I'd prefer Maryland I just because I'm an MD resident and not sure how insurance would be effected, but am so close to PA that's ok too...and at this point I'll take anyone anywhere really.
Thanks so much!
Posted by paizley (Member # 37167) on :
Sorry, didn't realize I should put symptoms.
Started with bad flu like feeling for several months, with low grade fever on and off and then severe anxiety hit and changed my life forever.
The flu like feeling has never gone away although seems to ease for a few weeks and then slam me to the ground again. Pain has increased throughout my body and into joints with headache for 3 years straight. Have had wrist and back of knee swelling, can't walk feet, knees and hips kill me. Especially worse in am. Droopy right eye that twitches. Numb, burning sensation mainly in hands and face, can't bear certain fabrics to touch my skin, terrible Tinitus and hearing loss. Brain shaking feeling and little flashes like its turning on and off rapidly...Very strange. I felt like it was going to turn off and I would go into a coma or something. I went to doc and he said he's never heard of such a thing.
Even though I have 2 degrees, one of which is in Medical Laboratory Technnology, I Can't think, talk, write or function normally anymore. I rarely go anwyere, lost friends, but made some new sick ones.
The last year was DX with Hashimotos. I thought that was was the answer to my prayers, but 3 different Endos say my symptoms are not from Hashimotos.
Oh temp has actually been subnormal for the last 2 years...at about 97.2.
I'm sure I'm leaving a lot out, but will spare you.
Have been to many docs, ruled out MS, Lupus, HIV, Arthritis, RA and no one can find anything wrong. Labs usually come up with elevated WBC's, but most everything else is on target.
I appreciate and referrals you can give.
Thanks for the patience to read this.
Paizley
Posted by Dekrator48 (Member # 18239) on :
I sent you a private message with PA info.
Someone will hopefully see this and send you MD info.
Posted by hopingandpraying (Member # 9256) on :
You might want to click on "Support Groups" in the upper left-hand corner of the Lymenet page, then the state you are looking for. Contact information will come up. Maybe they can help you.
Unfortunately, most Lyme-literate doctors don't take insurance because of all the politics surrounding this complex disease.
Posted by TF (Member # 14183) on :