Is it Lyme disease?

kll01510_at_yahoo.com
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: 24 Feb 2005 13:33:24 -0800

Hello everyone and anyone. My best friend was diagnosed as having Lyme
disease back in Nov 2004 but for some reason I can not accept that this

is what he actually has. Just to give you all a brief description of
what is going on. Last Nov 2004 my friend came home from work one day
with a very swollen knee, and I told him he needed to see a doctor
right away just in case it was a blood clot and he put it off for a few

days to the point he could not walk on his leg so I had brought him to
the emergency room and the doctors found a lump behind his knee cap
they called it a Bakers Cyst and they also took x-rays and referred him

to an Orthopedic surgen to drain the fluid from his knee, he did go the

Orthopedic surgeon and they requested for him to have an MRI which was
done and then the fluid was drained from his knee and the fluid was
also sent off to be tested which whatever tests were performed came
back with nothing to be concerned of. My friends knee was feeling
better but then a few days after the 1st drainage the knee swelled up
again and he went back and had it drained, and then we went through
this several times until the surgeon referred him to a Rheumatologist
and this doctor had blood tests done and stated that my friend had Lyme

disease and the doctor explained to us what Lyme disease was and so on,

so again the knee was drained and the this doctor put him on
antibiotics for 4 weeks which made my friend very ill, this was on
going for over a month and then all of a sudden he did not have any
swelling until just this week his kneee blew up like a balloon, so here

we go again, back to the doctor to have the knee drained again, in
which the swelling had gone down and then a few hours later the knee is

swelled up again, what is going on, this is just a complete nusience
and is getting very aggravating for my friend. I do know of a few
people that have Lyme disease and none of them have had swelling of a
joint, they have all had the flu like symptoms. And another reason I
can not come to grips that this is Lyme disease is that my friend and I

have gone and thought about the last year and can not think of where he

could have been bitten by a deer tick, he has never been in any woods
or grassy areas, he is a workaholic and works in a paper factory, so he

never has time to even be outdoors. My question is...is there anyone
out there that is going through joint swelling caused by this disease
and does this have to be a life changing this for him to have to go to
the doctors many times to have the fluid drawn.

If anyone has any info please let us know
Thanks

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