Lyme Diagnosis

Lyme diagnosis can be difficult.  Lyme can often occur along with other diseases and can be mimicked by other disease, for this reason, a concrete immediate Lyme diagnosis can be tricky.

A physical exam and time spent talking with your doctor is usually the first steps.   A typical rash only occurs in  approximately 30% of individuals.  The hallmark "bullseye rash" most notoriously associated with Lyme occurs in less than 15% of patients; so the lack of either is not necessarily a non-diagnosis.