Lyme disease awareness
This year is proving to be a tough one. Treatment is working, but energy levels (& computer tolerance levels... eyes, concentration, headaches) are low.
A few awareness points for 2018:
Lyme symptoms can vary greatly from person to person. It depends on what areas of the body the infection attacks. Rather like when some people get a bad cold they end up with a sore throat, and others may end up with sore ears - we are all unique. This can make it especially difficult for doctors to diagnose, especially when lab tests are not reliable, and even moreso, when they are not done in the small window of time that *may* show an immune response to borrelia infection.
The list above is nowhere close to exhaustive - close to 200 individual symptoms have been linked to Lyme disease (see ILADS.org or lymediseaseuk.com for further details).
However, imagine the list described, and imagine feeling all of that at once. Add on the worst hangover you can remember, and then imagine you ran a marathon too. You're close, but not quite there.
#LymeDiseaseAwareness
The list above is nowhere close to exhaustive - close to 200 individual symptoms have been linked to Lyme disease (see ILADS.org or lymediseaseuk.com for further details).
However, imagine the list described, and imagine feeling all of that at once. Add on the worst hangover you can remember, and then imagine you ran a marathon too. You're close, but not quite there.
#LymeDiseaseAwareness
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