I contract Chronic Lyme Disease in 2015, a debilitating and painful disease that affects people differently due to the many variations of co-infections. It is becoming more and more wide spread and not just contracted from ticks in woodlands. You can now contract it from mosquitos as well as ticks and from general parklands and a variety of areas.
Living with Lyme gives you constant pain in your muscles, joints and neck, a burning sensation on the inside of legs, hands and arms, tingling and numbness, headaches, a sore throat, chronic debilitating fatigue, inability to sleep, memory loss, blurred vision, brain fog, inability to concentrate, exhaustion, pain during any kind of physical activity, and for a lot of people – depression. All of that rolled up into one very unhealthy package. Your whole world turns up side down with this devastating disease. Normal life disappears. You can’t work, go out or take part in any kind of activity. Your world shrinks. Who you used to be no longer exists.
It has taken me many years to find my way out and back to better health. Others aren’t so lucky. People are losing their lives to this devastating disease. My own life turned upside down with this illness and I wouldn’t want anyone else to have to suffer it.