Posted on Jul 29, 2015 in Blog |

Why do I talk about Lyme so much? Am I obsessed with it? Do I think everyone I meet could have it? “What is the deal with Sharon and Lyme?” I talk about Lyme because it took me decades to get properly diagnosed and it could have been diagnosed with one test from the right lab. I don’t want others to go through what I went through. I don’t think everyone has it, but I bet 30% of the people I know have at least one DNA band that would test positive for Lyme or a co-infection of Lyme. More importantly . . . I know how easy it is to MISS Lyme Disease. In 2002, in the midst of my symptoms intensifying, my aunt Betty DIED of Lyme Disease. In the midst of her intensifying symptoms, in the midst of her fight to even be tested, I had no idea that my symptoms were similar to hers. Aunt Betty died at the age of 57. Two years before, she was a completely healthy, radiant, psychology professor teaching at Auburn University. A family member, someone I was close to, died of Lyme Disease. . . and I didn’t make the connection. Everything I had kept being explained as something else. So, I never connected it. If I missed Lyme Disease when a family member died of the disease, I worry about everyone else out there who has some of the same symptoms but doesn’t have someone staring them in the face saying, ‘Get Tested for Lyme Disease.’ Imagine my face in front of you. Get tested for Lyme Disease. And when you get tested, demand complete testing from a specialty lab (NOT LabCorp or Quest). Do not settle for just an Elisa test. Do not settle. Sharon’s Symptom History The simplest way to present my own history to you is to show you how many different types of physicians I saw, some of the major medical events that occurred, and of course, the various diagnoses I was assigned. I know many patients can probably relate to this snapshot. Physicians I saw for symptoms Often, I saw more than one...

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