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Here it is my most recent update and I am camped out under my very large green and white stripped patio umbrella that has become my closest friend and all I can do is shake. I feel the bitter cold running threw my veins as I literally sit in the warm soon-to-be-summer sun. Yes, my body chemistry is a little off right now due to the meds or the more recent lack of meds.
Just a quick update to fill you all in on my new found lifestyle of living with Lyme's Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF). I have become allergic to one of the antibiotics that help ward off the lovely bacteria that is running chaotically through my body. Dr. Mandy has me on three different medications, one of them is Doxycycline which is to help keep back the Lyme's Disease, one is to balance out the yeast build up in my body from the first, and the last drug is Tinidazole and that is to ward off the RMSP. I have been off all three of the medications due to the burning that my hands have received. I have recently posted pictures to all of the Saucy Roots social media sites asking if people had an easy at-home remedy that could help ease the massive pain that I was in. At first, I thought it was a chemical burn due to a reaction from the meds and the glue or latex of my work gloves but even after I stopped using the gloves the burning and the blisters continued. So once again I headed back in to see Dr. Mandy (ok it was only after the local pharmacist yelled at me for asking for a burn cream that could help and he so bluntly told me that I was to run straight to the hospital for a prescription for what he thought could have been 2nd degree burns, wow I am a really bad judge of burns, didn't think it was that bad.). Dr. Mandy was baffled but seem to be convinced that I had developed an allergy to one of the meds. So we are now doing the elimination test on all three of them. No meds for a week. This was the freedom I found last week when I got to actually have a drink of our homemade wine! Yum!
My hands started clearing up as we expected that they would, of course there was really tough leathery like skin on my thumbs and my pointer finger where the worst of the blistering had taken place. My hands as of a couple days ago were feeling pretty good and nearly back to the right skin tone of any normal white Caucasian ginger. Gleaming white! There were a few pink spots where the new flesh has grown in and what looks to be left overs of peeling skin that resembles and bad sunburn. The healing has truly taken place from the inside out.
Last Saturday I had started to feel the effects of being off the medication for 56 hours. The crash began to kick in. Course it really didn't help that mother nature had to send Aunt Flow for a visit on top of it all. So yesterday morning around 4:30 I was determined to go back on at least one of the meds to figure out which one was causing the burning in my hands. My crash was not easy. I was sleeping more than I was awake and it felt like the bacteria in my body was coming back with a vengeance. Needless to say I posted on Facebook the wrong emotional battle and by the end of the day things were starting to turn around. Thank you all for your posts, comments, emails, text messages and so on each one of them really did bring a smile to my face and helped bring up my serotonin levels which we all know from the Turkey. Brazil Nuts. Sex. post that was published those levels suffer dearly.
The test started with the Tinidazole. There was a sneaky feeling in my guts that it was this one that was causing the burning. After a week of being on the drugs the very first time my hands would tingle and start feeling weird but I shrugged it off as the medicine doing its work on the RMSF. Well as you probably all saw from the pictures that was not totally the case. My hands were frying from the inside! Boiling my finger bones before my very eyes. (Insert a little dramatic music here and an eye roll.) As it turns out I am now off the Tinidazole forever, they will soon be flushed down the toilet as soon as Dr. Mandy finds out what the out come was. OR I could sell them on the black market for a heft price to pay for the next round of medicine in a couple weeks since I don't have insurance!? (That part is only half a joke or ... is it half serious?) Yes, my hands flared up and the new skin started steaming up, getting irritated and red. New red spots appeared and the burning kicked in about dinner time. So now to wait four more days for that to clear up so that I can get back to the Doxycycline and see if that will do any damage.
Will keep you all posted as things go along but please don't think that I am going to post regular updates since I do not want to be known as the poster child for both diseases. Please note that I am trying my hardest to worry about bigger things such as the fact that I have friends that will be homeless and that there are still too many starving children in this world and clearly not enough people growing their own food. My problems effect me right at this moment and yes, they are huge problems to me but there are other issues that need more attention. I will try to keep my posts on social media to happy thoughts and not of emotional spews or rants. Hell that's what this blog is for!! :)
As always, thank you again for your thoughts, prayers, suggestions, helpful information, and links to anything that I can read about or get my hands on. I do appreciate all the love and support that you have shown over the last couple weeks.
Will leave you with this quote and an update on the garden and how it looks right now! Enjoy!
