First off, I would love to get some feedback on this topic which I'm revisiting earlier than I had expected - have you noticed that your kid(s) with Lyme perk up in the summer, only to slide back into symptoms in the fall-winter-spring? This is the second year we've seen this happen rather dramatically.
As mentioned in my last blog post, our son had an amazing almost symptom-free summer, starting as usual in mid-June, except for one terrible heat-induced breathing and hyperventilation episode and hot flashes and daily fever (down from numerous daily fevers). The best part was he had not one day or night of the chronic exhaustion! He was able to enjoy time with friends, even group sleep-overs - things that happened minimally, if at all, last school year. And he started high school cross country, despite his breathing issues which is pretty awesome. But then school started and by the second day he spiked an afternoon fever in class and came straight home and didn't move the rest of the night. I admit it was a big blow for me. While I knew based on his history the past few years that relapses had happened in October - around his bite time, I was hopeful we would be past it this year. The good news is that, after 10 months of treatment, he rebounded more quickly than last year. This week the day after re-starting treatment, he had a sofa day and missed school and a test. Again, he recovered and attended school the next day. Hopefully this trend of 1 day of fatigue and then well again will continue so less school will be missed. Progress, however slow it can seem, is being made with his treatment and that is so gratifying. Thank God for LLMDs and LLNPs - forever our publicly unsung heroes with their knowledge, tenacity, open mindedness, compassion and willingness to fight for their patients' rights to heal!
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Jessica Schondel
10/10/2016 03:45:08 pm
The answer is related to stress and a child with a compromised immune system being exposed to all kinds of germs. And the pressure that these kids are under without even being sick is enormous. Add that amount of pressure to a child with Lyme/TBDs and it tips them over! It is completely overwhelming bc they start to miss more and more school, work piles up, more stress. Some teachers understand but the majority of the school "system" do not. We have had a school nurse say "oh these kids will say anything to get out of class".
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10/16/2016 11:14:35 am
Hi Jessica,
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