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08/13/2008 09:28
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My wife has been sick for approximately 6 months. It started with her experiencing difficulty breathing and tingling/numbness in her left arm and left leg/foot. She also was experiening heart palpations or "gushes" as she described them.

We went to our DO to check out if she was experiening issues with her heart. We had several EKGs with no issues whatsoever.

She also began experiencing extreme fatigue so we went back to the Dr and discovered we both had Mono (Epstein Bar virus). I've since recovered but she never has come out of it.

It seems like all of her lymph glands are tender, especially one under her left armpit.

She also started having bouts of digestive issues, like heartburn and reflux which she has never had before.

The back/shoulder/neck pain and tightness is very uncomfortably and for several weeks began giving her issues in her lower back.

She experiences bouts of dizziness and sharp pains in places like her scalp, forearm, legs, and lower back. Most of all she says she just feels achy all over like arthritis and the other symptoms flare up to cause issues.

We've done a full gambit of tests:

Brain MRI for MS, Head and neck CT, Chest CT, numerous EKGs, Pelvis CT, Pelvis Sonogram, deep leg sonogram for blood clots, and on and on.

She is so tired of being sick and feeling crazy with all of these weird symptoms. We're not having much luck with our DO and all of the other 'specialists'. I'm not getting my hopes up but would love to engage a Lyme Doctor in the Dallas/Fort Worth area to understand if this is the underlying cause of what she's going through.

This has been one of the largest tribulations we have endured and it's simply the grace of God that we are making it through this. Otherwise, we probably would have gone nuts long ago.

Any lessons learned, advice, Fort Worth or Dallas doctor recommendations, etc are sincerely appreciated,

Sincerely,

Douglas

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08/13/2008 09:41
organictexan
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Douglas if you'll pm me, will give you my doctor's info, I'm located in Dallas.
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