Were you stressed/burned out when you got lyme?

potsnpans:" I'm concerned you might think this topic should be off limits"

I'm concerned that a new Lyme patient might think it advisable to tell a clinician his/her symptoms coincided with a period of stress without realizing that for many, if not most, doctors - researchers and clinicians alike - that may translate into something not Lyme.

There is a reason insurance companies and psych communities and old school IDSA Lyme stalwarts like to counter organic TBD infection claims with psych-babble allegations.

You talk about whatever you like. I tend to believe stress can impact us. I have psoriasis, for instance, and I think stress impacts that. I know, too, my TBD symptoms often seem to flare with stress. But, not sure why on either account, and all I know with any sense of certainty is the correlation.

Post Edited (duncan) : 10/29/2020 12:20:48 PM (GMT-6)

At the time I got a borrelia ring I wasnt stressed, i was feeling better than any time in my 40 year life. Was doing lots of relaxing Vipassana retreats and really felt better than ever. Thought i finally gotten a good balance in life. Then a few months after the red ring more and more sickness started creeping in and one year after I was feeling worse than I had ever felt in 40 years...

Girlie said...
Duncan “ I'm concerned that a new Lyme patient might think it advisable to tell a clinician his/her symptoms coincided with a period of stress without realizing that for many, if not most, doctors - researchers and clinicians alike - that may translate into something not Lyme.“

That happens even without adding the stress piece.
Non lyme literate docs generally won’t acknowledge chronic Lyme - that’s why we need llmd’s or llnds - and they should “get” that stress dies impact the disease...

LLMDs, although arguably growing in numbers, remain a striking minority. In the broader medical community, "stress", when associated with contested disease, is code for psychological etiology. I've seen it all in the 20+ years I've been seeing doctors and participating in research studies, most of them associated with Lyme. Doctors may claim differently, but it's how they're trained.

Hey, just wanted to add my two cents. Didn't mean to put anybody off.