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Old 05-10-2014, 07:39 AM   #12
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Last year I had the scare of a lifetime. I was at my camp on vacation and started to feel rather lethargic, had zero energy. I figured eh it's probably the stupidly long and insane hours I work that had finally caught up with me. Well this persisted for a couple of days. Then it went from that to flu like symptoms. Go from having the chills to sweating like a pig. That lasted about 24 hours then all was fine. I was still a little worn down but didn't think to much about it.
This part of your ordeal exactly mirrors mine, though thankfully in my case, without the heart attack.

About a week of the run down, fever, chills cycles, the thing that finally sent me to my doctor was when my left hand inexplicably swelled to almost twice it's normal size. Thankfully one of his first thoughts was to test for Lyme. I was positive and the course of antibiotics seemed to take care of things. This was 2 summers ago. No recurrence... so far.
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