“No less arresting is Lyme disease, which comes from the bite of a tiny deer tick. If undetected, it can lie dormant in the human body for years before erupting in a positive fiesta of maladies. This is a disease for the person who wants to experience it all. The symptoms include, but are not limited to, headaches, fatigue, fever, chills, shortness of breath, dizziness, shooting pains in the extremities, cardiac irregularities, facial paralysis, muscle spasms, severe mental impairment, loss of control of body functions, and — hardly surprising, really — chronic depression.”
Oh... yeah, that's a very accurate description, anecdotally... Not what i expected to read on HN today. Undiagnosed lyme is really bad. I'm very happy there's a vaccine happening (again, since some awful people had the last one shut down because of fear and ignorance).
If you post this list of symptoms on the internet it will make a lot of people believe they have Lyme disease. People that have random muscle spasm once a month might run to their doctors. Or those that found a puzzle on stackexchange and believe themselves to be mentally impaired.
Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods