ncgirl88

Eric,

I am posting because this was my experience back in May and for a few months after. I went through three weeks of awful diarreah with mucous then severe fatigue set in as well as other issues like my body temperature dropped consistantly with my blood pressure. I was labeled with IBS at first but sensed there was something more wrong because I started having so many symptoms...some neurological. I was also extremely dizzy and nauseas - I lost 15 lbs. in three weeks.

I would walk around and my stomach would be completely tensed up - it was completely unconscious. I was having anxiety but that is part of the lyme too. In the early days in felt like something was lodged in my lower left quadrant of my colon and sometimes the right.

It turns out for me after 6 months that I have lyme disease and a tick coinfection called babesiosis. I don't remember being bitten nor did I ever have a bull's eye rash.

I tell you this not to scare you but to keep it on your radar if you start having additional symptoms. The fatigue I had was debilitating and I had exercise intolerance along with alcohol and caffeine intolerance.

Everyone who has lyme has different combinations of symptoms and severity. The coinfections are common and can be transmitted by the same tick. They can be as bad or worse then lyme.

I had 4 blood tests before it was found by a specialty lab out in California called IgeneX. I just can't wonder what would have happened had I assumed it was just IBS and took the prescription meanwhile my whole body and central nervous system was under attack.

If you have been in an environment where a tick could have easily bitten you and my symptoms ring true to you in any way go to the lyme area here on the boards.

Take care and hope you feel better soon. And I sincerely hope you are not dealing with lyme - it is no picnic.

ncgirl88