All Ireland winner who contracted Lyme Disease: 'A woman in the waiting room thought

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Trellie

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This is another sad case of someone who got Lyme too young, a girl named Grace who was accused by her doctor of lying and just looking for excuses not to work! It broke my heart, I hate it when doctors brush it all off when they have no idea what is going on, then go on and call you crazy or a liar.

As a teenager, Grace Weston was a promising athlete. She won an All-Ireland medal with the senior Laois ladies team when she was 16. In college, a bright student of marketing at Carlow IT - the world was at her feet.

But shortly after routine surgery to fix shin splints in her legs, Grace began to feel unwell, and everything changed.
A long litany of symptoms gradually appeared. In fact, over the next decade, she would battle 68 symptoms including extreme fatigue, shortness of breath, fluid retention, memory loss, facial paralysis, extreme pain, and serious weight loss. She would visit countless doctors and hospitals, and receive differing diagnoses, but nothing definitive, and no cure.

Socialising and shopping became extremely difficult, invariably cut short because she was overcome with fatigue and breathlessness. Grace (31) now looks back on her 20s as a lost period in her life. Finally last year, after a decade of investigating tests on her kidneys, liver, ovaries, lungs, heart and thyroid, Grace was diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease by a German clinic specialising in that particular condition.

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Wow - I can't believe that some doctors are so heartless that they would accuse someone of that! I can't imagine being in that poor woman's shoes - being so chronically ill but not having her own doctor believe her. I think maybe a big part of it is a lack of knowledge by a lot of doctors out there. It seems like there are a number of cases where people have to travel internationally to get specialist treatment. Germany seems to be the place to go when it comes to Lyme Disease diagnosis and treatment, as quite a number of things I have read seem to have people traveling there for advice.
 
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