Living With Lyme Disease: A Dr.’s Perspective

And the first question I have for you is you actually experienced your own misdiagnosis of Lyme's disease.

So what was that journey like for you?

Yeah, so I likely I predicted that I had Lyme disease when I was in naturopathic medical school in my later 20s.

And the symptoms I had at the time were fatigue.

And anxiety was my one of my biggest things in terms of heat intolerance, I would be sweating, hot flashes, et cetera.

And I was in my twenties.

So I knew it wasn't going through perimenopause and there was something else.

And at the time they thought it was anxiety, but when it would happen, it would be one-sided.

It would happen when I was doing things that were non-stressful.

I had also like alternating migratory joint pain.

And so because of that, they started working me up for autoimmune conditions and those came back unclear, but I didn't really match up all the symptomatic picture of it.

And so when I started working as a naturopathic doctor and I started actually seeing people with Lyme disease and treating people, um, and after myself going through my own process of healing, I was like, wait a second, all of these symptoms sound very much like the things that I had, you know, several years prior.

And so I went back to testing myself and sure enough, I was positive for Babesia and Lyme disease.

And it was it kind of took me on my journey.

And my father also had Lyme disease.

Several of my family members had Lyme disease as well.

And it really it really became something as a focus area.

I'm also in Connecticut, which is pretty ridden with Lyme disease.

But as we know, with studies are showing, you know, throughout the country, every every single state has Lyme disease.

But me myself having that my own experience and knowing the right questions to ask when a person is in front of me.