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Setting up at Farmers Markets a couple of days a week selling our Go Away Tick and Skeeter Repellant (Deet Free of Course:) I've been talking to alot of people who have had Lymes Disease.
It truly is a very sad story for many. Some get diagnosed right away and are completely fine with having no troubles at all. Others, I believe, never get diagnosed and are trying to walk through life finding what is wrong with them. Then we have the ones who have been diagnosed and feel the effects of Lyme's Disease daily in very unpleasant ways.
Sanity is something you don't take for granted. When you have your wits about you you are on top of your game. Add a little anxiety, dizziness, chronic fatigue and then some serious anxiety then you feel like you are just losing your mind.
My husband has been dealing with debilitating anxiety and stress over this Lymes' Disease. I have to be very careful in what I say to him to not put him in another panick attack. I want very much to watch, "Under Our Skin" with him but at this point he can't handle the reality of what is going on in his body and mind. He realizes Lymes Disease is a bacteria. A type of bacteria that is mutant and changes shapes just to keep from being destroyed by the given antibiotic the doctor feels is right for the moment. "Under Our Skin" is a documentary on the knitty gritty about Lyme's which most doctors won't and don't know to tell you.
I've had to totally rearrange my whole schedule to help my husband. He needs someone to be with him during this difficult time. During the days where anxiety is 24/7 he prefers to be with me. I understand as at one time I used to have anxiety attacks quite often and wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy. I don't mind putting things off to help him as I would want him to be there for me. It has been three weeks of sure struggle for John having Bells Palsey with both sides of his face being paralyzed, extreme anxiety, and utter complete exhaustion.
Talking with people that have been diagnosed with Lyme's Disease I have been finding that anxiety, brain fog, helplessness often is accompanied with Lyme's Disease. Which has me thinking how many people are out there with Lyme's that are half nuts due to this highly undiagnosed disease? We believe now that my husband was first infected 12 years ago when we lived down in Arkansas. He had the rash, but we were looking specifically for a bullseye. From the time of his tick bite his ability to function slowly deteriorated, turning into years full of chronic fatigue, bouts of depression and anxiety, and also being highly sensitive to noises. He thought all of his joint pain was due to the hard years of Concrete Construction he had done in his younger years.
Many times I had told the doctors I had thought my husband had Lymes' Disease. For one doctors don't want to be told anything really on what you think and second of all most doctors don't know a rats rearend about Lymes'. What is even more discouraging is that the Lymes' test is known to be 70% inaccurate. Wow! So much for medical help!
Anyhow, from what I gathered talking to others, having Lyme's Disease that effects your brain is like bungi jumping and not having the cord attached.
Will be posting more as time goes on.
We'll be looking for a specialist in Lyme's Disease.
Today he is also going to see someone who does Muscle Testing who is very educated and knowledgeable about Lymes', so I will post what we learn. Hopefully, we by that time will have watched, "Under Our Skin".
Blessings and thanks for reading <3 <3 <3
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