I am an avid outdoorsman though I can't recall ever having a tick embedded that I know of. My parents both have chronic LD and my mother is pretty sure she has had it since she was in her early teens. Around about
a year ago I started getting daily headaches where my neck was sore and stiff and went over the top of my head like a mohawk would. I went to the clinic and they originally said tension headache, then at the next visit they said it was arthritis in my neck. They gave me pain pills and muscle relaxers and prednizone. And it seemed to mostly clear it up for the time being.
The last 3 months or so everything has changed and I am getting pretty scared not only for my health but for my liveliness and paycheck from working. I am 29 years old and work in the HVAC industry as a tinner. The headaches started to come back then all my joints started aching. One night my elbow got so sore I went to the hospital at 1am. I believe I have a very high pain tolerence but after laying in bed for 3 hours with it not letting up I had to head to the ER where they immediately diagnosed it as tendonitis and pumped me full of pain pills and anti inflamitories. Got released that same morning and went to work the next day and my hand was swelling and a rash was popping up in several spots. I returned to local clinic and they immediately decided I was allergic to something I was given at the hospital and gave me another shot.
Now I am very unmotivated and very low on energy, easily confused and irritated. My feet swell in my arch area every few days or so. My hands swell around my thumbs. I have a small rash that will pop up during the middle of the day and be gone by bedtime and moves all over my body. Usually my elbows and wrists are pretty sore, and today its my hip, outside to inside of my thigh by my groin. I have my daily headaches, and every so often I get a strange sensation ( dont know how to describe it) around my chest area front and back side. I'm probably missing some symptoms in the list but am feeling very overwhelmed and not thinking straight.
Went on a camping trip with my sons cub scout troop this weekend and pulled 5 tiny little deer ticks off my legs all of a sudden and am really freaking out. None of them were engorged but they were attached for less than 12 hours i'm sure of.
My mother has just told me the specialist that she goes to no longer accepts insurance and is about
300 dollars a visit. That is pretty rough when I depend on a check every week to pay rent and bills as it is now with very little left over.
I'm really to the point where I am pretty sure I have LD the more I read and hear about
it. Just not sure how to handle it and what to do from here.
Jason
Post Edited (therealjt) : 6/27/2013 8:29:51 PM (GMT-6)