My treatment started on Friday the 13th. I suppose it's a good a day as any other, superstition aside.
The night before the start of treatment I was nervous and excited. Both to be expected. I was excited to start getting better but nervous or more to the point terrified that I would have a bad reaction to the meds.
My Lyme Specialist doctor is amazing. She started me slowly with the pills. Introducing them gradually into my system so that my system does not freak out and revolt. Revolting sounds like a bad thing to do to ones body. I am a few days into pill #1 plus two supplements. So far, so good. By the time all the drugs are introduced into my system the total number of pills and supplements will be 14 different types. On the first day I was complaining about the few pills I was taking, I am sure by the time I am taking all the pills and supplements, I will either be a great troupe or a master complainer. I am a fan of multi-tasking though, maybe I will do both.
Pill #1 + 2 supplements I am handling well. It does give me a slight headache but I sleep like a champ. The headache could also be attributed to my No Yeast, No Sugar diet. When you are in Lyme treatment a very strict diet regimen is imposed. Along with no yeast or yeast products and no sugar, no caffeine, no alcohol and no chocolate (PMS food). The list of what I can consume and what I can't is short but strict.
When I made my New Years resolution in the beginning of the year to eat healthy this is sooo not what I had in mind.
I suppose I should go into detail of what lead to the Lyme Disease diagnosis and I will soon. This blog was just an introduction to my treatment. I am writing this in an effort to help anyone diagnosed with Lyme and what the treatment process is like. Of course everyone will not react the same way. Some may have it easier and some not have it so easy. I just hope one day science will catch up to this very clever and smart Lyme tick, in the meantime there are Lyme Specialist (very few of them) to help us through.
Until next time- stay tick free and toodles for now.
