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I managed to wear my 20 year old out in Las Vegas! I felt 100% the whole four days I was gone! I kept up with a 20 year old, and even woke up before her every morning. We walked miles, and miles, and miles .... if you've ever been there, we walked through many casinos working our way from the MGM Grande, stopping for some mac and cheese and creamed spinach at Smith and Wollensky's (we had steak there the night before, came back to try the mac and cheese the waiter was trying to get us to order as a side dish .... didn't want to take our appetite away from the steak), and ended at the Wynn. LONG walk. We had some carrot cake, a latte, and split a bellini at the Wynn. I bought a cute hat. :-D I didn't have any breathing difficulty at all while we were gone ..... or any other symptoms, but had shortness of breath within a couple hours of returning. I'm hoping this slight fatigue and shortness of breath is caused by the mold in our bathroom ..... I'd hate to...

I figured out where this fatigue is coming from .... remember when I said I cut back on thyroid meds because I thought it might still be too high? Well, I think I cut back too far on them. I started taking 5 mcg of Cytomel (was on 10 recently, and 20 before Germany) and the energy level is right where it should be. In fact, today, I don't have any symptoms at all. Woohoo!

As you know, I have been fatigued from treating with the blood. It's not tiredness like from lack of sleep, it's different. It's more like a lack of motivation to get out of the chair. That is a far cry from where I was when I was sick when I couldn't even hold my head up, much less get out of the chair without substantial effort .... now I CAN get out of the chair, I just am not motivated enough to. I have been keeping up with working out - 30 min. cardio and 30 min. weights and stretching. I have been cooking, cleaning, etc. .... all the things that moms do ... driving ..... But this fatigue permeates everything. I'd rather just sit around. That is so unlike the real me! So I was talking to a well-informed fellow-Lymie-who-went-to-Germany yesterday. When I told him I was treating with blood, he said, "Only once per week, right?" I said, "Uh, no, twice per week, like the Lyme treatment we did in Germany." He said, "Nope, you're...

I did treatment #3 at 100% power with blood last night. I didn't sleep longer than normal like I normally do after photon treatment. I didn't have left-sided pain, and my shortness of breath is minimal with no chest tightness. I have been fatigued for the past few days, since Saturday. I have two sick kids, so perhaps that's why. If you're a poster on Lymenet, you know that has been a source of stress for me lately, and in fact, I'm on a hiatus from there till I'm feeling better again, so perhaps that has something to do with it. Stress is not good for the adrenals, and I'm building mine back up after a prolonged illness. I've also forgotten to take my iron supplement for the past few days. It's hard to remember everything is not Lyme, but it appears that I have several options of where this fatigue might be coming from aside from Lyme. I did end up stopping Cytomel completely. My basal temperatures were higher than 98.6, and basal temps are ...

My almost four weeks off treatment went really well. I took the supplements I mentioned previously, though I cut out the kelp. I continued to juice, eat healthy, and exercise. I still am not sleeping great, but am getting by on a half an Ambien. I seem to wake up at the slightest noise (I sleep with earplugs, so that helps). I sleep straight through when hubby is out of town .... maybe it's HIS fault I wake up, LOL! Even with wakeups, I'm getting nine hours total per night. All my pain is gone, even the left shoulder pain and I've been practicing my flute more than I used to. The fatigue is gone, too. My doctor wouldn't send me a thyroid test because the testing is not due till next month .... so I didn't get that test taken. I reduced my thyroid meds myself (bad to do, but I called twice about getting the test done early, grrr) and cut out the kelp. The shortness of breath has still been bothering me along with some chest tightness. Not enough to make me f...