Here I go...I'm taking the plunge and hoping that people actually want to read my ramblings about Lyme's Disease and Babesia. So...I guess I should start with my history...I was always sick growing up, especially once I became a Freshmen in High School. They thought I had Lyme's Disease at the time because I had the bulls eye rash, but they could never find evidence of a tick so I was misdiagnosed with the Parvo virus. Later on throughout life I still struggled with random symptoms here and there that could never be explained by any specialists. It wasn't until I had the worst headache of my life and was in the hospital that the puzzle was about to be solved. After the stupid, or maybe I should say ignorant ER doctors could not find the source of my head pain, they sent me home with pain killers. My mother, having being diagnosed with Lyme, took me to her chronic pain doctor and he said, "I'm not the kind of doctor that diagnoses this kind of thing, but with all of your symptoms, it sounds like you have Lyme's Disease like your mother." I was like huh? I had no idea what Lyme was. I went home and looked it up on the Lyme's Disease Association website and balled my eyes out. When I looked at the symptoms page, I printed out the page and circled almost every symptom. This was me! I had Lyme's! I was sure of it. I made an appointment with an Infectious Disease Specialist and he agreed that clinically I had Lyme. Yadda, yadda, yadda...I got divorced and moved to Kansas City and found the AMAZING Dr. "R" and after 3 months of IV therapy I was cured of Lyme! Hooray, right? You're thinking...well this is going to be a short blog! No, this is where the story begins. After being cured of Lyme, 2 years later I was diagnosed with another tick-borne illness...Babesia! Oh lucky, lucky me! So why am I writing this blog, you might ask? For a couple of reasons: 1. A place to vent so I don't go insane 2. To help others going through the same struggles 3. To educate the public
More to come later...
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