question about Lyme for an italian girl (me...)

Hello to everybody.

First of all sorry if my english is not perfect, I write from Italy.

I'm looking for an opinion concerning a possible rising of Lyme symptoms. Up to your experience, is it possible to develop Lyme symptoms 1 year later the latest tick bite (at least the late one that I remember!)?

Here in Italy tick infections are not endemic, except one specific area in the North-east, but I travel every summer to Czech Republic, in the center on Europe, where this is a wildespread problem. I was bitten in summer 2011 but had no health problems until summer 2012. In that year I didn't go to Czech Republic so it's impossible that I got the tick bite that year. I'm investigating with blood tests, but what if they'll come out negatives and I have Lyme anyway? That's why I'm trying to understand if it's possible that my immune system had fight well the infection until 2012 when I passed through a bad period of physical and phycological stress.

Thanks a lot for your opinions!

Bye,

Beba

Hi Beba, it is important to keep in mind that lyme disease is not the only infection that a tick can give you - so if you were bitten by a tick, there could be a few different infections - some are bacteria, some are parasites, and a tick can even transmit viruses ...

Symptoms can be similar with most of these infections, however, there are some specific symptoms that could help with a diagnosis - for example, waking up in a lot of sweat while sleeping ( night sweats ) is usually babesia ( a parasite similar to malaria ) or bartonella ...

What are your symptoms ?

Hi everybody.

Thanks a lot for your lovely answers - especially Sarah! - I try to give you more details without be too long...

If I check the common symptoms list of Lyme desease I can say I'm experiecing almost 80% of them. Of course they change in combination, intensity and duration. In this period the aches are quite good, while the neurological symptoms are a mess! I also have a lot of troubles with my mouth, ears, nose and balance, to a point that I fear I'm developping a sort of MCS! At present, I have a diagnosis of Fibro, made by a rheumatogist only 2 months after the beginning of my "illness", and have gone through all the common tests, which all came out negative. At the end of May I went to the only hospital here in Italy where there is a specific team for Lyme. I'm waiting for the results by the end of June, even if I've already made the elisa test last summer, which, of course, came out negative. The doctor said that the typical tyck of Czech Republic is not Burgdorferi, but Afzelii, which gives more neurological troubles than others

@Sarah: I found out an homozygous mutation of A1298c for MTHFR. I'm taking folic acid every day and also trying to do a bit of detox with chlorella and coriander + the Buhner's protocol, but not so well done because of the prices....

@Tano: I don't have night sweats. Among the tests I've done there are also some coinfections: TBE, rickettsia and ehrlichia, but not babesia or bartonella or anything else

Do you have any suggestion about how can I recognize Lyme from MCS? And also about more useful tests I could try to do?

Thank you very much for your positive support!

Beba

Hi Lymebabe. Yes, it would be great to have the name of an expert in Prague. I'm going there on August (I am married to a Czech man and therefore we go there every year to visit his father and the rest of the family).
Thanks!