Hi everyone!
I was diagnosed with Lyme on April 13th. I had spent about 3 weeks with some bad joint pain, and it got progressively worse. I could not walk from the pain on the 6th, so I went to the doctor and got tested for many things, positive Lyme resulted on the 13th and I was started on Doxycycline. It came back as an older infection, and I never saw the bite. I think it might have happened in January, as I had an inflamed bump that I mistook for a cyst at the time on my thigh, along with flu like symptoms I never got checked out, but I never saw the tick.
I was given 5 days of prednisone on the 13th with the antibiotics which made me feel okay again, but they said I cannot be on that long term, and I am now in severe pain. I am on Meloxicam once a day with my antibiotics twice a day still, but nothing is helping the joint pain. I can’t lay comfortably, I can’t walk well, I can barely move, and even just standing up hurts. I was just hoping for some advice for the pain and next steps, as I truly cannot keep going like this.