What Causes Severe Fatigue, Body Ache And Eyes Burning Post Treating Lyme Disease?

Posted on Thu, 28 Jan 2016

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Question : what do you do when you have flare ups from lyme disease. I have had these symptoms for the past month. extreme fatigue, body aches, my body feels hot inside, my eyes burn and are red, general feeling of malaise.

Answered by Dr. Tushar Kanti Biswas (6 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Post–Lyme syndrome

Detailed Answer:
Hi,

Thank you for your query. I can understand your concerns.

You seems to have post-Lyme symptoms (marked fatigue, body ache/diffuse musculo-skeletal pain, generalized symptoms like body feeling hot inside,malaise,eyes burning etc ).
You do not seem to have any flare-up or late manifestations of Lyme disease as they are are usually associated with minimal systemic symptoms.

Post–Lyme syndrome may be treated with intravenous ceftriaxone for 30 days followed by oral doxycycline for 60 days. However many patients are given simply treatment for the relief of symptoms rather than with prolonged courses of antibiotics.
Discuss with your doctor.

Regards

Dr. T.K. Biswas M.D. XXXXXXX

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