"I was always a healthy person.
Always in the gym.
Still am, when I can.
And anytime something came
up, I was apt to see a doctor
because I always wanted to
make sure I was healthy.
That's the gold of life.
That's better than any wealth
you can have is your health."
"I had a lot of medical
professionals confused
with my health condition."
"I was feeling like
severe headaches,
severe migraines,
arthritis symptoms.
I had a bilateral carpal
tunnel syndrome release,
which was unsuccessful.
So he sent me to a Lyme
disease specialist.
" "He felt that it
was Lyme disease.
I did the treatments and he
was getting ready to put me
on an intravenous pump for
antibiotic treatment and that's
when I started going
blind in my right eye.
And that's when I thought, 'Well
maybe this ain't Lyme disease,
maybe this is something else."
"Come to find out,
what I thought was Lyme
disease it wasn't."
"I went to a neurologist and I
consulted with an eye surgeon
and that's when I went
for an MRI and they saw
that I had a golf [ball] sized
tumor on my pituitary [gland],
which was crushing both
hemispheres of the brain
and was wrapping
around the optic nerve.
" "It kind of made
me feel disappointed
because you would think
that a lot of people
in these positions
would have grasped it
or picked up on it sooner.
But instead they felt that
it was all in my head.
And come to find out it was
It was the size of a golf ball
and it was a tumor
on the pituitary."
"They removed approximately
90% of the tumor
and the medication
I'm on now helps
to keep the growth
hormone levels in check.
If I would have been diagnosed
sooner, I could have went
on medication and shrunk it
all together without surgery."
"I wouldn't want to
see someone else going
through the same thing
that I'm going through.
I mean, I'm still here.
But there's days when I can do
everything and anything and days
where I can't even
get out of bed
and if I was diagnosed
sooner, I wouldn't be going
through what I'm
going through now."
"I have three children
and a wonderful wife
and I'm lucky to be here still."
"It was a very trying time for
about 2-3 years with my children
and my family and
naturally I couldn't see it.
But they could see it
and they could feel it.
Now, looking back, hindsight,
I'm lucky that she's still there
and my family's still
there with me.
They stuck by me."
"People need to be a
little more knowledgeable
about Lyme disease.
Antibiotics is just
given out regularly
and it's just a fast, quick fix.
And it needs to be
looked into further
because other people
have diseases
where antibiotics will
affect them even worse."
If treatment's not working,
there's got to be
another cause."
>> If you have been treated for chronic Lyme disease
and still do not feel better,
please advocate for your health and get a second opinion.
>> If you believe you have had untreated Lyme disease
for months or years,
please see an infectious
disease specialist
who uses FDA-cleared,
fully validated tests.
