Growing Deeper Roots: My Story of Invisible Illness

Okay, so I have another big upside to the fact that the Lyme community is huge. With lymies ranging from all ages and demographics, you have a huge range of friends and in addition to being sick and tired and weak and everything, they are the sassiest people ever.  Here is a collection of memes I've found on blogs and forums from other lymies.  For when I am tired of being told that I don't look sick...   ...or for when I can't handle another doctor in denial...  ...so much denial...                                                              ...or when it is all just too overwhelming...   ...and treatment seems so unattainable...   ...and so costly... ...and I just end up terrified of the tick invested world...     ...but w...

I went to my primary care provider for the first time since the episodes started today. When the episodes started I was at school so I was using the health center's practitioner as my primary physician. I told my doctor the same story I have said about a million times: when it started, how often it happens, what it feels like, what medications I have tried, what tests I have done and so forth. Then came the question I knew wouldn't go well. Luckily, my mom took it this time. "During all of our research we are seeing an increasingly obvious overlap of her symptoms--GI, IBS, syncope, vertigo--with Chronic Lyme disease. She was diagnosed as a kid so...what can we do to investigate this?" Now to clarify, I really do like this doctor. I have had her for a couple years and she has really helped me with a lot of my GI symptoms. But, all we have ever done is manage the symptoms without really investigating a cause beyond Chrohns or Celiacs. BUT! Here it was. Her respo...