Lyme disease if not treated early can affect every part of your body. It mimics MS, and ALS. It can be fatal because it can affect the heart. In the latter stages it can even cause dementia.
The government and the insurance companies do not want people to know how bad Lyme is because it's far less expensive to just let you die than to try to make you well.
I know people, myself included who are being diagnosed and treated for MS and ALS, but actually have Lyme disease. Doctors around here will not even test for Lyme. They won't send ticks off to be tested for Lyme either!
It took me 6 years to get a proper diagnosis and then I only got it by demanding a Lyme test. By then it was much too late to cure my Lyme. Still, I am somewhat better off than my ex sister in law. She is in a wheel chair, in diapers, and likely will not live much longer. Her doctor treated her for ALS for two years before she finally asked to be tested for Lyme and of course it came back positive. Now it's too late for her too.
What is living with late stage Lyme like? I would liken it to being in hell! I am in pain 24 hours a day. I can barely wipe my own rear when I go to the bathroom. I wash my hair once a week, live in a nightgown because regular clothes hurt me, I get a real bath maybe once a month and I hurt for days because of the effort. Most days I'm so tired that even talking on the phone is just too hard. I know I don't have much longer to live and I feel so bad that I'm actually ok with that.
SOME LYME LINKS FOR YOU
THE LYME DISEASE FOUNDATION
LYME MEMORAIL WEBSITE
Proof that Lyme disease can be fatal!
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