Holiday's over

For the latter half of Feb and the beginning of March I took a "drug holiday". This meant that I quit taking the antibiotics I was on to get an idea of what my new baseline is when I'm not experiencing immunopathology (fancy word for feeling like shit because my immune system is trying to clean up rotting microbial corpses). New baseline is very, very good.

However I started back on my meds on March 20th. Right on time I'm experiencing inflammation and that fluish-someone-turned-the-gravity-up fatigue. My fingers hurt and I want to crawl into a hole and sleep for a week.

Next scheduled drug holiday is June. I'm settling into a six weeks on, two weeks off kind of schedule. We'll see how it goes. What's comforting to my little scientific mind is that this has become predicable and reproduceable.

I'm not nearly as sick as this time last year, so I'm very grateful for that. In my mind, I have shifted from suffering from Lyme Disease to recovering from it. This makes a huge difference.