'I was in denial of having Lyme disease'

I never thought I’d be someone to have Lyme. I was not outdoorsy. I liked video games and I’d staying in indoors, so I was in denial about having line myself. It’s really tricky because I didn’t get the bullseye rash, but I think I probably got it as a child. There was a big common opposite my school, which I go, so I think around about there. I got very sick with Angela fever when I was 10 years old, and from then that was kind of when I felt my immune system wasn’t right. About 13 years after I think I probably got bitten, I went on a work trip for two months and started blowing up and swelling, start to feel really fatigued. So that was the real point where I started investigating and thinking that something’s not right here. I did seven years sort of on and off trying to go to doctors. I got told a lot of the time it was hormones and hormonal, so I didn’t really feel very listened to. And then eventually a family friend recommended I should just get checked out with Lyme disease. And then I finally got my answers. Yeah, not really like here are you Just not with it. The symptoms are really debilitating. Not only was I getting the physical symptoms, severe brain fog, severe fatigue, I was struggling to even get up in the mornings. Not knowing, forgetting, forgetting things, treatment was all just sort of had to, had to figure it out. Myself, I did antibiotic IVS, which was five hours every day for three weeks, and then then I moved on to oral antibiotics. I did that for a year and a half. I was very, very, very sick. One thing people get a bit confused about with Lyme patients is the more medication you’re taking, the more you’re killing off those Lyme spirochetes. So you’re actually getting really sick and poisoning your body almost. So you’re not actually getting, you don’t feel like you’re getting better, so you’re actually kind of getting worse and worse. I’m four years into treatment, yeah. And yeah, it’s really, if you want to be treated and I think this is the most shocking part is you’ve you’ve got to go private. There’s not much help elsewhere. So yeah, it’s a it’s a tough process to try and juggle work, fund this and also get the treatment. I do believe there’s probably a lot of people out there that are struggling. They’re exhausted, they’re tired, Maybe they’re they’re having sort of. Like problems with concentration or focus or emotional mood swings and and maybe they just have underlying line it’s it’s really difficult to to get to that stage of diagnosis. So I’m still not at the finish line yet. I’m still you know still experiencing on and off symptoms. Brain fog, fatigue, physical symptoms like aches and pains, and joint pain. But you know, I I still want really positive because I, you know, I do think that there’s sort of hope at the end of the tunnel.