Hello everyone, I've come to this forum seeking for help. I have many symptoms which make me strongly suspect of Lyme disease. I'm a 21 years old male living in Argentina. I believe I might have contracted Lyme in Europe last year, since I was a lot in the woods and worked as a lumberjack there. Here's my story:
My health had always been good. I almost never got sick before. I did sport regularly, I love going running. On July 14th, after running (I really overexercised), my fingernails turned purple. Since then, they have stayed that way, although sometimes my right thumb and my left index fingernails turn dark blue but get back purple when I press them. I also got chest pain and palpitations. On the next day, I went to hospital and got an EKG done which showed no abnormalities. I was referred to a cardiologist and pulmonologist.
A week after that overexercising incident I felt pins and needles and a burning sensation within my head, which I just ignored. That night I drunk alcohol, and the effect was really exaggerated. Looked like I got completely drunk after one cup.
On the next day I woke up somewhat lightheaded. I was like that until afternoon and the feeling was over. That night my stomach was feeling a little bad and I had shortness of breath. I skipped dinner and took a medicine that contains alprazolam and sulpiride, which I was prescribed some time ago for anxiety, I thought it might have been just anxiety.
Then on the next day the real problems started. I got a sort of lightheadedness, wooziness, I don't know what to call it but is not spinning, just some kind of instability. I felt a mild pressure on my forehead between my eyebrows and on my nose and headaches on the sides of my head, like a pressure. The headaches were throbbing. My vision got notably diminished and somewhat blurred, and it felt like I needed to sleep, my eyes were heavy.
On the next days I went to the cardiologist and pulmonologist, who perfomed xray, EKG, echocardiogram, blood works and spirometry. No abnormalities. I was referred to a neurologist who perfomed CT scan with normal results and prescribed a medicine which helped a little bit with the wooziness and told me everything is stress/anxiety.
Well, I thought this nightmare would soon be over but I was wrong. On the next days I started developing many other symptoms:
*Mood instability
*Lack of concentration/motivation/emotion
*Muscle pain/twitching/numbness
*Inability to think clearly/focus on a conversation
*Joint pain
*Fatigue
*Facial numbness
*Malaise, sensation of feeling ill
*Neck pain/stiffness
*Short-term memory problems
*Early awakening
*Weakness in legs/arms
*Burning sensation/pins and needles in many parts of the body
*Weak voice
*Eyelid twitching
*Strange/unusual taste in mouth
*Erectile disfunction/lack of libido.
Now a rheumatologist is looking for possible autoimmune disorders, so far he seems to find nothing unusual. Needless to say my life is ******* ruined and it looks this is a neverending nightmare. I spend most of my days on bed and can't go to school, this really hurts me because I was supposed to become a teacher in four months. A dream that seems to have died. And since the symptoms seem to worse, it looks my life will soon be over. So disappointing.
Anyway, due to the possible exposure to ticks I had last year (almost one year ago), I'm strongly suspecting of Lyme Disease. What else could it be? What do you think? Please, any answer will be really, immensely appreciated. Thanks in advance