Lyme Disease

It's very possible that it could have been from other things, but I'm now in remission. I got treatment for it, and I'm very thankful. But when I did have it, so around like a year ago, a little less than a year ago, one of the big symptoms that I had was hair loss. And I'm only 18, and I have like both my grandpas, you know what they say, like have like full heads of hair, and they're like pretty old. And it was really, I think a lot of it came from stress, but I've always had anxiety, and it's never happened. But luckily, once I got treatment for Lyme, it grew back.

All right, symptoms of Lyme. When you first get it, you'll get it. You can get a bullseye rash. You could have got Lyme's disease, not even known, had no reaction, and get it again. You know, I've heard testimonies for folks, they, you know, got COVID, it reactivated it, but in the end, rashes, sweating, joint pain, joint pain that you never experienced, muscle, muscle spasms, muscle, body tremors. You can get many seizures. There's, there's a lot of symptoms. It imitates a lot of different diseases. You might even think you have MS, Lou Gehrig's disease. What else? There's, there's several diseases this thing mimics because it's a parasite. Again, I'm not a doctor. I'm just from my experience where I've read, you know, a lot of viruses are linked to parasites and that's what you got going on in your body to fix everything.

My symptoms I've learned to summarize into three categories. I have neurocognitive problems. What does my psychiatrist call it? Cognitive disorders with multiple etiologies and you stack that on top of ADD which also goes with Lyme and I can only think clearly when I'm doing well or when I'm rested or at certain times of the day. So brain fog or Lyme brain is one thing. Muscle and joint pain that migrate around your body. Muscle twitching. So pain is another category. And the other one for me that is really big right now is chronic fatigue. I sleep between 12 and 14 hours a day and there's really no way around it. If I don't get that amount of rest I'm not going to be able to function.

I've dealt with a lot of symptoms in the past, but I'd say by far the main ones that I struggled with were chronic fatigue and brain fog. So I just, I'm really good at sleeping. And before I got treatment, I would just sleep and sleep and sleep because I was always just so tired no matter what. And then a lot of the times I would not be able to really think. For example, this summer it was really, my line was really bad and I had an online class and I had just one and I just couldn't bring myself to do the assignments because it just was really hard for me because my brain just was not making the processes that I wanted it to and that it usually can do.

Lyme disease mimics over 300 different diseases and illnesses. Mine began with depression and anxiety and then mood swings which led to bipolar symptoms and spread mostly to my brain and then I don't know if you can notice but this eye is kind of squinty and when I get tired or more feeling more sick it starts to close like this and I can't do anything about it and that's called Bell's palsy. That's another symptom. There's aches, pain, it mimics over 300 different diseases so lupus, MS, ALS, I have Hashimoto's now, my thyroid's gone because of Lyme disease, there's so many different things that Lyme disease can cause and so many other symptoms but insomnia is also one that I have as well.