21yo lost with Lyme. Please help

Hello all. I was just recommended to this site and let me first say it’s nice to see so much info being passed around! I’ll try to keep my intro short

I’m a 21yo male who has had several symptoms that have been undiagnosed for about 4 years. I was extremely active and into sports and one day I woke up and had Bell’s Palsy.

I started having bad GI problems that no one could tell me why.

My muscles and joints started hurting and have gotten worse over the course of four years.

My primary always just ran blood work and kind of pushed it off. I payed out of pocket to go see a “lyme specialist” who was just trying to sell his products but I did get a test done that I will try to attach to my post. https://ibb.co/x2MWWC3

I now deal with GI issues, muscle/joint pain, weight loss, brain fog,

I feel lost, I’m 21 years old with so much drive in life but I can’t even get out of bed in the morning.

I was prescribed clyndamycin hcl but after speaking with others I was told to ask for doxy.. but I feel like it’s to late for me.

What do I do for late stage Lyme? I don’t need to cure it.. I just need these symptoms to be better

Post Edited (Hunt) : 5/23/2019 10:44:50 AM (GMT-6)

i too felt i was robbed of my drive and abilities. i would take some arminsin or wormwood tea for gut insults helminith or protozoan..consider bvt , andrographis, oil of oregano all as affordable treatment option , you can even construct a plasma rife machine on the dimey. get magnesium oil slather til dry to stop the shakes , restore minerals and anemia and some strength will come back . find a good kinesiologist or learn it from utoob it gave me a window the knock off the bugs u find biggest to small -helminith to viral and some kinda life is possible from the ashes . let us know if we can be of service welcome glad you found us

Welcome, Hunt!

Many of us have felt lost with this illness form time to time. A young person with joint pain and Bell's palsy is a pretty textbook Lyme presentation. As I'm sure you have read by now, Lyme testing is often inaccurate for many reasons, especially in people who have had it for a long time. And of course Lyme rarely travels alone, so it's likely that you have co-infections as well. It's great that you are reaching out. There is SO much information here. Did you read the "New to Lyme? Start Here!" post that lives at the top of this forum's main page? Please don't hesitate to create your own posts and ask questions!

All you need is a better doctor. I was undiagnosed for a decade with serious symptoms, it only took four months of treatment for me to see significant improvements. Your body will heal once the infection(s) and secondary complications are treated appropriately.

Welcome Hunt, many of us here have varying degrees of having recovered, been symptom-free, or what you call remission, and yes even in late stages. You can control symptoms with strict diet (keto-paleo). Also there is an abundance of information about palliative symptom treatments that many of us use: like epsom salt, natural herbs like oregano and natural foods like raw garlic or papaya seeds. It's tough to live with this disease complex but support like ours could make it easier. Whether you choose to go the natural route or use traditional abx there is help here.

Again welcome! Be sure to do a few searches of the forums for questions about this weird wild subject of tick borne disease. It's a pain but what else can we do? We are tasked with healing ourselves, it seems, given few options.