So last week, the lyme doctor said she wanted to redo my blood tests to see how aggressively she could treat me. I went back on Friday to have my blood drawn. The nurse, in all her infinite wisdom, stuck me on the inside of my wrist to draw blood. It hurt!! I know I don’t have great veins but I’ve never been stuck there….ever. At that point, I was starting to miss my PICC!

I went back today expecting to get my results. When I got there, the nurse said that she couldn’t find them. Come to find out, she didn’t draw the blood in the right tubes so the lab canceled the order when they received it. Nice.

So I had to have blood drawn again – this time she went in my hand. It hurt as well but not near as bad as the underside of my wrist (which is still bruised!).

The doctor stuck her head in briefly and asked how I was doing. I told her I wasn’t feeling that great and my knee is really bothering me. Most people have joint problems as a major symptom of Lyme but my knees haven’t bothered me in a long time. She didn’t seem to care and just kind of nodded. The nurse said she wasn’t charging me for a visit so I guess that’s why the doctor didn’t say much to me.

Now, I have another week of waiting to get results. The good news is that the increase in the doxy hasn’t caused any major nausea yet or a big herx reaction. I did take two long naps last weekend but I think that was from being exposed to gluten when I went to eat lunch on Saturday.

I went to the mall after lunch and literally within a matter of minutes, I went from feeling okay to feeling like I had the flu. I had ordered a bowl of gluten free soup but when it arrived, it had several tortilla strips on top (which are not gluten free because of cross contamination). I didn’t think much of it and just fished them out. Well, I will never do that again!

I barely made it home and then fell asleep for several hours. And I’m not a napping person. Unless I’m incredibly sick, I don’t sleep during the day or in the car or anything like that. I doubled up on my probiotics and drank a ton of water for several days to try to flush it out. I have no idea if that really works but I feel better than I did on Saturday.

So from now on, I will be very careful about what I eat and any potential cross contamination issues. Eating out was already difficult but now it will be near impossible. Oh well, we’ll save money, right?

Hopefully my blood tests won’t be canceled again and next week I’ll actually have results to report!