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🥹✨Habemus Papam!!

Finally, after years of uncertainty, I have found the unwanted guest that is causing me quite a few management problems: it is Mrs. Borrelia Burgdorferi, a bacterium transmitted by infected ticks that causes Lyme Disease.

In Italy, in about 10 years, just over a thousand cases of this disease have been diagnosed, but the incidence could be higher considering that people still speak little and the differential diagnoses often leave something to be desired.

In fact, in 20% of cases the erythema migrans, which is the main symptom recognized by doctors, does not appear.

This can make diagnosis more difficult, and when the body can no longer handle the infection, I assure you that the symptoms can become strange and unpredictable!

My hope now is to finally find a specialist who can follow me on this journey, to check whether this cute arthropod has brought with it other bacteria and assess any damage.

Even if finding out so late makes everything longer and more complex, I'm relieved to finally be on the right path and not to have stopped in my search!

🌟 LESSON #1 : Don’t Give Your Power Away!#MightyTogether #malattiadilyme #borreliaburgdorferi #diagnositardiva #lymeawareness #chroniclyme #percorsodiguarigione Finalmente, dopo anni di incertezze, ho trovato l'ospite indesiderato che mi sta causando non pochi problemi di gestione: è la Sig.ra Borrelia Burgdorferi, un batterio trasmesso da zecche infette che provoca la Malattia di Lyme.

In Italia, in circa 10 anni, sono stati diagnosticati poco più di mille casi di questa malattia, ma l’incidenza potrebbe essere più alta considerato che se parla ancora poco e le diagnosi differenziali lasciano spesso a desiderare.

Nel 20% dei casi infatti l’eritema migrante, che è il principale sintomo riconosciuto dai medici, non compare.

Questo può rendere più difficile la diagnosi e, quando il corpo non riesce più a gestire l’infezione, vi assicuro che i sintomi possono diventare strani e imprevedibili!

La mia speranza adesso è di trovare finalmente uno specialista che possa seguirmi in questo percorso, per verificare se questo simpatico artropode ha portato con sé altri batteri e valutare gli eventuali danni.

Anche se scoprirlo così tardi rende tutto più lungo e complesso, sono sollevata di essere finalmente sulla strada giusta e di non essermi fermata nella ricerca!

🌟 LESSON #1 : Don’t Give Your Power Away!

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Why Lyme disease sucks a whole bag of d**k...

In November I was diagnosed with Lyme disease. Not your basic "Oh I got bitten by a tick and my doctor put me on a 3 week course of doxy and now I'm all better", but chronic Lyme's disease. The sort where you can't remember what you said a minute ago, you're aching and exhausted 24/7, to the point you can't cry anymore, and you feel like a living corpse, with joints that dislocate biweekly, swell daily, and migraines that last full weeks.

It took 3 years of pestering my doctor, being misdiagnosed with a series of illnesses and being prescribed literal poison, before finally getting the answer I needed. In that time, I have developed chronic fatigue syndrome, crohns disease, symptoms of fibromyalgia and hypermobility, constant nausea and headaches, intolerances to food groups, slowed metabolism, fluctuations in weight, allergies, cluster illnesses like impetigo, pneumonia and bronchitis, spells of psychosis and hallucinations, sciatica, nerve damage and severe memory loss and brain fog.

Please educate yourselves on this horrible parasite. It may seem harmless, but it causes lasting damage and can attack all bodily systems, including cns and musculoskeletal systems, and cause neurological damage.

Please prevent it by learning about it, and protect yourselves by taking care with any insect bites (not just ticks). It's hikacked my body and I'd do anything to go back to how I was 12 months ago.

#lymesdiseaseawareness #lymeawareness #lymesdiseasehijackedmybody #LymeDisease #lymelife #LymeWarrior #lymediseasewarrior #lymedontkillmyvibe #ChronicIllness #CrohnsDisease #Fibromyalgia #executivedisfunction #BrainFog #Migraine #Insomnia #parasite #Hypermobility #exhaustion #nausea

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