Coping With Lyme Disease

I was bit by a tick down in Branson, MO last June. I was doing a report on the point-in-time count on homelessness and my photographer and I were following this volunteer through the woods to see how some people lived. I never found the tick, but three days later I found a painful, red bump on my leg. I immediately saw my primary care doctor who put me on two weeks of doxycycline just in case. I felt fine but after being off the drug for just four days… I felt the most excruciating pain throughout my entire body. I had fever, headache, chills, it felt like someone took a matchstick and struck it down my heart and skin. I was so tired but my heart was beating so fast I couldn’t sleep. My doctor didn’t believe me. He would not give me any more doxy. So I went doctor shopping for doxy until I could get in to see a lyme literate physician. I lucked out and got an appointment just two weeks later and was on antibiotics for five months. Many of my symptoms cleared up but many new symptoms emerged. I have a messed up endocrine system thanks to lyme. I moved to North Carolina for a new job and now see a llmd in DC. He is an infectious disease specialist and in my opinion he’s going to get me better. He said we cannot cure lyme, there is no cure, but we can get you into remission. I’m hoping this is the answer to my prayer.