Lyme Disease and RA

[chuck14203]

Lyme causes RA symptoms, amoung many many others. If you have RA find a Lyme knowledgable doc in your area, pay the money to see them and get properly tested for Lyme and many co-infections you can get with it. Don't waste your time seeing a doc thsat doesn't know what he is doing. They only want to treat the dsymptoms, not the cause.  Lyme could be the reason for your RA. I know. It has caused my RA and Lyme treatment helps.

[lylacavanaugh]

Yes.  My doctor just wants to treat me for RA even though I was bitten by ticks, one in particular caused a circle rash and would not heal.  The tick head was still in the bite.  That was in 1971 when no one knew about Lyme.  After several months all the joints in my body went out, and I had the Bell's Palsy facial paralysis.  The Lyme test I eventually had done in1990 was negative though. I don't know why it was negative but since then no one accepts that I have Lyme! The UCLA Lyme specialist wouldn't even test me for Lyme at all saying "A lot of people think they have it."  But I really do!  Caught it while hiking in the woods in Northern CA.  Tick but by upper chest. Is there some other better test I can take?