Here it is my most recent update and I am camped out under my very large green and white stripped patio umbrella that has become my closest friend and all I can do is shake. I feel the bitter cold running threw my veins as I literally sit in the warm soon-to-be-summer sun. Yes, my body chemistry is a little off right now due to the meds or the more recent lack of meds.
Just a quick update to fill you all in on my new found lifestyle of living with Lyme's Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF). I have become allergic to one of the antibiotics that help ward off the lovely bacteria that is running chaotically through my body. Dr. Mandy has me on three different medications, one of them is Doxycycline which is to help keep back the Lyme's Disease, one is to balance out the yeast build up in my body from the first, and the last drug is Tinidazole and that is to ward off the RMSP. I have been off all three of the medications due to the burning that my hands have received. I have recently posted pictures to all of the Saucy Roots social media sites asking if people had an easy at-home remedy that could help ease the massive pain that I was in. At first, I thought it was a chemical burn due to a reaction from the meds and the glue or latex of my work gloves but even after I stopped using the gloves the burning and the blisters continued. So once again I headed back in to see Dr. Mandy (ok it was only after the local pharmacist yelled at me for asking for a burn cream that could help and he so bluntly told me that I was to run straight to the hospital for a prescription for what he thought could have been 2nd degree burns, wow I am a really bad judge of burns, didn't think it was that bad.). Dr. Mandy was baffled but seem to be convinced that I had developed an allergy to one of the meds. So we are now doing the elimination test on all three of them. No meds for a week. This was the freedom I found last week when I got to actually have a drink of our homemade wine! Yum!
My hands started clearing up as we expected that they would, of course there was really tough leathery like skin on my thumbs and my pointer finger where the worst of the blistering had taken place. My hands as of a couple days ago were feeling pretty good and nearly back to the right skin tone of any normal white Caucasian ginger. Gleaming white! There were a few pink spots where the new flesh has grown in and what looks to be left overs of peeling skin that resembles and bad sunburn. The healing has truly taken place from the inside out.
Last Saturday I had started to feel the effects of being off the medication for 56 hours. The crash began to kick in. Course it really didn't help that mother nature had to send Aunt Flow for a visit on top of it all. So yesterday morning around 4:30 I was determined to go back on at least one of the meds to figure out which one was causing the burning in my hands. My crash was not easy. I was sleeping more than I was awake and it felt like the bacteria in my body was coming back with a vengeance. Needless to say I posted on Facebook the wrong emotional battle and by the end of the day things were starting to turn around. Thank you all for your posts, comments, emails, text messages and so on each one of them really did bring a smile to my face and helped bring up my serotonin levels which we all know from the Turkey. Brazil Nuts. Sex. post that was published those levels suffer dearly.
The test started with the Tinidazole. There was a sneaky feeling in my guts that it was this one that was causing the burning. After a week of being on the drugs the very first time my hands would tingle and start feeling weird but I shrugged it off as the medicine doing its work on the RMSF. Well as you probably all saw from the pictures that was not totally the case. My hands were frying from the inside! Boiling my finger bones before my very eyes. (Insert a little dramatic music here and an eye roll.) As it turns out I am now off the Tinidazole forever, they will soon be flushed down the toilet as soon as Dr. Mandy finds out what the out come was. OR I could sell them on the black market for a heft price to pay for the next round of medicine in a couple weeks since I don't have insurance!? (That part is only half a joke or ... is it half serious?) Yes, my hands flared up and the new skin started steaming up, getting irritated and red. New red spots appeared and the burning kicked in about dinner time. So now to wait four more days for that to clear up so that I can get back to the Doxycycline and see if that will do any damage.
Will keep you all posted as things go along but please don't think that I am going to post regular updates since I do not want to be known as the poster child for both diseases. Please note that I am trying my hardest to worry about bigger things such as the fact that I have friends that will be homeless and that there are still too many starving children in this world and clearly not enough people growing their own food. My problems effect me right at this moment and yes, they are huge problems to me but there are other issues that need more attention. I will try to keep my posts on social media to happy thoughts and not of emotional spews or rants. Hell that's what this blog is for!! :)
As always, thank you again for your thoughts, prayers, suggestions, helpful information, and links to anything that I can read about or get my hands on. I do appreciate all the love and support that you have shown over the last couple weeks.
Will leave you with this quote and an update on the garden and how it looks right now! Enjoy!
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