Does this sound like Lyme?

Hello everyone I have come here because I am lost and honestly pretty desperate. For the past year and a half I have been searching for answers as to why I have been feeling so ran down.

I thought Lyme disease was possible but than again I have my doubts because I am actually pretty functional.. I just feel like crap.

My symptoms are :
Fatigue. I never feel refreshed. I can sleep 6 hrs, 8 hrs, 10 hrs, or even 12 hrs and wake up just feeling like I’m on a hangover or something. It’s awful to try and get through the day. This is my worst symptoms

Foggy headed. Just feel mentally slower than I was before.

Inability to handle stress. If anything goes wrong I go crazy and sometimes very angry. This is not like me at all I am usually very go with flow type of person

Random pains. These don’t make any sense to me. It’s not my joints it’s mostly muscle pain.

Anxiety/ depression

Incapability of losing weight / slowed metabolism



Despite these things I still work and get by. But when I say get by I no longer have the energy to do anything other than go to work , go home, go to bed. I sleep all the way up until time for me to work basically because of the fatigue.

I came across Lyme disease in symptom checkers.

I did have my dr order the west blot test and run that on me and it came back negative but after looking at the bloodwork myself I noticed I was reactive to the band 23 igg.

So as of right now I’m stuck and don’t know what to do. I’ve been tested for pretty much everything and even took a sleep study which did show I am a little narcoleptic but I believe it’s a false diagnosis. It feels like there’s more to it than that.

Let me know what you all think. I appreciate you all

yep - testing is problematic - particularly due to the known high false negative rate of all the serological tests ( ELISA, Western Blot etc )

for that reason diagnosis is often based on clinical picture - and this is wherre a good LLMD comes in

there are still many things to rule out - but the symptoms certainly sound Lyme like - and so worth pursuing this

if you are in the UK - finding a LLMD might be difficult as the NHS frowns upon treating anything other than 21days after initial tick bite - but those of us who have been ill for years typically need much longer courses of multiple antibiotics or comprehensive herbal protocols to make progress and UK GP's will not prescribe either (i make the UK reference because i am in the UK and have been through this - and i am assuming you are in the UK from your user name - so please advise if not )

i think www.lymediseaseUK.org has a feature that will provide some options for LLMDs that other patients here have used and provided feedback on