Vertigo/Lyme Disease

[intexasatthe moment]

Hope you got some answers today Sue and are on the road to recovery .

[Sue]

intexasatthe moment Wrote:

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> Hope you got some answers today Sue and are on the

> road to recovery .

I thought I'd posted a response yesterday, but it must have got lost in the ether!

I saw a really helpful and knowledgeable consultant at St. George's. She thinks it is highly unlikely that I have Lyme disease, but just to be absolutely sure (and to set my mind at rest for the future) she has prescribed three weeks on a high dose of Doxycycline, which is the antibiotic of choice for Lyme disease and will thoroughly zap any bacteria should they be there.

She agrees with King's that the vertigo is probably due to vestibular neuritis, and almost certainly due to a virus and nothing to do with Lyme. It wasn't her specialism, but her husband had it so she had personal experience, which was useful for me!

She said it is very debilitating, which is why I am feeling so ill and exhausted, and gave me a lot of good advice about handling it - including making myself do things instead of sitting around at home. I had stopped taking the tablets I was prescribed because they were making me feel worse, and she has recommended something else to help my system gradually get back to normal, which may take some time.

She also gave me quite a bit of advice which was unexpected for a medical doctor, including things to get from a "health food" shop, and taking up "mindfulness"!

I was out last night and today I am feeling quite a bit better and brighter - psychological, probably! Long may it continue!

Thanks everybody for your advice and sympathy, and I hope anybody else out there who is ill will have a speedy recovery!

[intexasatthe moment]

So glad that you've been seen by someone helpful . I hope you'll go on improving and will soon be back to full health .

It sounds like a perticularly nasty afflication .

[civilservant]

hopeful that the antibiotics and advice help - fingers crossed!

[Sue]

civilservant Wrote:

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> hopeful that the antibiotics and advice help -

> fingers crossed!

Thanks, I had been feeling rubbish with bad headaches etc since early June (the tick bite was in May) and having hypochondriac tendencies and done a lot of googling had convinced myself it was Lyme disease, so I am quite relieved it is being treated even if it isn't there, if that makes sense!

[civilservant]

absolute sense - worrying about not being your usual self doesn't make you a hypochondriac

glad you're moving back to firing on all cylinders!