A businesswoman struck down by Lyme disease has spoken of the “unimaginable suffering” she endures – after being bitten by a tick on a camping trip to Loch Lomond .
Yen Lau, 32, first contracted the disease two years ago but has since been targeted by the bug again.
It took a year for the business manager to be properly diagnosed by medics, despite being bedridden and suffering from more than 40 different symptoms. Yen said she had eight different diagnoses and saw a number of GPs before being told it was Lyme disease.
In June, after two years of pain, Yen, from Baillieston, Glasgow , booked to go on a healing retreat in Crete, Greece, to get support for her symptoms.
But on the last day of the getaway, terrified Yen noticed a bullseye rash on her right arm – the sign of an infected tick bite.
Yen says this second tick bite has left her taking a raft of medications and painkillers.
Yen said: “I was feeling semi-normal. It was amazing, I was smiling from ear to ear, I felt like the luckiest girl in the world and thought this might be my second chance at life.
“On the last day of the retreat I looked down on my right arm and there it was again.
“A bullseye rash with a tick stuck in my arm. Even then I tried to remain calm and positive until the symptoms came back and knocked me down.”
She now wants to go to Mexico for specialist treatment and has launched a Go Fund Me page to raise £25,000.
Her first visit is on October 14 and she needs to raise £3000 before then.
To donate, visit here .
