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.

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