Okay. Treating lyme is huge exercise in having faith. For one, you have to feel worse before you feel better. It just takes faith to believe that the medicine is actually helping you and not making you worse. Tinidazole per the Eva Sapi study is said to kill 90% of both spirochetes and cysts. So that is great. So I am on Tinidazole. And I feel tired. All the time. And I would feel better on the days off I had from the Tinidazole (as in the 2 weeks I wasn't on the Tinidazole). But this last pulse, I still felt tired AFTER the 2 week pulse. And then I worry. Is the Tinidazole permanantly making me tired??? Am I getting worse?? This is the first Christmas that I just haven't felt the emotional energy and felt excited about the festivities. Even though I was tired before, I would feel a bit of excitement and adrenaline from the celebration of the season. But this year, I am just not as interested or excited but I want to be. I think it is the medicines affecting my motivation levels. And then I think? Will I feel like this during the holidays forever? As in next year? No, I don't think I will, I tell myself. I read an article over again about how with flagyl (similar to Tinidazole) that the profound fatigue continues for 6 months into the treatment whereas the other symptoms from the Lyme Disease almost disappear. I find that this may be my experience. I am having profound fatigue where I wasn't having it anymore, except on days before my period. Don't get me wrong. I had profound fatigue for a few years but after treating with herbs and vitamins and then not treating with anything for 6 months or so, I didn't have the extreme daily fatigue that I had had. Well, it's back now that I am on the Tinidazole. So literally, I hang onto hope from this one article. Hope that once my six months of being on the Tinidazole is achieved, that the fatigue will have died down, alot. So that's where I am at. But the stabbing pains, the buzzing, vibration feelings, numbness, sore feet has gotten ALOT better. The only one of the symptoms I am having any more is sore feet. And it has gotten alot better. Whereas I had a swollen lump in the middle of my left heel (which a podiatrist told me was the bursa sac) and it is gone now. Just the perimeter of my heels are sore. And it feels like the bones hurt there. But the podiatrist says it is plantar fascitis. I don't know how plantar fascitis makes it feel like the bones hurt and not the soft tissue but that's what he says. This is an ongoing issue for me. Literally one of the first symptoms I have had since September 2007. Which leads me to talk about...
Z-Coils!!!! They are shoes with literally a mass amount of testimonials of people who have heel pain or foot pain or back pain and these shoes allow them to be on their feet, to exercise and even one guy wrote about running a marathon in them. I don't think my immune system or body or fatigue levels would allow for anything close to a marathon right now but this literally would be a miracle for me. I wear flip-flops and have done so since....you guessed it....September 2007...so I would really love it if this worked out for me. I have an appointment with a podiatrist who has a Z-Coil shop connected to her office. I am really hopeful that this may be an answer to my long-standing inability to be on my feet for long periods or go for walks and runs. I hope when I post another update that I can indeed say that they are a miracle!
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