Two nights ago I had chills except I didn't really know I was having them. I just thought the house was extremely cold and when I went to bed I had a wool sweater on and socks and I made my husband sleep right next to me so I could feed off his body heat to keep me warm. I kept tossing and turning for 2 hours trying to get warm. The next morning I felt pretty warm. The thing is, ever since I have had Lyme Disease, I have never had a fever. Not once. When I was really sick with strep throat and massive body aches and pain and chills a year or so ago, my temperature rose to 98.6 at my sickest. Anyways, back to my story of having the chills the other night - after waking up feeling hot, a little later in the day my knees were really sore even though I hadn't been exercising. And this last night I went to bed without feeling really cold and this morning my knees didn't hurt at all. I also have two small pencil eraser size lumps as well that are painful and popped up out of no where. Have had these before but not often. Had a big one in my armpit that scared me but went to the doctor and they are not cancer or anything. Just sluggish lymph nodes, I think. Anyways, so now I realize it was some Lyme-related thing I was having that passed. All month long I have been waiting for the depression-anxiety-massive worry symptoms to return that I had last month and haven't had any of them at all really. I have just had these symptoms and then a few other things like spelling dumb d-u-m-e (what a perfect word to spell wrong!!) and telling my husband to get his fingers off me when it was actually his toes that were bugging me. So I guess word mix-up and dumb blonde moments are part of my Lyme symptoms this month. The past few days I have missed exits when driving and not gotten in the right turn lanes when I needed to, etc. This would be normal if I was driving to a new place but I have been driving this route for the past 5 months so it's a bit weird. Oh and I can't forget to mention that I have been really fatigued the past few days as well. Not to the point of sleeping during the day but just really tired. Oh, and I had nausea one morning as well a few days ago as well. And lastly, I have had tingling and vibrations daily for the past few weeks. Other than that I am still continuing at Level 3 of the Buhner herbs. There are two more levels to increase too but after last months "hell week" of emotional symptoms, I held off ramping up quiteyet. I will soon though. I just want to get through this next lyme cycle and feel like I understand and have a handle on it before ramping up though. One more thing, I started a all-natural low-fat vegetarian diet on Wednesday. The low-fat is to help break up the bio-films and the diet is to lose the weight I have gained with Lyme. Will see how this goes. By the way, I am still eating nuts as I know my body needs some fat and protein as well as I am taking Vitamin B-12 which is the vitamin that has to be derived from a meat source that vegetarians are often deficient in if they don't supplement which can in turn cause them to become ill if they don't get. At least that is what I think is accurate if I recall correctly from my studies.
One last thing I should update is an improvement I continue to have and that is my foot pain has gone WAY down! For the past 4 years I have not been able to walk on my own feet without a really cushy flip-flop on because my feet have hurt so bad. Since taking the herbs, my foot pain has gone WAY, WAY down!! I am able to walk barefoot around the house so I am very happy about that. The symptoms that I have been having that look they are not an improvement (fatigue, chills, nausea, depression, anxiety) are actually really good signs that the herbs are killing off the spirochetes. The thing that gives me the courage to continue on is that the symptoms are passing. They come and go which means that I am moving in the right direction (if thre were no symptoms that are coming and going it would mean the herbs wouldn't be working).
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