Questions!

I don't know how to get my mom to realize that waiting for an infectious disease doctor isn't going to do anything but waste my time. I have every symptom of lyme. She is 100% on board with helping get better she has ordered books to read up on but she still has this thing in her head where she thinks that waiting for a ID doctor will be best because they will refer us to a LLMD that takes our insurance so we don't have thousands of medical bills. But from what I have read on this forum most LLMD's don't take insurance so no matter what I will have to pay out of pocket.. which is wasting my time! She cares a lot she just doesn't get it..Any ideas on how I should approach this?

Like I explained in a pervious post, over the past 9 months (Freshman year of college): I have been so sick. I have constant fatigue..Out of NO WHERE. It started with a rash and flu-like symptoms, lots of fevers and sore throats with white pus. Then that went away and then started the brain fog (SEVERE BRAIN FOG), staring spells, memory loss, numbness tingling sensation in limbs.. this lasted the majority of the time and a month or two ago along with the neurological symptoms started muscle weakness and even worse fatigue. Recently, I have been solely experiencing intense fatigue, depression, and random heat sweats which then turn to chills. I can't write well anymore, my emotions are in jumbled mess, I feel numb to everything.. I broke my phone today by accident and usually i would be so so angry or annoyed but i literally picked it up and kept walking like it was nothing.....

about 7 years ago I got this odd bite on my ear; either a tick or a spider bite. I remember having a very high fever and my whole body ached and I was very weak, my earlobe also began to eat itself away like it was getting slowly burned off..gross i know... our doctor friend wrote us a prescription for it and we never really looked into more because the sickness I was feeling went away. Over these past few years I have always had these random things happen to me, like sensitivities to certain foods, another year was extreme headaches, another was brain fog which I didn't realize was brain fog until thinking back now.. I thought it was all hormones or something... I recently tested equivocal on the ELISA test which I know is unreliable.

So my questions. Is jumping from symptom to symptom, getting rid of some and developing new ones something that happens with lyme? I have all of these symptoms but some just don't happen as often, maybe once in awhile on top of the new symptoms.
Also could this disease have been in me since I got that bite and only now it's just getting bad? If so, how would I find out how long I've had this illness?

One last question!! How does Lyme affect menstruation or the uterus... I constantly have sharp pain in what seems to be my uterus.

Sorry for the novel, I'm just kind of stuck in this weird spot
Thanks for listening

I actually just rented today and watched it and I told her to watch it, hopefully she will realize that these id doctors are no help. Thank you! That was helpful.

That's a tough one. Convincing family members is - well - I haven't had success with it yet in relation to my spouse of 25 years. It is like different religions, or political beliefs, but our health and lives are at stake in lymie situations. I just began treatment following counsel here, and my therapist prompted me to draw a boundary about NOT discussing health issues. It is really, really, really strange what is going on in the medical community in relation to tick borne illnesses. If I were in your shoes, I wouldn't wait for my mom to take action, but would take action myself by 1. adjusting your nutrition to create an environment that bacteria dislikes 2. begin some herbs - I like Buhner herbs. 3. begin detoxing measures when you integrate herbs. Don't wait for a diagnosis. Sounds like you know what is going on. Flow with what you CAN do and don't wait. Just my two cents - so sorry for the aggravation of different perspectives within the same family. Peeps here on the board told me to not be too optimistic about visiting an IDD, and it wasn't until I went to one that I REALLY got how messed up this weird world of "lyme wars" are. Its truly bizarre. The IDD I saw gave me mis-information and did a good job of defending her "stance", which, wasn't backed by science, but went AGAINST what the science says. Strange!

Girlie touched on the Infectious disease Dr issue. While it's very logical to go to an ID Dr for whatever reason they are the most anti Lyme group of Dr's. They tell patients with CDC positive test that the test is a false positive ( which is not possible) and that there is no such thing as chronic Lyme disease. That the patient should see a therapist since their issues are mental not physical. I could go on and on. You want to avoid that.

Regarding your period. When your body is under the level of stress that it is being this sick it throws your hormones completely out of whack.