Lyme Disease

[michelle_f]

Ten years ago while living in Georgia I begun to become extremely confused. I was so confused and at a loss of concentration that I remember putting off any "hard" decisions until my thoughts became clear again. At the time, I was attempting to be a vegetarian, so I blamed a lack of protein for my condition (though I still drank milk and ate cheese). About a month after the severe lack of concentration started, I awoke one morning feeling extremely ill. My stomach throbbed, I was extremely weak, and I had a severe headache. However, I still went to my job waiting tables. Once I got there, I realized that I also had the sensation that my feet were no longer a part of my body. I could feel my feet and knew they were there, I just felt as if my body instead began at my ankles and extended a couple of inches above my head. Strange, I know, but this is exactly how I felt. When I got off work I had begun to feel better and ate some dinner. That was a mistake, because the rest of the night my stomach trobbed again. The next day I woke up with a slight rash that swept across my body over the next few days (started at my feet and worked itself up my body - it was light, as if it was underneath my skin). That day I was in an outdoor wedding and ended up fainting from the heat (I was running a fever and it was mid-August in Georgia). I went to a doctor who basically laughed at me and said the rash was nothing. Once the rash left, I began to feel arthritic pain in all of my joints. This lasted about a week. I have never had any other arthritic pain since, but do seem to have problems with my memory and concentration (though this could just be stress). I also had a rash since that time that followed my spinal cord, but was told that it was eczema (it does run in my family and I have since had what appears to be eczema on other joints and psoriassis). I told a person who was a doctor in Louisiana about what happened, and he thought it was lyme disease even though I never got the bull's eye rash. Does anyone know if Lyme Disease can cause the symptom's I described?