Lyme Disease Symptoms Within Days To a Month of a Bite
Lyme disease is a parasitic spirochete bacteria (cousin to syphilis) when treated with antibiotics early, symptoms will go away in some people, however, the disease like herpes (although it is a virus) itself never goes away. The likelihood for remission to occur is great but often goes undetected as Lyme disease. Which presents its own set of issues I will discuss later.
If no tick is present or was present but likely fell off, the following are the symptoms of early Lyme disease
- Erythema migrans rash (the bull’s-eye rash typical for Lyme disease occurs in 40-60% of people). I developed the rash two out of the three times I was bitten and contracted Lyme disease. The third time went untreated for years as the tick was embedded in my head, burrowed deep into my skull and left a scab the size of slightly smaller than a dime. After a year or more it finally popped out, bled and scabbed over again. Under a microscope, it was a tick.
- Fatigue – so tired all you want to do is sleep, yet when you wake up you feel as though you never slept.
- Flu (the worst case of the flu ever. For me it was if I had chicken pox all over again or shingles without spots or the rash)
- Fever
- Headache (I never experienced any headaches initially. Now years later, I have them only while being treated with antibiotics and they are excruciating).
- Hot and cold chills (worse than menopause, body temperature afterward almost always cold)
- Muscle aches (the worst you ever felt)
Lyme Disease Common Symptoms
If Lyme disease is not caught early, the chance for a full recovery decreases, and depending on how long the disease has gone untreated or treated incorrectly ( not long enough, incorrect antibiotics, etc.) the disease becomes chronic any chance of full remission is nominal. The use of IV antibiotics and other homeopathic medications will greatly increase the opportunity for remission. Currently, there is no cure.
- Air hunger (a sensation in which you feel as though you can’t breathe. It mainly occurs while asleep, when you attempt to wake, a person feels like they cannot or are unable to wake up.).
- Alcohol intolerance
- Anemia – pernicious anemia lack of Vitamin B-12
- Anxiety/depression
- Bone weakness and break easily
- Bone pain dull ache to severe ache, to stabbing with hot sharp object excruciating pain
- Body temperature is low often 95.0 degrees F; Fevers begin at (96.5-97.0 degrees F)
- Brain fog – state of confusion
- Cold flashes/hot flashes
- Constipation often severe/diarrhea – often severe
- Cysts on major organs/in bones
- Depth perception – off
- Difficult to think clearly/concentrate/read/comprehend
- Difficult to understand or follow a conversation
- Difficult to type when fingers touch the keypad, fingers transpose letters words, forgot how to type.
- Difficult to type as if suddenly become dyslexic/back-word spelling/ spelling errors
- Difficult to hold a pen or pencil to write and similar problem when typing, words are backward/letters misspelled/letters missing/transpose letters/repeatedly often with same letters/same with numbers
- Difficulty spelling simple words (as if you have forgotten how to spell)
- Dyslexia
- Erythema migrans EM rash (bull’s-eye rash), sometimes other rashes will appear
- Ear pain, feel clogged like water is in ear, or ear needs to pop, makes it difficult to type
- Exaggerated hangover
- Facial paralysis generally on one side of the face and body before moving to entire body numbness
- Facial pain – sharp shooting pain, or hot poker face; yet when you touch skin cold
- Fatigue, poor stamina
- Forgetfulness
- Frustrated
- Headaches which often feel more like pressure, head in a vice, top of head tender to the touch along the lymphatic area where the two segments of brain join, pain is often severe and worse than migraine, in that it feels like your head is going to pop from pressure from the base of the neck to the head. The neck is also very stiff and feels like you are bring choked.
