cause of anxiety and much more

Hello friends, I have been browsing through the net and evrytime i type my symtoms, this lead me to LYME disease.

Lyme disease is a bacteria which affect our nervous sytems thus resulting in all sorts of troubles same as anxiety and panic attacks.

Anyone have gone through the test? whats your opinion?

Where do you live? The reason I ask is because there are places where Lymes disease is more prevalent and there are places where it doesn't exist. That doesn't mean that if you live in an area where it doesn't exist that you can't have it. You may have contracted it while visiting an area with a high incidence of Lymes disease.

Do you own a dog or cat? Do you often take walks in the countryside? The reason I ask is that Lymes is passed to humans by tick bite.

If you live in a high risk area and you do own pets and walk regularly in the countryside you should see a dr and get tested.

You get lime disease when you've been bitten by a tic, so you would have local inflammation first

Am from Mauritius and have 3 dogs and a cat and there is chance that I might have this. I will get to my GP soon to talk about it. Hopefully its just LYme because here we dont have good  therapist for panic disorder

Lyme disease can cause you to feel very poorly....try to see doctor soon

If you have had a full medical and you have been given a clean bill of health then this is probably anxiety related.

Dont google stuff or look illnesses up if you really think you have this go and see a doctor

Stay Strong

Thank you Lynne smile

Believe me, you would be much better having a panic disorder than Lymes disease. Lymes disease is a pretty awful disease and the prognosis can be quite bad.

Oh thank you very much. I had no idea.

My nephew has it since being bitten by a tic last year

Lyme disease is caused when a person is bitten by a deer tick.  It is a completely different kind of tick that cats and dogs get.  Have you noticed a bullseye swelling (they can get pretty big and are very distinctive)?  That is where the tick has bitten you.  Many people don't know they have it until they are tested and the symptoms are varied from diffuse pain, lethargy, brain fog, you name it.  Get tested before you worry, it could be something entirely different.  Good luck and let us know how you are doing.

The reason I asked if she had a dog is because people with dogs often walk them in the countryside where ticks are found. And do you think a deer tick would bite a human but refuse to bite a dog?

The Brown Dog tick in the United Kingdom can and has spread Lymes disease to humans

Tics are becoming rife in the UK.  MY nephew is suffering Lyme disease from such a bite to the leg after camping

I hope your nephews case was caught early. It must be very frightening knowing someone you love has this potentially horrible illness.

It was caught straight away because of the inflammation, but he is still quite poorly with it

Jack,  there is no evidence that the brown dog tick can transmit Lymes. Only black legged deer ticks carry the bacteria.  Most ticks do not.  Yes, the deer tick can feed off of Fido or Fluffy but the pets cannot transmit the disease.  However, once the tick feeds off of Fido, it will drop off and can land in your yard and subsequently, bite you.  It takes 36-48 hours of feeding on anything for it to transmit the bacterium.  If Fido's owner likes to walk thru tall grasses and wooded areas, you should check you both post walk.  Get Fido an anti tick collar if you are in a high risk area and wear long pants in suspect areas.  LYme began in Lyme, Connecticut in 1975.  Baby ticks bite rodents, fall off, and move to a new host as a nymph and again as adults.  80-90% of people who are bitten will have a bullseye rash but almost everyone will run a nk it is just something going on with them, etc.  It cannot be detected by tests (unless you find the tick and have it analyzed) until you have been infected for months or years.  You will truly get a negative result if you get tested before that so having the tick analyzed is the only quick way to see if it is infected.  AND, it may or may not have been feeding on you for more than 36-48 hours.  My niece has it and has been ill for a long time because she did not get the rash and, of course, was misdiagnosed for years and now hers is considered chronic.  Our family is well informed about this because of our niece.  It is a heartbreaking disease to have.

In the UK, sheep foxes and hedgehogs are more likely to get the disease because they like tall grass and wooded areas.  The English brown tick can, indeed carry and transmit Lyme.

Hey Guys 

we are trying to comfort Rachna here not scare the life out of her

Thankyou for all that info on Lymes disease. It is somethingn I worry about because I do walk my dog out in the countryside a lot and I have found ticks on him many times. It's good to be informed. I appreciate you taking the time to share your knowledge.