Article: Loathsome little bug -- Lyme disease awareness growing.

Byline: Jeff Hansel

May 22--Patients who seek treatment for chronic sickness and fatigue often turn out to have an undiagnosed underlying illness -- lyme disease -- a local physician says. Dr. Karen Vrchota, a family practitioner at Integrative Health Care of Winona, said she sees lyme disease more often than she would like. "It is a great pretender. It affects every system of the body," Vrchota said. Many chronic illnesses, she said, "are actually from lyme disease." Jean Fulton of Red Wing dealt with fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis for several years and never realized she had lyme disease. "It's just so frustrating. I got it 13 years ago and I ...

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