02-20-2025, 07:06 PM
My first post here on the forum - but did read the forum regularly as a guest. I spent the last 5 weeks feeling like I was rode hard and put away wet - hands equally swollen so bad I lost grip/movement then the ankles did the same then moved to one knee. Went to my MD doctor and was ordered to a group of blood test that check for RA and other markers - tests revealed extreme inflammation in my blood which worried the doctor extremely because I nearly died a 1 1/2 year ago of sepsis. Did more blood test which included the Lyme Disease test. Verdict is advanced stage of Lyme disease and now on a course of Prednisone - 40mg per day down to 5 mg per day for 16 plus days or until they get a solid lead of what's going on. Has anybody had Lyme Disease that got this bad? Was Prednisone prescribed or something less evil. I'm almost 70 years old and have worked and lived in the outdoors all my life. Please share your experience. Thanks!
