You have Lyme Disease.

One of the great burdens one can carry is trying to help other people and getting dismissed or ridiculed. I can't tell you it's the biggest secret out there, but you probably haven't been told before. Now you have:



You have Lyme Disease. Yes, you. Well, everyone does.

...Yes, everyone. And that of course, includes you.

And while we're at it...You have Babesiosis and a couple of other Lyme Disease co-infections, too.



It's chronic ( *a persistent infection* ) and probably responsible for 99% of your health problems (and probably 90% of your other problems).

You can get treated with long-term antibiotics and reduce the population sizes of these microbes but you can never eradicate them (as far as I know). You can become mostly symptom-free.

There has been a conspiracy to suppress this knowledge for at least 40 years. It's touched briefly in the documentary film "Under Our Skin", but it gets pretty deep and scary very quickly.

You can find a rough sketch (without mentioning Lyme Disease) in books Parasite Rex and Plague Time, written by microbiologists (if you are struggling with the grandeur in a scientific sense).