Feeling absolutely destroyed for days after doing pushups.

I made some progress with Disulfiram.

So I figured let me do some pushups again.

Days later I feel destroyed both mentally and physically.

Does anyone know what causes this in regards to Lyme?

I've been an athlete my whole life, I'm very familiar with DOMS, but this is ridiculous.

Well there is the newer theory of what "Lyme arthritis" actually is: Calcification of muscle tendons.

Myself and someone else posted on this including the discovery article link, which did not mention recovery ideas.

For me, killing the critters stopped the downward progression but the damage was done and it did not heal back automatically. I had to rebuild all my bodies medium and big muscles. I used various pressure treatments learned and adapted to self/home use which I posted about many times. I follow this with Penetrex and DMSO to drive it in. This has worked when nothing else did.

I was competitive athletically since a teen for 25 years. Then went down hill. Could not do much of anything for two years, now I'm gained a lot back in four years. Now over 50, I dont care to deliberately do much cardio other than fun stuff that comes with it (bike,ski).......the gym is fun and fulfilling again , no longer torture. No longer limp (did for 15 years). I found creatine to be the best supplement, but that can cause reflux too. Protien shakes or meat itself do nothing for me noticable, .............BCAA seems to help a little.

Thank you all so much.

RainyCloud - by "destroyed," do you mean fatigue or exhaustion both mental and physical? Are is it pain and brain fog type reaction?

Sounds like post-exertional malaise? This was one of my earliest and worst symptoms, the phenomenon of having to "pay for" everything I did. I don't know why it happens, unfortunately. It's one of the hallmarks of CFS/ME, so maybe someone in that milieu would have more theories about causation. Avoid "TMTS" (doing too much too soon) and all that jazz.... This has resolved for me mostly, but I can't really say why.

saraeli said...
Sounds like post-exertional malaise? This was one of my earliest and worst symptoms, the phenomenon of having to "pay for" everything I did. I don't know why it happens, unfortunately. It's one of the hallmarks of CFS/ME, so maybe someone in that milieu would have more theories about causation. Avoid "TMTS" (doing too much too soon) and all that jazz.... This has resolved for me mostly, but I can't really say why.

This is the correct response. It's not something to mess with as you could set yourself way back. The issue is mitochondrial dysfunction due to excessive oxidative stress. You can try taking a high dose of antioxidants prior to exertion (vit c, quercetin, ALA, knotweed) to see if it lightens the load but still be careful. This is something that should resolve as the illness let's up but don't try to push through it

" The issue is mitochondrial dysfunction due to excessive oxidative stress."

Mitochondrial -
I am waiting 6 weeks until I pass disulfiram from my system and I am going to defeat this issue with MK2866 and Methylene Blue.

borrelioburgdorferii said...
RainyCloud, don't feel bad just from doing a fairly difficult repair on my car, now I feel like I did a marathon and got hit by a truck... :/ The amount of soreness is way more than it should be, like 3-5X soreness, and recovery time not what it should be, feels like chronic fatigue/fibromyalgia and it seems to have taken a mental toll as well, taking me 5 days to do something that might have taken a half-day before...

Remember, you will get better, who knows how much but better for sure.

As a do-it-yourselfer, I can relate. Ive mention this a few times in the past and, I dont think many here "got it" though. When a DTY can no longer "do" stuff effectively, it sucks the life out of you since this is who you are. The recvovery time really sucked and piled up more pain layers..

I hated paying people to do stuff when I have better hands-on-skills and results, but pain made it impossible for me to do it in timely fashion.

Now "healed/remission" Just did a major carpentry project last fall, was putting it off from past fear of pain. I did it. Perfectly too. Its hard to change the brain into healed mode from years of illness and "cant do" mode to "can do".