I am a mom living with lyme disease. I love you tube video's that have been made on lyme disease. So I just wanted to make a website and put up some superbly done Lyme video's. Watch my favorate videos, learn about lyme disease, and help raise awareness. It may help you or a loved one someday. What your doctor doesn't know can hurt or even kill you. It took too many years for me as well as many others to get diagnosed. Five years for the Lyme disease and 7 for co-infections. I was left to deteriorate and told it was either a manifestation of my imagination or fibromyalgia. Then I was misdiagnosed with fibromyalgia. I was refused test for any other diseases or illness. I felt as if I was dying and believe I would be dead today had I not left my doctor and sought help elsewhere. A friend of my said I looked as if I had fish eyes. She could see that I was very sick. I was weak, in pain, and exhausted all the time. I had seen many specialist and been to visit many ER's and even disability doctor, yet , No one, Not one doctor would test me for anything or even treat my multiple symptoms. My friend refered me to her nurse and she ran test. I was one of the lucky ones as my test came back positive on Elisa and was confirmed positive with Western Blot. Many are not so lucky and it takes even longer to get diagnosed test are not reliable with many false negatives. I had my Brain, and Lungs, attacked by Lyme disease by the time I got diagnosed. Then after inadiquate treatment my Liver was also attacked by lyme and my own immune system. Ticks can pass on lyme if impropery removed as in my case. Ticks are so tini and can be eaily missed. They numb the area they bite with there saliva and hide on your body or head. I didn't know much about ticks or lyme disease. I had a tick attachment. I also believe it attacked my brain very quickly so I couldn't remember the tick attachment until I had gotten treatment for a sinus infection left to fester for over a year. I believe it was lyme menegitus. I recieve oral antibiotics for two months. I was still very sick and getting sicker, but the sever burning headack and vertigo (dizzy off balance feeling) got much better. Ticks can be as tini as the period at the end of this sentence. The one I had was I didn't know if it was a tick or a black head. I heard alcohol was good to remove tick. It does get the tick off, but is a Big mistake. The tick gets agitated and reguritates the contents of its stomake passing on lyme disease and any co-infections. Ticks are active in any weather above 30 degrees. It is less likely, but if you get a tick on you doctors are ignorant to this fact, so you are more likely not to catch it or be diagnosed with lyme if you get it in the colder months. I live in the city and believe I got tick attachment from my own back yard. We diffinately have ticks in our city. I took my child to a local park, and a women was warning me about ticks. They were in the park and she had taken several off of her dog. Yet, the Neorolgist I had seen asked me when I had been out in the woods as if there were no way I could have a tick on my from the city. Our doctors don't have a clue. Another fact is your pet will be diagnosed with lyme and treated by a vetranarian, before a person is diagnosed with when they have it by there MD. If it becomes a late stage chronic illness our doctors and specialist won't treat it long enough or correctly to get you better. Even the infectious disease specialist I saw had no Idea to test for co-infections. I was with child at the time and he did not know that it could be passed in utero. However, he refused to treat me while I was wih child, because he addmitted he did not know how to treat it. An infectious disease specialist is suppose to be the expert. Lyme disease is an infectous disease. Moreover, lyme is suppose to be treated in the first trimester of pregnancy in order not to pass it in utero. I had to wait to see LLMD and did not receive treatment until my third trimest. My child seems healthly but could have undeseminated Lyme disease. Pediatricans refuse to test for it. She may have Neorolgical lyme as she has selective mutism. But is other wise a healthy child.