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I was a beauty queen — now Lyme disease has left me bedridden

Kirstie Haysman was a fit mom and beauty queen — until Lyme disease forced her to be “bedbound.”

The Miss Herfordshire 2015 title holder stayed trim for pageants with high-intensity training, but has since developed excruciating physical pain and fatigue that leaves her unable to leave home, much less her bed.

Doctors told Haysman, 34, that she most likely had an infection or autoimmune disease when her symptoms cropped up in 2015, leaving her struggling with her health for the years that followed.

Unsatisfied with her vague diagnosis, the Brit beauty traveled to Mexico for further bloodwork that revealed she had Lyme disease, which is contracted via tick bites.

The illness is most often caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and symptoms included fever, fatigue, headache and the hallmark bulls-eye rash, erythema migrans.

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