Debbie Gibson Opens Up About the Lows of Lyme Disease
Now that she's feeling better, she's "put back on about 12-15 lbs," she said.
— -- Singer Debbie Gibson admits that she is just now starting to feel like herself again after struggling from Lyme disease for the past year.
"This is my first pain-free month," she told People magazine. "My strength has really come back. I've put back on about 12-15 lbs. Before, I couldn't ride my bike. I could hardly walk. Now I can. I went to yoga for the first time a month ago. I'm someone who has spent my life dancing and working out, and I wasn't able to do it with this disease."
Indeed, things got so bad that Gibson, 44, said she "became a shell of myself."
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"I couldn't lift my head sometimes," she continued. "My boyfriend said I was mixing up words in my texts. It really got into my cognitive skills. I took crazy amounts of antibiotics, including doxycycline. It killed so much stuff in my body."
The "Lost in Your Eyes" singer is happy to be taking fewer pills for her disease.
"I'm on zero medications and two supplements. Isn't that crazy? It's all about getting my own body back online," she said. "My food sensitivities have gone away – I was able to eat airplane food yesterday and didn't have a major episode!"
Even though things are better, she's not looking "too far ahead.
"I'm taking things day by day,” she added. “I get into trouble when I look too far ahead and worry about the future. I'm now grateful for each day.”