I'm tired... Can we do this later?
What will they say.... Will they think I'm a super nut, fruit cake, or just plain depressed? One Misdiagnosis after another and new treatment plan after another. Then, finally found a doctor educated enough (so I thought…), to test for Lyme disease. He asked me to look online to see the “bulls-eye” rash, commonly associated with Lyme, and if I remembered having one… I did remember it, from 5 years before, but the doctor said “The test results show you have only been infected a short period of time, you’re only in the first stage of the disease, the rash you had must have been from something else…” Well, I just went along with it… He prescribed a hefty dose of antibiotics for a month and I saw him every week, feeling worse every day… After I finished the antibiotics I asked him, “When I will I start improving?” He told me “These things take time; you’re recovering from a serious infection.” After one year, still having arthritis symptoms at 24 years old, I informed the doctor that I had only gotten worse since the treatment… He replied, “We got it the first time, but maybe you got it again…” However when the Western blot came back negative, the symptomatic diagnoses would began…
