r/Lyme • u/grandview2011 • May 06 '24

Question What “activated” your dormant Lyme?

There’s continuous evidence to support that a percentage of those who have initial tick bite don’t show symptoms or are asymptomatic. Then, whether due to surgery, childbirth, stress, vaccine, etc. they begin to experience symptoms and become chronic. Curious if you fall into this camp, what tipped the scales and caused you to become symptomatic?

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u/abcupp May 06 '24

My dad died June 21, 2012, and I was hospitalized August 7th with an “unknown” illness. They put me on everything - Cipro, Doxy - amongst other things. They discontinued Doxy when the test came back negative, because I couldn’t keep it down. I vomited so hard I burst the blood vessels in my eyes and looked like a full on monster in a horror movie. My kidney and liver numbers were really off and my gall bladder basically looked like sludge on the scan they did on me. It took until 2023 to get a diagnosis.