- Heart palpitations, atrial fibrillation, Heart block, and various other cardiac related problems
- Hot flashes
- Hot poker face (face feels like it has been hit of continued stabbing sensation)
- Insomnia
- Irritable
- Joint pain or swelling
- light-headed
- Low energy (especially for athletes)
- Memory is horrible, progressively becomes worse the longer one has the disease
- Mood swings
- Momentary blackouts
- Mumbled and/or garbled speech and words
- Muscle and joint pain often severe
- Muscle pain/severe cramps of severe
- Nerve pain
- Numbness in face, generally on one side only
- Optic neuritis
- Panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Pneumonia often and often severe and double pneumonia
- Poor memory
- Seizures – non-epileptic seizures; Lyme induced seizures (MDs who are not Lyme Literate will try to call them fake or pseudo-seizures. This is not the case. They are real seizures. The difference between these and Epileptic seizures is there is no damage to the Mylan sheath in the brain.). Don’t allow a doctor to EVER tell you they are fake or pseudo-seizures they are not.
- Senses – too hot, too cold, skin sensitive to touch/painful
- Sight problems, vision pain that feels like impaled by a sharp object; decreased vision clarity, pupils are different size; light sensitivity, eye pain, continual infections both bacterial and viral
- Dark skin under the eyes, like two black eyes, yellow eyelids, sandpaper feel
- Sore throat, raspy voice
- Sound/light sensitivity
- Spasms – random locations feel like a Charlie horse
- Stabbing pain or shooting, random and all throughout the body
- Static vision – persisting visual symptom of seeing snow or television-like static across their visual field
- Slurred speech often, taken for being intoxicated
- Stomach pains severe – sharp stabbing pain
- Susceptible to bacterial infections (e.g. pneumonia)
- Suicidal thoughts
- Tingling, tremor, numbness of extremities or face, legs
- TMJ, teeth sensitivity to hot cold, loss of gum tissue
- Toxins. There is a build up of toxins in the system from the spirochetes
- Twitching
- Unable to respond to conversation
- Unavoidable need to lie down
- Unexplained fevers
- Vertigo
- Viral infections often (e.g., Shingles varicella zoster virus, Epstein-Barr (EBV-HHV4) CMV, Herpes viruses)
- Vision images halos or aura often superseded by seizures
- Voice sounds scratchy similar to someone with laryngitis
- Weaknesses, body weakness, shortness of breath
Symptoms of Bartonella
A Gram-negative bacterial genus Bartonella now comprises roughly two dozen identified species, about half of which are known to infect humans. The use of antibiotics and homeopathic medications greatly increase the opportunity for recovery. Symptoms often mimic Lyme.
- Anorexia
- Anxiety/panic attacks/OCD/ADHD
- Backache
- Breathlessness
- Burning pains in face, soles, shins, & legs
- Burning/sharp shooting pains various places of body
- Cold extremities
- Depression, combative behavior, emotional
- Dizziness/fainting
- Eye disorders/blurred vision/infections/ sharp shooting Vision pain/pain behind eyes
- Flu-like symptoms, fatigue (often severe)/high fever
- Upper and lower GI problems, gastritis, stomach pain under left ribcage severe, lower abdominal pain (can be severe), can’t have bowel movement without assistance e.g. enema
- Headaches (sharp frontal)
- Hemolysis with anemia/progressive anemia/pernicious anemia
- Hot flashes/chills
- Hot/burning skin
- Immune deficiency
- Inflammation/infections of the brain causing significant behavior change
- Inflammation spinal cord/bone marrow
- Insomnia/significant sleep disruption/somnolence/fatigue
- Intravascular disease
- Itchy skin
- Jaundice
- Loss of muscle coordination/muscle spasms (severe/twitches/tremors/weakness/numbness/paralysis)
- Light intolerance (often severe)
- Liver disorder
- Loss of bone in jaw
- Lumps in muscles that resemble Kelly-humps, hill’s and valley’s, or washboard like feel to muscles primarily in the legs that begin in the calves but as the disease worsens also in the thighs. Very painful and deep the pattern is muscle then space often to the bone. The muscle is very painful.
