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Since September of last year, I have gone to over ten specialists, and put on the gamut of medicines, but none seemed to help. Recently, a doctor suggested to me that I might have lyme disease, and after looking up the symptoms, I am certain that I may have contracted the disease. I asked my family doctor about the possibility, to which he replied 'absolutely not', despite the fact that all my symptoms began about a month after I had been in a heavily wooded area in NJ. My symtpoms include: -headache, every day upon waking and doesn't go away with advil -twitching of muscles/tingling of face/tremors -joint pain/muscle pain,cramps -shortness of breath -extreme pressure in the head -lightheadedness/wooziness -confusion/difficulty with memory -bouts of extreme fatigue, even without exertion I know that some of this can relate to other things, but I've had so much blood work done, CT scans, MRIs...everything(lyme test came back neg) ..Despite not believing me, my family doctor gave me a 21-day prescription of doxycycline...and the weird thing about it, which further leads me to beleive that this is lyme disease is that: I have been treating 'convergence insufficiency' (a nuerological eye problem) with vision therapy for three months now (have had blurred/double vision since november)..i witnessed some improvement with the therapy, but funny thing is, i started taking doxy a week ago and all of a sudden, my vision is COMPLETELY NORMAL... so if anyone can help, it'd be appreciated
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welcome tally; so glad you found us.
i see marian was quick and answered your question for us.
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also, please go to TREEPATROL'S NEWBIE INFO IN MEDICAL; at top being features; mark it as a favorite! over 1000 links of good lyme info. He/I have some duplicates.
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we thank you for helping us; otherwise, we will SOB, SCROLL ON BY, since we can't read to help you. If I see posts like this, I SOB them; to hard on me. I'm also in the early stages of losing my eyesight from diabetes retinopathy. *******************
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otherwise, we will SOB, SCROLL ON BY, since we can't read to help you. If I see posts like this, I SOB them; to hard on me. I'm also in the early stages of losing my eyesight from diabetes retinopathy. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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