What Is The Symptoms Of Lyme Disease Bowling Green

Bowling Green Kentucky Test For Lyme Disease

Lyme Disease Diagnosis

Being diagnosed for lyme disease is hard to figure out if it’s really lyme or the other 300 diseases it mimics. You can get bit by a tick that can give you lyme disease just about anywhere in the US, even in Bowling Green.

The mysteries of Lyme disease and its various maladies is allusive and difficult to diagnose. Because Lyme disease can manifest itself different in each person it infects, there is no hard and fast rule for a set of symptoms being cause for a blood test.

In fact, Lyme disease throws out the rule book for modern medicine. There is only one thing for certain - that nothing is certain. Each person is affected uniquely by the illness and the treatment is specific to each patient as well.

That being said, there is one thing I know, you do not have to have a bulls eye rash, a visible tick bite or flu like symptoms to have Lyme disease. It can be passed to children in the womb and they are researching whether it is sexually transmitted.

Lyme disease can also "co-infect" the patient with other tick borne illnesses simultaneously making the symptoms even more varied and wide.

First, if you are chasing a mystery illness that seems to continue progressing in intensity and increasing in variety of symptoms as doctors try to treat it, that is a strong indicator for Lyme.

Second, if you are a relatively healthy person but seem to continue getting diagnosis for autoimmune disorders - even just one, could also be indicative of Lyme.

Third, multiple unrelated symptoms that occur simultaneouly can point to Lyme. Doctors would tell me my list of indicators were "impossible" to happen concurrently and from one cause, but they were. Keep after it and trust your body and your instincts.

Finally, take your body temperature every morning when you wake up for a week. Low body temperature is a huge indicator of a disease environment in your body, especially pathogenic. Lyme thrives in a low temperature body.

The following chart contains a symptom list for Lyme and its co-infections. The first time I read through it, I was shocked by the list and that it could all be caused by Lyme disease. We are all grossly uneducated about this disease and what it is capable of and what it takes to recover.

General Well-being:

Decreased interest in play (children)
Extreme fatigue, tiredness, exhaustion
Unexplained fevers (high or low grade)
Flu-like symptoms (early in the illness)
Symptoms seem to change, come and go
Low body temperature

Other Organ Problems:

Dysfunction of the thyroid (under or over active thyroid glands)
Liver inflammation
Bladder & Kidney problems (including bed wetting)
Reproduction and Sexuality

Females:

Unexplained menstrual pain, irregularity
Reproduction - miscarriage, stillbirth, premature birth, neonatal
Death, congenital Lyme disease
Extreme PMS symptoms

Males:

Testicular or pelvic pain

Autoimmune Disorders:

Acute Coronary Syndrome
Fibromyalgia
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Hashimoto's Hypothyroidism
Graves' Disease/Hyperthyroidism
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Krohns Disease
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Sjogren's Syndrome
Parkinsons'
Multiple Sclerosis
Alzheimer's
Dementia
Lupus
Depression
Autism
ADHD
Aspergers
Dyslexia
Psychological Disorders - Obsessive Compulsive, Etc.
Meniere's
TMJ
Celiac
Addison's Disease
Diabetes
Cushing's Disease
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Restless Leg Syndrome
Schizophrenia

Lyme Disease Symptoms

The first symptom is visual in some cases. A rash resembling a bullseye is a certain sign you have lyme disease. In two to four weeks, if not treated symptoms can become severe with lots of pain.

Lyme disease is spread by deer ticks and is caused by a spirochete bacteria name Borrelia burgdorferi. When the bacteria reach the bloodstream and are spread throughout the body, it can cause signs and symptoms ranging from mild to severe.

Pathophysiology

Deer ticks are the vector insect of this kind of disease. B. burgdorferi lives in the saliva of the tick and when the tick bit a person, the bacteria is introduced inside the body. B. burgdorferi will then travel the bloodstream and infect different body parts such as the nervous, integumentary, and musculoskeletal system.

Its most noticeable symptom is the rash that it creates, which is an immune response of the body to the invading foreign bacteria. The rash is developed by the time the deer tick bit a person. The tick's saliva is a perfect nourishing substance for the bacteria. The tick's saliva itself contains chemical that can disrupt or damage the local immune system. When the skin's immune system is compromised, it can serve as a breeding ground for the bacteria. From the site of the bite, the spirochete bacteria will then asexually reproduce and will spread outwardly. This is the main reason that lyme disease rash is circular in appearance. In some unknown reason, the neutrophils, which are the body's antigen for invading bacteria, do not respond promptly to the site or failed to take action.

