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Just wondering. I'm pretty sure I got LD in August '06. Though I guess I could of had it longer, but in August I was bit by a tick. Some time after that I had a weird lightheaded episode.. then I was really sick with what I thought was a bad cold for about a week. Now I think that was the flu-like symptoms associated with early Lyme.
Anyway, what about everyone else?
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I got Lyme 8-10 years ago, my mind is so bad I cannot pinpoint when I started getting really sick, however, I do remember all the details, just not the exact year!
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I got bit in 1986-- I saw the bullseye bruse weeks before I started getting sick--Jay--
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I probably went 16 years un-diagnosed until 2006. I am doing pretty good at the moment too.
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I've had Lyme 20 years. I had the bull's eye rash onmy neck when I was 12. I was diagnosed 3 years ago.
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Since '82 - lots of ups and downs after that, and many, many more tick bites from various areas.
I think, but am not sure, that what finally took me down completely was a bite in the Carribbean - in '03.
Diagnosed in '05.
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37.5 yrs. ago; bitten by unseen tick OFF XMAS TREE!
34 yrs. MISDIAGNOSED starting w/mono/epstein barr virus plus countless others to date
20 mo. pulsed antibiotics
6 mo. 22 supplements ... made me worse.
dealing with other things wrong w/me now.
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I think I was born with it (or something), and I'm 42. My grandmother had 'Alzheimer's'.
My first rash appeared in 1985 though - NOT a bull's eye either.
Then again, another rash in 1989. Again, not a bull's eye.
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I think I had it 15 years undiagnosed. Then just got diagnosed about ten months ago.
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I think I've had it for 20 years undiagnosed. Had 2 ticks in my back when I was only 8. Back then it was no big deal....
for the past 10 years I have gone downhill health wise .... hopefully the next 20 years only look up
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I've traced my symptoms back over 40 years. I was finally dx'd in April 2006. Long way to go treatment wise.
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Definately had lyme for 20 years. I pulled off ticks during my honeymoon, and was never quite the same since.
Had bartonella symptoms since I was seven or eight (35 years), and I remember my best friend next door was treated for it.
Reading symptoms on this site makes me laugh. I say to myself, "You mean that's not normal!?"
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I think only 4 months (since early March), when my symptoms became intolerable, but I'm starting to think my 6 month bout of mono last summer may have actually been Lyme-related...
Then again, I grew up in Minnesota, where we'd pick ticks off ourselves in clumps during the summer! I cringe to think of it now... Posts: 390 | From Oakland, CA | Registered: May 2007
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I think I had Lyme (and coinfections) at least 30 years before being diagnosed in 2005. I had lots of tick exposure and remember an attached tick from my horseback riding days in Sonoma.
I'm sure I was reinfected in the Central Valley in the 90's (had the "flu" in May and a rash that a doctor thought was ringworm.)
Even with all that undiagnosed and untreated time under my belt and with all the horrible herxes along the way, I am doing better. Kudos to my wonderful LLMD!
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I was either born with it or was bitten very young. I grew up in Suffolk County, Long Island.
I remember "tick checks" were just a routine part of our summer life after being outside. I showed horses, and remember my parents getting ticks out of my hair. I never saw a rash.
My father also has Lyme (undiagnosed). He is very neuro-lyme and won't even hear about getting officially diagnosed and treated.
I'm now 35 and was just diagnosed with Lyme, Babesia, and Bartonella in May. Like many of you, I'm realizing that certain symptoms that go way back to childhood are not normal!!
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