MY STORY

Even though I have not been diagnosed with lyme, I thought I would share the symptoms I've experienced over the last 35 yrs that have led me to suspect it.

RINGWORM (POSSIBLY EM RASH?)

MILD FORM OF EPILEPSY

RECURRING SINUS INFECTIONS

SHIN SPLINTS

PLANTARS

ARRHYTHMIA

SEVERE PSORIASIS

PETECHIAE

OTHER MIGRATING RASHES

HIVES

PERIODS OF EXTREME EXHAUSTION

NAUSEA

PELVIC PAIN

TESTICAL SWELLING

BURNING AND REDDENING OF SKIN

3 DAYS OF RECURRING BLINDNESS (EVERY 30 SECONDS OR SO SOMETHING WOULD BLOCK MY VISION FOR APPROXIMATEL 2 MIN. IT WAS LIKE A SHOWER OF SILVER AND GOLD LIGHT THAT WOULD CROSS VERTICALLY THROUGH MY VISION UNTIL I COULD NO LONGER SEE. DOCTORS FOUND NOTHING)

RINGING IN EARS (SOMETIMES SEVERE)

1 SEIZURE (STARTED LIKE THE SOUND OF A FREIGHT GOING THROUGH MY EARS. DOCTORS AGAIN FOUND NOTHING, DIAGNOSED ANXIETY ATTACK)

EXTREME FLOATERS AND FLASHES IN EYES.

PARTIAL LOSS OF FEELING AND CO-ORDINATION. LEFT SIDE ONLY

GOUT (AT 26 YRS OF AGE?)

BLOOD CLOT IN LEFT LEG (AT 35 YRS OF AGE. NO CAUSE FOUND)

Many more to mention, but I have to go back to work. Let me know what you think.

bbcoach

Grace is right, Coach and it sounds like you need someone who knows how to test someone who has been infected for so many years. Not everything shows up in the blood then.

what part of the country are you in.

Yep, that is typical answer from any doctor who uses ELISA test to prove it doesn't exist in their state.

It is definitely in Montana and if that doctor doesn't send your stuff to Igenex labs at your request make sure you get his refusal in writing so when you do get the Igenex labs back from the other doctor you can slap the first one with a neglegance suit. Your gonna need the money and it will be a great wake up call to all these schmucks with degrees.
I am in southern arizona and we get a lot of snowbirds here from Montana and hunters (birders) with their dogs who have lyme but there is no lyme in Montana. idiots

A woman got bit by a tick sitting at her computer here. i am 20 minutes from the Nogales border and her Igenex test came back positive for lyme and she was treated with antibiotics right away by a naturopath in Tucson. another woman just got bit and she is in pain all over and the local doctor told her "there is no lyme in arizona...I'm going to give you a blast of prenisone for 5 days and if that doesn't work I'm sending you to neurologist".... I just happened to bang into this woman after she came from doctor and told her to go right
back over there and insist on Igenex test.
There are two major lyme clinics in Arizona and Fry Labs is here too. There is lyme everywhere.

See if there is a Tick Borne Specialist listed there . otherwise try another doctor and just flat out tell them you want an Igenex labs test. mine was $900 but it covered all coinfections too.

You should seek out a lyme disease specialist. Lyme net on the internet will help you find a doctor in your area. I am currently going to a lyme specialist for all of my symptoms. I have heart arrhythmia's, tachycardia, bladder spasms, fatigue, eye pain with flashing lights and floaters, severe muscle pain, pain everywhere, constipation, headaches, migraines, swollen lymph nodes, acid reflux, unexplained abdominal pain, ear ringing and popping and much more. These conditions aren't always all at the same time. I have pain every day and doctors told me I have fibromyalgia. My lyme specialist tested me with a PCR test with only one marker to show up. I have been on antibiotics for 4 months now and my most recent test showed four markers on the IgG PCR test. My IgM also showed four markers but the % wasn't high enough. I need 5 markers to be considered to have lyme disease. No other doctor would believe that I have lyme disease. I had to be put on antibiotics in order for my antibodies to start working again. I have had lyme for to long and it has shut down my immune system to respond appropriately. Don't except a no for an answer. I am going to start on I.V. treatment next week even though my results are still considered equivocal or inconclusive. I hope you look into this thoroughly and find a good lyme specialist. Good Luck