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How Does Having Lyme Disease Affect Your Relationships?

 

How Does Having Lyme Disease Affect Your Relationships

Common symptoms of the disease include a flat, circular rash, fatigue, muscle aches, headache, fever, difficulty concentrating, joint pain, and swollen lymph nodes.

Besides inducing debilitating symptoms, Lyme disease can also impact your relationships and quality of life. We will talk about how Lyme disease affects your relationships,⁠ as well as what you can do about it.
 

Doubt

Considering this, your loved ones may be prone to having a doubt about the duration of your symptoms and illness. This, in turn, can greatly impact the relationship you have with your loved ones and may make you feel as if your illness is invalid.
 

Feeling of isolation

In addition, some symptoms of Lyme disease can be physically debilitating and prevent you from being able to physically interact with your loved ones. Not being able to overcome your feeling of isolation can put a huge strain on your social life, render you unable to enjoy the company of your loved ones, and even decrease your treatment options.
 

Seeking treatment to stop Lyme disease from taking over your relationships

To reduce the impact of Lyme disease on your relationships, it's important that you communicate your symptoms and feelings clearly to your loved ones. Thankfully, advances in medical science are now revealing more effective ways of diagnosing and treating the disease.

In fact, a recent study showed that treatment with cefotaxime and azlocillin can soon replace tetracycline antibiotics and reduce a patient’s chances of developing post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome. These new treatments could soon be widely available in hospitals and medical practices.

 

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