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Originally posted by strive4mores:
hello all, glad i found this board.

i'm 34 years old from maine and have been recently diagnosed with lyme. i'm a sahm with four boys, 8,6,4,2, (no girls and i'm done, lol).

my diagnosis probably started early june when weird things started happening to my body.

i go to a doctor once year (the girly one) and other than that. i never go, no need to. but i remember early june finding a few black dog ticks on me, no big deal, common around here then i remember picking off a scab on my leg, that was actually kind of hard to pick off, a black little poppyseed kind of scab, looked like a mole....next day i notic the area looked like i had a mosquito bite around that area. again no big deal.

i guess the first sign for me, was i was doing kickboxing one day and my right eye started to get blurry (everything for some strange reason is right side for me) i didn't think much of it.

then the veritgo started, then the neck creaks and squishyness followed, blurry vision and a hard time focusing each time i woke up in the morning. and eye pain. well time to go to the opathamologist, vision perfect, no need for glasses. okay it's just in my head

well then i started feelin like i was walking funny, not noticeably but walking to one side and kind of in a fog, okay must be ear infection, let's see what happens.

my ears felt full and popped easy. but i let it go, too much to do. then had an asthma attack, used for son's nebulizer and felt better

well strangely enough these symptoms continued and then a few times i felt like the right side of my body would go absolutely flaccid for a few minutes

and i was starting to get really anxious at night, thinking ohy my god what if i wake up paralyzed and then i started to have some palpitations.

it happened again when i felt my fingers freeze. my husband took me to the e.r. and they did tests to rule out a stroke, heart attack, nothing found.

i was suffering from a urinary infection, so they gave me cipro.

i started to feel really awful, and my leg and arm went weak again, body was tingling, eye pain, face was tingling and burning sensation up my spine to my arms and fingers......and then a few days later i felt really good.

then my back started hurting and i thought i pinched or slipped something, went to pcp she tested me for lyme but said based on symptoms s
he was putting me on doxy 400mg twice a day for lyme and wanted me to see neuro just in case.

went to neuro doesn't think it's ms, which i didn't even think since my symptoms change every second, at least, had eeg, mri of head, neck, spine.

then she said go to eng for vertigo test....horrrible i thought okay i failed, i passed,

so next step is a lumbar puncture but i continue on doxy until i go to neuro again int wo week.

now in addition to the fatigue, which is unbelievable and no energy, my breasts hurt as do my ribs, my arms just kill me and i get hip pain and bilateral knee pain. of course my hands and ankles hurt now too.

so here i am, thinking i'd be a perfect fit to your community.....it's amazing what you can brush aside as "hormones, getting older" etc. i did also have so much bloodwork that i'm spinning, if someone says lack of b12 or thryoid again, i'm coming to scarem.

lori

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welcome Lori to the board. If I did not send you my newbie's links/advise, 15 pages; please pm, private message me...2 people standing together and ask for it.

I can see 5 new people's names only and send; some sneak thru the cracks when I come here twice a day.

Print off Dr. Burrascano's 2005 lyme treatment guidelines found in TREEPTROL'S NEWBIE LINKS.
Bettyg

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