Terrible headache and tinnitus - will it ever end. Feeling low/depressed.

[Hope75]

I guess I just need somebody to say, been there done that, and it improved.  My head is screaming, aching and I have a tinge of nausea.  Absolutely no energy and I'm hitting a mental low.  Depressed and anti-social.  I can't tolerate much from people.  I know the mental state is only due to being physically sick for so long.  I just completed over two weeks of antibiotic treatment (4 abx).  

I'm just tired, tired of being sick.  Bah humbug.

[wonko]

I started treatment, slowly, about a year a go.  I Herxed fairly continuously and fairly badly all through April, May, June, and July '09.  Every day was miserable, I doubted many days that treatment was working and instead suspected that I was just toxic from too much medication.

Then one day in late August, a big, heavy curtain was pulled back and I found myself able to do so much more than before.  It's still precarious, and I still have bad days, flares, Herx's, but once in awhile for a few hours at a time I can almost forget that I'm sick.  

And while losing ability is horrifying, as is stacking up more and more symptoms, recovering ability is glorious!  Even though I'm not "100%" it is so relieving to know that much of the damage and effects are reversible.

I really underestimated how long and difficult treatment would be.  Maybe it was to my advantage that I started abx expecting to be cured in a month or so.  Had I known how awful I would feel before improving, I may have shied away from the whole mess.  While I had read about Herxes and long-term treatment, I figured that wouldn't happen to me as I'm just too tough.  Ha!  Lyme undermines our resilience, and I think that makes us feel not like ourselves and at times, just worn out and hopeless.  Do your best to weather the storm, and the sun will come out tomorrow!

[patsy10]

I had tinnitus for over a year continuously.  It finally went away.

[JackieCalifornia]

Your drug regimen sounded very difficult -- the most I've done is two meds at a time and that was hard enough.

Being ill and worried about it all does nasty things to one's outlook, doesn't it ... but there will be better days ahead.  When I have a good day, I try to fix a memory of it, and how I felt, where I was and what I was doing when Life Was Once Again Fine, and cling to that memory like Linus to his blanket.

Hang tough; your body may be a little bit huffy right now given what you just put it through with the many meds.