You're all very welcome. We all have found this community a veritable life saver, and feel strongly about
reaching out to help support everyone that comes here needing it! It seems to have that effect on most everyone, which makes us unique, I think!
Huddie, by long stretches, I mean periods of time that probably lasted as long as a year to 3 years.
I believe what was happening is that apparently my immune system, my body's strength, was in good enough condition to not only keep what all bacterias (Lyme, etc.) in check in spite of the work load I placed on myself.
The times that I would crash and turn zombie like again always seemed (looking back on it) to fall on the heals of some physical trauma, or snowballing emotional stress.
For about
4 years between having my home, my safety zone alone to myself, until the gall bladder surgery, was my last good stretch of near normality. Still, like I've said, even during those times I never felt quite 'me', still wondering if I'd ever feel like myself again, but I was functioning amazingly well.
This is why I stress de-stressing so much with people that are struggling with the symptoms. I know how important having that place to go to, even in your mind, where nothing external can get to your sense of peace. And I know that is undoubtedly the hardest thing to do for some.
Huddie, I never received treatment for the Lyme I'd contracted, but I did take short term abx of different varieties though out the years for various other infections. I may be wrong, but I think that all those times on random abx, most of which usually lasted 10 days, did give my system enough of a boost to keep me going enough, but not enough of the right thing to even kill enough of the bacteria to cause a herx reaction. As I don't recall any.
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