*Bull's Eye*

So, I have been wondering about all the problems I've been having the last 2-3 years. I have REALLY gone downhill. I've been researching a lot lately on my Fibromyalgia and the links between Celiac, thyroid disorders, fibro & how so many things to be linked to proteins in our foods, and I think it's time we get tested. While researching these things though, I came across several things that kept popping up about how many Fibro patients are really suffering from undiagnosed Lyme Disease, too, and it got me thinking, nay concerned.

Why? Well, ordinarily this would not have spurred anything with me, but it did raise my curiosity because I have severe Fibromyalgia that didn't get diagnosed nor become disabling until AFTER I had a wierd rash,.... a bull's eye rash.

Have you heard about this? I feel like an idiot now, but hopefully, it really was nothing. However, it did appear a few days after I had been down the coast. I had thought it was a spider bite at the time, and had never done anything about it, didn't see the doctor or anything, except take a photo & tried not to scratch it. I had even forgotten about it until today. Anyway, thinking back, it was a few months later or thereabouts that I started having all the unexplainable ear, neck & jaw pain (and as I am realizing now, all on the same side as the bite... wierd), and then over the course of the next couple of years is when all my joint/muscle pain progressed to a disabling extent throughout my entire body, I started having headaches, severe insomnia, burning bones, eye pressure/pain (OMG, the kind that reminds of when I had Grave's Disease 8 years ago), major fatigue, etc., etc., etc., the list goes on & on. It could be a complete coincidence, of course, and I do have family members on both sides with diagnosed FMS (although I am seriously thinking it is related to gluten intolerance now, and yes, Kat, I know you told me! LOL) so who knows, but it's worth checking out, isn't it?? I am really hoping it isn't Lyme's...... but, dang, it would be just my luck, wouldn't it? That, and that it didn't get caught early enough.... *knock on wood* Seriously, I will be so ticked (no pun intended!) with myself if I have been suffering from Lyme's for the past 3+ years because I didn't go get that darn rash checked.

The symptoms mimic SO many things that it's all the more "in the air", but having so many things go so badly with me ever since then, and that I did have a classic Bull's Eye rash, it is just a bit alarming. I never really thought of that before, but I suppose it is possible, and therefore plan to check with my doctor and see what she thinks. Keep your fingers crossed that this is a false alarm!!

Here's what the rash looked like. Anyone familiar with this that could give me an opinion??