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Lyme disease: 'People say I don't look ill' - BBC News
Yen Lau caught Lyme disease from an infected tick bite during a camping trip to Loch Lomond almost four years ago.
She says she is living with an "invisible disease" that today still causes her days-long bouts of sickness, migraines, dizziness and chronic fatigue.
But she is determined to enjoy her "good days" when she does not feel ill, and also wants to raise awareness of the risks posed by the tiny arachnids.
"People say I don't look ill," says Yen, 35, from Glasgow.
"But they see me on days when I am well. They don't see me when I'm vomiting, or dizzy or fatigued."
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In 2019, infectious disease doctors warned that long-term Lyme disease cases were often misdiagnosed through "expensive and unvalidated" tests abroad. They suggested the majority of people who believed they had a chronic form of the disease were more likely to have chronic fatigue syndrome.
(I wasn't sure whether I should have posted this in an ME/CFS forum.)
Yen Lau caught Lyme disease from an infected tick bite during a camping trip to Loch Lomond almost four years ago.
She says she is living with an "invisible disease" that today still causes her days-long bouts of sickness, migraines, dizziness and chronic fatigue.
But she is determined to enjoy her "good days" when she does not feel ill, and also wants to raise awareness of the risks posed by the tiny arachnids.
"People say I don't look ill," says Yen, 35, from Glasgow.
"But they see me on days when I am well. They don't see me when I'm vomiting, or dizzy or fatigued."
...
In 2019, infectious disease doctors warned that long-term Lyme disease cases were often misdiagnosed through "expensive and unvalidated" tests abroad. They suggested the majority of people who believed they had a chronic form of the disease were more likely to have chronic fatigue syndrome.
(I wasn't sure whether I should have posted this in an ME/CFS forum.)
