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Message: [QUOTE="Lefty2one, post: 3951027, member: 1001"] Lyme is a bitch of a disease. It can manifest itself in so many different ways and symptoms come and go. If you've gone years without being diagnosed it can get ugly. Doctors still understand very little about the disease. The good news is that if you eventually get proper treatment most people recover. If you have it but aren't diagnosed in the acute/early phase then good luck. Testing sucks; it's not reliable. Doctor after doctor will tell you that you don't have the disease. Maybe a "regular" doctor will prescribe you the standard three weeks of antibiotics but that doesn't work long-term for many folks. There is evidence that antibiotics simply cause the bacteria to move from your blood into your tissues and tendons, then it returns to your bloodstream once the antibiotics are out of your system. You'll have to go to Lyme specialists who are not covered by insurance and spend thousands out of pocket. I have a few friends who have wild stories about the disease. One's case is/was so bad she's reasonably famous in the Lyme community. The hell she had to go through for years, my lord. I don't know how she's still sane. It's a shame that it's become a controversial topic, even in Connecticut. There around thousands and thousands of people suffering and half of the medical community call Lyme-literate doctors frauds and charlatans while providing no help or answers of their own. I get it, doctors can only diagnose what they find. One friend spent two years giving specialists and regular doctors opportunities to find out what was wrong with him (all of the standard Lyme symptoms). He had every test under the sun, plenty of them twice. No one found answers and he eventually had such a poor quality of life that he saw a Lyme-literate doctor because he was out of options. In six months he was nearly back to normal. He still tears up when talking about his experience. The disease can rob you of any semblance of a normal life. [/QUOTE]

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