Lymes symptom or not? How do you know?

I think that for me at least, it was just the not knowing whether it was Lyme or something else that added to the misery. For a while I was convinced that all my symptoms were a side effect of a deeply traumatic personal event. Especially when my doctors were telling me it was all in my head. So I took medication for sleep, anxiety, depression and even at one point psychosis. The thing is none of those actually relieved my symptoms, except the inability to sleep. Whereas being treated for Lyme did alleviate much of my symptoms so I realized that was what was wrong. A proof is in the pudding approach.

Well, for me I chalk it all up to lyme and co's. (Unless it's a cold or flu virus)


My symptoms pretty much started like a freight train...and continued...new symptoms every week...for months on end..