I really liked Lymester's words:
All lyme symptoms come and go, which is what make is so difficult to describe to doctors, who are used to standard illness with reliable symptoms.
Unreliability (in the above context) is certainly the modis operandi of Lyme. This is why so many people are fooled-- along with doctors-- into believing that Lyme is not present.
But after all this time and with all the Lyme infections that are happening in the US and elsewhere in the world, it still amazes me that random muscle soreness, tingling and neck problems-- which seem to be the most common of Lyme symptoms-- are first attributed to something else by the medical profession.
But the something else is never fully explained or pinpointed. I had several doctors tell me it's something else.
But what? I asked.....
I don't know....or it's all in your head....or it's the aches and pains of getting older...or bla, bla, bla is sooooooo out of date, out of touch and old school.
Lyme should be immediately considered by doctors when it's most common and obvious symptoms are present in any combination.
When a doctor says you must have the classic rash and none was seen--- well....maybe it WAS there (if at all) but developed in a location on the body where it couldn't BE seen.
If you pull a tick off your head, the rash might have been hidden by the hair on the scalp. Who in the heck could see that rash?
I suppose we're all supposed to shave our heads-- just in case an infected tick decides to bite us there!