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About 300,000 Americans each year are infected with Lyme disease. Common in the Northeast, it's found and diagnosed less often in the South. CNN producer spent two years trying to find a diagnosis for his symptoms. Approximately 10 to 20% of patients treated for Lyme disease have lingering pain. 1  For most people it starts with a telltale, bulls-eye rash and flu-like symptoms. It then develops into neurological problems, such as numbness in the limbs or facial paralysis, leaving the patient in excruciating pain.
Erythema migrans can last for a few days or for more than a month a may be painless or can feel painful, itchy or hot to the touch. Other early symptoms of Lyme disease include flu-like symptoms, malaise, low-grade fever, fatigue, headaches and muscle or joint aches and pains. Later stages of the disease don't develop until weeks or many months later. Many complications can follow an untreated case of Lyme disease.