Symptoms

So what is living with Lyme like? Well, I can list the symptoms. 


Now, I don't deal with all these symptoms all the time. The spirochete bacteria that make up Lyme are an interesting bacteria.They thrive one day and retreat on others. They have a party in my brain one day and on others thrive in my muscles or joints.

Symptoms? Here they are:

Body Aches throughout back and arms, settling in arm joints

(I have progressed enough that I no longer deal with the body aches. yay!)

Shakiness (neurological)

Tremors (head, hands, arms)

Foggy Brain

Slurred Speech

Stuttering

Dizziness

Deliriousness

Disconnection from life and people around me

Neck and shoulder muscle weakness

Fatigue

Aches in certain areas on body for months at a time

Shoulder pain (gone too! had this for 1 1/2 years)

Easily irritated

Inability to process what others are saying to me

(this was the case, many times, on my worst days)

Head Pressure

Head Aches

Fidgety

Distant - lacking genuine emotions about life and others

Strange sensations while walking (unable to feel that I'm walking)

Strange constant visual disturbances (almost like double vision)

Body under constant physical stress of one kind or another

I believe that sums it all up. What would doctors label this as? Fibromyalgia. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Depression. MS.

No, my friends. THIS is LYME.