LymeNet Flash: Article about somatization

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Posted by Walnut (Member # 6585) on :

This article is about somatization -- a condition "characterized by numorous physical complaints for which no underlying cause can be found."

Sounds like undiagnosed lyme disease to me...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/28/AR2006082800784.html

(Warning: very fustrating reading!)

Posted by treepatrol (Member # 4117) on :

yep

Posted by Biting Back (Member # 6018) on :

I was tagged with that diagnosis until lyme was correctly diagnosed. I never, ever, ever even entertained the idea that I might have a somatization disorder. I continued to go from doctor to doctor to doctor . . . for 21 years.

Posted by painted turtle (Member # 7801) on :

Without reading the above article, I have to say that the neurologist I went to for some very severe things going on with me...

anxiety
alzheimers
extreme vertigo
numbness

ETCETERA, ETCETERA!!!

he ruled out a brain tumor with his MRI and then suggested somatoform but did not diagnoise it.

I entertained this notion and researched it for the next year or so as I continued to get progressively worse to an extreme I no longer want to imagine

until I discovered lyme, which I had barely heard of, even though I was tested for it oh, some 10 years prior...Elisa probably... [rant]

When I received a positive lyme test, I brought it back to this neurologist so that he will be aware... so that he will KNOW .

He said,

well...I can order a lyme test.

Not more than a week later I received a letter that he was closing his practice for the alternative treatments thing.

What a ride!