Its not a surgery, or post op, or ICU, or a cast or sling kind of illness. Having and overcoming Chronic Lyme disease feels like an invisible illness. Difficult to diagnose and heal and for others to see the torment and suffering it takes to survive it.
Post Lyme hosts a quagmire of interesting hurdles and obstacles that prove challenging as well. Hence, the invisible scar. On the other side of the mountain or the top side of the pit – there are dangling difficulties that remain.
Some of the symptoms come and go – some new ones arrive. There are body parts I wasn’t even aware that I had or what they did that I can feel now because I am uber aware of EVERYTHING that goes on in my body.
In Lyme most of us are affected by neurological and brain issues and misfires that then occur throughout the body’s organs and cause a wide variety of symptoms. A year and a half after “ground zero” for me, I had a terribly painful molar tooth that flared up simultaneously to an equally painful plantar’s wart on my foot. A remedy for the tooth cleared them both up – weird huh? It seems the more bizarre the body connections, now after experiencing Lyme, the more normal it has become.
I get a thick tongue affect that comes and goes only in the mornings and sometimes brings with it chest constrictions and I am now in a 3 week period of loud ear ringing. This all after I am Post Lyme. I know you all have your stories to tell and I could go on and on with a list that would bring you equal comfort to know you are not alone in this. We all have weird remaining symptoms and tales to tell.
The wake of disaster that Lyme leaves behind is invisible for the world, but still leaves a scar on us.
There are still going to be random “flares” and symptoms almost like the aftershocks of a earthquake that dissapate over time. I chose to take the kids to a different pumpkin patch this year – I didn’t want to risk the rural drive to our favorite one alone. I would have never had these thoughts before Lyme, but the invisible scar has altered thoughts, emotions, relationships and planning.
The main point here is not to get beat up over the scar or let it alter too much. Start living again and journal the weird symptoms, and monitor your forward progress.
Make sure it is always onward and upward. Go for the gold.
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