Go to Igenex.com for the most accurate test. (send your blood test there.) http://igenex.com/Website/
Lyme can mimic any illness, and cause all of your symptoms. Sometimes people get lyme without the typical rash (bulls eye) from a tick bite, so they don't even know they have it.
Here's more info than you'd ever want to know about lyme:
http://autoimmunityresearch.org/lyme-disease/
a quote from the above link:
http://www.lyme-disease-research-databa ... sease.htmlSoon after the onset of Lyme-flu, arthralgias and/or myalgias (muscle and joint pain) may begin. The arthralgias appear to primarily involve the large joints (i.e. knees, elbows, hips, shoulders), although smaller joints (e.g. wrists, hands, fingers, toes) may be involved. The pains are generally described as severe, jumping from joint to joint, and may be present for only short periods of time. Pain in the teeth and in the temporal-mandibular joints (jaw) is common. Neurological involvement will cause associated paresthesias (muscle twitching, burning sensations, prickling / shooting pains, and numbness). Lyme disease can cause palsy of affected areas, but it’s more likely to cause neurosensory deficits before neuromotor disease.
Facial nerve (Bell's) palsy is another neurological symptom of Lyme disease. Encephalitis or encephalopathy may manifest as cognitive dysfunction, including short-term memory loss, and psychiatric symptoms such as panic, anxiety, or depression. The encephalitis and facial paralysis tend to occur within the first few months following the tick bite, but may also occur as part of a relapse at any time.
Other symptoms in this stage of the disease may include blurred vision, uveitis, ringing in the ear (tinnitus) and/or hearing loss, shortness of breath, palpitations or tachycardia (rapid heart rate), chest pains, abdominal pains, diarrhea or irritable bowel, testicular or pelvic pain, urinary incontinence/urgency, dizziness, tremors, dysautonomia, and hepatitis.
ps- (even if you get a negative result from the lyme test, it could be a false negative and you might still have lyme disease - 30% are false negatives from the best lab igenex- but your symptomology warrants trying out lyme treatment in my humble opinion. lyme treatment is long term antibiotics orally or by IV.)
