I have a question about lyme disease?

Question

My boyfriend has lyme disease. When he first contracted it, he said doctors game him pills to take. He said he went to the doctor when he first contracted it because the area where the tick bit him hurt so bad. He said that when he's old, he'll be really weak from it. Does this sound true? Or do you think that he will become really weak from it before he gets old?

Answer 1

HA!! You don't get WEAK from lyme disease. I mean maybe while you have it, sure, but it doesn't make you sick forever.

Seriously, I had it when I was in the first grade. I had a deer tick in my ear and I finally pulled it out after weeks. I told my dad and I got tested, and it tested posotive. It didn't affect me THAT badly...

Answer 2

If ignored, the early symptoms may disappear, but more serious problems can develop months to years later. The later symptoms of Lyme disease can be quite severe and chronic. Muscle pain and arthritis, usually of the large joints is common. Neurological symptoms include meningitis, numbness, tingling, and burning sensations in the extremities, Bell's palsy (loss of control of one or both sides of the face), severe pain and fatigue (often extreme and incapacitating) and depression. Heart, eye, respiratory and gastrointestinal problems can develop. Symptoms are often intermittent lasting from a few days to several months and sometimes years. Chronic Lyme disease, because of its diverse symptoms, mimics many other diseases and can be difficult to diagnose.  

Answer 3

Put simply, if he didn't get sufficient antibiotic treatment in the early stage of the disease, not all the spirochetes are lysed (killed) & Lyme CAN resurface, typically when the body's immune system is worn down sufficiently.

As you become elderly, your immunesystem does start to wane.

If the disease becomes acute again, he might have to be placed on antibiotics (again) to knock it down.  One common symptom of a re-emergence of Lyme is unrelenting exhaustion, so in a sense he can be considered correct. It all really depends on how well he takes care of himself as to how he will fare.  ;)

But I wouldn't worry about this, at ALL.  It's a l-o-n-g way off...  & if H.B.741 ever gets signed into law (O'Bama signed on last December), the monies for research into the disease might result in a cure by then.. or atleast more effective treatments!  ;)

Answer 4

no  

Answer 5

hmmmm.....I think he's being a malingerer.