It has been a long time since my last Lyme Log post and a lot of that has been because there have been no spikes of much of anything other than a consistent yuck.
Since January, I have had a sore, tenderness that feels like a mild case of strep throat right around my lymph node in my neck on the left side. It never goes away. I have finished another round of doxycycline and am still taking levaquin. If strep was in my system it would have been rooted out a long time ago.
My rib area right around my spleen still aches once in a while which is no fun either.
With a compromised immune system, I am wondering if these two things are related to it. They are somewhat new symptoms, especially the throat, but the spleen and lymph nodes are crucial for immunity.
Here is another new one: when I wake up or get on my feet after being off of them for a while, they hurt. It's like a cramp after you hit the gym hard after having been out for a long time. You know how you feel when you wake up – your muscles tightened up like a drum. Well, that's my feet every morning or every time I walks away from my desk.
The fact that I pulled my back out a couple of weeks ago does not help much at all, but that's probably unrelated.
I mowed half the lawn today; my wife did not want me to mow any of it. I took a two hour nap and I am dizzy and tired anyway. Before the tick bite, I would spend a Saturday mowing the lawn, then digging out trees, maybe vacuuming or doing a few loads of laundry as well and feel tired, but that "good tired" after you just accomplished something. Now I am just tired, pretty much always and usually after 2 pm which I call my "wall".
I had about 15 vials of blood taken about two weeks ago for my doctor visit on May 5. Then we can see where I am. But this truly is a funky, hermetic, slippery, sneaky little disease that is a little bit different than the flu or something where you pop a few anti-biotics and are fine in two weeks. Comparing the two is like comparing the armies of Grenada and the U.S.
People always ask me if I am feeling better. It's hard to tell them that some days I feel almost OK and others I feel like sleeping for a week.
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