How I became DX with Lyme Disease

Most of my adult life, I ate very healthy and stayed very active. I was never overweight unless I was pregnant and very rarely ate unhealthily. Even with being diagnosed with autonomic dysfunction at the age of 23, I had beaten that disease in my opinion. I stopped becoming ill daily and continued to live a normal life, after battling the illness for a couple years. I thought that disease was hard enough and I had dedicated my life at the time to cure it. I believed I did for a couple years but a couple things change quickly.

When becoming pregnant with my son, I became sick once again. I thought once I delivered him and leveled out my hormones, I would feel better. But that never happened, I actually started to feel worse and had no idea what was going on. My hormones were leveled out but my body was getting worse. At that point in time, my family and I were under a ton of stress with my son being ill and I started to feel, maybe that's why I wasn't getting better. I finally took my son to a functional medicine doctor to get another opinion on his health, not realizing this physician would end up helping me.

We walked into the room with the physician and as he started asking questions about our son and family history, he wanted to know more about me. At first, I didn't understand why he was questioning my health so much but by the end of the visit, I completely understood. Not only did he know I had Lyme Disease based on my symptoms and looking at me, but he knew how to help our son. From there the physician asked to perform blood work on myself and my son. Sure enough, he was correct about me, I tested positive for several different strands of Lyme Disease. The crazy part is, I remember on several occasions having to take a tick out from under my skin. But was tested several times for Lyme Disease and tested negative every time.

Chronic Lyme Disease is very hard to test positive for and if you or your physician believe you have it, you should be tested through a private lab. Private labs will give you more of an accurate result when testing for a disease that is not common. You should also test several times if you tested negative because if the disease is not active it may show a false negative on your labs. I'm unsure of when or how I became infected with the disease but I do know that I have chronic Lyme Disease and not acute. Chronic Lyme Disease is much harder to naturalize and put in remission because the disease has reached your organs. Whereas, acute Lyme Disease is treated with antibiotics because the infection has just begun.

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