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Q : Since contracting Lyme disease and TBE, what is one change you’ve made that has helped you manage your symptoms? A : It’s been nine months since I was diagnosed with my tick-borne diseas- es, and I’m still not close to being at the level I was before. I still can’t work a full week. I still don’t recognize my- self energy-wise, and I still have lots of symptoms. For me, the biggest change for improvement has been changing my diet completely. The biggest [diet] change came after cut- ting away refined sugar. Lyme is an infec- tion, and sugar feeds the inflammation — so removing that from my diet helped a lot. I could finally get out of the extreme fatigue I had been stuck in and feel a bit of energy coming back. I also try to stay away from processed foods and just feel my body respond bet- ter to eating “cleaner foods.” I wouldn’t

Early symptoms of Lyme disease include a bullseye rash (erythema migrans), stiff kneck, swollen lymph nodes fatigue, fever, headache, and muscle and joint aches.

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