- Lymphadenopathy
- Memory loss/confusion/fear/paranoia
- Myalgia
- Myocarditis
- Noise intolerance (often severe)
- Non-pitting edema
- Peripheral neuropathy (nerve pain)
- Polyp’s inside, on, or around major organs
- Poor to no appetite
- Seizures (can occur often and are generally non-epileptic)
- Sensitivity to light (often severe)
- Severe Mood swings/irritability/severe rage
- Sore throat/scratchy raspy voice
- Spider veins
- Splenomegaly (abnormal enlargement of the spleen)
- Stretchmarks Rash (usually red, worse than when pregnant & no weight gain)
- Swollen joints/lymph nodes
- Tender subcutaneous points
- Thickened blood
- Unexplained bruises
- Unrelenting tingling feet and legs/restless legs
- Vision loss, stabbing pain in eyes, feeling of sand in eye or grit (feels like you’ve been stabbed in eye with hot poker)
- Weight gain/weight loss
Symptoms of Babesia/Babesiosis
Babesiosis or Babesia are malaria-like protozoans that parasitize and reproduce within mammalian red blood cells. They have a complex life cycle which involve several different stages and physical forms maintained in nature primarily via the exchange between Ixodes ticks and various mammals.
Clinically, Babesiosis appears to have a wide spectrum of disease severity. Most patients experience a viral-like illness that can last weeks to months or longer. Some patients can be asymptomatic. In patients with a complicated condition, however – such as an underlying immunosuppression – the disease can be severe and potentially fatal such as B. divergens and B. microti, which can more virulent than others. B. microti especially in immunosuppressed individuals. Babesiosis also is often so mild it is not noticed yet can be life-threatening to people with no spleen, the elderly, and people with weakened immune systems. Complications include very low blood pressure, liver problems, severe hemolytic anemia (a breakdown of red blood cells), and kidney failure. Difficult to diagnose via blood testing because it is only detected during the first two weeks of infection.Babesiosis is typically treated with a combination of antimalarial drugs and antibiotics. Relapses occur after treatment and must be retreated.
- Air hunger
- Anemia – severe hemolytic anemia
- Blood pressure – low to very low
- Bone pain, deep, dull to sharp often excruciating
- Body temperature alters from Chills to Hot flashes or episodes of being on fire
- Chest pain, especially after doing any form of physical activity. The pain can be severe and feel like a severe dull ache to where knives are being thrust into your chest deep into the cavity into the back on the chest.
- Cough
- Fatigue/fevers/headache/sweats
- Hemolysis
- Hip pain, severe dull to severe sharp often excruciating
- Imbalance without true vertigo
- Kidney failure, back pain in the area of kidney may be first sign of problem
- Liver pain, under the left ribcage
- Mild encephalopathy
- Night sweats so bad you have to change because you have soaked through them on to the bedsheets
- Night terrors, violent nightmares leading to paranoia or paranoid feelings
- Seizures
- Shaking/tremors
- Spleen, pain under the left ribcage
- Suicidal thoughts often severe
Symptoms of Ehrlichiosis
Bacterial infection caused by ticks and often is found in ticks that carry Lyme disease.The updated classification scheme, implemented over the last several years, now places these bacteria in the family Anaplasmataceae, which currently consists of six genera, including Anaplasma and Ehrlichia. These two genera comprise all tick-transmitted pathogens that infect cellular elements of peripheral blood, such as erythrocytes (red blood cells), leukocytes (white blood cells) and platelets. No treatment studies have been performed for Ehrlichiosis, but empiric evidence indicates that Tetracyclines are highly effective against both E. chaffeensis and E. ewingii. Rifampin is an alternative antibiotic choice.
- Elevated liver enzymes
- Fatigue that is ongoing
- Headaches
- Myalgia’s (muscle pain mild to severe)
- Persistent leukopenia (decrease in the number of white blood cells)
- Thrombocytopenia (extremely low platelet count)