Charles Darwin's Illness

This is a bit off topic, but I thought it was interesting.

I'm reading a book, and the book mentioned how Charles Darwin was ill for most of his adult life. Obviously, Darwin was in nature a good part of his life when younger. I decided to read more about it and found this wiki article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_of_Charles_Darwin

He describes his first symptoms being chest palpitations and chest pain. He also describes how stimulating events, such as social events, would send his symptoms into a frenzy. It seems that Darwin would withdraw from the public at times to get his symptoms under control.

The wiki article states that "For over forty years Darwin suffered intermittently from various combinations of symptoms such as: malaise, vertigo, dizziness, muscle spasms and tremors, vomiting, cramps and colics, bloating and nocturnal intestinal gas, headaches, alterations of vision, severe tiredness, nervous exhaustion, dyspnea, skin problems such as blisters all over the scalp and eczema, crying, anxiety, sensation of impending death and loss of consciousness, fainting, tachycardia, insomnia, tinnitus, and depression."

It's amazing how well his experience seems to line up with many tick borne illness sufferers. Of course, the personal bias scenario could be at play here. One develops an illness from a tick bite and then views the world through that lens. Chaga's disease has been a favorite hypothesis of what happened to Darwin, however, that disease is usually progressive until fatal without adequate interventions (which Darwin would not have had access to in his time). Darwin lived until he was 73.

On the Wiki article, one of the proposed possible causes is tick borne illness. I found it fascinating one of the most influential scientists in history possibly suffered from a chronic tick borne illness.

Yup

As bad as having a tick-borne illness is at the current moment there has never been a better time to be sick with this illness. It's a paradox.