swine flu, etc

[Surruh]

Hi everyone
I'm back for a couple more questions. I've been feeling pretty well but still having annoying tingling, eye issues and twitching. I guess I'm just getting used to my symptoms. I see my neuro may 12 to hopefully get tested.

Anyways, there is a confirmed case of swine flu at my college I attend. I was just wondering how swine flu (or any other flu for that matter) reacts with lyme disease. This may be a stupid question but does lyme make it more easy to get sick?

My other unrelated question has to do with some weird pain I have been getting. I woke up today with my back very sore..it pretty much went away after I got up and walked around a little. Also a couple mornings ago I woke up and it felt like I had a huge bruise on my right ankle. It hurt to walk for awhile but again went away as the day went on. I also get random spurts of pain in the soles of my feet. Does any of this sound familiar?

Just as a side note...I was in the library today and my cracking joints were going crazy. Even when I just breathed, my neck made a little cracking sound. I was hopping no one could here it!

-Sarah

[PlateletGal]

Some things you can do to help boost your immune system:

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Complementary-Medicine/Swine-Flu-discussion/show/934720

[skarey]

My immune system seems to be pretty good strangely enough.  I haven't been sick all winter, besides one minor cold (knock on wood).  Besides what is going on with all this sensory ****, brain fog, and weakness I'd be really healthy! HA!  

[JackieCalifornia]

My immune system is pretty strong still, but I know someone with Lyme whose immune system is pretty run down:  I don't know what makes the difference in different people.  In the years since I got Lyme, I haven't even had the sniffles.

Sore soles can be a symptom of bartonella, a coinfection that sometimes comes with Lyme.  I had that for a while long before I was diagnosed, but never tested positive for bartonella, so don't know what it was.

Cracking neck and ankles -- absolutely.  I sometimes feel sore and achy in the mornings too -- can't quite correlate it in time with 'flares' of Lyme or die off of the bugs, but it must relate somehow.

[patsy10]

It all sounds familiar to me.  My jaw makes cracking sounds that other people can hear.

The immune system is weakened by lyme and the co-infections so the body may not be able to fight off other infections very well.  This is why people with lyme can have infections like  EBV along with the lyme.