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I ain't goin' to no doctor. You farkers will just have to do.
September 7, 2010 at
06:05 PM
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I guess that means I'm agonna be all dieded.
The short story: I hurt. My legs hurt, my head is killing me, I can hardly keep my eyes open, and I'm ever-so-slightly queasy.
I don't have a fever. This has been going on for three days or so. I went to lay down for a few minutes on Monday morning and woke up four hours later. Sleeping like this during the day is NOT normal for me anymore.
My sugar is normal, but it's all I can do to keep my eyes open. Ibuprofen, which normally is my drug of choice when in pain, seems to have no affect.
I don't like this. Fixerfy me, please.
The short story: I hurt. My legs hurt, my head is killing me, I can hardly keep my eyes open, and I'm ever-so-slightly queasy.
I don't have a fever. This has been going on for three days or so. I went to lay down for a few minutes on Monday morning and woke up four hours later. Sleeping like this during the day is NOT normal for me anymore.
My sugar is normal, but it's all I can do to keep my eyes open. Ibuprofen, which normally is my drug of choice when in pain, seems to have no affect.
I don't like this. Fixerfy me, please.
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I've been incredibly lethargic all day, and it has been my most busiest day at work in the year I've been there. Not a good day to feel all dieded.
I want to go find a hole and crawl in it now. I can barely hold my eyes open.
I've been incredibly lethargic all day, and it has been my most busiest day at work in the year I've been there. Not a good day to feel all dieded.
I want to go find a hole and crawl in it now. I can barely hold my eyes open.
I've been incredibly lethargic all day, and it has been my most busiest day at work in the year I've been there. Not a good day to feel all dieded.
I want to go find a hole and crawl in it now. I can barely hold my eyes open.
It sounds like mono to me.
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It sounds like mono to me.
I would think it would just be exhaustion, but that doesn't splainifiy the muscle soreness in my legs, especially the muscles on the upper part of the back of my legs, and the muscles on the inner front part of the top of my legs. If I had just overworked those muscles, the pain would have subsided the next day. This pain has persisted for three days now with no change.
In the early stages of Lyme disease, you may experience flu [webmd.com]-like symptoms that can include a stiff neck [webmd.com], chills, fever [webmd.com], swollen lymph nodes [webmd.com], headaches [webmd.com], fatigue [webmd.com], muscle aches [webmd.com], and joint pain [webmd.com]. You also may experience a large, expanding skin rash around the area of the tick bite. In more advanced disease, nerve problems and arthritis, especially in the knees, may occur.
Here are some more details:
- Erythma migrans. Erythema migrans is the telltale rash which occurs in about 70% to 80% of cases and starts as a small red spot that expands over a period of days or weeks, forming a circular, triangular, or oval-shaped rash. Sometimes the rash resembles a bull's-eye because it appears as a red ring surrounding a central clear area. The rash, which can range in size from that of a dime to the entire width of a person's back, appears between three days and a few weeks of a tick bite, usually occurring at the site of a bite. As infection spreads, several rashes can appear at different sites on the body. Erythema migrans is often accompanied by symptoms such as fever, headache, stiff neck, body aches, and fatigue. These flu-like symptoms may resemble those of common viral infections and usually resolve within days or a few weeks.
- Arthritis. After several weeks of being infected with Lyme disease, approximately 60% of those people not treated with antibiotics develop recurrent attacks of painful and swollen joints [webmd.com] that last a few days to a few months. The arthritis can shift from one joint to another; the knee is most commonly affected and usually one or a few joints are affected at any given time. About 10% to 20% of untreated patients will go on to develop lasting arthritis. The knuckle joints of the hands are only very rarely affected.
- Neurological symptoms. Lyme disease can also affect the nervous system, causing symptoms such as stiff neck and severe headache (meningitis [webmd.com]), temporary paralysis of facial muscles (Bell's palsy), numbness, pain [webmd.com] or weakness in the limbs, or poor coordination. More subtle changes such as memory loss, difficulty with concentration, and a change in mood or sleeping habits have also been associated with Lyme disease. People with these latter symptoms alone usually don't have Lyme disease as their cause. Nervous system abnormalities usually develop several weeks, months, or even years following an untreated infection. These symptoms often last for weeks or months and may recur. These features of Lyme disease usually start to resolve even before antibiotics are started. Patients with neurologic disease usually have a total return to normal function.
- Heart problems. Fewer than one out of 10 Lyme disease patients develops heart problems, such as an irregular, slow heartbeat, which can be signaled by dizziness [webmd.com] or shortness of breath. These symptoms rarely last more than a few days or weeks. Such heart abnormalities generally appear several weeks after infection, and usually begin to resolve even before treatment.
- Other symptoms. Less commonly, Lyme disease can result in eye inflammation and severe fatigue, although none of these problems is likely to appear without other Lyme disease symptoms being present.
http://www.webmd.com/rheumatoid-a...me-diseaseWe'll miss you.
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