For about 9 months now I have been dealing with debilitating fatigue that just wont go away along with brain fog and various other symptoms such as headaches, tingling in my cheekbones, heart palpitations that were really bad for about a month or two then subsided, and weakness.
I have been tested for just about everything and everything was coming back negative until I demanded to do a test for Lyme. My integrative practitioner did not test for EIA just western blot which came back POSITIVE IgM.
This is confusing to me because if I have been sick for so long why would it should IgM positive and negative IgG?
The positive IgG bands were: 66, 41, and the infamous 18.
The positive IgM bands were: 23, and 41
What does this tell me?
My integrative practitioner prescribed 100mg of doxy twice daily for 28 days and she said I can try to do 200mg twice daily after a week or so. I started last Friday and haven't had too much herx, just really bad headaches in the back of my head at night and now I'm getting some pain in my shoulder/upper back.
My main concern is the fatigue. I'm 24 years old and feel too weak and tired to live a normal life. If this is Lyme, will the fatigue eventually go away? Will I feel better after the doxycycline? Should I take other natural herbs along with the doxy such as semento and/or citricidal?
Thanks so much everyone!
Nic