Patient Cases and symptoms

Explore the many symptoms and chronic conditions often experienced by patients. As you learn about others' personal stories, you might find surprising parallels with your own health journey. These shared experiences often serve as the initial step in uncovering the root cause of your health concerns. Take a moment to explore these shared experiences, as they might valuable insights to conquer your health challenges once and for all.

Case 1

“My first symptom was a light headache that wouldn’t go away. I went to the doctor after 2 weeks and was told “it’s definitely not an infection” because he ran a basic inflammation blood test. I was naive at the time and believed him, so I never looked for other explanations.

Eventually the headache increased in severity and one super important detail is that NO PAIN MEDS HELPED. This is something that stumped all the doctors I saw but seems so obvious now that it was clearly infection related.

Then I started getting a stiff neck and then myofascial pain in my shoulders and upper back. Next the fatigue started which caused a real lack of motivation because I was too tired to do anything.

Eventually everyday in the morning I would wake up with tingling and numbness in my hands. I just assumed I was sleeping on them wrong because it would go away when I got up and moved around.

After 2 years of slowly deteriorating health, miscellaneous treatments, tests, MRI’s and scans (all negative), my neurologist gave me a big dose of steroids. This caused an extreme reaction where I had shooting electric nerve pain throughout my entire body. It was very scary but thankfully subsided after stopping the steroids.

At this point I was terribly fatigued and in debilitating pain pretty much all day, everyday. I told my neurologist that I thought I was going to die and he decided to run blood tests for every single illness that could cause my symptoms.

22 vials of blood later and I had a positive result for Lyme. Thank god it was positive since I had done testing through Quest, which is not the most reliable. I don’t know if I would have ever figured it out without the positive Lyme test to be honest.

I took the 3 weeks of doxy but I didn’t get any better and ended up seeing an LLMD who tested me through IGENEX for co-infections where I also found out I had bartonella and Babesia.

The only thing that helped was treating my infections to remission. Antibiotics and herbals were the most effective treatments I did.”

Case 2

“It was the swollen knee joints that made me realize it could be Lyme. I'm a textbook case (tick, EM, alternating swollen knees) and the doctors still refuse to believe that I have this disease.

A comprehensive questionnaire checklist, which also asks WHEN that a symptom occurred, helped me to make sense of my unspecific symptoms (nausea, menstrual disorders, on-off sore throat…)”

Case 3

“I just got diagnosed this month but am able to trace it back to last summer around June.

I’d say the first six months were filled with constant fatigue, brain fog, occasional bits of vertigo, blurred vision, and achy body. I knew something was wrong and was reaching out to a psychologist thinking it was a mix of my vitamin deficiencies and ADD.

Around month 7, the achiness in my body became really bad. Joints began popping, my hips were so bad I couldn’t sit or walk for extended periods of time. My shoulders and neck also hurt but I thought it was from how I was sleeping.

Last month, I went to a chiropractor for my hips and neck who ordered a X-ray. X-ray showed degenerative disc disease in my neck and what he could tell was a herniated disc in my lower back by my hip. I followed up with my PCP who thought the early onset was weird. So he ran blood work. It’s Lyme.”

Case 4

“The anxiety should have been the big indicator to me, and it was, but my doctor assumed since I had a history of anxiety and panic attacks already that it was “all in my head issues.” I was having hours long panic attacks, felt like I couldn’t breathe and just couldn’t keep a single thought straight.”

Other Cases and Stories

  • Case 5

    "Insomnia with difficulty staying asleep, intermittent light-headedness, progressing to constant light-headedness and fatigue, accompanied by additional symptoms like shortness of breath, brain fog, low-grade fever, anxiety, and hair loss”

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  • Case 6

    "Initial symptoms included a rash, persistent itching and burning, followed by the development of IBS and chronic fatigue over the course of a year ongoing issues with IBS, joint pain, and liver abnormalities persists”

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  • Case 7

    "extreme dizziness, sudden sun allergy, headache and heartburn. Then came a summer flu and fungus in the mouth and skin and inflammation"

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  • Case 8

    Myriad of symptoms including chronic rhinitis, inflammation, shortness of breath, brain fog, concentration difficulties, memory issues, anxiety, fatigue, burnout, early waking, erectile dysfunction, low libido, gastrointestinal issues, dry eyes, dry nose, blurry vision, and light sensitivity.ere

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  • Case 9

    Bullseye rash, the individual experienced progressively worsening symptoms including constant headache, sleep disturbance, severe body aches rotating throughout different body parts, and a persistent sense of malaise,

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  • Case 10

    Itching, body rashes, swollen eyes, and gastrointestinal issues, the individual experienced a range of ongoing symptoms including fatigue, swollen lymph nodes, tingling sensations, chest pains, and headaches persisting symptoms including fatigue, headache, shortness of breath, brain fog, occasional numbness, night sweats, and waking up between 3-5 am.

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  • Case 11

    large red circular rash followed by severe fatigue and bone pain, leading to a diagnosis of Lyme disease 16 years ago, with a recurrence of symptoms including dizziness, weakness, and exhaustion last year, despite treatment, resulting in ongoing fatigue, memory issues, and the need for reminders to manage daily tasks

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  • Case 12

    high fever, severe rash with blisters, extreme body aches, fatigue, muscle weakness, double vision, shortness of breath, and swelling in the knees following a tick bite

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It's remarkable how hearing others' personal stories can shed light on our own health journeys.

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