Saturday before last (20th), I started feeling bad. Nothing terrible – just didn’t feel good and felt like I was starting with a sore throat. On Sunday, I woke up with a definite sore throat and had been waking up in the night with the feeling like I had sand in the back of my throat (hate that feeling!).

On Monday, I went to my doctor because I was going out of town for work at the end of the week and I didn’t want to have a sinus infection for a plane ride! So at this point, it was just sore throat, feeling like I had “gunk” in the back of my throat, beginning to lose my voice and my neck had been hurting (which I continually attributed to sleeping on it wrong). No fever.

They swabbed me for strep – negative. She looked at my throat and said it looked perfectly fine. So I’m like great, then why do I feel like this? She gave me a Z-pack and sent me on my way.

I got the prescription filled and then started thinking about how much I really didn’t want to take another antibiotic! Plus, if I’m being honest, it freaks me out a bit. This is how I felt when the Lyme really started kicking up – like I had a cold all of the time and I was exhausted. And Zithromax is one of the medications my Lyme doctor uses sometimes instead of Doxycycline.

I decided not to take the medication and just hold out to see if my immune system would handle it. I convinced myself it was allergies and started taking Zyrtec. The sand in the throat feeling continued a few more nights. And then this past weekend, I started coughing – not a lot and kind of random. Today, I haven’t been able to stop coughing and my head feels clogged. And my voice is nice and raspy!!

So I just gave in and took the stupid medication. I held out 9 days – you would think if my immune system was going to kick in and help me out, it would have done it by now.

Please, please, please don’t let me herx on this. Let the Lyme really be gone and for this to JUST be a sinus infection.

I made it 25 days without any antibiotics. Maybe after this five day course, it will be a long time before I have to take another one!!