Hello everyone, wondering if I have lyme...

Hi everyone, I am new here and want to introduce myself, I am a 25 year old from Atlanta Georgia. I was bitten by a small tick back in early march of 2014 which looked like a deer tick.


My symptoms started two months after I was bitten. My first symptom was extreme anxiety along with a form of depersonalization, although I am not sure if it was depersonalization exactly, all I know is my body felt weird to move and I felt like I was either leaving the earth, or dying.


These two symptoms stayed for at least three months, in May I also had about a week of tension headaches from stress trying to figure out what was going on. I started feeling psychotic and didn't feel real or like I was crazy, not too intense but bad enough to really alarm me to wonder if something was not right with my body.

I went to at least 3 doctors before I was diagnosed with mono by blood test on a monospot, still thought something was up since I had no regular mono symptoms. Shortly after fatigue set in and I was still having anxiety, I started a bit of twitching as well which is still with me.

about a month and a half after my mono diagnosis, I went to my PCP and tested negative/equivocal on the elisa test at 0.91, then a month later I went to an infectious disease doctor near Atlanta who I heard by some lyme patients that she seems to know lyme pretty good, she tested me on the elisa which again came out at 0.91, and tested me for 4 other co infections, which all came back negative, although I did get an 0.40 on the Rocky Mountain spotted fever test, but she did not seem concerned.


After all these appointments I noticed august was getting better for me, I was able to drink on weekends and drink a good amount of beers with my friends, I was able to be more active and had decent energy and I was even able to do yard work in very hot weather for about two hours, a nice improvement over May, June, and July.


Even though I have improved a bit from the previous months I am still on the fence about lyme, even if I do have it I don't have the money it takes to see a real llmd or the money it takes to treat it so I have no choice but to deteriorate if I do have it, sorry for sounding so depressing but from what I read in certain lyme forums it does not look good, I came across this forums because it seems the most positive and uplifting out of them all.

The only thing I have access too is doxycycline 100 mg pills, I have the green capsules, and the orange capsules that say nudoxy on them. I can probably also get Zithromax but that's about it, other than that I know of no real llmds in georgia and I can't go out of state right now nor do I have the money it takes to see and llmd and get treatment like many people with lyme do.

In closing, even though I have someone improved in this month and my anxiety has been a bit more down I still don't feel all that great, just barely decent, and if I have lyme I do not want to die from it or have life long complications since I am not treating, cause at this point I really don't know what is going to happen and I am scared, once again sorry for sounding depressing I just am looking for advice, any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Welcome to you both! A Lyme literate doctor is your best chance to find out if you have Lyme or not and if you do, they will know the treatments options.

PFB214, I see you are already looking for a LLMD. I'd suggest you start a new thread saying that you're looking for one in Jacksonville, FL. More people will see it that way. Steroids are not good to take with a Lyme infection since they suppress the immune system.

Dolf Z fan, I'd suggest that you also ask for a LLMD in your area. You'll save a lot of time and money by going to one.

Also read through the "NEW to Lyme?" thread at the top of the page to learn about Lyme and treatments, plus a lot more. Maybe a few less beers too, so you don't feed them so well. :)

Both of you let us know how it's going. Good luck!!