New to Lyme, I think.

I don't have a confirmed blood test yet (tomorrow). I just wanted to describe my experience and get shared experience advice. Very briefly, my tick bite was 2 weeks ago, "bulls eye" local reaction but not a big rash. Didn't give it a 2nd thought. 2 weeks later it hit me like a sudden flu. It started with the chills, burning eyes, joint pain, fatigue, some fever but most shocking, a sudden onset of a severe shortness of breath. Is this a typical Lyme collection of symptoms or am I wishful thinking that my shortness of breath is not a sudden onset of congestive heart failure?

Hi gravity challenged: Welcome to the forum!

It does sound like lyme disease to me. I think you should find a LLMD and schedule an appointment a.s.a.p.
The sooner you get treated (if it's lyme disease), the better off you will be.

You may not get a positive test result - many people with lyme have a negative result. Two weeks may be too soon for a test to show positive. I believe it needs to be a minimum of 4 weeks after the bite for the body to produce antibodies that will show up on the test.

If you need help finding a LLMD, you can start a new thread titled: "Looking for LLMD in/near_______" and insert your city/town and the State.

Then, enable your email, so members can send you names...we aren't allowed to post names of the Docs on here because of privacy issues.

Good luck!

Oh - to enable your email, click on "My Profile" (blue bar - top left), then "Edit Profile", then "Show email", then scroll down and select "submit" to save your changes.