Before I discuss the possible connection between Lyme Disease and thyroid conditions, I want to briefly talk more about Lyme Disease itself. Some of the symptoms associated with this condition include fever, headache, muscle pain, stiff neck, fatigue, itching, light-headedness, and/or a bulls-eye rash.ut whether they would have developed problems with the thyroid gland even if they didnât become infected with B. burgdorferi is unknown. With regards to autoimmune thyroid conditions such as Gravesâ Disease and Hashimotoâs Thyroiditis, it is possible that Lyme Disease can trigger an autoimmune response.
Dr. Sam Sheppard, who died nearly penniless of liver disease at age 46 in 1970, always insisted that a bushy-haired intruder killed his wife and knocked him unconscious after a struggle on the night of July 4, 1954.
Shepard died of leukemia in Pebble Beach, California, on July 21, 1998 at the age of 74, two years after being diagnosed with that disease. He was the second astronaut to die who had walked on the Moon; Jim Irwin being the first in 1991. His wife, Louise Shepard, died five weeks later at the age of 76.