The Healthiest Looking Sick People (struggling with Lyme disease)
When you’re healthy you don’t expect to become seriously ill. It comes as a bit of a shock. Then to be constantly told there’s nothing wrong with you — you’re healthy, go home, it’s in your head — even though you know something’s wrong and your body is literally plaguing you with symptoms, equals mind blowing frustration and hopelessness. This is how many Lyme disease sufferers feel.
I would never wish it upon anyone, however, reading about other people’s experiences with Lyme really helped me. It made me feel like I wasn’t the only one losing my mind. If you have Lyme disease and you stumble upon this, I hope it helps you as other people’s accounts helped me. It starts bad, it gets worse, but at the end there’s hope.
Here’s how it started:
For many years of my life, from the last bit of school and throughout university, I would get extreme waves of dizziness and nausea. This happened most days, but I passed it off as having dodgy sinuses, which apparently runs in my family. I was totally loving life: university, friends, boyfriend, family and I was packing in as much living and fun as possible, thus the dizziness and nausea didn’t particularly bother me. I gritted my teeth when it happened until it passed and then forgot about it. I must say, I got pretty good at walking in a straight line even though at…
