Lyme disease symptoms:

after we understand  "what is Lyme disease"   
now we see the symptoms if god forbid and got it anyway:
As we mentioned before the disease,  affect the skin, heart and the nervous system.

so we having tow types of stages:
-) early stage 
-) late stage

early stages:


Rash:
A little red bump will appear at the site of the tick ( Blacklegged ) bite, this small red bump
doesn't necessarily indicate the disease. but what make it unique is
in few days it will expand and form a pattern of bull' eye. with red
center than clear area and than a red circle just like in the picture.
the rash is named  ''Erythema Migrans'', and in some cases there is people who actually develop this rash in other places too. size is between 1.8cm-29.9cm

Important Notice:  searches show that a high percentage of infected people that have the rash as the only symptom.

Other symptoms:

fever, fatigue and head ache. it can mistaken by flu easily cause it have the same symptoms.

we encourage you to see the doctor if the rash appears.( bull-eye pattern ), it is better to fix it at early stages, better than get complicated and it will...

Late signs:
 
If the problem left untreated by the doctor or vaccine, fifty percent of people could develop more serious symptoms:

joint pain and swelling:

the most highly to be influenced is the knee, like episodes of inflammatory the pain shift from point to another, with a severe muscle pain.

Neurological issues:

Well for this step it may take months or even years, but it is very dangerous symptoms which i will list in a few so be sure to visit doctor before it come to this.

first it will the inflammation of the membranes circling your brain or so called meningitis,
second a temporal paralyze  of one site of the face.
third is  weakness in the limbs

and in some very rare cases it could have a fourth sign which is:
a inflammation in the heart  so called and it could cause Myocarditis and heart block. which can cause death, but no report of that so far

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