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Hi Rachnicole48 - Welcome to our community! Lots of support and knowledge here...so I'm glad you found us.

Anxiety for 10 years - that's awful. I can't imagine that!
Could you give us some more information?

When you finished treatment for lyme disease, were all your symptoms gone (except the anxiety?)

I'm thinking maybe you weren't treated long enough.

Were you treated by a LLMD...and how long approximately?

It does sound like you have lyme disease symptoms.

Hi Rachnicole,
Welcome to our community!

I know that was a long time ago, but can you tell us what you were treated with and/or for how long?

Something else to consider is that if you have had any major life stress - like a death in the family, divorce, major car accident, majorly stressful job (or a stressful time in your job), major illness or other very stressful events - that's when relapses happen.

Since we know that you have had Lyme, we know that it's a possibility that it has come back again. Is it possible that either you didn't get the full amount of treatment (6-8 weeks if no symptoms, treatment 2 months past the resolution of all symptoms) or that you have relapsed due to a major life event?

Then to be safe since those symptoms can be caused from Lyme and the other infections that are often passed at the same time, I would recommend that you see if you can get back in to be reevaluated by your last LLMD. Are you still in contact with or do you still have the contact information for the doctor that treated you the first time? As long as they are ILADS trained, it would be best for you to stick with a doc that is kind of familiar with your case. If you restart your Lyme treatment, you'll know soon enough if it's what you need.

If you didn't see an ILADS trained doc - let us help you find one!!

For information on finding a​n ILADS ​(International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society)​ trained​ Lyme Literate Medical Doctor(LLMD) in your area, you will need to enable your email option in your profile in order to receive any recommendations, as we don't allow doctor's names and contact info to be posted on the forum for several reasons. You can enable your email option in your profile, under 'edit profile'. Be sure to click the submit button to actually save your preference.


​You can send me an email by clicking on my screen name or the small blue envelope under my screen name. I may have contact information for some LLMD's in your area as well.​ ​Please include your state and area that you would like to find a LLMD in and I will see how close I can get to your location.​


You can start a new thread titled something like "Looking for LLMD in the (insert the nearest larger city & state) area". Members can email you about the LLMD's that they see in that area if you have your email enabled. We don't allow doctors names to be posted though.


You can also email the Tick-Borne Disease Alliance at​[​​url]​[email protected]​ for LLMD referrals and you can go to ​tbdalliance.org​​ to learn more about these infections.


You can also go to The Lyme Disease Association and search for LLMD's 3 times in a month. You have to register first. Here is the link:
www.lymediseaseassociation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=277&Itemid=74​​


​ You will want to find an ILADS (International Lyme And Associated Diseases Society) trained doctor, as ID Docs (Infectious Disease Doctors) believe Lyme is hard to catch and easy to treat, and don't believe in the reality of chronic Lyme. Go to the ILADS site to read the new (2014) Treatment guidelines to get you started on your healing journey:
http://www.ilads.org/lyme/treatment-guideline.php