This page chronicles my journey through Late Stage Chronic Lyme Disease. I was diagnosed many, many years after the initial onset, leaving me with a very long list of symptoms that I hope will eventually dissipate or even hopefully disappear as my treatment progresses.
Sharon's Bio
For more than a decade, I suffered from numerous mysterious or rare maladies. I saw internists, gastroenterologists, endocrinologists, chiropractors, orthopedists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, pyschiatrists, phychologists, dermatologists, urologists, osteopaths, and then three rheumatologists. Some of them offered relief for my symptoms, but no one offered a cause.
In early 2009, I became almost bedridden with back and knee pain. Through the grace of God, four months later, I found the RIGHT doctor who diagnosed me with late stage chronic Lyme disease. I began treatment on October 16, 2009, one day after my dad's 80th birthday.
This is my perspective of my Lyme journey.
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Telling My Lyme Story in I Am Modern Magazine
To read the entire story, go to: http://www.iammodern.com/the-quiet-disease-lyme.html...
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Giving Up My Vanity
When we moved into this house 19 years ago, I was ecstatic to have an area between my bedroom and bath to put on make up. I had my very own vanity area, with a countertop, a chair, and a niche. I loved it. I put up my favorite artwork on the two walls. I used it every day.
Then I got Lyme.
This past Christmas, I a...
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Down the Rabbit Hole
It was a year ago this month that I began the final leg of my journey to a Lyme diagnosis. It originated last July with a “Lupus” diagnosis. As I walked out to my car, I called my sister, the nurse, to tell her the verdict and to find out more about this disease I had only vaguely heard of.
A few days later, my uncle w...
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Relief and Renewed Hope
Relief and Renewed Hope
Last week, I started a new medication for my Bartonella (co-infection of Lyme disease). At 2:45 the next morning, I woke up in extreme pain, feeling deep bone pain in my legs and right hip. By 5:30 am, the pain had exhausted me enough that I decided I wasn’t strong enough to handle Lyme treatment...
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Lyme Study Survey
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This survey is sent by the National Capital Lyme and Tick-borne Disease Association to gather information for a new paper, “The Human...
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Swirling Thoughts
It’s 11:30 pm and after 45 minutes of lying in bed with the lights out, I finally got up and decided that if I write everything down that is swirling in my head, maybe I can leave it on the paper and go back to bed and fall asleep quickly.
Swirling
-worrying about a long distance friend with Lyme who had a few great...
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In Honor of Aunt Betty
Why do I talk about Lyme so much? Am I obsessed with it? Do I think everyone I meet could have it? What is the deal with Sharon and Lyme?
I talk about Lyme because it took me decades to get properly diagnosed and it could have been diagnosed with one test (the Western Blot).
I don’t want others to go through what I...
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Get Properly Tested; Rule Lyme Out
A friend wrote me today asking for suggestions for a neurologist and a primary care physician who is a good diagnostician.
“I'm experiencing some weird physical symptoms myself, and tested negative for Lyme at my internist's the other day. However, she wants me to see a neurologist for joint pain and persistent neuropath...
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Aids to Healing
I used to believe that when I got sick, I could go to the doctor, get a prescription, take a pill, and I would be healed of whatever ailment had inhabited my body.
I used to believe a holistic approach to health and well-being was a nice thought, a possible avenue, but something that mostly appealed to those “hippies” o...
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Getting Out of Bed
I wrote this a couple of months ago. Thankfully, my symptoms have improved and getting out of bed is not to this degree . . . but in honor of all the Lymies who still experience this depth of pain and stiffness . . . .
On school day mornings, if I had snoozed too long, Mom would gently open my door, come to the side of...
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