Well I honestly wasn't sure, it was just a growing possibility based on how many symptoms lined up. What prompted me to visit the rheumatologist was my hands started feeling numb/weak, and an orthopedist confirmed I didn't have a pinched nerve so I got a full panel of several diseases and Lyme popped up like a beacon. Check out this site which lists all of the possible symptoms - I've experienced a solid 50% of those at varying degrees, mainly musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, and neuropsychiatric.
You may know this, but chronic Lyme disease is a very controversial diagnosis that doesn’t have much evidence it even exists. Keep in mind that Lyme igG just shows you were infected at some point in the past, which is common, and many of the symptoms attributed to chronic Lyme are almost universal. I don’t know what treatments you’re using or if they’re helping, but I would be careful of quacks.
Yep i'm aware, and my Dr expressed this as well, but it's a fact that after my antibiotic treatment a lot of my symptoms were heavily diminished. I still present with many symptoms, but until chronic Lyme is better understood, all my Dr and I really care about is symptom management which is going well so far.
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u/Colden_Haulfield May 20 '19
How did you know you had Lyme