Today was my second day on doxycycline, my new antibiotic, which paired with my old antibiotic, azithromycin, is attempting to knock the socks off of my Lyme Disease! While I don't feel like I'm in the midst of a particularly big herx, I definitely have an increase in symptoms, especially joint pain, which has been relatively quiet lately.
The pain in my body feels like someone is taking a drill and boring slowly into my joints, especially my hip bones. But since my brain doesn't particularly like that visual, and because I have a very vivid imagination, my brain has compensated by replacing that image with one I like better: when I feel that boring ache deep in my bones, I now picture thousands of tiny Doozers, the little construction workers from Fraggle Rock, working hard in my body. The pain I feel is just the friendly Doozers, digging deep in my joints and partaking in a not-so-friendly game of peekaboo with the Lyme spirochetes.
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