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Posted 11/16/2015 11:43 AM (GMT -5)
I started Cat's Claw and a snow storm came through. Which one made my knees hurt? I am constantly saying "is it lyme or is it memorex." Just my way of joking around.

I have always thought I knew my body, but boy do you get to know your body with lyme. You find out where your lymph nodes are, which ankle has weak tendons, that there is a backside to your eyeball, that your feet can feel like they are on fire from the inside out and you get to know what a boxer must feel like after a match on every muscle.

I bet lymies know their bodies so much more intimately than non-lymies.

~Annette
Posted 11/16/2015 11:52 AM (GMT -5)
Hey PeteZa!-

I absolutely agree with you! There are places on my body that I never acknowledged until it is sore and painful! Also, good luck trying to explain some of these weird symptoms or feelings that overwhelm our bodies.
Posted 11/16/2015 12:50 PM (GMT -5)
I too absolutely agree with you!! Now when I see a doctor, they say things like "you can't feel that" or "you couldn't know that" - but it's true!!!

I could tell there was something very "off" with my thyroid and that it was swollen. It couldn't be seen on the basic quick scan they have you do here, but I could feel it! I finally got in to see a doctor that would listen to me, and have done very well on my thyroid meds - the ones that no one else would start me on because they couldn't feel what I did!!

So learn well, it will serve you well as long as you don't hyper focus on an area. LOL!
Posted 11/16/2015 1:13 PM (GMT -5)
couldn't agree more - i was more "unhealthy" than i originally thought. After dealing with lyme, alot of "unexplained" things from the past make sense now - I don't mean to say I had lyme in my earlier years, but I surely had Candida since i was young - it all makes sense - my parents loaded me up on antibiotics all of the time and i never took probiotics to compensate, which explains my GI and headache issues when I was in college, the endometriosis I had, etc etc. I had major constipation probs amongst other discomforts in which case the Dr labeled "IBS" - another diagnosis I never submitted to. I would bet more than 1/2 the people with IBS have a real underlying problem - like Candida. IBS is just another one of those diagnoses in which case the Dr just can't pinpoint what is really wrong!
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