>>865214My sister and my friend both got it a couple years ago. Their experiences happen to be very similar, but in no way represent "everyones" experience.
Neither of them were exactly sure when they got the infecting tick. My friend had gotten a couple ticks on him that he caught very early, my sister never knew she had a tick. The greatest risk in contracting Lyme is with the little nymph ticks - they're smaller than a freckle. Even if you scratch the spot, and look at the spot, you won't really notice them there. But of course ticks take purchase in dark crevices where you won't see them anyway - especially dangerous with the little nymphs aka seedlings (behind the knee, the armpit, your back, buried in your hair on your scalp, behind your ear, etc).
They both had lyme for months and didn't know it. They started feeling tired, sore joints in the morning, sudden wobbliness and loss of motor skills, etc. They're both the kind of peopel who visit the doc when things aren't right. My friend visited the doc 2 or three times before they did a full test and found the Lyme. They assumed he had a virus, stress at work, etc. He got it taken care of.
My sister, on the other hand, visited the doctor several times, and even went to the ER fucking TWICE. The doctor ran her symptoms down every time and assumed she had a virus for awhile, and eventually he was positive she had clinical depression. The back pain, the lethargy, the irritability, the lack of sleep, etc. She was legit seeing a psychiatrist on her doctor's referral because she had no idea why she was becoming so vague and useless.
One day at work she collapsed, she was unconscious for 7 hours. The ambulance took her to the hospital and they got her on fluids and ran every single test possible - and blaring obvious found she had Lyme. Two weeks later after the antibiotics she was fine, but it went for so long that she has light nerve damage now. She's lucky in that she doesn't have chronic pain.