Early Stage

Circular rash has 5 to 6 inches diameter
"Bull's eye" rash
Occasionally itchy or painful

Signs of inflammation may or may not be present

Late Stage

Meningitis
Cerebral palsy
Shooting pain that leads to sleep disturbances
Paraplegia
Fatigue
Numbness
Paresthesia
Encephalomyelitis
Bladder problem

Lyme disease has many other complications that may even affect mental and emotional health. This is the main reason that early detection and prompt medical attention should be given. Lyme disease may not be serious at first, but the later stages of the disease may lead to debilitating effects.

Lyme Disease Stages

If not taken serious, symptoms then can turn to neurological causing memory loss and motor movement disability. And in some serious cases, death.

What is chronic Lyme disease?

Chronic Lyme disease is widely unrecognized and unknown in today's popular contemporary medical field - in fact it creates defensiveness and denial when mentioned in many circles.

Chronic illness in and of itself has long existed and acknowledged throughout the world. On Ask.com, the following answer appeared after asking what is chronic illness:

A chronic disease is a disease that will last for a long time or will come and go, but always be a part of your life. Some chronic diseases include Fibromyalgia, COPD, diabetes, cancers and the different types of arthritis.

When I look up chronic on dictionary.com, I get words like "constant, habitual, continuing for a long time or recurring frequently, having a long duration." The Word English Dictionary adds "developing slowly, very bad and very serious" to the list.

The idea that today's Lyme disease is a singular culprit exists in traditional circles, but not in actual Lymies. We know that Lyme disease always travels and infects in multiples. Can you imagine if the mainstream media and medicine had to suddenly accept that most diabetes patients also simultaneously had stomach cancer or MS? Or that kids who got mono also had Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis at the same time? The system would real from the ripples of confusion and fear this would create.

Chronic Lyme will not be the end of you or your life - it feels like it and if not properly treated, it can be. It is brutal and difficult and has taken the lives of many who fought the good fight, but more because the lack of doctors, treatment and financial availability.

Would I have gotten so sick if someone would have found the Lyme years ago before all the slow damage? Could I have been spared the 2 years of the Lyme pit if it were more widely understood and well known? If we had an early detection system would there be such widespread Chronic Lyme at all?

We are the cusp of a Lyme revolution. Keep talking about it, keep researching, keep seeking truth in this Lyme battle. Be a Lyme evangelist with me.

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Lyme disease, also referred to as infection, is a bacterial illness transmitted to humans when ticks bite them. The deer ticks carry a bacterium that is called Borrelia burgdorferi, harbor it and spread to anyone they are feeding on.

People who have the greatest possibility of obtaining Lyme disease are those that live in grassy and wooden areas. These are the places where ticks carrying this disease, live. For people who reside in such areas and have a great risk of having Lyme disease, it is important to take some precautionary measures.

In case the person who was bitten is sensitive to the saliva of the tick, redness may start appearing just at the time of the bite. However, this would be different from the usual rash which is known as erythema migrans as these would disappear within a few weeks and will not enlarge and become redder.

Other symptoms include fever accompanied by chills, ache in the body, fatigue, and severe headaches. Other people may experience less common symptoms, such as heart problems and an irregular heartbeat, hepatitis and severe fatigue.

Cure for Lyme Disease

The treatment of Lyme disease can be very effective with homeopathic treatment.

Lyme disease is caused by an insect bite, in particular a tick bite. Sometimes the tick can be so small as to be unaware of the bite until symptoms arise. Symptoms include a rash at the site of the bite soon after the bite, progressing to symptoms of the flu, then joint, heart and nervous system involvement.

There are three stages of Lyme disease. The immediate stage characterised by a rash, the intermediate stage which can include heart symptoms, nervous system symptoms and meningitis and the late stage characterised by arthritis as well as the nervous system involvement.

The longer ago the bite was, the more complicated your condition will be, especially if you have had various treatments. Seeing a professional homeopath is likely to help you more than struggling with your own treatment.

The treatment of Lyme disease with homeopathy can be fast and non invasive. However, it's also worth bearing in mind, that you only develop serious disease because your immune system is not operating at it's full capacity. If it was, you may be bitten, but suffer no sequelae to the bite.

Focus on improving that for better future health.

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