results!!! I just started and it feels strange because I was never on many medications all at once. But I am glad that we caught it early. Lyme is a terrifying disease. So many people have so many different things happen to their bodies. "UNDER OUR SKIN" is a documentary on Lyme disease and it is very eye-opening and shocking to see but a must, I believe, for everyone!!