Lyme Disease - the danger that can lie in wait on an innocent country walk
By Administrator on 21/11/2009
A Daily Mail Report....
Jonathan Oakton, 51, suffered for 14 years before he was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2006.
The father of two, from Redditch, Worcestershire, believes he was bitten during a paintballing game shortly after he married his wife Anne.
'About a week later, I began to feel very tired. It felt like flu. Then I suffered night sweats, while shivering in the day. I went to my GP but blood tests revealed nothing amiss and my temperature was normal.'
While his symptoms abated, they returned a month later - a cycle that would be repeated for a year.
'Then I began to have severe headaches that would last for five days and the area surrounding my right eye turned red and I'd have trouble seeing. Then, a month or so later, the same thing would happen.'
His GP blamed it on a common bacterial eye infection - conjunctivitis. Other later misdiagnoses included stress, migraines and depression.
Follow this linkor open the attachment.
Download file Mail_Online_Lyme disease_211109.pdf here >