Dawn,

If you ever had a bull's eye rash, then you had Lyme. If you were never treated for it and you are experiencing chronic illness, then the chances are high that you have Lyme Disease. It can sometimes go dormant for decades, only to resurface after times of physical/emotional stress. Or it get re-appear seemingly without reason .... or

People can remain with an active Lyme (borrelia) infection for decades.

Once the disease is allowed to disseminate throughout the body and remain it can become chronic. And that makes testing and treatment more difficult. That's the situation I'm in.

If you have a chance, please read some of what I've posted in the Lyme Disease section here so that you can have some knowledge of what this is all about. You'll get far more out of a doctor's appointment that way.

I strongly urge you to get tested and evaluated by a Lyme Literate doctor. If you should happen to test negative on the U.S. Igenex testing -- it does not mean that you don't have Lyme Disease or any Co-Infections. You can read more about all that in the Lyme DIsease section of the Forum.

One thing is certain though ........ Bull's eye rash = Lyme Disease.

Sharon

p.s. Smitho, I'm sorry to hear about your diagnosis! I'm right there with ya, though. Treatment has been extremely difficult but I'm plodding forward. There are quite a few of us here on the Forum who have this terrible disease.

The docs I have consulted here insist that there are millions (yes millions) of people like us. We walked around for ages either occasionally feeling poorly, had seemingly non-specific or unconnected symptoms of other diseases, and some of us became incapacitated and quite ill -- only to find out that it was really Lyme Disease all along.

I would never have gotten my diagnoses if I hadn't learned about all this on my own and sought out the help of Lyme specialists.

Lyme Disease and heavy metal toxicity seem to be seen alot together, also.