Lyme Disease Blog » What is Lyme? http://www.lymediseaseblog.com Your Personal Community for Chronic Lyme Support Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:30:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 What is Lyme? http://www.lymediseaseblog.com/what-is-lyme/ http://www.lymediseaseblog.com/what-is-lyme/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:22:03 +0000 Pamela Dodd http://www.lymediseaseblog.com/?p=89 Lyme Disease is a bacterial infection commonly thought to be transmitted by the bite of an infected tick. When first infected, some people get a red bull’s-eye rash. Many don’t. You can feel like you have the flu with fever, headache, muscle pains, and maybe a stiff neck or swollen joints.

If the disease is diagnosed and treated with antibiotics in the early stage, there’s a good chance of curing it so it goes away. If unidentified and untreated, or not treated long enough, it can eventually become chronic, leading to a multi-system illness that is hard to manage and even harder to get totally rid of.  No area of the body is immune from Lyme.

There currently is no vaccine for Lyme.  Having it once provides no immunity. You can get it again.

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