'I ended up planning my funeral': Woman who slept for weeks at a time and was bedridden for 14 YEARS was misdiagnosed with 不景気 when she had LYME DISEASE

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A woman was left 部分的に／不公平に bedridden for 14 years after her doctors misdiagnosed her chronic 疲労，（軍の）雑役 for 不景気 when in fact she had life-難破させるing Lyme 病気.

Lisa Vallo, 49, saw nine doctors in total who she begged for help for her bizarre symptoms which 含むd extreme tiredness, nausea, arthritis, breathlessness and a racing heart.

The mother-of-two spent entire weeks sleeping at a time - which medics also once wrongly believed was myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).?

She first became ill after 存在 bitten by a deer tick in 2002 which she 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うs her cat brought home.

At one point Lisa was so 猛烈に sick she was ready to give up.

She 解任するd: 'I knew I wasn't going to get any better and ended up planning my funeral.

Lisa Vallo first became 'fluey' after a bite from deer tick which was home by her cat in 2002

Yet it wasn't until two years ago that she was finally 診断するd with Lyme 病気 - w hich is 契約d by ticks - after 説得するing her GP to send a 血 見本 off to a 私的な clinic abroad.

She said: 'My 殴打／砲列 was always flat. I would be asleep downstairs on the sofa then go upstairs and 落ちる asleep on the bed.

'The 成果／努力 of just climbing the stairs left me gasping for breath and I would not make it 支援する 負かす／撃墜する the stairs.

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'I would literally 落ちる asleep anywhere - the most bizarre place was at my daughter's hip-hop dance class on the 床に打ち倒す.

'I went 完全に off alcohol - the nausea was like the worst hangover you've ever had but every 選び出す／独身 morning.'?

Lisa joins a host of celebrities who have spoken out about their 戦う／戦いs with Lyme 病気 含むing Bella Hadid, ツバメ McCutcheon and Avril Lavigne.

Exp erts 警告する the illness could be 公式に classed as an 疫病／流行性の within the next １０年間.

I felt 'fuey' after the tick bite?

Self-taught artist Lisa, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, first 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd she had the 条件 in 2010 after watching a TV interview with Phones4U 億万長者 John Caudwell - whose family is afflicted with Lyme - and she 解任するd her tick bite.?

She said: 'I just woke up in the morning and there it was on my tummy so I just pulled it off thinking it was a piece of dirt.

'There was a little speck of 血 and that was that. But I started feeling fluey for やめる いつか afterward - that went on for years.

'I was ill more than anyone else around me and I started sleeping for days at a time.'

She 苦しむd?extreme tiredness, nausea, arthritis, breathlessness and a racing heart

But it was about seven years 負かす／撃墜する the line when Lisa realised something was really wrong.

She had e migrated to Limoges, south west フラン, with her two children and then husband when the symptoms of the 病気 seemed to 加速する.

Lisa was spending 75 per cent of her time in bed while every waking moment was filled with 苦痛 and 疲労，（軍の）雑役.

The 条件 was so debilitating that she visited her 地元の GP 外科 every week for two years.

But they couldn't find the 原因（となる）, instead 診断するing her with 不景気 and 定める／命ずるing a powerful sedative which made her 疲労，（軍の）雑役 even worse.

Low point?

Finally, Lisa's より悪くするing 条件 and the break-up of her marriage 納得させるd her to move 支援する home to England.

As soon as she arrived 支援する in Bradford, she 固執するd with trying to get answers from her GP, 需要・要求するing different 実験（する）s to find the 原因（となる） of her problem.

A real low-point （機の）カム in 2015 was when Lisa's GP sent her to be 実験（する）d for ME.

She said: 'The staff at the ME clinic knew I didn't have ME and I knew it.

'He said, "I am sorry Lisa - there is nothing I can do for you."

The 49-year-old used to spend 75% of her time in bed and the 残り／休憩（する） 苦しむing 苦痛 and 疲労，（軍の）雑役

'I （機の）カム out of there weeping. And by May of last year I knew something was really wrong because I was sleeping so much more.?

'I was thinking, "is this it?"'

Lisa says she is angry about 'all those lost years' when she was misdiagnosed

Diagnosis at last

In one last 溝へはまらせる／不時着する 成果／努力 to get some 治療, Lisa 説得するd her GP to send her 血 to be 実験（する）d at a 私的な clinic in Germany.

She said: 'Low-and-behold the 血 （機の）カム 支援する and I 実験（する） 肯定的な for Lyme 病気.

'It was 絶対 amazing to get a diagnosis - I was ecstatic.

'But I also felt really angry about all those lost years - I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to stick my fingers up at the whole 医療の profession.'

But for Lisa, who 作品 as a 十分な-time （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限ing artist, the chance of 治療 was わずかな／ほっそりした.

'There are clinics in America but you are talking £100,000.

'Where was I going to get that 肉親，親類d of money?'

Holistic 治療 made me better?

Spotted quickly, Lyme 病気 is 停止（させる）d with 抗生物質s. But if left untreated for years, its 衝撃 can be 破滅的な ? in 25 per cent of 事例／患者s, the nervous system is 影響する／感情d, 原因（となる）ing numbness and memory problems.

Lisa was eventuality 扱う／治療するd by a specialist in East Yorkshire with 抗生物質s - but she says it made her feel even worse.

After three months of the 治療 she つまずくd upon a holistic 治療 from America while 研究ing the 病気 online.

She said: 'The 治療 uses natural 補足（する）s which build up the strength in your 団体／死体 to fight the bacteria.

'I've been on the 治療 for four months and I feel better 95 per cent of the time.

'For the first time in years I've been able to have a drink - it's 広大な／多数の／重要な.

'I have felt ill for so many years that I am trying to make the most of things now.'

But Lisa doesn't take her own 回復 for 認めるd and is desperate to raise 認識／意識性 of Lyme 病気.

In England and むちの跡s there are 3,000 確認するd 事例／患者s of Lyme 病気 each year によれば Public Health England.

However, charity Caudwell Lyme says the 人物／姿／数字 may be 徹底的に higher at as many as 45,000.?