need help and advice with lyme disease

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hi, i was diagnosed with lyme about 10 months ago, i've been on

tetracycline since then. i am better than i was at the time, i was

very crippled one year ago. the peripheral neuropathy has mostly gone,

and i occassionally slip on my tetra schedule so i don't know whether

that's why i flare or not. but, flare i do. i'm coming out of a

serious 5 day pain cycle. my biggest problems now are my knees and

elbows. they swell, and are very painful. when i bend my knees, the

fluid parts bulge out like those asian goldfish eyes! they are not

very stable either. tendons snap around in them as well as in my

elbows, and i'm unable to fully straighten my arms. my elbows are stuck

it seems. and it doesn't seem like bone so much as tendon issues. and

the pain or swelling migrates constantly, sometimes by the hour.

this has taken my strength from me, and really changed my life for the

worse. i am very much weakened from this. it's soooo hard to

exercise. does anyone have any advice? i'm beginning to dispair of

getting my life back fully.

thanks,

anita