Lyme Disease

What is Lyme Disease

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that is spread to humans by infected ticks.

What causes Lyme Disease?

A tick will bite an animal carrying the bacteria and will become infected. The tick can transfer the bacteria to a human by biting and passing bacteria into the bloodstream.

What are the symptoms?

The main symptom is circular or oval dermatitis (Rash), it is often described as looking like a bullseye. It can take up to 3 months to appear, however most cases it usually appears in 1 to 4 weeks.

After being infected with the bacteria, lots of patients experience flu-like symptoms :


5-20% become chronic pain symptoms such as :

Imaging In Diagnosis


For chronic symptoms, an MRI scan will be done. 


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A patient's Experience




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