Lyme is nothing to mess around with. I’ve had it myself, fortunately caught early after just two weeks, but not before it caused joint and eye issues. Fortunately it’s readily addressed with some common and benign antibiotics. Left alone, it can ravage your body (it is biologically related to syphilis) and cause many neurological symptoms.
I am in the process of battling Lyme. So glad that they caught yours early ... I was about 5 weeks in before diagnosis and treatment. There are days that I can’t remember anything, but that isn’t so out of the ordinary according to my husband. LOL!
I have a friend from my parish church, Catholic, whose husband, who sings in the choir, as I do also had to deal with the same disease also a few years back.
I feel your pain.
The problem is that there aren’t any reliable tests, most doctors diagnose by interviewing patients. Then there are those who refuse to acknowledge that tertiary illness even exists.